27th International Microlensing Conference
and
Official Opening of PRIME
27 – 31 January 2025
Cape Town, South Africa
Welcome to Cape Town
The 27th International Microlensing Conference will take place from 27 to 31 January 2025 at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa, under the theme Synergy Between Space and Ground Microlensing Surveys.
On the last day of the conference, 31 January 2025, there will be an excursion to the Sutherland Observatory for the opening ceremony of the PRIME telescope.
Science Themes
The science topics of the conference are anything related to microlensing, including (but not limited to)
- Astrometric microlensing
- Interferometric microlensing
- Detection of free-floating planets, exoplanets, brown dwarfs, stars and binaries, and compact objects
- Cold planet and FFP demographics (observational constraints and theory)
- Stellar populations and their properties in the Milky Way (and other galaxies)
- Synergies between ground-based facilities and space missions (PRIME, Roman, Euclid, ET, Gaia, Rubin, etc.)
- Machine leaning/AI applications for Transient classification.
- Data mining, modeling and techniques
- Other sciences by PRIME, Roman.
- Other application of microlensing
- Simulation for future surveys
SOC and LOC
SOC
David Buckley (Co-Chair, SAAO)
Etienne Bachelet (IPAC/Caltech)
David Bennett (NASA/GSFC/University of Maryland)
Eamonn Kerins (University of Manchester)
Katarzyna Kruszyńska (Las Cumbres Observatory)
Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley)
Radek Poleski (University of Warsaw)
Nicholas Rattenbury (University of Auckland)
Rachel Street (Las Cumbres Observatory)
Takahiro Sumi (Co-Chair, Osaka University)
Weicheng Zang (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
LOC
David Buckley (SAAO)
Pranesthan Govender (SAAO)
Christian Hettlage (SAAO)
Naoki Koshimoto (Osaka University)
Nazli Mohammed (SAAO)
Rosalind Skelton (SAAO)
Glenda Snowball (SAAO)
Daisuke Suzuki (Osaka University)
Patricia Whitelock (SAAO)
