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March 23 - 27, 2026 • Hameetman Auditorium, Caltech

Invited Speakers

Andrea Antoni (Flatiron Institute / CCA) - Hydrogen-rich gap transients in optical and infrared time-domain surveys
Eric Bellm (University of Washington) - Time-Domain Science with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Gisella de Rosa (STScI) - TBD: Roman Research Nexus
Ori Fox (STScI), Lin Yan (Caltech) - Roman hIgh-redshift transient SciencE (RISE): Enabling a Non-Cosmology Time-Domain Program
Matthew Graham (Caltech) - TBD
Chris Hernández (University of Pittsburgh) - Access Multi-Messenger Alert Data with the Pitt-Google Alert Broker
Anna Ho (Cornell University) - Relativistic Stellar Transients with ULTRASAT
Rebekah Hounsell (UMBC / NASA GSFC) - The Future of SN Ia Cosmology with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Jacob Jencson, Ben Rusholme (Caltech/IPAC) - Enabling Time-Domain Science for Roman with RAPID
Konstantin Malanchev (LINCC Frameworks / CMU) - Machine learning and scalable analysis of light curves
Anais Möller (Swinburne University) - Fink Broker: Live Demo and Data Access
Jakob Nordin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Training Is Not Enough: Making ML Models Work in the LSST Alert Stream Era
Judy Racusin (NASA GSFC) - General Coordinates Network (GCN): NASA’s Next Generation Time-Domain and Multimessenger Astronomy Alert System
Vikram Ravi (Caltech) - TBD
Jillian Rastinejad (University of Maryland) - Catching Kilonovae and Other Fast Transients in the Era of Rubin and Roman
Jan van Roestel (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) - Stellar Alerts: lessons from ZTF
Dave Sand (Steward Observatory) - The core collapse supernova landscape: infrastructure and science opportunities
Monika Soraisam (NOIRLab/Gemini) - Brokering alerts in real time in the Rubin era with ANTARES
Charlotte Ward (Penn State University) - Better Together: A multi-survey modeling framework to generate light curves and characterize host galaxies across Rubin, Euclid, Roman and LS4