About the Summit
We are pleased to announce the annual summit at the Cosmic Dawn Center.
Objective
Each year, new faces appear at DAWN, and you forget what your old colleagues are spending their time on. The purpose of the DAWN Summit is to get to know each other, scientifically and socially, get an overview of the science of DAWN, and hopefully spawn new collaborations.
Talks
Present your nice results or null-result, or explain where you're stuck and could use some input from colleagues.
Unless recordings or call-ins are specifically requested, the meeting will be in-person only. This is to avoid the significant overhead when dealing with bad connections, computer setups, etc. between the talks.
Contributed talks
should be roughly 18 minutes including questions (e.g. 13+5 or 15+3), so that a new speaker may start every 20 minutes.
Review talks
will be ~25 minutes, plus time for questions and discussions; 30 minutes in total including overhead. They will focus on advances in the field particularly within the last year.
Flash talks
given by the IRES students. Each speaker gets 2 minutes, and the session is followed by a coffee break where the speakers can answer question.
Slack channel
Discussions may be continued online on our Slack channel #summit-2026.
Invited review speakers
- Anne Hutter: Reionization
- Chandana Hegde: Galaxy Evolution
- Yi Xu: First Stars & Galaxies
- Tom Reynolds: Transients
- Lise Christensen: The Interstellar Medium
- Po-Feng Wu: Quenching
Special sessions
AI in astronomy research (Monday)
Discussion led by Marko Shuntov, based on the answers of the previously circulated survey.
Career options for PhD students and postdocs (Tuesday)
An introduction to an upcoming meeting about career options, to be discussed further during the next annual DNRF followup meeting.
The future of DAWN's research (Wednesday)
With 1½ years left of the center, which key questions should we think about exploring?
A panel discussion based on your thoughts and ideas in breakout groups, as well as questions opened by the review speakers during their talks.
List of participants
Photo: a random swede, using Yi Xu's camera.
(listed in order of registration time stamp and yes, Desika was once again first)
| 1. desika narayanan |
| 2. Kate Whitaker |
| 3. Andres Luengo |
| 4. Marko Shuntov |
| 5. Tom Reynolds |
| 6. Alex Cameron |
| 7. William Baker |
| 8. Minju Lee |
| 9. Lucas Zimmermann |
| 10. Mahitha Ramachandran |
| 11. Joris Witstok |
| 12. Rashmi Gottumukkala |
| 13. Emilie Burnham |
| 14. Chandana Hegde |
| 15. Zihao Li |
| 16. Aayush Arya |
| 17. Massimiliano Parente |
| 18. Helena Baungaard |
| 19. Maya Berhane |
| 20. Koki Kakiichi |
| 21. Clara Pollock |
| 22. Kasper Heintz |
| 23. Peter Laursen |
| 24. Po-Feng Wu |
| 25. Viola Gelli |
| 26. Yi Xu |
| 27. Shuowen Jin |
| 28. Lise Christensen |
| 29. Anne Hutter |
| 30. Bitten Gullberg |
| 31. Guozhen Ma |
| 32. Charlotte Mason |
| 33. Zuyi Chen |
| 34. Sune Toft |
| 35. Johan Fynbo |
| 36. Sarah Grannis |
| 37. Kimi Cardoso Kreilgaard |
| 38. Will Jarvis |
| 39. Kristian Finlator |
| 40. Joaquin Vieira |
| 41. Pascal Oesch |
| 42. Bo Milvang-Jensen |
| 43. Gopi Patel |
| 44. James Gillanders |
| 45. Alexander Poulin |
| 46. Mikkel Olsen |
| 47. Gabriel Brammer |
| 48. Chamilla Terp |
| 49. Conor McPartland |
| 50. Terese Hansen |
| 51. Thomas Greve |
| 52. Rasmus Damgaard Nielsen |
Time and venue
Monday 3 August
The Geological Museum, main auditorium, Øster Voldgade 5–7.
- Light breakfast at 9:00 – 9:30.
- Meeting 9:30 – 17:00.
Tuesday 4 August
DTU, Building 341, 1st floor, room 22, Elektrovej.
- Light breakfast at 9:00 – 9:30.
- Meeting 9:30 – 17:00.
Wednesday 5 August
You should be at the harbor near Nordre Toldbold 8 at 9:15.
- The boat leaves at 9:30:00 sharp.
- Breakfast onboard.
- Arrival in Copenhagen at 22:20.
Schedule
The full program, including abstracts, is found at indico.nbi.ku.dk/e/dawn-summit-2026.
Monday 3 August
Tuesday 4 August
Wednesday 5 August
Scientific Organizing Committee
- Aayush Arya
- Shuowen Jin
- Tom Reynolds
- Daniele Bjørn Malesani
- Marko Shuntov
- Peter Laursen
Local Organizing Committee
- Helena Baungaard-Sørensen
- Mikkel Olsen
- Peter Laursen