Name: DAWN Summit 2026
Start: 2026-08-03T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-05T23:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 3 August 2026

09:00 Break: Breakfast
Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Big auditorium in the left wing
09:30 Special Session: Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
09:30 - 09:45
Contributions

09:30 Opening Remarks - Sune Toft (DAWN, NBI) Thomas Greve (DAWN, DTU)
09:45 Talks: First Stars and Galaxies - I
First Stars and Galaxies - I
09:45 - 10:55
Contributions

09:45 Invited Review - Yi Xu (DAWN, NBI)

10:15 Chemical signatures of pop III stars - Clara Pollock (DAWN, NBI)

10:35 Exploring the first galaxies with JWST and upcoming facilities - Pascal Oesch (U Geneva)
10:55 Break: Coffee
Coffee
10:55 - 11:15
11:15 Talks: First Stars and Galaxies - II
First Stars and Galaxies - II
11:15 - 12:15
Contributions

11:15 High-redshift star formation under the cosmic microscope with SPT+ALMA+JWST - Joaquin Vieira (U. Illinois-Urbana Champaign)

11:35 TBD - Kimi C. Kreilgaard (DAWN, NBI)

11:55 TBD - Viola Gelli
12:15 Break: Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 14:15
14:15 Talks: Interstellar Medium
Interstellar Medium
14:15 - 15:25
Contributions

14:15 Invited Review - Lise Christensen (DAWN, NBI)

14:45 A neutral stance: Characterizing the neutral gas-phase of Gz9p3 in absorption and emission with JWST and ALMA - Kasper Heintz (DAWN, DTU)

15:05 PAHs in cosmological simulations - Desika Narayan (U Florida)
15:25 Break: Coffee
Coffee
15:25 - 16:00
Room: Big auditorium in the left wing

16:00 Special Session: AI in Astronomy Research
AI in Astronomy Research
16:00 - 17:00
Tuesday, 4 August 2026

09:00 Break: Breakfast
Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30
Room: TBA

09:30 Special Session: Astronomy Career Guidance
Astronomy Career Guidance
09:30 - 09:50
09:50 Talks: Transients and heavy element production - I
Transients and heavy element production - I
09:50 - 10:40
Room: Auditorium 22 (1st floor)
Contributions

09:50 Invited Review: High redshift transients - Tom Reynolds (Niels Bohr Institute)

10:20 Analysis of kilonovae and other interloping transients - James Gillanders (University of Oxford)
10:40 Break: Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Talks: Transients and heavy element production - II
Transients and heavy element production - II
11:10 - 11:50
Contributions

11:10 Heavy element production in colliding neutron stars: Confirmations via radiative transfer - Aayush Arya (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

11:30 Astrometric Quasar Selection - Johan Fynbo (DAWN, NBI)
11:50 Talks: Galaxy Evolution Review
Galaxy Evolution Review
11:50 - 12:20
Contributions

11:50 Invited Review: Galaxy Evolution - Chandana Hegde (DAWN, DTU)
12:20 Break: Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00 Talks: Galaxy Evolution - Stellar Populations, Metal Synthesis, Outflows
Galaxy Evolution - Stellar Populations, Metal Synthesis, Outflows
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 On the Hunt for Distant Super Star Clusters - Will Jarvis (UMass Amherst)

14:20 Introducing E-SPS: An Accelerated SED Fitting Code Designed for Next-Generation Spectroscopic Surveys - Emilie Burnham (Penn State U.)

14:40 Metal Synthesis and Ejection by Young Galaxies - Kristian Finlator (New Mexico State University)
15:00 Break: Coffee & Cake
Coffee & Cake
15:00 - 15:45
15:45 Talks: Reionization
Reionization
15:45 - 16:55
Contributions

15:45 Invited Review: Reionization - Anne Hutter (University of Vienna)

16:15 TBD - Koki Kakiichi (DAWN, NBI)

16:35 TBD - Zuyi Chen (DAWN, NBI)
Wednesday, 5 August 2026

09:15 Break: Meet at Nyhavn
Meet at Nyhavn
09:15 - 09:30

09:30 Transport: Boat to Hven
Boat to Hven
09:30 - 10:30

10:30 Transport: Walk to Stjerneborg
Walk to Stjerneborg
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Excursion: Guided tour at Stjerneborg
Guided tour at Stjerneborg
11:00 - 12:00

12:00 Transport: Walk back to habour
Walk back to habour
12:00 - 12:30

12:30 Break: Lunch at Agnes Tapas
Lunch at Agnes Tapas
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Transport: Return to sessions on the boat
Return to sessions on the boat
13:30 - 13:40
13:40 Talks: Quenching
Quenching
13:40 - 14:50
Contributions

13:40 Invited Review - Po-Feng Wu (National Taiwan University)

14:10 Quenching and quiescence in the Early Universe with JWST - William Baker

14:30 What Dust and Globular Clusters Reveal About Massive Galaxy Quenching - Katherine Whitaker (UMass Amherst)
14:50 Talks: Flash Talks by DAWN-IRES Undergraduates
Flash Talks by DAWN-IRES Undergraduates
14:50 - 15:05
Contributions

14:50 Exploring redshift evolution of line ratio diagnostics with JADES - Mahitha Ramachandran (Yale University)

14:53 Multi- wavelength study on peculiar galaxies in the COSMOS field - Alexander Poulin (Northeastern University)

14:56 TBD - Maya Berhane (University of Washington)

15:00 Searching for first-generation star formation in the surroundings of massive galaxies in the early universe - Lucas Zimmerman (Yale University)

15:02 An Extraordinary System in GOODS-S Lying in an Overdensity - Andres Luengo (Yale University)
15:05 Break: Coffee & Discussion about the future of DAWN
Coffee & Discussion about the future of DAWN
15:05 - 15:35

15:35 Special Session: The future of DAWN
The future of DAWN
15:35 - 17:00

17:00 Transport: Tractor ride to Spirit of Hven
Tractor ride to Spirit of Hven
17:00 - 17:30

17:30 Excursion: Whiskey Tasting at Spirit of Hven
Whiskey Tasting at Spirit of Hven
17:30 - 18:30

18:30 Break: Dinner at Spirit of Hven
Dinner at Spirit of Hven
18:30 - 20:45

21:00 Transport: Tractor ride to the ferry
Tractor ride to the ferry
21:00 - 21:30

21:30 Transport: Return from Hven to Copenhagen via ferry
Return from Hven to Copenhagen via ferry
21:30 - 22:30