The UMD/GSFC Joint Space Science Institute (JSI) is happy to announce that this year’s JSI Fall Conference will be:

A NICER Legacy: Neutron Stars, Black Holes, and Time-Domain Astronomy

Venue : The Graduate by Hilton, Annapolis

Dates : 2-4 November 2026 

Meeting website : https://jsi.umd.edu/jsi-workshop-2026/

Registration site : https://go.umd.edu/jsi26registration

Early registration / hotel / talk-request deadline : 29 September 2026

This conference will bring together specialists from the astrophysics and physics community to discuss the many aspects of the discoveries and legacy of NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission. Topics to be discussed include:

• Neutron star radii and implications
• Variable galactic nuclei
• Outbursting stellar-mass black hole binaries
• Magnetars and accreting neutron stars
• Synergies and the future

Current confirmed invited speakers:

• Slavko Bogdanov (Columbia)
• Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT)
• Joheen Chakraborty (MIT)
• Javier Garcia (NASA-GSFC)
• Muryel Guolo (IAS)
• Alice Harding (LANL)
• Erin Kara (MIT)
• Tom Maccarone (TTU)
• Jaki Noronha-Hostler (UIUC)
• Ethan Partington (FORTH)
• Jim Stone (IAS)

Registration is now open! Registration, abstract submission, and hotel information are all available on the conference website.