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March 23 - 27, 2026 • Hameetman Auditorium, Caltech

Posters

The numbers in the tables below denote the location on the poster board easels in the venue.

Poster session #1 (Tuesday, Wednesday)

Title Author
1. - The shadowing of the Einstein Probe by the Zwicky Transient Facility Tomas Ahumada (NOIRLab)
2. - Constraining Cas A’s Shock Break-Out with IR Echoes Rodrigo Angulo (JHU)
3. - ... ...
4. - Chasing early TDEs with SOAR and Gemini Jonathan Carney (UNC Chapel Hill)
[presented by Hank Corbett, Igor Andreoni]
5. - From common envelope evolution to luminous red novae Zhuo Chen (Tsinghua Univ.)
6. - The Faint and the Furious: What are the Lowest Mass Stars that Explode as Core-Collapse Supernovae? Kaustav Kashyap Das (Caltech)
7. - Gravitational-wave Alert System Enabling Multi-messenger Astronomy Follow-up of Fermi and Swift using RAVEN Michael Davis (U. Minnesota)
8. - The Modernization of the InterPlanetary Network Courey Elliott (LSU)
9. - Decoding the Diversity of Type IIb Supernovae and their Progenitors with ZTF K-Ryan Hinds (Caltech)
10. - Stellar mergers and common-envelope transients in the Roman-Rubin era Viraj Karambelkar (Columbia)
11. - TDEs as a probe of supermassive black hole evolution across cosmic time: redshift-dependent TDE rates in LSST, Roman, and JWST Mitchell Karmen (JHU)
12. - AT 2024wpp in UV to NIR: The Unprecedented Evolution and Properties of a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient Natalie LeBaron (UC Berkeley)
13. - Now in Color! The 20-year Light Curves of Eta Carinae's Great Eruption from Its Light Echoes Xiaolong Li (JHU)
14. - SN2025wny: a Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova at z ≈ 2 Maggie Li (Caltech)

 

Poster session #2 (Thursday, Friday)

Title Author
1. - Volumetric Rates of Type Ia Supernovae in DES and forecasts for Roman using solely photometric data Cole Meldorf (U. Pennsylvania)
2. - Metallicity dependence of pair-instability supernova properties Takashi Moriya (NAOJ)
3. - LightCurveLynx: A community-driven time-series modeling toolkit for LSST Alex Malz (STScI)
4. - EuroFlash: a commensal search for fast transients < 300 MHz with LOFAR 2.0 Ziggy Pleunis (U. Amsterdam/ASTRON)
5. - YSN-Class (Young SuperNova Classifier) Oleksandra Pyshna (Caltech)
6. - Probing early signatures of dust formation in core-collapse supernovae with ground based optical/NIR observations Sam Rose (Caltech)
7. - Hiding in Plain Sight: Wandering AGNs in the LSST Era Kendall Sippy (Penn State)
8. - Old dog, new tricks - Introducing the Rapid Response Mode at the Nordic Optical Telescope Samuel Grund Sørensen (Aarhus Univ., Denmark)
9. - Every Deep Field Lives: Discovering the Transients through AI without Image Subtraction Nao Suzuki (LBL)
10. - Machine learning methods and data products for kilonova observations Andrew Toivonen (LANL)
11. - Application of time-series analysis methods to a multiple-sector TESS observations Ashutosh Tripathi (Xinjiang Astr. Obs.)
12. - Gemini Next Generation Operations Software: Gemini Program Platform and Scheduler Bryan Miller (NOIRLab/Gemini)
13. - The Diversity of Massive Stellar Deaths and Relativistic Jets: Unraveling a Cosmic Tandem Gokul Prem Srinivasaragavan (U. Maryland)
14. - SN 2024iss: A Multi-Wavelength Exposé of a Type IIb Supernova with an Early-Time UV Spectrum Rujula Yete (UNC Chapel Hill)
15. - Real-time detection of changing-state AGN in LSST data Miranda Zak (Penn State)

 

Virtual Posters

Title Author
Multiwavelength observations of supernovae reveal the necessity of early-time radio and X-ray followup Raphael Baer-Way (UVa)
Exoplanet Transit Prospects with Rubin/LSST: Cadence, Cadence, Cadence
(Video clip)
Suber Donald Corley (ASU)
The Algebraic-to-Physical Alphabet: Coupling Morphological Phase Dynamics and Spectral Geometry for Roman TDA Transient Classification
(Video clip)
Roberto Guenzani (NASA RCN-NOW)
BHTOM: The Optical Follow-up Engine for Multi-Messenger Astronomy Joysankar Majumdar (U. Warsaw)
SCORPIO - a new facility instrument for the Gemini South telescope geared for RAPID response Swayamtrupta Panda (NOIRLab/Gemini)
Unraveling the Nature of the Nuclear Transient AT2020adpi Paarmita Pandey (Ohio State)
Rapid-response follow-of transients with the Canary Islands telescopes: present, future, and some science highlights Ismael Perez-Fournon (IAC)
Time domain astronomy with REX James E Rhoads (NASA GSFC)
ULTRASAT from the NASA Perspective James E Rhoads (NASA GSFC)
AGN Variability-Informed Photometric Redshifts for Large Time-Domain Surveys Sarath Satheesh Sheeba (U. Andres Bello)
AT2025ulz and S250818k: zooming in with the Hubble Space Telescope Yuhan Yang (U. Rome Tor Vergata)