15h00 – 16h30 : Participant Welcome and Registration

09:00 – 09:15: Opening, Welcome, and Host Remarks
Chair: Prof. Abdelmajid Benhida, Cadi Ayyad University
Co-Chair: Prof. Katrien Kolenberg, University of Antwerp/Leuven/Brussels, Belgium

09:15 – 09:25: Remarks by SOC Member
Speaker: Prof. Robert Szabó, Konkoly Observatory, Hungary

09:25 – 09:35: Remarks by the President of Cadi Ayyad University
Speaker: Prof. Blaid Bougadir / Prof. Hafidi Mohamed

09:35 – 09:45: Remarks by the Dean of FST (Faculty of Sciences and Technology)
Speaker: Prof. Said Rakrak

09:45 – 09:55: Remarks by the Dean of FSSM (Faculty of Sciences Semlalia)
Speaker: Prof. Hassan El Mouden

09:55 – 10:05: Remarks by the Director of Oukaimeden Observatory
Speaker: Prof. Zouhair Benkhaldoun

10h30 – 11h15

Vincenzo Ripepi

Invited Speaker

Classical pulsators in the Gaia era

11h15 – 11h30

Susmita Das

Waiting for the Legacy: A Pulsating Stars extensive search in the Galactic Bulge

11h30 – 11h45

Felipe Espinoza Arancibia

A novel q-PED method: precise physical properties of a merger-origin binary Cepheid OGLE-LMC-CEP-1347

11h45 – 12h00

Giuliano Iorio

The metal-rich RR Lyrae conundrum: tracers of the oldest Milky Way populations or the young stellar binaries?

12h00- 12h15

Marcella Marconi

The Hertzsprung progression of classical Cepheids in the Gaia era

12h15 – 12h30

Ilaria Musella

Ultra Long Period Cepheids as

12h30 – 12h45

Dorota Skowron

The Milky Way as Seen by Classical Cepheids

14h00 – 15h30

Adam Riess

Nobel Prize 

What JWST Can and Cannot (yet) Reveal about the Hubble Tension

16h00 – 16h45

Massimo dall’Ora

Invited Speaker

Waiting for the Legacy: A Pulsating Stars extensive search in the Galactic Bulge

Joseph Mullen

Vanderbilt University / University of North Florida 

A NUV Analysis of Field RR Lyrae: Leveraging Archival Data and Preparing for Future Surveys

Jae Woo Lee

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

Absolute Properties of the Oscillating Eclipsing Algol XZ Ursae Majoris

Felipe Espinoza Arancibia

Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

Empirical instability strip for classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds

09h00 – 09h45

Gábor Kovács

Invited Speaker

Recent theoretical advancements in radial stellar pulsation modeling : a turbulent topic of the present

09h45 – 10h30

Sylvia Ekstrom

Invited Speaker

To loop or not to loop

14h00 – 14h15

Richard Anderson

The theory perspective on the metallicity effect of classical Cepheid distances

14h15 – 14h30

Anupam Bhardwaj

RR Lyrae and Anomalous Cepheids in Dwarf Spheroidal galaxies at near-infrared wavelengths

14h30 – 14h45

Gautam Bhuyan

Panchromatic view of the LMC based on multi-phase PL relations

14h45 – 15h00

Oliwia Ziółkowska

Toward a comprehensive grid of Cepheid models with MESA – Uncertainties of the evolutionary tracks

15h00 – 15h15

Mauricio Cruz Reyes

RR Lyrae and Population II Cepheids in Galactic globular clusters

15h15 – 15h30

Giulia De Somma

The SPECTRUM Project: Updating the Physics of Stellar Pulsation Models

14h00 – 14h45

Zdenek Prudil (Online)

Invited Speaker

Perspectives on the inner Milky Way via RR Lyrae variables

14h45 – 15h00

Kathy Vivas

Exploring Ultra Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies with RR Lyrae Stars

15h00 – 15h15

Mami Deka

Bridging theory and observations in pulsation properties of Classical Cepheids

15h15 – 15h30

Giuliana Fiorentino

The Galaxy formation told by their old variable stars

16h00 – 16h15

Csilla Kalup

Seismic masses and pulsational properties of RR Lyrae

stars in K2 globular clusters

16h15 – 16h30

Bastian lengen

Calibrating population-II pulsators as standard candles

using Gaia observations of globular clusters.

16h30 – 16h45

Emanuela Luongo

Can the hierarchical formation of the Galactic Halo explain the Oosterhoff dichotomy?

09h00 – 09h45

László Molnár

Invited Speaker

RR Lyraes and Cepheids from space: a massive topic

09h45 – 10h30

József Benkő

Invited Speaker

Secondary variations of Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars at different timescales

11h00 – 11h15

 Salma sylla

Binarity from O-C diagrams for Blazhko-modulated Stars

11h15 – 11h30

Geza Kovacs

The original Kepler data for RR Lyrae stars: Is this where the buck stops?

11h30 – 11h45

Kerdaris Kurbah

A Comparative Study of First Overtone Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds at multiwavelength: Models vs Observations

11h45 – 12h00

Emese Plachy

Does the Blazhko effect manifest in delta Scuti stars?

12h00 – 12h15

Alexey Bobrick

Binary Origins of Metal-rich RR Lyrae

12h15 – 12h30

Gergely Hajdu

Circumstellar Matter Around RR Lyrae Stars

14h00 – 14h15

Rajeev Singh Rathour

Looking beyond the regular: Census of Non-evolutionary effects on period change from O-C study of 7200+ Magellanic Cepheids

14h15- 14h30

Clara Martinez-Vazquez

Chronicles of the Cosmos: The Ancient History of the Local Group Revealed by RR Lyrae Stars

14h30 – 14h45

Cecilia Mateu

Forget metallicities: RR Lyrae distances from period-amplitude-luminosity relations

14h45 – 15h00

Matteo Monelli

Tracing the Local Group evolution with pulsating variable stars

15h00 – 15h15

Maria Tantalo

Classical pulsators in the dwarf irregular galaxies of the Local Group

15h15 – 15h30

Giordano Viviani

VELOCE: Constructing RV Curve Templates for Galactic Classical Cepheids

Henryka Netzel

EPFL

On the Incidence Rate of RR Lyrae Stars with Non-Radial Modes

Young-Beom Jeon 

Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institue / KASI

Spectroscopic observations for RR Lyrae stars

Rajeev Singh Rathour

Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, PL

Investigating the Pulsation Properties of Classical Cepheids: A MESA-RSP Survey

Bárbara Pozo

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Multi-Band Study of the Morphology of RR Lyrae Light Curves

Adrienn Forró

senior research fellow, PhD Konkoly Observatory, CSFK Budapest

Validation of the RR Lyrae period determination in the Pan-STARRS PS1 3π survey with K2

Matthias Meuleman

University of Antwerp,

Belgium

A Spectroscopic Study of the Van Hoof Effect and the Tseraskaya-Blazhko Effect in RR Lyr

Susmita Das

HUN-REN CSFK, Konkoly Observatory

A comprehensive and updated study of BL Herculis stars

Cecilia Mateu

UdelaR

RR Lyrae stars as tracers of more than just old metal-poor populations

Mohamed Amrar

Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Laboratory Of High Energy Physics and Astrophysics , Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco. 

Comparative Analysis of RR Lyrae from the Kepler Space Telescope and the Oukaimeden Observatory

09h00 – 09h45

Alexandre Galenne

Invited Speaker

An interferometric view of Binary Cepheids

09h45 – 10h00

Mahdi Abdollahi

Mitigating Random-Phase Errors in Cepheid Variable Star Studies: A Cross-Filter Correction Approach

10h00 – 10h15

Alessia Garofalo

Variable stars in the extended halo of the Ursa Minor dSph galaxy with Gaia DR3 data

10h15 – 10h30

Weronika Narloch

Period-luminosity and period-luminosity-metallicity relations for Galactic Cepheids and RR Lyrae in the Sloan bands

11h00 – 11h15

Bogumił Pilecki

Binary Cepheids

11h15 – 11h30

Manuel sánchez Benavente

Towards self-consistent PLZ relations for RR Lyrae Stars

11h30 – 11h45

Teresa Sicignano

Local Group distances based on new multi-wavelength PL relations for Anomalous Cepheids

11h45 – 12h00

Julio Olivares Carvajal

RR Lyrae stars in the Galactic bulge region – Insight from 3D kinematics and structure

12h00 – 12h15

Paweł Pietrukowicz

BLAPs as hot counterparts of the classical pulsators

12h15 – 12h30

Laszlo Molnar

New theoretical instability regions and pulsational masses for blue large-amplitude pulsators

14h00 – 14h45

Nina Hernitschek

Invited Speaker

Pulsators as seen by Alert Brokers

14h45 – 15h00

Marcella Di Criscienzo

Light curve's recovery with Rubin-LSST: UnVEiling the darknesS of The gAlactic buLgE (VESTALE) with RR Lyrae

15h00  – 15h15

Tatiana Muraveva

Metallicity of RR Lyrae stars computed with Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms.

15h15 – 15h30

Erasmo Trentin

Spectroscopic investigation of Anomalous Cepheid variables

  16h00 – 16h15

Karina Baeza Villagra

Spectroscopy study of RR Lyrae stars to constrain the early formation and evolution of the Milky Way

  16h15 – 16h30

Manon Bailleul

Calibrating the surface-brightness relation of Cepheids

  16h30 – 16h45

Vittorio Francesco Braga

Light curve templates of RR Lyrae for LSST early science

09h00 – 09h45

Louise Breuval

Invited Speaker

Recent results from the SH0ES Team: HST and JWST photometry of Cepheid variables

09h45 – 10h30

Paulina Karczmarek

Invited Speaker

Binary Cepheids: Insights from simulation-based approaches

12h15 – 12h30

Nancy Remage Evans

Cepheid masses: Polaris