Contact: mm2026[AT]yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jpLocation: Kyoto, Japan
We are pleased to announce that the YITP Long-Term Workshop and the associated Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS) 2026 will be held at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, in Kyoto, Japan. We look forward to welcoming you to Kyoto.
=== YITP long-term workshop ===
“Multi-Messenger Astrophysics in the Dynamic Universe”
January 26 – February 27, 2026
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
=== YKIS 2026 ===
“Black Holes and Neutron Stars with Multi-Messengers”
February 9 – February 13, 2026
Invited Speakers:
Almudena Arcones (TU Darmstadt)
Zhen Cao (IHEP)
Kareem J. El-Badry (Caltech)
Anna Y.Q. Ho (Cornell)
*Erin Kara (MIT)
Victoria Kaspi (McGill)
Ilya Mandel (Monash)
*Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley)
Ehud Nakar (Tel Aviv)
Smadar Naoz (UCLA)
Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)
Todd A. Thompson (Ohio)
Salvatore Vitale (MIT)
Eli Waxman (Weizmann)
Shigeru Yoshida (Chiba)
Weimin Yuan (NAOC)
Bing Zhang (UNLV)
and more
Topics:
– Compact star mergers and gravitational waves
– Gamma-ray bursts, supernovae and kilonovae
– Supermassive black holes, tidal disruption events and quasi periodic eruptions
– High-energy gamma-rays and neutrinos
– Fast radio bursts and magnetars
– Origin of binary black holes and neutron stars
– Population III stars and galaxies
– Related topics
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Almudena Arcones (TU Darmstadt), Selma E. de Mink (MPA), Kenta Hotokezaka (U. Tokyo), Kunihito Ioka (YITP, chair), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley), Kohta Murase (Penn State/YITP), Smadar Naoz (UCLA), Masaru Shibata (AEI/YITP), Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton), Masaomi Tanaka (Tohoku), Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto), Todd A. Thompson (Ohio), Eli Waxman (Weizmann), Bing Zhang (UNLV)
Local Organizing Committee:
Katsuki Aoki (YITP), Antonio De Felice (YITP), Sho Fujibayashi (Tohoku), Takashi Hosokawa (Kyoto), Kenta Hotokezaka (U. Tokyo), Kunihito Ioka (YITP, chair), Masanori Iwamoto (YITP), Shoma Kamijima (YITP), Kazumi Kashiyama (Tohoku), Kenta Kiuchi (AEI), Riku Kuze (YITP), Keiichi Maeda (Kyoto), Tatsuya Matsumoto (U. Tokyo), Shinji Mukohyama (YITP), Kohta Murase (Penn State), Atsushi Naruko (Gunma College), Yoko Oya (YITP), Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi (Toho), Masaru Shibata (AEI/YITP), Kaoru Sugimoto (YITP), Yuki Takei (YITP), Atsushi Taruya (YITP)