Approaching Conferences

Upcoming Conferences, Meetings and Schools

2025

December 2025

Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW) 2025
December 1 – 4, 2025
Atlanta, GA, USA

Highly Accreting Supermassive Black Holes Across all Cosmic Times: from the Local Universe to Cosmic Dawn
December 1 – 5, 2025
Santiago, Chile

AXRO 2025: 16th International Workshop on Astronomical X-Ray Optics
December 1 – 5, 2025
Prague, Czech Republic

33rd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
December 8 – 12, 2025
Arizona State University, USA

2026

January 2026

247th AAS Meeting
January 4 – 8, 2026
Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Cosmic Collisions Conference
January 12 – 16, 2026
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

PhD Winter School on Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
January 25 – 30, 2026
Skeikampen, Norway

Multi-Messenger Astrophysics in the Dynamic Universe
January 26 – February 27, 2026
Kyoto, Japan

February 2026

Black Holes and Neutron Stars with Multi-Messengers
February 9 – 13, 2026
Kyoto, Japan

SIGRAV International School 2026 – Neutron Stars: Modelling and Detection
February 16 – 20, 2026
Vietri sul Mare, Italy

WE Heraeus Physics School and the 62nd Karpacz Winter School in Theoretical Physics
February 28 – March 6, 2026
Karpacz, Poland

March 2026

IAUS404: Advancing the Search for Technosignatures
March 2 – 6, 2026
Online Symposium

Climbing Cosmic Peaks: Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Black Holes
March 2 – 6, 2026
Sexten, Italy

60th Rencontres de Moriond on Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe
March 15 – 22, 2026
La Thuile, Italy

2026 African Astronomical Society (AfAS) Conference
March 22 – 27, 2026
Kasane, Botswana

BlackHolistic 2026: black holes, accretion and jets across the mass spectrum
March 23 – 27, 2026
Oxford, UK

THESEUS CONFERENCE 2026
March 24 – 26, 2026
Malaga, Spain

April 2026

HEDLA/HEDS 2026 – International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics and High Energy Density Science
April 20 – 24, 2026
Yokohama, Japan

Massive Black Hole Spin Workshop
April 21 – 24, 2026
The Higgs Centre, Edinburgh, UK

May 2026

2026 Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting
May 4 – 8, 2026
Hong Kong

IAU Symposium 405: Traversing the Galactic Center in Space and Time
May 18 – 22, 2026
Brno, Czech Republic

Torus 2026: Multi-wavelength approach to the AGN structures
May 18 – 22, 2026
Kyoto, Japan

IAU Symposium 406 – Future landscape of astrophysical transients: novel approaches in theory and observations
May 18 – 22, 2026
Finland, Turku

General Relativity Conference: Black holes in General Relativity, from transient behavior to long time dynamics
May 25 – 29, 2026
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

June 2026

The X-ray Universe 2026
June 8 – 11, 2026
Elche, Spain

248th AAS Meeting
June 14 – 18, 2026
Pasadena, CA

High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology in the era of all-sky surveys
June 15 – 19, 2026
Yerevan, Armenia

School on Gravity: from motion to commotion
June 22 – 26, 2026
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dartmouth-Durham Black Hole Workshop 2026
June 22 – 26, 2026
Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, Vermont, USA

EAS 2026 – European Astronomical Society annual meeting
June 29 – July 3, 2026
Lausanne, Switzerland

Supermassive Black Holes and Blue Notes
June 29 – July 3, 2026
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

July 2026

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2026: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
July 5 – 10, 2026
Copenhagen, Denmark

International Symposium on Cosmology & Particle Astrophysics 2026 and 13th Australasian Conference on General Relativity & Gravitation
July 6 – 10, 2026
Christchurch, New Zealand

Deciphering the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes: Accretion, Mergers, and Cosmic Evolution
July 13 – 17, 2026
Sexten, Italy

Gravitational Lensing at the turning point: Current Discoveries, New Frontiers
July 13 – 17, 2026
Sexten, Italy

UK & Ireland Accretion Discs Meeting 2026
July 20 – 22, 2026
University of Cambridge, UK

2026 Sagan Summer Workshop – Exoplanets with Roman Surveys: Microlensing and Transits
July 20 – 24, 2026
NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech, USA
Hybrid workshop

August 2026

46th COSPAR Scientific Assembly (COSPAR 2026)
August 1 – 9, 2026
Florence, Italy

Rise_Time 2026: Explosive Astrophysics
August 12 – 14, 2026
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Tidal Disruption Events and Nuclear Transients in Crete vol. 2
August 24 – 28, 2026
Heraklion, Crete, Greece

IWARA2026 – 12th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics
August 31 – September 4, 2026
Mexico City, Mexico

Spectral-Timing-Polarimetry in the eXTP Era
August 31 – September 2, 2026
Turku, Finland

September 2026

AGN on the Beach II: A multi-scale view of jetted AGN
September 21 – 25, 2026
Diani, Kenya

October 2026

Many faces of stellar-mass black holes
October 12 – 16, 2026
Kathmandu, Nepal

2027

249th AAS Meeting
January 10 – 14, 2027
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

IAUGA 2027 – XXXIII International Astronomical Union General Assembly
August 10 – 19, 2027
Rome, Italy

2028

252nd AAS meeting
June 11 – 15, 2028
Monona Terrace, Madison, WI, USA

47th COSPAR Scientific Assembly (COSPAR 2028)
July 8 – 16, 2028
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2030

255th AAS Meeting
January 9 – 14, 2030
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, MD, USA