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March 23 - 27, 2026 • Hameetman Auditorium, Caltech

Posters

Title Author
The shadowing of the Einstein Probe by the Zwicky Transient Facility Tomas Ahumada (NOIRLab)
Constraining Cas A’s Shock Break-Out with IR Echoes Rodrigo Angulo (JHU)
A systematic real-time search for the long-lived Gamma-ray transients Akash Anumarlapudi (UNC Chapel Hill)
Multiwavelength observations of supernovae reveal the necessity of early-time radio and X-ray followup Raphael Baer-Way (UVa)
DLT40: Optimizing Rapid Discovery and Multi-wavelength Follow Up of Transients in Nearby Galaxies K. Azalee Bostroem (U. Arizona)
AEON: the NOIRLab followup ecosystem for Time-Domain Science Cesar Briceno (NOIRLab)
Chasing early TDEs with SOAR and Gemini Jonathan Carney (UNC Chapel Hill)
From common envelope evolution to luminous red novae Zhuo Chen (Tsinghua Univ.)
Exoplanet Transit Prospects with Rubin/LSST: Cadence, Cadence, Cadence Suber Donald Corley (ASU)
The Faint and the Furious: What are the Lowest Mass Stars that Explode as Core-Collapse Supernovae? Kaustav Kashyap Das (Caltech)
Gravitational-wave Alert System Enabling Multi-messenger Astronomy Follow-up of Fermi and Swift using RAVEN Michael Davis (U. Minnesota)
Searching for Supernovae and Optical Transients Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Yuxin Dong (Northwestern U.)
The Modernization of the InterPlanetary Network Courey Elliott (LSU)
Discovering (Un)Lensed Kilonovae in Rubin-LSST: Simulations and Detection Methodology Anindya Ganguly (IUCAA)
Capturing the Nature of X-ray Transients through Neuro-Parametric Machine learning Methods Akash Garg (IUCAA)
The Algebraic-to-Physical Alphabet: Coupling Morphological Phase Dynamics and Spectral Geometry for Roman TDA Transient Classification Roberto Guenzani (NASA RCN-NOW)
Decoding the Diversity of Type IIb Supernovae and their Progenitors with ZTF K-Ryan Hinds (Caltech)
Stellar mergers and common-envelope transients in the Roman-Rubin era Viraj Karambelkar (Caltech)
TDEs as a probe of supermassive black hole evolution across cosmic time: redshift-dependent TDE rates in LSST, Roman, and JWST Mitchell Karmen (JHU)
The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) Ruslan Konno (Weizmann Inst. Sci.)
Alert-driven Science at Owens Valley Radio Observatory Casey Law (Caltech)
VLBI Observations of SN 2012au Reveal a Compact Radio Source a Decade Post Explosion Mattias Lazda (U. Toronto)
AT 2024wpp in UV to NIR: The Unprecedented Evolution and Properties of a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient Natalie LeBaron (UC Berkeley)
Now in Color! The 20-year Light Curves of Eta Carinae's Great Eruption from Its Light Echoes Xiaolong Li (JHU)
SN2025wny: a Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova at z ≈ 2 Maggie Li (Caltech)
BHTOM: The Optical Follow-up Engine for Multi-Messenger Astronomy Joysankar Majumdar (U. Warsaw)
LightCurveLynx: A community-driven time-series modeling toolkit for LSST Alex Malz (STScI)
Volumetric Rates of Type Ia Supernovae in DES and forecasts for Roman using solely photometric data Cole Meldorf (U. Pennsylvania)
Scene Modelling Photometry for the Roman Space Telescope: Towards attaining sub-millimag photometry with campari Cole Meldorf (U. Pennsylvania)
Gemini Next Generation Operations Software: Gemini Program Platform and Scheduler Bryan Miller (NOIRLab/Gemini)
Metallicity dependence of pair-instability supernova properties Takashi Moriya (NAOJ)
Supernovae: from current surveys to the future with Rubin Anais Möller (Swinburne Univ.)
Cause or Effect? The Circumnuclear Environments of TDE Hosts Megan Newsome (UT Austin)
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)
EuroFlash: a commensal search for fast transients < 300 MHz with LOFAR 2.0 Ziggy Pleunis (U. Amsterdam/ASTRON)
The rapidly evolving and luminous supernova SN 2021lwz Frédérick Poidevin (IAC)
YSN-Class (Young SuperNova Classifier) Oleksandra Pyshna (Caltech)
Time domain astronomy with REX James E Rhoads (NASA GSFC)
ULTRASAT from the NASA Perspective James E Rhoads (NASA GSFC)
Probing early signatures of dust formation in core-collapse supernovae with ground based optical/NIR observations Sam Rose (Caltech)
Fast X-ray Transients and the Hidden Diversity of Relativistic Outflows Nikhil Sarin (Cambridge U.)
AGN Variability-Informed Photometric Redshifts for Large Time-Domain Surveys Sarath Satheesh Sheeba (U. Andres Bello)
Hiding in Plain Sight: Wandering AGNs in the LSST Era Kendall Sippy (Penn State)
The Diversity of Massive Stellar Deaths and Relativistic Jets: Unraveling a Cosmic Tandem Gokul Prem Srinivasaragavan (U. Maryland)
Exotic Stars and How to Find Them: Red Supergiants from JWST Aswin Suresh (Northwestern U.)
Every Deep Field Lives: Discovering the Transients through AI without Image Subtraction Nao Suzuki (LBL)
Machine learning methods and data products for kilonova observations Andrew Toivonen (LANL)
Application of time-series analysis methods to a multiple-sector TESS observations Ashutosh Tripathi (Xinjiang Astr. Obs.)
Probing the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae through Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: A Case Study of SN 2018aoz Huangfei Xiao (Florida State)
AT2025ulz and S250818k: zooming in with the Hubble Space Telescope Yuhan Yang (U. Rome Tor Vergata)
SN 2024iss: A Multi-Wavelength Exposé of a Type IIb Supernova with an Early-Time UV Spectrum Rujula Yete (UNC Chapel Hill)
Real-time detection of changing-state AGN in LSST data Miranda Zak (Penn State)