Programme

Talks will take place in the Frank lecture theater on the ground floor of the Physics Building, through the doors to the right of the entrance on Tyndall Avenue.

Posters and refreshments will be kept throughout the conference in the Enderby room, in the basement just below the Frank lecture theater. There is step free access to the right of the main entrance also on Tyndall avenue.

Invited Speakers (to date)

X-ray New Results Day

  • Jiachen Jiang: The Awakening Beasts in Our Universe
  • Sotiria Fotopoulou: Euclid today: from launch to the first data release

NewAthena Day

  • Dick Willingale: X-ray optics
  • James Aird: Work of the NASST - science performance update etc.
  • Matteo Guainazzi: NewAthena status and forward look (remote)
  • Phil Evans: UK activities and the Science Ground System
  • Rob Eyles-Ferris: The era of lobster eye optics: the future (and present) of X-ray transient astronomy
  • Chris Done: XRISM: Results and update

The tentative block schedule is as follows. A more detailed schedule will be published later.

New Results in X-ray Astronomy schedule

New Results – Thursday 4th September 2025
Time Activity / Physics venue
10:00 – 10:25 Registration
17:00 End for the day
19:00 Dinner at Hort’s Townhouse

NewAthena UK Community Science Meeting schedule

Includes NewAthena and other future observatories.

NewAthena – Friday 5th September 2025
Time Activity / Physics venue
10:00 Start first session
16:00 End for the day