Time-domain Astronomy Hands-on Workshop
Spectroscopy, Real-time Alerts,
and Multi-wavelength Integration

Dr. Schulze recieved their PhD at the University of Iceland. Following postdocs in Chile, Israel and Sweden, they have begun working with Prof. Adam Miller and his team to search for the appearance and disappearance of astronomical objects using the Zwicky Transient Facility, the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Rubin Observatory. The most extreme of these changing objects – referred to as astrophysical transients – arise from the catastrophic deaths of stars as they explode in supernovae, and leave behind compact objects such as neutron stars (mass of the Sun, but 10 km across) or black holes. Their goal is to unravel the properties and environments of some of the most exotic transients identified to date, including gamma-ray bursts, the most luminous supernovae and the recently discovered sources of gravitational waves. This will allow them to significantly deepen the understanding of the stars that form these events, the physics that operate within them and their role in shaping the Universe at cosmic dawn.

Recent Nature paper: Extremely stripped supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site 

Dr. Nikhil Sarin is a Kavli Senior Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge and at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Previously, Dr. Nikhil Sarin was a Nordita/OKC postdoctoral fellow at the Nordita Institute and the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University. My journey started at Monash University, where Dr. Nikhil Sarin completed my PhD in astrophysics in 2021. Dr. Nikhil Sarin is a theoretical astrophysicist using a combination of analytical and numerical modelling combined with powerful statistical techniques such as Bayesian inference, hierarchical modelling, and machine learning to interpret observations. Dr. Nikhil Sarin is particularly interested in the multi-messenger astrophysics of neutron star mergers, the lightcurves of electromagnetic transients like GRBs, supernovae, TDEs, and kilonovae, and neutron stars in general. Dr. Nikhil Sarin is a member of numerous collaborations working on electromagnetic transients and gravitational waves, including the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Transients and Variables group in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Dr. Liang-Duan Liu is currently an Associate Research Fellow at Central China Normal University (CCNU). He received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Nanjing University in 2019, and completed joint doctoral training at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Before joining CCNU, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at Beijing Normal University. Dr. Liu’s research focuses on high-energy astrophysical transients, including super-luminous supernovae, electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves, and gamma-ray bursts. He has published over 30 SCI papers and teaches the graduate course "Radiative Mechanisms in Astrophysics."