Sunday, November 9, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
17:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception - Gentle Ben's |
Monday, November 10, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome & Logistics - Karl GORDON & Karl MISSELT | |
09:10 - 10:10 | SESSION 1: ISM dust in the Milky Way / Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Frédéric GALLIANO | (+) |
09:10 - 09:40 | › Multiwavelength extinction - Marjorie Decleir, ESA/STScI, Baltimore | |
09:40 - 10:10 | › 3D Extinction Maps - Greg Green, MPIA, Heidelberg | |
10:10 - 10:30 | Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break & posters (Poster room) | |
11:00 - 12:30 | SESSION 1: ISM dust in the Milky Way / Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Frédéric GALLIANO | (+) |
11:00 - 11:30 | › Dust Emission - Els Peeters, Western University in Ontario | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › Dust Elemental Abundances - Julia Roman-Duval, STScI, Baltimore | |
12:00 - 12:15 | › On the carbonaceous nature of the enigmatic carriers of diffuse interstellar bands - Chuanyu Wei, Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam | |
12:15 - 12:30 | › Correlations between Extinction Features across Wavelength Scales: Realizing DIBs as Chemical Tracers - Andrew Saydjari, Princeton University | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 16:00 | SESSION 1: ISM dust in the Milky Way / Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Brandon HENSLEY | (+) |
14:00 - 14:30 | › Polarization Extinction / Emission - B.-G. Andersson, McDonald Observatory | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Lab Silicates - Tushar SUHASARIA, MPIA, Heidelberg | |
15:00 - 15:30 | › Lab Carbonaceous - Cornelia Jäger, MPIA | |
15:30 - 15:45 | › The Interstellar Dust Experiment (IDEX) onboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission - Mihaly Horanyi, LASP and Department of Physics, University of Colorado (CU), Boulder | |
15:45 - 16:00 | › A JWST View of the Dynamic ISM with Thermal Dust Echoes of Cas A - Jacob Jencson, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center | |
16:00 - 16:20 | Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters | |
16:20 - 17:30 | Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome & Logistics - Karl GORDON & Karl MISSELT | |
09:10 - 10:10 | SESSION 2: Circumstellar dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Annalisa DE CIA | (+) |
09:10 - 09:40 | › Supernova Dust - Tea Temim, Princeton University | |
09:40 - 10:10 | › AGB / Evolved Star Dust - Greg Sloan, STScI / UNC | |
10:10 - 10:30 | Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break & posters (Poster room) | |
11:00 - 12:30 | SESSION 2: Circumstellar dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Annalisa DE CIA | (+) |
11:00 - 11:30 | › Protoplanetary Dust - Til Birnstiel, LMU | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › Dust in Planet Atmospheres - Dániel Apai, University of Arizona | |
12:00 - 12:15 | › Spectroscopic observation of WR140 dust shells by JWST/MIRI LRS - Riko Senoo, Institute of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo | |
12:15 - 12:30 | › New experiments on the growth of dust aggregates in young protoplanetary disks - Jürgen Blum, TU Braunschweig | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 16:00 | SESSION 2: Circumstellar dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: TBD | (+) |
14:00 - 14:30 | › Circumstellar RT Models - Ryo Tazaki, University of Tokyo | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Lab + Obs Meteoritic - Larry Nittler, Arizona State University | |
15:00 - 15:30 | › Lab Ice - Melissa McClure, Leiden University | |
15:30 - 15:45 | › Searching for sources of carbonaceous dust grains with JWST spectroscopy - Sam Rose, California Institute of Technology | |
15:45 - 16:00 | › Strange Dust Properties and Super-Extended Dust Shells: Stacking Evolved Stars with Planck & IRAS - Christopher Clark, STScI / ESA | |
16:00 - 16:20 | Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters | |
16:20 - 17:30 | Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome & Logistics - Karl GORDON & Karl MISSELT | |
09:10 - 10:30 | Breakout Discussions I: Open questions | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break & posters (Poster room) | |
11:00 - 12:30 | Breakout Discussions II: Open questions | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 16:30 | Free / Tours - Nearby astronomical facilities including the UA Mirror Lab and Kitt Peak National Observatory. | |
17:00 - 21:00 | Conference dinner - Prima Air & Space Museum |
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome & Logistics - Karl GORDON & Karl MISSELT | |
09:10 - 10:10 | SESSION 3: Dust in galaxies beyond the Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Marjorie DECLEIR | (+) |
09:10 - 09:40 | › Attenuation - Salim Samir, Indiana University | |
09:40 - 10:10 | › Emission - Karin Sandstrom, University of California, San Diego | |
10:10 - 10:30 | Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break & posters (Poster room) | |
11:00 - 12:30 | SESSION 3: Dust in galaxies beyond the Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Marjorie DECLEIR | (+) |
11:00 - 11:30 | › Dust Elemental Abundances - Annalisa De Cia, ESO-Garching | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › Dust in the Distant Universe - Irene Shivaei, CAB | |
12:00 - 12:15 | › Unveiling the correlation between the UV 2175 Å bump, PAH emission, and gas-phase metallicity at cosmic noon: a multi-wavelength study with JWST, VLT, and Keck - Leonor Arriscado, Centro de Astrobiologia | |
12:15 - 12:30 | › Attenuation Curve of Galaxies at 2 < z < 7 - Giulia Rodighiero, University of Padova | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 16:00 | SESSION 3: Dust in galaxies beyond the Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Karl MISSELT | (+) |
14:00 - 14:30 | › Grain Models - Ilse De Looze, Ghent University | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Galaxy RT Models - Maarten Baes, Ghent University | |
15:00 - 15:15 | › An Investigation of the Variations of Silicate Dust Grain and Ice Properties Between the Dense and Diffuse Interstellar Medium at z~1 - Monique Aller, Georgia Southern University | |
15:15 - 15:30 | › Dust Survival in the M82 Wind with JWST NIRCam and MIRI - Serena Cronin, University of Maryland [College Park] | |
15:30 - 15:45 | › Dust removal timescale in galaxies across cosmic time - Aleksandra Leśniewska, Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen], Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu = Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań | |
15:45 - 16:00 | › Fantastic Grains and Where to Find Them: How unusual dust shapes galaxy evolution - Jed McKinney, The University of Texas at Austin | |
16:00 - 16:20 | Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters | |
16:20 - 17:30 | Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
Friday, November 14, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome & Logistics - Karl GORDON & Karl MISSELT | |
09:10 - 10:40 | SESSION 4: Lifecycle of dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: TBD | (+) |
09:10 - 09:40 | › Sources: AGB - Martha Boyer, STScI, Baltimore | |
09:40 - 10:10 | › Sources / Sinks: SN - Mikako Mtsuura, Cardiff University | |
10:10 - 10:40 | › Sources / Sinks: SF / ISM - Bruce Draine, Princeton University | |
10:40 - 11:15 | Coffee break & posters (Poster room) | |
11:15 - 12:30 | SESSION 4: Lifecycle of dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: TBD | (+) |
11:15 - 11:45 | › Dust in Galaxy Simulations - Desika Narayana, University of Florida | |
11:45 - 12:00 | › Modeling Cosmic Dust Evolution Atom-by-Atom in a Multiphase ISM - Clarke Esmerian, Chalmers University of Technology [Gothenburg, Sweden] | |
12:00 - 12:15 | › When two worlds collide: what happens when silicate and carbonaceous dust grains meet? - Alexandros Kyriazis, Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Departament de Ciència de Materials i Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona | |
12:15 - 12:30 | › Simulating the Dusty Universe: Frontiers in Our Understanding of the Source and Nature of Extragalactic Dust - Helena Richie, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:00 | SESSION 5: Needs for the future (Grand ballroom) - Chair: TBD | (+) |
14:00 - 14:30 | › SPHEREx - Roberta Paladini, Caltech / IPAC | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › PRIMA - J.D. Smith, University of Toledo | |
15:00 - 16:00 | Summary of Breakout Discussion of Open Questions (Grand ballroom) | |
16:00 - 17:30 | Free / Tours - Mirror lab tour |