Name: Meeting of Young Astronomers and Astrophysicists - FIKUT NEXTGEN
Start: 2026-11-04T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-06T18:00:00+01:00
Location: HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics

Monday, 2 November 2026
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Wednesday, 4 November 2026

09:30 Registration
Registration
09:30 - 10:00

10:00 Opening Talks

10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Stellar Pulsations, Activity, and Evolution
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Light Curve Modelling of the peculiar interacting SN 2019vxm - Boróka Hanga Pál (Szegedi Tudományegyetem)

10:45 The TESS view of AGB pulsators: opportunities and limitations - Marcell L. Kovács (HUN-REN CSFK Konkoly Observatory, Eötvös University Institute of Physics)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Stellar Pulsations, Activity, and Evolution
11:30 - 12:15
Contributions

11:30 SN 2026ejy: a peculiar 1987A-like supernova with an early-phase luminosity excess - Zsófia Vig

11:45 Analysis of the Gaia Alerted eruptive young star candidate Gaia24bux - Dániel Estók (ELTE, HUN-REN CSFK CSI)

12:00 Evolution of photoevaporative disk dead zone - Anna Császár (ELTE, HUN-REN CSFK CSI)
12:15 Conference Photo

12:15 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Planetary Systems, Exoplanets, and Habitability
14:00 - 15:15
Contributions

14:00 Exploring the dust properties of protoplanetary discs in ALMA Bands 1 and 10 - Botond Máté Marosi (Eötvös Loránd University)

14:15 Hunting for lightning in protoplanetary disks - János Pető (HUN-REN Research Centre For Astronomy and Earth Sciences)

14:30 Planetary Migration Revisited: Can the Back-Reaction from Solids Flip Disc Torques? - András Németh (Eötvös Loránd University)

14:45 Time-Domain Complementary Science with Ariel: Young Stellar Objects, Debris Discs and Exocomets - Nóra Takács (HUN-REN CSFK Konkoly Observatory)

15:00 Developing a Protocol for establishing the methodology of Lunar Construction - Adrija Bhowmick (HUN-REN Atomki, Debrecen, Hungary)
15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:45

16:00 Visiting the Svábhegy Observatory

16:00 - 18:00
Thursday, 5 November 2026
09:00 Astrochemistry and Nuclear Astrophysics
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Radiation-Driven Sulphur Chemistry on the Surfaces of Jupiter's Galilean Moons: New Results from Laboratory Experiments - Duncan Mifsud (HUN-REN Atommagkutató Intézet)

09:15 Irradiation of Methanol Ices as an Analogue for Astrochemical Processes - Rodrigo Zamudio Ramírez (University of Debrecen / HUN-REN ATOMKI)

09:30 Uncovering the importance of (p,n) reactions in the weak r-process - Sándor Kovács (HUN-REN ATOMKI)

09:45 Stellar nucleosynthesis in the laboratory: LUNA results and perspectives - Riccardo Biasissi (Università degli Studi di Padova, ATOMKI)

10:00 Measurement of the 14N (p, γ) 15O Reaction Cross Section Using Inverse Kinematics - Gábor Bihari (HUN-REN ATOMKI)

10:15 Silicon nucleosynthesis in classical novae: New experimental constraints on the 29Si(p,γ)30P reaction - Zsolt Mátyus (HUN-REN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Compact Objects, Relativistic Astrophysics, and Gravitational Waves
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Characteristic Gluing and Conserved Charges in General Relativity - Zita Csapó (Wigner RCP, ELTE)

11:15 Charged black holes in higher dimensional supergravity - Nefeli Chatziioannou (University of Crete)

11:30 Continuous Gravitational Waves from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries - Richárd Tamás Varga (University of Szeged)

11:45 Imaging Parallel Universes via Kerr Black Holes: Observational Tests of Cauchy Horizon Instability - Dávid Szepessy (ELTE Fizika Doktori Iskola)

12:00 Modelling Neutron Stars in Scalar-Tensor Theories - Ashika Achuthankutty (University of Szeged and HUN-REN Wigner RCP)

12:15 Radioactive isotopes as power sources in the late-time evolution of core-collapse supernova light curves - Gábor G. Balázs (Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN CSFK)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Cosmology, Galaxies, and Large-Scale Structure
14:00 - 15:15
Contributions

14:00 Searching for extra dimensions in neutron stars and black holes - Anna Horváth

14:15 Long-term gamma-ray variability and multimessenger activity of the blazar GB6 J1542+6129 - Anna Göblyös (Szegedi Tudományegyetem)

14:30 Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and gravity in astrophysics - Máté Pszota (Wigner RCP, Eötvös University)

14:45 Escaping the torus of numerical cosmology - Balázs Pál (Wigner Research Centre for Physics)

15:00 Neutral hydrogen — star formation relationship in a nearby low-surface brightness galaxy - Enikő Pichler (University of Debrecen)
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 Cosmology, Galaxies, and Large-Scale Structure
15:45 - 16:30
Contributions

15:45 Observational effects on cosmic voids - Júlia Katona

16:00 The impact of central supermassive black holes on the gas content of galaxy groups in IllustrisTNG - Agnes Bogdan (ELTE)

16:15 VLBI imaging of sub-kiloparsec-scale dual AGN candidates in merger systems - Wancheng Xu
16:30 Astronomical Instrumentation, Observational Techniques, and Space Plasma Physics
16:30 - 17:00
Contributions

16:30 Stellar Intensity Profiles with Synspec for Ariel Transit Modeling - Borbála Nagy (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem)

16:45 Tracing Radial-Velocity Drift in the ACE Spectrograph: Instrumental Stability and Environmental Effects at Piszkéstető - Mohamed OUKLILENE (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Yazdan Mostajabaldaveh (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
17:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:00 - 17:20
17:20 Astronomical Instrumentation, Observational Techniques, and Space Plasma Physics
17:20 - 18:05
Contributions

17:20 Testing shock jump predictions using THEMIS observations - Abdul Rahuman Mohamed Nawrouse (University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary) Gabor Facsko (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Department of Space Physics, Budapest, Hungary)

17:35 LED testing strategy and optical optimisation of the THESEUS Infrared Telescope’s Calibration Unit - Bendegúz Koncz (University of Debrecen, GTGM Kft.)

17:50 Mechanical Design Concept Challenges for the THESEUS InfraRed Telescope’s Calibration Unit - András Péter Joó (ELTE / Konkoly-Thege Miklós Csillagászati Intézet)
19:00 Conference dinner

19:00 - 22:00
Friday, 6 November 2026
09:00 Planetary Systems, Exoplanets, and Habitability
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Examining the biological effects of UV-C radiation on Drosophila melanogaster in relation to exoplanet habitability around flaring stars - Veronika Napsugár Csillag (ELTE, HUN-REN CSFK CSI)

09:15 Modeling liquid water-trapping micro-environments on the Martian surface - Anna Bognár (Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN CSFK / Eötvös Loránd University)

09:30 The mystery of Warm Jupiters - Katalin Nagy

09:45 Refined Description of Slim Disks around Tidal Disruption Events - Domonkos Szabó (Konkoly Observatory)

10:00 Giant Planet Formation and Migration in Protoplanetary Disks Evolving under Viscous Accretion and Magnetically Driven Winds - István Gergely Hegedüs (ELTE, CSFK)

10:15 Molecular transitions in supernova spectra: from quantum chemistry to astrophysics - Márton Truszek (University of Szeged)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Stellar Pulsations, Activity, and Evolution
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 From the death of stars to the dawn of life: dynamical effects of mass loss around high-mass stars - Viktória Fröhlich (Universität Bern)

11:15 Exploring Young Stellar Variability with THESEUS - Nóra Varga (Eötvös Loránd University)

11:30 A search for strange modes in non-linear Cepheid models - Lívia Blanka Bárány (ELTE, HUN-REN CSFK CSI)

11:45 Pushing the Limits: Studying SN 2025zi and the Nature of Type Iax Supernovae - Erika Mochnács (University of Szeged)

12:00 TESS flares and chromospheric variability in three open clusters - Anna Görgei (HUN-REN CSFK, Konkoly Observatory)

12:15 High-velocity spectral features in thermonuclear supernovae - Zsófia Bora (Hun-Ren CSFK KTM CSI)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Astrochemistry and Nuclear Astrophysics
14:00 - 14:45
Contributions

14:00 Evolving Dark Energy: Past, Future Fates, and Physical Bounds - Zétény Lőkös-Birdal (Konkoly Observatory / ELTE)

14:15 Laboratory Modeling of Cosmic-Ray-Driven Chemistry in Interstellar Ice Analogs - Barbara Keresztes (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

14:30 Introduction to the dynamics of Haumea’s ring - Péter Csernyik (University of Toronto)
14:45 Compact Objects, Relativistic Astrophysics, and Gravitational Waves
14:45 - 15:15
Contributions

14:45 Volume Concepts in the Thermodynamics of Black Holes - Réka Somogyfoki

15:00 Early inspiral higher harmonics and Einstein Telescope geometry - Kata Karácsonyi (University of Szeged & HUN-REN Wigner RCP)
15:15 Closing

15:15 - 15:30

15:30 Visiting the Wigner's Jánossy Lajos Underground Laboratory

15:30 - 16:30