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Paths forward in understanding kilonovae: HEAVYMETAL VI

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McDonald Forest Hills

McDonald Forest Hills

Kinlochard, Aberfoyle, Stirling FK8 3TL, UK
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4 Star Hotel & Resort in Aberfoyle | Macdonald Forest Hills

 

This is the sixth meeting of the HEAVYMETAL consortium and an open meeting for external participants. HEAVYMETAL is an ERC-funded synergy between 4 institutes that study "How neutron star mergers make heavy elements".

In our meetings, we bring together experts ranging from the modeling and observations of neutron star mergers, gamma-ray bursts, stellar abundances, radiative transfer, and atomic structure (theory & experiments) to address problems in this multi-disciplinary field.

The meeting will be held in Kinlochard, Aberfoyle, Scotland.

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Camilla Hansen

Andreas Koch-Hansen

Alexander Ji

Jillian Rastinejad

Masaomi Tanaka

Kenta Hotokezaka

Amy Gall

John Sheil

Christian Clear

Sanjana Curtis

Meng-Ru Wu

Stephane Goriely

Anton Wallner

Quentin Pognan

Georgios Lioutas

Chris Fontes

Stuart Loch

Steven Bromley

Scientific Organizing Committee

Stuart Sim, Aayush Arya, Fiona McNeill, Éanna Donohoe, Chun-Ming Yip

General Information (v2) HeavyMetal VI - Kinlochard.pdf
  • Sunday 7 June
    • Welcome Buffet
  • Monday 8 June
    • Break: Breakfast
    • Talks: Nucleosynthesis and r-process
      Convener: Leo Mulholland (QUB)
      • 1
        Welcome and opening remarks
        Speaker: Stuart Sim (Queen's University Belfast)
      • 2
        Neutrinos and nucleosynthesis in binary neutron star mergers
        Speaker: Meng-Ru Wu (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)
        260608_HeavyMetal_MRW.pdf
      • 3
        Progress in the modelling of nuclear inputs for r-process simulations
        Speaker: Stephane Goriely (ULB)
        Goriely.pdf
    • Break: Coffee
    • Talks: R-process and merger simulations
      Convener: Aayush Arya (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
      • 4
        End-to-end modelling of kilonovae
        Speaker: Sanjana Curtis (Oregon State University)
        HEAVYMETAL_Curtis.pdf
      • 5
        Systematic Analysis of Dynamical Ejecta Properties and Nucleosynthesis in Binary Neutron Star Mergers
        Speaker: Vimal Vijayan (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)
      • 6
        A Data-Driven Model for r-Process Production Patterns
        Speaker: Zewei Xiong (GSI)
    • Break: Lunch
    • Talks: Merger Simulations
      Convener: Sanjana Curtis (Oregon State University)
      • 7
        Low-T/|W| instabilities in differentially rotating neutron stars
        Speaker: Georgios Lioutas (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)
      • 8
        End-to-end neutron-star merger models
        Speaker: Oliver Just (GSI Darmstadt)
        Oliver_Just_slides.pdf
      • 9
        Fluctuations in binary neutron star merger simulations
        Speaker: Christian Schwebler (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany)
    • 15:30
      Coffee
    • Chaired Discussion: Nucleosynthesis and Merger Simulations
      Conveners: Georgios Lioutas (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies), Oliver Just (GSI Darmstadt)
    • Break: Dinner
  • Tuesday 9 June
    • Break: Breakfast
    • Talks: Stellar abundances
      Convener: Dr Darach Watson (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
    • 10:10
      Coffee
    • Talks: Kilonovae and Heavy Elements: I
      Convener: Quentin Pognan (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
      • 12
        Identification and Abundance Estimate of Heavy Elements in Kilonova Spectra
        Speaker: Masaomi Tanaka (Tohoku University)
        Tanaka_20260609.pdf
      • 13
        Late-time kilonova emission and r-process dust formation
        Speaker: Kenta Hotokezaka (University of Tokyo)
        r-processdust_KH.pdf
      • 14
        Nebular Emission Lines of Lanthanides and Actinides
        Speaker: Andreas Flörs (GSI)
    • Break: Lunch
    • Talks: Kilonovae and Heavy Elements: II
      Convener: Jillian Rastinejad (NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Maryland)
      • 15
        Observational signatures of kilonovae arising from neutron star mergers with a magnetar remnant
        Speaker: Quentin Pognan (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
      • 16
        Direct detection of interstellar radionuclides – messengers of heavy element nucleosynthesis and recent nearby cosmic explosions
        Speaker: Anton Wallner (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
      • 17
        Strontium vs. helium: Atomic data and microphysics decode the 1μm feature in the kilonova AT2017gfo
        Speaker: Aayush Arya (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
    • 15:30
      Coffee
    • Chaired Discussion: Observations and Spectral Modelling
      Conveners: Albert Sneppen, Camilla Juul Hansen (Frankfurt)
    • Break: Dinner
  • Wednesday 10 June
    • Break: Breakfast
    • Talks: Kilonova NLTE modelling
      Convener: Andreas Flörs (GSI)
      • 18
        NLTE Modeling of Kilonovae
        Speaker: Christopher Fontes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • 19
        Nebular emission lines in kilonovae spectra - insights from atomic calculations
        Speaker: Leo Mulholland (QUB)
        Leo_Mulholland.pdf
      • 20
        The Effect of Ionisation in Collisional Radiative Modelling
        Speaker: Michael McCann (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
    • 10:15
      Coffee
    • Talks: Atomic Structure and Collision Rate Calculations
      Convener: Christopher Fontes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • 21
        Thermal and Non-Thermal Ionization Properties of Te and Sr Ions
        Speaker: Steven Bromley (Auburn University)
      • 22
        Dirac R-matrix electron impact excitation of Mo I-IV
        Speaker: John Henry (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
      • 23
        Theoretical and experimental study of 4f-5d Fano resonances in EUV photoabsorption of gold
        Speaker: David McKeagney (University College Dublin)
    • Break: Lunch To Go
    • 13:15
      Excursions
    • Break: Dinner Buffet
  • Thursday 11 June
    • Break: Breakfast
    • Talks: Atomic Spectroscopy Experiments
      Convener: Emma Sokell (University College Dublin)
      • 24
        Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Heavy Ions with an Electron Beam Ion Trap
        Speaker: Amy Gall (Auburn University)
        HEAVYMETAL_26_Gall.pdf
      • 25
        An overview of dielectronic recombination and a summary of Auburn University experimental facilities
        Speaker: Stuart Loch (Auburn University)
      • 26
        Dual-Comb Spectroscopy of Heavy Metals
        Speaker: Hope Dannar (University of Arizona)
        2026_6_DCS of Heavy Metals_Dannar.pdf
    • 10:30
      Coffee
    • Talks: Atomic Spectroscopy Experiments
      Convener: David McKeagney (University College Dublin)
      • 27
        Unlocking the Lanthanides: High‑Accuracy Atomic Data at Imperial
        Speaker: Christian Clear (Imperial College London)
      • 28
        Jets in the lab: radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of laboratory-scaled plasma flows
        Speaker: Ylvie Gerritsma (ARCNL / VU Amsterdam)
      • 29
        Punch Out Plasmas
        Speaker: Éanna Donohoe (University College Dublin)
    • Break: Lunch
    • Talks: Atomic Spectroscopy Experiments
      Convener: Padraig Dunne (University College Dublin)
      • 30
        Many-body quantum chaos & lanthanide ions - what does it mean for NSM ejecta?
        Speaker: John Sheil (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
      • 31
        Challenges in MIR Spectroscopy of Laser-Produced Plasmas: Insights from Water Absorption Measurements
        Speaker: Chandan Bagadia (University College Dublin)
      • 32
        Progress in Vis-NIR Spectroscopy
        Speaker: Eoin Fagan (University College Dublin)
    • Coffee Break
    • Chaired Discussion: Laboratory Astrophysics and Atomic Spectroscopy
      Conveners: Kirsten Dowd (UCD), Stuart Loch (Auburn University)
    • 19:00
      Conference Dinner

      Scottish Themed

  • Friday 12 June
    • Break: Breakfast
    • 08:30
      Hotel Room Checkout

      Participants should check out of their room before starting the sessions.

    • Talks: Observations of Heavy Elements in the Cosmos
      Convener: Albert Sneppen
      • 33
        Observing the R-process With Gamma-ray Bursts
        Speaker: Jillian Rastinejad (NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Maryland)
      • 34
        Element observations in a moving Universe: from the Milky Way to DLAs
        Speaker: Andreas Koch-Hansen (Zentrum für Astronomie Heidelberg, Heidelberg University)
        KochHansen.pdf
    • 10:10
      Coffee
    • Talks: Radiative Transfer
      Convener: Catherine Ramsbottom (University College Dublin)
      • 35
        Multi-dimensional kilonova radiative transfer with ARTIS
        Speaker: Stuart Sim (Queen's University Belfast)
      • 36
        Composite Function-Bayesian Active Posterior Estimation (CF-BAPE): How to fit with few samples
        Speaker: Rasmus Damgaard (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
    • Talks: Summary & Concluding Remarks
      Conveners: Aayush Arya (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen), Andreas Bauswein (GSI)
      • 37
        Conference Summary & Concluding Remarks
        Speakers: Aayush Arya (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen), Andreas Bauswein (GSI)