THESEUS Conference 2026: first announcement
Maria D. Caballero-Garcia
Dear colleagues,
we are glad to announce the THESEUS Conference 2026, to be held in
Torremolinos, Malaga (Spain) from March 24th to 26th 2026.
See the conference website for the logistics (including hotel reservation),
registration and abstract submission:
https://theseus.astro-ge.ch/portail/2026-science-conference.html .
The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a
mission concept, developed by a large international collaboration, under
study by ESA since 2018 and currently one of the three candidate M7
missions for a launch in the late '30s. THESEUS aims at fully exploiting
Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the Cosmic Dawn and as key phenomena for
multi-messenger astrophysics. More in general, thanks to its unprecedented
combination of scientific instruments and mission profile, the mission will
provide substantial advances to many fields of time-domain astrophysics,
also offering to the scientific community a Guest Observer programme.
In all these respects, THESEUS will show an ideal synergy with the very
large astronomical facilities of the future working in the electromagnetic
(radio, optical, X/gamma rays, VHE) and multi-messenger domains (GWs,
neutrinos)..
The scientific programme of this conference will include both review talks
on THESEUS science case, instrumentation and mission profile, as well as
presentations focused on more general topics in the many research fields
that will be impacted by the mission.
Through this conference, we aim at strengthening the involvement of the
community in the project and boost even more the synergies being developed
between THESEUS and all other facilities operational in the 2030s in the
multi-wavelength and muti-messenger domains.
The event is promoted by the THESEUS consortium and the Science Study Team,
appointed by ESA in 2023, plus the leading scientific Spanish
representatives of the THESEUS collaboration.
We anticipate that, in order to fully exploit the efforts by the presenters
and to get a nice collection of short papers on the THESEUS science, we aim
at publishing the Proceedings of the conference on a refereed journal.
We warmly invite you to register and submit your abstract to the
conference, as well as make your hotel reservation, through the links
available on the conference webpage.
We sincerely look forward to meeting many of you in Torremolinos next
Spring and thank you very much for your attention.
Kind regards,
Lorenzo, on behalf of the THESEUS consortium leads and conference
organizers (see below).
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*Science Organizing Committee*: *L. Amati* (INAF-OAS Bologna, IT; CHAIR), *D.
Gotz* (CEA Saclay, FR; co-chair), *P. O'Brien* (Univ. Leicester, UK;
co-chair), *E. Bozzo* (University of Geneva, CH), *M. D.
Caballero-Garcia *(IAA-CSIC,
Spain), *A. Castro-Tirado* (IAA Granada, ES), *L. Christensen* (University
of Copenhagen, Denmark), *R. Ciolfi* (INAF - Padova Observatory, IT), *D.
Gotz* (CEA, FR), *P. O'Brien* (University of Leicester, UK), *A. Santangelo*
*Local Organizing Committee*: *M. Caballero, A. Castro-Tirado*, *R.
Sanchez-Ramirez* (IAA-CSIC, University of Malaga, Spain)
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Lorenzo Amati
INAF - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio
Via Gobetti 93/3, 40129 - Bologna, Italy
Tel. 051 6357313 / 051 6398745
Phone: +39-0516398745
E-mail: lorenz...@inaf.it <lorenz...@inaf.it>
http://people.oas.inaf.it/amati <http://www.iasfbo.inaf.it/~amati>