Name: 2026 African Astronomical Society Conference
Start: 2026-03-20T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-03-27T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Wild View Resorts

A Gateway to 4th Industrial Revolution via Human Capital Development - PAP2SN (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

A qualitative review of the HartRAO (SARAO) and SALT (SAAO) Visitor Centres’ benefits of being located at research facilities. (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

A search for and modelling of persistent radio sources associated with Fast Radio Bursts. (in session "Science & Engineering")

A story of two large scale projects in India - impact and learnings (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Addressing Astronomical Misconceptions Through Targeted Teacher Training Workshops (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Advanced Ethiopian Women in Physics and Astronomy Focus Group (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Africa-Europe collaborations: from ground-based telescopes to Space (in session "Special Session")

African Science Journal Special Session (in session "Special Session")

Assessing Night-Sky Brightness and Light-Pollution Trends in East African Urban Centres. (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Astro-tourism as a Sustainable and Socioeconomic Development Strategy for the San Communities in Botswana (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Astronomy engagement in Africa: A continental landscape analysis (in session "Plenary")

Astronomy for Development in Africa: Impact, Collaboration, and Proposal Development (in session "Special Session")

Astronomy Outreach in Sudan: A Current Overview (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Astronomy Teacher Training in Northern Kenya (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Beyond the Hubs: A Strategic Manifesto for Inclusive Astronomy in Africa (in session "Plenary")

BLUEshift Africa: Accelerating Towards the Future of Undergraduate Astronomy Education in Africa (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Breakthrough Listen (in session "Special Session")

BRICS Astronomy: Building Skills, Science, and Societal Impact in the Global South (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Bridging Academic and Applied Astronomy: The Al-Azhar Global Center as a Model for Science Communication and Community Engagement in Africa (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Building East-African Astronomical Capacity: The Sharing the Sky Programme — A Model for Sustainable Research Development (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Building Tomorrow’s Astronomers: A Circular Model for Lasting Impact in Data-Intensive Science (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Challenges of science Communication in Africa (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Chasing Small Near-Earth Asteroids: Rapid Follow-Up and Taxonomic Classification (in session "Science & Engineering")

Chemical Abundances of Planetary Hosts: A Key to Decoding Planetary Formation Pathways (in session "Science & Engineering")

Closing Astronomy Education Gaps for Girls in Ethiopia Through Inclusive School Outreach (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Communicating Astronomy in Underserved Nigerian Communities: The Adventure Thus Far (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Comparative Analysis of Galaxies in the Fornax Main Cluster and Fornax A Subcluster (in session "Science & Engineering")

Connecting Classrooms to the Cosmos: Democratising Space Communication through the ARISS Contact Experience in Nigeria (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Connecting star cluster formation and HI dynamics with HST and MeerKAT (in session "Science & Engineering")

Creating an Enabling Policy Environment for African Astronomy to Support Global Collaboration (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Cultural Astronomy in Zambia: Insights from Different Tribes (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Current and future Egyptian observatory facilities and science interests (in session "Science & Engineering")

Dark Energy with HIRAX 21cm Intensity Mapping (in session "Plenary")

Design and Characterization of a Microstrip Dual Band Switchable Filter on Multilayer Substrate (in session "Science & Engineering")

Detecting Radio Frequency Interference in MeerKLASS Single-Dish Data with the SSINS RFI Flagger (in session "Science & Engineering")

Dissonances and Synergies of mega astronomy infrastructure projects on development in rural Northern Cape, South Africa (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Effects of Observational Limitations on the Kinematic and Mass Modelling of NGC 45 (in session "Science & Engineering")

Egypt and the Sky: A Legacy of Archaeoastronomy (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Empowering Public Engagement in Astronomy Across Africa through Interactive Digital Platforms (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Empowering Youth Through Robotics: An Africa–focused Outreach and Training Programme. (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Environmental Dependency of Angular Momentum Content: Insights from Observations and Simulations (in session "Science & Engineering")

Excited OH masers in star-forming regions (in session "Science & Engineering")

Expanding Astronomy Outreach in Madagascar (2022–2025) (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Exploring EnMAP Satellite Hyperspectral Data for Plant Pathogen Detection: A Proposed CNN-ViT Hybrid Deep Learning Framework (in session "Science & Engineering")

Five Years of EMEJA: Lessons Learned and a Scalable Model for Transforming Girls’ Education in Rural Africa. (in session "Plenary")

From Astronomy to Earth Observation Innovation: AEOC as a Pan-African Engine for Science-to-Market Transformation (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

From Grassroots to National Infrastructure: The ESSS Model for Space Sector Development (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

From Simba-C to Athena: Mock X-ray Elemental Abundances in Galaxy Groups and Clusters (in session "Science & Engineering")

From Stars to STEM: Using Astronomy to Promote Science Education in South Western Uganda (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

From Timbuktu to SKA: Who Owns the Astronomy Knowledge Africa Produces? (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Future Stars in Astronomy through School Astronomy Clubs. (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Galaxy Clusters: Laboratories of Galaxy Evolution and our Cosmic Probes (in session "Plenary")

Hammanskraal Astronomy Outreach Program (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Have we found all “Missing baryons” in the cosmic web? (in session "Science & Engineering")

High-resolution observational study of G345.50+0.35 massive star forming region (in session "Science & Engineering")

INCLUSIVE ASTRONOMY: On the Prisoner’s Reformation Programme in Nigeria (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Investigating the imprint of quintessence in cosmic magnification (in session "Science & Engineering")

Investigating the role of the galactic environment in star formation with MHD simulations (in session "Science & Engineering")

LIGHT CURVE ANALYSIS OF A RECENTLY DISCOVERED ECLIPSING BINARY STAR: KAO-EGYPT J214258.21+440520.2 (in session "Science & Engineering")

Machine Learning & Techniques: Building Trustworthy Models for Scientific Discovery (in session "Plenary")

Machine Learning Based Prediction of Astronomical Seeing Using All-Sky Camera Images and Cloud Sensor Data (in session "Science & Engineering")

Machine Learning Classification of High-Energy GRB Counterparts using Fermi-GBM and LAT Data (in session "Science & Engineering")

Magnetic fields determined by maser polarization in star-forming regions (in session "Science & Engineering")

Measuring the Earliest Galaxy, Black Hole and Structure Formation in the Universe (in session "Plenary")

MeerKAT radio pulsar discoveries in the Large Magellanic Cloud (in session "Science & Engineering")

MeerKAT S-band observations of massive protostars with extended emission in the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (in session "Science & Engineering")

MIGHTEE: Discovery of a triple-double radio galaxy (in session "Science & Engineering")

Mobile Planetarium-Based Astronomy Education and Outreach in Nigeria: Its STEM and Socio-cultural Importance (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Modelling Convection and Its Effects in Stellar Pulsation (in session "Science & Engineering")

Multi-Faceted Emission Properties of PSR J2129+4119 Observed with FAST (in session "Science & Engineering")

Multi-Frequency Millimetre Monitoring of 3C 279 with Metsähovi and ALMA, Prospects for the Africa Millimetre Telescope (in session "Science & Engineering")

Multiwavelength studies of X-ray binaries (in session "Science & Engineering")

Neutral Hydrogen, HI, in the Shapley Supercluster Core: Environmental Effects on Gas Content and Galaxy Evolution (in session "Science & Engineering")

New and known mini-halos in the MeerKAT Galaxy Clusters Legacy Survey (MGCLS) (in session "Science & Engineering")

New Insights on Interacting Dark Energy from DESI DR2 and Pantheon+ (in session "Science & Engineering")

Noise-induced variability in helium burning nucleosynthesis: implications for stellar abundance distributions (in session "Science & Engineering")

Nurturing Ethiopia’s Next Generation of Space Scientists: The Ethio Space Kids Club Experience (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Observations of cosmic reionization with the 21 cm line (in session "Science & Engineering")

OJALA: Optimizing J-PAS Astronomy for Large-scale Analysis, a foundation model for the SED of galaxies, QSO and stars (in session "Science & Engineering")

On the Moon Again: An International Framework for Public Engagement in Astronomy (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Optical and near-UV spectroscopic properties of low-redshift jetted quasars in the main sequence context (in session "Science & Engineering")

Preparing for the SKA Era with Observation-Driven Mock Radio Halo Catalogues (in session "Science & Engineering")

Probing Flare-Driven disc Chemistry with Chandra and JWST: A New Time-Domain Campaign in Orion (in session "Science & Engineering")

Propagation of solitons in an obliquely magnetized e-p-i plasma with non-thermal electron and positrons (in session "Science & Engineering")

Revitalizing STEM Learning in Ethiopia: Cascade Astronomy Outreach Initiatives for Schools (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Robotic Astronomy for an Inclusive Future: The Educational Mission of Oukaimeden Observatory (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

SALT Proposal Tools in Action: A Practical Session (in session "Special Session")

Scaling Astronomy Outreach: The "Madagascar Sous les étoiles" Festival Model (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Scaling Impact through the Cascade Outreach Model: Lessons from AWB Nigeria (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Self-supervised representations for automated astronomical discoveries (in session "Science & Engineering")

Shared Skies of East and North Africa: Cultural Astronomy, Planetary Nomenclature, and Public Engagement in Ethiopia (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Singing the Skies of Africa: The Making of the Go Africa Astronomers’ Anthem (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Star formation across scales - Observational clues of evolutionary phases (in session "Plenary")

Stellar Occultation Measurements of Asteroids Using the 1.88-m Kottamia Telescope for Diameter and Shape Refinement (in session "Science & Engineering")

Strengthening STEM Pathways Through Astronomy Outreach: Insights from Zambia’s Community-Based Engagement Initiatives (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

TART Array Layout Optimization (in session "Science & Engineering")

Testing models for dark matter with extremely high angular resolution imaging of galaxy-scale gravitational lenses (in session "Science & Engineering")

Testing the Merger - AGN - SFR Connection in Dynamically Close Galaxy Pairs (in session "Science & Engineering")

The Cosmic History of Galaxy Disk Evolution (in session "Science & Engineering")

The Environment and Gas Interactions (in session "Science & Engineering")

The ESSS Citizen Science Project: A Model for Capacity Building, Scientific Discovery, and Science Communication (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

The Harambee Research Collective (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach and the 100 Hours of Astronomy (in session "Plenary")

The Impact of Stargazing Events on Students’ Interest in STEM in Ethiopia (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array Data Release 2: Dataset Overview, Precision Timing, and New Astrophysical Insights (in session "Science & Engineering")

The Night Sky as a potential tourism resource for Namibia (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

The OAD Flagships Ecosystem: Harnessing Astronomy for Inclusive Development in Africa and beyond (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

The Pan-African Citizen Science e-Laboratory Project (in session "Plenary")

The periodic variability of 6.7 GHz methanol masers of massive protostars. (in session "Science & Engineering")

The Puzzling Properties of a 260-kpc HI Disk Hidden Behind the Galactic Plane (in session "Science & Engineering")

The Quasar Feedback Survey: Revealing the importance of sensitive radio imaging for AGN identification deeper into the radio-quiet regime (in session "Science & Engineering")

The Sodium Challenge: New Insights into Disc Separation and Nucleosynthetic Yields (in session "Science & Engineering")

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT): Observing Opportunities and a Science Case (in session "Plenary")

Top-Down and Comprehensive approach to astronomy outreach (in session "Plenary")

Tracing the Life Cycle of Radio Sources: First Results from the VLBI Lockman Hole Survey (in session "Science & Engineering")

Transient and Compact Objects: Multiwavelength observations of Cataclysmic Variables and related objects (in session "Plenary")

Understanding awe, joy, and wonder in planetaria and informal astronomy experiences. (in session "Education, Development & Outreach")

Unveiling the HI Structure and Dynamics of ESO444-G084 and [KKS2000]23: Insights from MHONGOOSE (in session "Science & Engineering")

Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Extract Globular Clusters in Gaia DR3 (in session "Science & Engineering")

Using the Astrophysics Source Code Library for Education and Research Credit (in session "Science & Engineering")