Program

Scientific Program

November 10–13, 2026 · Sendai, Japan

All times are Japan Standard Time (JST, UTC+9).

  • Keynote & Invited Talks: 20-minute talk + 5-minute Q&A
  • Contributed Talks: 12-minute talk + 3-minute Q&A

Day 1 (Tuesday, November 10)

Time Speaker Affiliation Type Title
12:00–13:00 Registration
13:00–13:10 Satoshi Okuzumi Institute of Science Tokyo — Opening Remarks
13:10–13:35 David Wilner Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Keynote ngVLA Key Science Goals
13:35–13:50 Alfonso Trejo-Cruz IRyA-UNAM Contributed ngVLA antenna site selection in Mexico: Status and strategic priorities
13:50–14:05 Luis Zapata IRyA-UNAM Contributed Tracing the route to the next generation Very Large Array Project in Mexico
14:05–14:15 Poster Flash Talks
14:15–14:30 Break
14:30–14:45 Jompoj Wongphechauxsorn JMU Würzburg Contributed The Wetterstein Millimeter Telescope: Current Project Status and Prospects for transatlantic VLBI with the ngVLA
14:45–15:00 Lucas Hunt NRAO Contributed Update on the long baselines of the ngVLA
15:00–15:15 Phil Cigan U.S. Naval Observatory Contributed Anchoring the Sky: Astrometry and the CRF in the Era of the ngVLA
15:15–15:30 Andrea Isella Rice University Contributed Neural-Network Based Image Reconstruction of ngVLA data
15:30–15:45 Sanjay Bhatnagar NRAO Contributed Scaling Down the ngVLA Computational Footprint: Novel Algorithms and Parallel Implementations
15:45–15:55 Poster Flash Talks
15:55–16:10 Break
16:10–16:35 Takahiro Ueda NAOJ Invited Dust Continuum from Protostellar to Planet-Forming Disks in the ngVLA Era
16:35–16:50 Jesús Miguel Jáquez Domínguez IRyA-UNAM Contributed Automated Regularized Maximum-Likelihood Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks in the ngVLA Era
16:50–17:05 Munetake Momose NAOJ Contributed A new framework for the visibility analysis of dust disks and its application to data from ALMA and ngVLA
17:05–17:20 Anna Fehr Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Contributed Characterizing Protoplanetary Disk Solids with Well-Sampled Centimeter-Band Spectra
17:20–17:35 Brenda Matthews National Research Council of Canada Contributed Tracing planetesimal belts with the ngVLA: the new potential of tracing gas in young debris disks

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Day 2 (Wednesday, November 11)

Time Speaker Affiliation Type Title
09:00–09:15 Yuhito Shibaike Kagoshima University Contributed Predictions of dust continuum observations of circumplanetary disks with ngVLA: A case study of PDS 70 c
09:15–09:30 Ryan Boyden NRAO Contributed The Free-free Emission View of Disk Photoevaporation with the VLA and, eventually, the ngVLA
09:30–09:45 Natsuko Izumi Nagoya University Contributed Revealing Disk Properties in the Low-Metallicity Environment with ngVLA
09:45–10:00 Break
10:00–10:25 Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin NRAO Invited ngVLA polarization in star-forming regions and protoplanetary disks
10:25–10:40 Satoshi Ohashi The University of Tokyo Contributed Probing Magnetic Fields in Circumstellar Disks: From ALMA to the ngVLA
10:40–10:55 Ryo Tazaki The University of Tokyo Contributed Magnetic dipole emission from protoplanetary disks: Probing solid-phase iron with the ngVLA
10:55–11:10 Break
11:10–11:35 Roberto Galván-Madrid IRyA-UNAM Invited Birth of Massive Stellar Systems: Current Challenges and Prospects for the ngVLA
11:35–11:50 Kei Tanaka Institute of Science Tokyo Contributed The Birth of Massive Stars with the ngVLA: Orbital Movies, Hot-Disk Chemistry, and Protostellar Surfaces
11:50–12:05 Suinan Zhang Institute of Science Tokyo Contributed Feedback from young massive stars across galactic environments
12:05–12:20 Satoko Takahashi NAOJ Contributed Revealing the Nature of the Neutral Atomic Component within the Protostellar Outflows and Jets through the HI 21 cm Emission
12:20–12:35 Antonio Martínez-Henares RIKEN Contributed Hydrogen radio recombination lines: Tracing disks, winds and jets in massive young stars
12:35–14:05 Lunch
14:05–14:30 Eric Murphy NRAO Keynote ngVLA Project Update
14:30–14:55 Maria Drozdovskaya Universität Bern Invited From Stellar Cradles to Disks and Comets: Chemical Inheritance or Reprocessing?
14:55–15:20 Viviana Guzmán Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Invited Complex Organic Molecules from PDRs to Protoplanetary Disks: New Opportunities with the ngVLA
15:20–15:40 Poster Flash Talks
15:40–16:25 Break and Poster Viewing
16:25–16:40 Yoshihide Yamato RIKEN Contributed Tracing Hidden Nitrogen Reservoirs at the Onset of Planet Formation: Evidence for Ammonium Salt Decomposition
16:40–16:55 Rajeeb Sharma National Research Council of Canada Contributed Mapping Embedded Disk Chemistry with ALMA: A Blueprint for Studying Astrochemistry in Planet-Forming Regions with ngVLA
16:55–17:10 Samantha Scibelli NRAO Contributed ngVLA to Sharpen our View of Molecular Complexity at the Earliest Stage of Low-mass Star and Planet Formation
17:10–17:25 Nami Sakai RIKEN Contributed Probing the Chemical and Thermal Evolution of Molecular Clouds with CH and OH
17:25–17:40 Hidetoshi Sano Gifu University Contributed CO/HI Studies of Supernova Remnants toward the ngVLA Era
19:00– Banquet

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Day 3 (Thursday, November 12)

Time Speaker Affiliation Type Title
09:00–09:25 Takashi Shimonishi Niigata University Invited Molecular Evolution across Diverse Birth Environments: An ngVLA Perspective
09:25–09:50 Joanna Berteaud Royal Holloway University of London Invited The Galactic Center Millisecond Pulsar Search: Progress and Prospects
09:50–10:15 Thankful Cromartie Vanderbilt University Invited Probing Extreme Physics with ngVLA Millisecond Pulsar Timing
10:15–10:30 Fumihiro Naokawa Tohoku University Contributed Cosmic birefringence and forthcoming radio surveys
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–11:25 Keitaro Takahashi Kumamoto University Invited Nanohertz gravitational-wave astronomy enabled by VLBI astrometry
11:25–11:40 Tatsuya Kotani Keio University Contributed Precise Measurements of the CMB Temperature at z=0.68, 0.89, and Beyond Using Molecular Absorption Lines
11:40–12:05 Kunihito Ioka Kyoto University Invited Exploring the Dynamic Universe in the ngVLA Era
12:05–12:20 James Leung University of Toronto Contributed From sub-relativistic to ultra-relativistic outflows: what the ngVLA could reveal about massive stellar collapse
12:20–13:50 Lunch
13:50–14:15 Emma Schwartzman U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Invited Multi-AGN in the Radio Regime: Progress, Challenges, and the ngVLA
14:15–14:40 Krista Smith Texas A&M University Invited Searching for Intermediate Mass Black Holes with Radio Imaging
14:40–14:55 Shunya Takekawa Kanagawa University Contributed Radio-loud Black Hole Candidates Driving Molecular Jets in the Galactic Center
14:55–15:10 Haruka Sakemi Yamaguchi University Contributed Radio Probes of Galactic PeVatrons: Jet–Cloud Interactions in SS 433
15:10–15:55 Break and Poster Viewing
15:55–16:10 Momoko Makita Keio University Contributed An Extreme Velocity-Width Molecular Structure in the Supernova Remnant W44: Possible Evidence for a Compact Object Plunge
16:10–16:25 Norihiro Yamada The University of Tokyo Contributed A Deep Radio Test of the White-Dwarf Termination Shock in the SN 1181 Remnant
16:25–16:40 Collin Christy University of Arizona Contributed Insights from a Systematic VLA Monitoring Program of Tidal Disruption Events
16:40–16:55 Walter Golay Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Contributed VLBI Observations of the Enigmatic Optical Tidal Disruption Event AT2018hyz
16:55–17:20 Taiki Kawamuro The University of Osaka Invited Exploring SMBH Feeding and Feedback with Millimeter and X-ray Observations

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Day 4 (Friday, November 13)

Time Speaker Affiliation Type Title
09:00–09:25 Laura Sommovigo Columbia University & CCA Invited Connecting the UV and infrared views of galaxy evolution: challenges for models and opportunities for ngVLA
09:25–09:40 Juan Diego Soler University of Vienna Contributed From local ISM flows to stellar feedback: HI 21-cm Pathfinders for the ngVLA
09:40–09:55 Masato Kobayashi National Institute for Fusion Science Contributed Witnessing the phase transition dynamics from the diffuse HI to molecular clouds and its metallicity dependence in MHD simulations
09:55–10:10 Tomonari Michiyama Shunan University Contributed Disentangling Colliding Gas Flows in Merger-Driven Starbursts: An Automated Spectral Decomposition Framework for the ngVLA Era
10:10–10:40 Break
10:40–11:05 Kotaro Kohno The University of Tokyo Invited Tracing the Faint and Diffuse Universe with the ngVLA: High-Redshift Galaxies, Protoclusters, and Dark Matter
11:05–11:20 Tirth Surti California Institute of Technology Contributed Probing Thermal Radio Continuum Emission with the ngVLA in Star Forming Galaxies
11:20–11:35 Takafumi Tsukui Kavli IPMU Contributed Disk formation and evolution from the first galaxies to present
11:35–11:50 Eric F. Jimenez-Andrade IRyA-UNAM Contributed Is Radio Emission a Reliable Star-Formation Tracer in the Early Universe?
11:50–13:20 Lunch
13:20–13:35 Tom Bakx Chalmers, University of Technology Contributed When Did Dust Turn the Universe Dark? ngVLA and ALMA2040 combining to find the answer
13:35–13:50 Jackson Wetherbee University of Massachusetts Amherst Contributed Can Radio Observations Reveal What Powers the James Webb Space Telescope's Little Red Dots?
13:50–14:05 Kanako Narita The University of Tokyo Contributed Probing the Blazar Sequence at Millimeter Wavelengths with the ngVLA
14:05–14:20 Yuri Nishimura University of Tsukuba Contributed Resolving the Molecular ISM in the Cloverleaf Quasar: From ALMA Mid-J Lines to ngVLA Ground-State Transitions
14:20–14:35 Mahoshi Sawamura The University of Tokyo Contributed [OI] 145um Constraints on the Dense Neutral ISM and Outflow of the z = 6.04 Quasar J2054-0005
14:35–14:50 Yoshinobu Fudamoto Chiba University Contributed Neutral Gas Structure in a z = 7.88 Galaxy Overdensity: ALMA + JWST Results and Prospects for the ngVLA
14:50–15:15 Break
15:15–15:30 Vasileios Diamantopoulos Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas Contributed Exploring Compact Symmetric Objects in the ngVLA Era
15:30–15:45 Ryoya Kojima The University of Tokyo / NAOJ Contributed Do Circumnuclear Disks Drive Mass Accretion even in High-Luminosity AGN?
15:45–16:00 Andrew Sargent U.S. Naval Observatory Contributed Unmasking the circumnuclear radio emission mechanisms in nearby hard X-ray selected AGNs
16:00–16:15 Ryo Kishikawa The University of Tokyo / NAOJ Contributed Unveiling the physical and chemical properties of luminous type 1 AGN NGC 7469: ALMA Results and ngVLA Prospects
16:15–16:30 Cosima Eibensteiner University of Virginia Contributed Resolving AGN Feedback in the Nearest Seyfert 2 Galaxy: Circinus as a Pilot ALMA+MeerKAT Study for the ngVLA
16:30–16:45 Takuma Izumi NAOJ Contributed Prospects for Nearby Active Galactic Nucleus Studies with Ultra-High-Resolution Observations
16:45–17:15 Discussion & Closing

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