National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025

Scientific Programme Details of each selected parallel session and lunchtime session for NAM are listed below including organiser details. Note a parallel session block is 90 mins and a lunchtime session is 45 mins. The parallel sessions have been put into categories to ease navigation. However, note, these categories are not inclusive but more indicative; i.e., a session can in principle fall into 2 or more of the categories. The following categories have been used: o Cosmology and large-scale structure o Engagement (covering a wide range of activities) o Facility (for facility based research that doesn't fall into a single science category) o Galaxies and star formation o High energy and transient phenomena o Instrumentation o Professional (covering a wide range of professional skills, practice, and behaviour topics) o Solar o Stellar and planetary (including exo planets) o Techniques The lunchtime sessions are placed in their own category but cover a wide range of topics including engagement, facility, instrumentation, and professional practice/behaviour. Note, most lunchtime sessions do not accept submitted contributions: see the lunchtime descriptions and titles to identify those that accept abstracts. COSMOLOGY AND LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE These sessions are mainly focused around cosmology and large-scale structure science. Note similar science may also be covered in other categories, particularly the facility category. Theoretical and observational approaches to the Hubble tension