MODEST-24: Exploring Dense Stellar Systems Across Cosmic Time

Speaker List

• Poojan Agrawal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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    Decoding binary evolution: insights from stripped stars

• Megan Allen (University of Sheffield)
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    Long Term Evolution and Dissolution of Star-Forming Regions

• Morten Andersen (European Southern Observatory)
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    Determining the dynamics and mass function at the earliest stages of star cluster formation

• Francisco Aros (Indiana University)
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    Dynamical mixing of multiple populations in globular clusters.

• Abbas Askar (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland)
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    Formation of SMBH in galactic nuclei: LISA binaries & intermediate-mass ratio inspirals

• Dany Atallah (Northwestern University)
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    Binary Formation from Three Initially Unbound Bodies

• Elena Balakina (Liverpool John Moores University)
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    Central kinematics of globular clusters: evidence for a massive black hole?

• Sambaran Banerjee (University of Bonn (HISKP and AIfA))
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    Stellar-mass binary black hole mergers and dormant black hole-star binaries from young massive and open star clusters

• Jordan Barber (Cardiff University)
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    The Effect of Primordial Binaries and Cluster Dynamics on Binary Black Hole Mergers

• Peter Berczik (Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine / Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
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    Rainer Spurzem: The history and art of direct N-body modelling around the globe

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    Formation and evolution of the Nuclear Star Cluster in the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies on the cosmological time scale.

• Paolo Bianchini (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, CNRS)
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    The emergence of angular momentum in globular clusters: insights from large N-body simulations

• Tristan Bruel (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur)
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    Dynamical formation of binary black holes in massive star clusters: a cosmological approach

• Caspar William Bruenech (University of Amsterdam)
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    Massive triples on the edge of stability

• Tomasz Bulik (Obserwatorium Astronomiczne UW)
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    The life and work of Prof. Chris Belczyński

• Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta (Sapienza University of Rome)
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    Are Dwarf Spheroidal and Ultra Faint Dwarf galaxies the most dark matter dominated stellar systems?

• Komal Chand (Birla Institute of Technology and science, Pilani)
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    Trumpler 5 - Cluster Properties and Exotic Populations

• Debatri Chattopadhyay (Cardiff University)
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    Pulsar-black hole binaries in the dynamical environment of star clusters

• ARVIND DATTATREY (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences: ARIES)
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    GlobULeS-V. UVIT/AstroSat studies of stellar populations in NGC 362: Detection of Blue Lurkers and extremely low-mass white dwarf in a Globular Cluster

• Karolis Daugevičius (Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania)
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    Limitations of aperture photometry for star cluster studies

• Alessandro Della Croce (University of Bologna - INAF/OAS)
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    Tracing massive star cluster formation: insights from the LISCA project

• Ugo Niccolò Di Carlo (SISSA)
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    Clumpy Star Clusters: Rethinking IMF Limits

• Stefan Dreizler (Institut für Astrophysik und Geophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
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    Binaries in 47 Tuc: Confronting cluster simulations with observations

• Arunima Dutta (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany)
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    A study of the exotic pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 1851

• Greta Ettorre (Università di Bologna - INAF-OAS)
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    A multi-wavelength perspective of millisecond pulsars in NGC 362

• Fraser Evans (University of Toronto)
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    The ejection of hypervelocity stars from Milky Way globular clusters

• Gaia Fabj (Niels Bohr Institute)
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    Eccentric Mergers in AGN Discs: Influence of the Supermassive Black-Hole on Three-body Interactions

• Anja Feldmeier-Krause (University of Vienna)
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    Modelling the Milky Way nuclear star cluster

• Michael Fellhauer (Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
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    Can we verify the Dissolving Star Cluster Model as formation channel for dSph galaxies?

• Francesco Maria Flammini Dotti (University of Heidelberg)
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    The dynamics of planet-like objects in star clusters

• Thibaut FRANCOIS (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg)
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    Unveiling the Dance of Off-Center Black Hole Duets: Insights from Jacobi Capture in Dwarf Galaxies

• Fotios Fronimos Pouliasis (ICCUB)
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    Binary-single scattering with unequal masses: implications for gravitational waves

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    A fast evolution code for star clusters with stellar-mass black holes.

• Michiko Fujii (The University of Tokyo)
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    Formation of globular clusters with intermediate-mass black holes

• Yoko Funato (University of Tokyo)
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    Orbital Evolution of S Stars Due to Resonant Relaxation

• Francesco Gabrielli (SISSA)
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    The cosmic rate of pair-instability supernovae

• Aleksey Generozov (Technion Israel Institute of Technology)
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    Gas and multiple evolution in young star clusters and other gas-rich environments

• Mirek Giersz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences)
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    Multiple Stellar Populations Speculations on Cluster Migration and Gas Re-Accretion

• Steffani Grondin (University of Toronto)
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    From Clustered Environments to Common Envelopes: The first systematic identification of white dwarf-main sequence post-common envelope binaries in star clusters

• Maximilian Häberle (Max Planck Insitute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany)
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    New evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri

• Daniel Han (Yonsei University)
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    Impact of Radiation Feedback on the Formation of Globular Cluster Candidates during Cloud-Cloud Collisions

• Douglas Heggie (University of Edinburgh)
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    Simulating the evolution of star clusters: Risks and rewards

• Lucas Hellström
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    Gravitational Wave Signals from White Dwarf Binaries

• Kai Hendriks (Niels Bohr Institute)
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    Gravitational Wave Phase Shifts in Eccentric Black Hole Mergers as a Probe of Dynamical Formation Environments

• Alonso Herrera Urquieta (Universidad de Concepción)
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    A systematic method to identify runaways from star clusters produced from single-binary interactions: A case study of M67

• Arkadiusz Hypki (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Polish Academy of Sciences)
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    MOCCA: Dynamical blue stragglers excess after core collapse

• Maryna Ishchenko
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    Mass loss of the Milky Way globular clusters on cosmological timescale: interaction with the Galactic center

• Ryutaro Iwakura (Kobe University)
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    The disintegration process and orbital evolution of equal-mass hierarchical triple systems

• Vikrant Jadhav (University of Bonn)
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    Rotation and expansion in open clusters using simulations and Gaia DR3

• Sebastian Kamann (Liverpool John Moores University)
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    Clues on the formation of massive star clusters from stellar rotation

• Ambreesh Khurana
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    The role of massive star binarity in the creation of upper mass-gap and intermediate-mass black holes in dense star clusters

• Fulya Kiroglu
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    Black Hole Accretion and Spin-up through Stellar Collisions in Dense Star Clusters

• Jakub Klencki (ESO Garching)
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    Through the mantle of hydrogen: understanding mass transfer in black hole - star systems and the formation of binary black hole mergers

• Iwona Kotko (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
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    Can the X-ray binaries in M83 be the progenitors of gravitational waves sources for LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA?

• Eimantas Kriščiūnas (Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania)
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    Star Clusters in the Disk of Andromeda

• Konstantinos Kritos (Johns Hopkins University)
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    Star cluster properties from intermediate-mass black hole mergers

• Elena Lacchin (Universita' di Padova)
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    Realistic initial conditions for young stellar clusters

• Natalia Lahén (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)
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    Formation and evolution of star clusters in galactic environments

• Marilyn Latour (Georg-August University Goettingen)
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    Metallicity variations among the primordial stellar population in Galactic globular clusters: A MUSE spectroscopic survey.

• Silvia Leanza (University of Bologna)
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    Exploring the internal kinematics of Galactic Globular Cluster cores

• Maria Vittoria Legnardi (Università di Padova)
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    The original composition of the gas forming first-population stars in globular clusters

• Nathan Leigh (Universidad de Concepcion)
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    The Four-Body Problem in Newtonian Gravity

• Benedetta Mestichelli (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
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    Binary black hole mergers in Population III star clusters

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    The ones that got away: formation and evolution of intermediate-mass black holes in massive star clusters

• Marija Minzburg (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
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    Massive black hole growth by full and partial tidal disruption events

• Bhupendra Mishra (CAMK)
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    Global three dimensional MHD simulations of misaligned embedded mini disk in AGN disk: Nature vs Nurture

• Stephanie Monty (University of Cambridge)
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    Galactic Archaeology with Globular Clusters - Europium is a Chemical Tag Between Globular and their Hosts Across All Metallicities

• FABRIZIO MURATORE (Università degli studi di Padova)
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    Exploring the phenomenon of split main sequence in young star clusters via binary stars

• Kwangmin Oh (Michigan State University)
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    Probing Intracluster Dynamics and Evolution of Globular Clusters through Cataclysmic Variable Populations

• Sergen Özdemir
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    Probing the Gaia atmospheric parameters of stars in globular clusters

• Lavinia Paiella (GSSI)
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    Seeds to success: growing heavy black holes in dense star clusters.

• Taras Panamarev (University of Oxford)
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    The case of an IMBH in the galactic centre: insights from N-body simulations

• Xiaoying Pang (Department of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong--Liverpool University, 111 Ren'ai Road, Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China)
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    Bulk rotation in star cluster via N-Body simulations and observations

• Vaclav Pavlik (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)
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    Detailed study of the stability of a planetary system captured by a massive stellar remnant

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    Relaxation and evolution towards inverse energy equipartition in star clusters

• Renuka Pechetti (Liverpool John Moores University)
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    Unveiling the Heart of Darkness: Modeling the Central Kinematics of Omega Centauri and Its Elusive Black Hole

• Tahereh Ramezani (PhD Student of Masaryk University)
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    Structure of Open Clusters

• Antti Rantala (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
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    Hierarchical star cluster assembly boosts intermediate-mass black hole formation

• Khushboo K Rao (Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, Taiwan)
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    Investigating Dynamical Ages of Open Clusters using Blue Straggler Stars

• Sara Rastello (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos - Universitat de Barcelona)
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    The scientific journey of Prof. Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta among stellar clusters and galactic nuclei

• Sara Rastello (University of Barcelona)
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    Stars and Black Holes in Young Star Clusters: Friends or Foes?

• Steven Rieder (KU Leuven)
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    Updates on AMUSE

• Liliana Rivera Sandoval (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV))
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    The importance of dynamics in the cataclysmic variables in globular clusters

• Amedeo Romagnolo
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    Very massive stars do not expand: the uneventful life at the massive end of the IMF

• Sreeta Roy (Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw)
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    White Dwarf - White Dwarf Gravitational Wave background in the LISA range as a tool to constrain binary evolution

• Pinaki Roy (University of Warsaw)
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    Estimating the Hubble constant from the mock GW data of Einstein Telescope

• Taeho Ryu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
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    Magnetic field amplification during stellar collisions and its implication for blue stragglers

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    Zoom-in hydrodynamics simulations of binary mass transfer

• Matteo Sadun Bordoni (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)
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    The extended mass distribution in the Galactic center

• Sara Saracino (Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University)
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    Binaries in massive clusters with MUSE: Omega Cen and NGC 1850

• Christina Schoettler (Imperial College London UK)
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    Survival of the planet-forming environment around three ejected runaway stars from the ONC

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    The effect of dynamically formed binaries on young planetary systems

• Koushik Sen (Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun)
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    Whispering in the dark: X-ray faint black holes around OB stars

• Myank Singhal (Astronomical Institute, Charles University)
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    Evolution of Disk-like Structures in the Galactic Centre

• Yuzhe Song (Swinburne University of Technology)
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    Modelling Millisecond Pulsar Populations in Globular Clusters with NBODY6++GPU

• Lazaros Souvaitzis (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
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    Runaway and Hyper-runaway Stars from Merging Star Clusters with Massive Black Holes

• Rainer Spurzem (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg / National Astronomical Observatories and Key Laboratory of Computational Astrophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University)
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    How it all started

• Zhao Su (Nanjing University)
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    Do Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Exist in Galactic Globular Clusters? - Clues From X-ray Observations and Hydrodynamical Simulations

• Ataru Tanikawa (Fukui Prefectural University)
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    Inert compact binary formation in open clusters

• Matteo Teodori (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli / INAF - OAAb)
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    Measuring energy equipartition in Globular Clusters with dynamical models

• Fred Thompson (University of Oxford)
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    Globular Clusters: The Cosmological Context from Coupled Simulations to Sub-grid Models

• Alessandro A. Trani (Niels Bohr Institute)
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    Dynamical Friction of Black Holes Embedded in Turbulent AGN Disks

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    Isles of regularity in a sea of chaos amid the gravitational three-body problem

• Cristiano Ugolini (SISSA)
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    Constraining the features of the BBH mass distribution through population synthesis simulation

• M. Paola Vaccaro (ITA-ZAH, Heidelberg University)
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    Specks of light from AGNs as possible indicators of dynamical formation of binary black holes

• Kaushar Vaidya (Birla Institute of Technology and science, Pilani)
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    Investigating Blue Straggler Stars of Open Clusters and Fields using UVIT/AstroSat

• Floor van Donkelaar (Department of Astrophysics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland)
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    The GigaEris Simulation: Stellar clusters in MW-sized galaxies at z>4

• Eugene Vasiliev (University of Surrey)
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    Dynamical models of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster

• Veronica Vazquez-Aceves (The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University)
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    SgrA∗ spin and mass estimates through the detection of an extremely large mass-ratio inspiral

• Hanxi Wang (University of Oxford)
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    Statistical Mechanics in the Galactic Center: Anisotropic Mass segregation and Phase Transition

• Li Wang (School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Daxue Road, Zhuhai, 519082, Peopleʼs Republic of China)
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    The Origin of Young Stellar Populations in NGC 1783: Accretion of External Stars

• Long Wang (Sun Yat-sen University)
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    The strong impact of IMF in star cluster dynamics

• yunyu wang (kobe university)
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    A Massive Star Photoionization Feedback Model Considering Density Inhomogeneity: Applicability to Star Cluster Formation Simulations and Larger Scale System Simulations

• Ethan White (Indiana University Bloomington)
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    Long-Term Dynamical Evolution of Rotating Multiple-Population Globular Clusters

• Grzegorz Wiktorowicz
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    Synthetic Populations of Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources in Globular Clusters

• Henriette Wirth (Charles University Prague)
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    On the effects of unresolved binaries on the deduced total mass and stellar mass function of stellar clusters

• Tuila Ziliotto (Università degli Studi di Padova)
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    Kinematics of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters with JWST