Planetary Science Conference 2026

from Friday, 23 October 2026 (09:00) to Saturday, 24 October 2026 (20:00)
Kraków, Poland (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Fizyki, Astronomii i Informatyki Stosowanej)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Oct 2026
24 Oct 2026
AM
09:00 --- Registration for the scientific sessions ---
10:00 --- Opening ---
10:05
Exoplanets, icy moons, asteroids - Joanna Kozakiewicz (Jagiellonian University) (until 11:50) (room A-1-13)
10:05 TOI-1811: Unveiling a Low-Mass Companion to a Hot Jupiter Through Transit Timing - Gracjan Maciejewski (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu)   (room A-1-13)
10:20 Understand the Geodynamic Drivers and Magmatic Mechanisms of L 98-59 d through Comparative Analysis with Venus and Jupiter’s Moon Io. - Thisari Arunadi Kulathunga (Ceylon Institute of Space Science)   (room A-1-13)
10:35 A Computational Model to Generate Artificial L4/L5 Equilibrium States via Auxiliary Mass Systems in the Jovian Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem to Investigate Europa - Thinuri Gawesha Rajapaksha (Ceylon Institute of Space Science)   (room A-1-13)
10:50 Surface Heating and Melting of Icy Satellites During Accretion - Gurpreet Kaur Bhatia (Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana)   (room A-1-13)
11:05 Early Thermal Evolution of Psyche - Sumit Sankhyan (Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana, Haryana (India))   (room A-1-13)
11:20 Low-Thrust Accessibility of Near-Earth Object Associations for Multi-Target Missions - Arkadiusz Hess (Uniwersytet Warszawski)   (room A-1-13)
11:35 A Scenario-Based Model for Preparedness and Response to Extraterrestrial Natural Hazards in Central Iran: A Case Study of Asteroid and Meteorite Impacts - Saeed Givehchi (Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran)   (room A-1-13)
11:50 --- Break ---
08:00 --- Field trip and workshops at the Błędów Desert ---
PM
12:00
Poster Session (until 13:00) (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 4 Decades, 4 Planets and 2 Voyagers | The legacy of the Grand Tour and the Journey Beyond. - Martyna Fus (Uniwersytet Jagielloński)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Beyond Manual Mapping: MarsCONE 2.0 for Automated Volcanic Cone Morphometry - Jakub Śledziowski (Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Can the Historical VSOP87 Analytical Model Match Modern JPL Ephemerides? - Jakub Janus (Politechnika Warszawska, Wydział Geodezji i Kartografii)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Computational Investigation of Lunar Surface Charging Effects on Spaceborne Orbitrap Mass Spectrometers - Bharath Saravanan (SRM University , Chennai)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Controlled Redirection of Asteroids onto Mars-Impacting Trajectories Under Low Thrust - Arkadiusz Hess (Uniwersytet Warszawski)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Development of a Scoby-Based Bioelectrochemical System for Sustainable Energy Generation in Closed Environments of Future Martian Bases - Oliwia Wrona (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Effect of Ionizing Radiation on Bacterial Cellulose Produced by a Kombucha Consortium - Wiktoria Ilczyszyn (Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy an Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University in Kraków)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Hyperspectral Characterization of Extremophilic Microbial Biofilms from Svalbard for Planetary Biosignature Detection - Agata Harasymczuk (Faculty of Space Technologies, AGH University of Krakow, Poland)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Landable Is Not Buildable: Assessing the Artemis Candidate Regions as Sites for Permanent Habitation - Marcin Kitala (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Wydział Technologii Kosmicznych)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 LunaX: Deep Learning and Human-in-the-Loop Analysis of Lunar Surface Features from Orbital Imagery - Marcin Kitala (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Wydział Technologii Kosmicznych)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Machine Learning Detection of Penetration Anomalies in Planetary Lander Data: A Cross-Mission Validation Using MUPUS, HP3, and SSP - Poojitha Annabathula   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Multi-Sensor Cross-Domain Transfer Learning Between a Terrestrial Aeolian Analog Site and Martian Orbital Imagery - Poojitha Annabathula   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Multivariate Data Analysis in Planetary Geology Using “Pebbler” App - Szymon Mol (Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences; Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Restoration of Martian Environment and Problems with Sisyphean Effect - Leszek Czechowski (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych PAN, ul. Bartycka 18a, Warszawa 00-716, Poland)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Study of Whistler-Mode Instability Across 5–40 Rj Using JRM33 and Juno-Based Density Models - Ankit Dhaikar (Amity Institute of Applied Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Systematic Assessment of Central European Volcanic Province Subregions for Igneous Petrological, Geochemical and/or Mineralogical Martian Analog Terrains and Source of Lunar Analog Materials - Jose San Martin Lobos (Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Technical Requirements for Settle of a Permanent Base on High-Altitude Regions Near the South Pole of the Moon. - Evgenii Chigarin   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 Terrestrial Concretions as Indicators of Ore-Forming Processes and Potential Metal Resources on Mars - Natalia Zalewska (Space Research Center PAS, Warsaw, Poland)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
12:00 TOI-7475 Spectroscopic Follow Up - Detection of a Massive Hot Jupiter on an Eccentric Orbit. - Joanna Pietrucha (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)   (corridor on the second floor, sector A)
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Mercury, Venus, Mars - Bartosz Pieterek (Institute of Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) (until 16:00) (room A-1-13)
14:30 Machine-Learning Algorithms for MERTIS Spectral Classification In Support of BepiColombo Investigations of Mercury - Marta Skiścim (AGH University of Krakow)   (room A-1-13)
14:45 Nonlinear Mode Competition and Pulse Thermal Reorganization in Venus Mantle Convection: A Reduced-Order Study - Abhiram M S (Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)   (room A-1-13)
15:00 How Many Times Did a Martian Volcano Erupt? - Bartosz Pieterek (Geohazard Research Unit, Institute of Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)   (room A-1-13)
15:15 Beyond the Rover's Reach: High-Resolution Martian Mapping with the Ingenuity Helicopter - Paweł Czernic (Warsaw University of Technology)   (room A-1-13)
15:30 A Past Wind Regime on Mars, as Recorded by Transverse Aeolian Ridges - Alex Barrett (The Open University)   (room A-1-13)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:15
Planetary exploration - Robert Olszewski (Wydział Geodezji i Kartografii) (until 17:45) (room A-1-13)
16:15 Earth, Moon, Mars: An Architectural Perspective on Designing Human Environments - Karolina Dąbrowska-Żółtak (Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture)   (room A-1-13)
16:30 High-Fidelity Immersive 3D Visualization of the Jezero Crater: A Game Engine-Based Approach for Planetary Exploration - Marta Goluch (Politechnika Warszawska)   (room A-1-13)
16:45 New Martian Regolith Simulant - Joanna Kozakiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science)   (room A-1-13)
17:00 Challenges in Developing a Multiphysics Virtual Twin of Extraterrestrial Regolith - Przemysław Młynarczyk (Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszki)   (room A-1-13)
17:15 Terrestrial-to-Mars Transfer Learning for Automated Grain Size Analysis in the GRAINS Project - Cristina Luna (GMV) Almudena Moreno (GMV)   (room A-1-13)
17:45 --- Bledow Desert Field Trip Information ---
18:00 --- Touring the laboratories ---