The 16th workshop of the PHISCC will be held at KIAA, Peking University, Beijing, China, on 12–16 October 2026.
The abstract submission has been closed, but you may still register the workshop at this Google Form link. We note that late registrants may be held on the waiting list. As per the tradition of PHISCC meetings, there is no conference fee.
Motivation
The series of annual PHISCC workshops started in 2009 and aims at bringing together the community interested in H i research with the SKA pathfinders and precursors. The goal of the PHISCC workshops is to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas both from a scientific and technical point of view, with a strong focus on engaging early-career researchers.
With most major new and upgraded facilities for 21 cm research operational, the PHISCC 2026 workshop will focus on the latest H i results in the broader multi-wavelength context and in connection with theory and simulations.
Important dates
- 15 Dec 2025: pre-announcement for the important dates.
- 1 Feb 2026: announcement for registration and abstract submission.
- 1 Apr 2026: abstract submission closes.
- 1 June 2026: email results of abstract selection.
- 30 June 2026: preliminary program of breakout sessions.
- 30 Sep 2026: registration close.
- 12–16 Oct 2026: workshop.
Instead of the usual 3+2 days for plenary+breakout sessions, we will experiment a new format of morning plenary + afternoon breakout throughout the 5 days, with the possibility of including short plenary in the afternoons.
Topics of plenary sessions
- H i results on gas accretion and star formation in the context of a multiphase ISM and CGM
- Galaxy dynamics
- Interaction between galaxies and the surrounding environment
- AGN feeding and feedback
- The evolution of the H i properties of galaxies with redshift
- Predictions from and comparison with theory and simulations
- H i cosmology
Topics of breakout sessions
- New and future instrumentations
- Pipelines and QA strategies
- Source finding
- Non-VR visualisation
- Source characterisation
- Kinematical modelling
- Spectral stacking
SOC
- Barbara Catinella (ICRAR)
- Thijs van der Hulst (Kapteyn Institute)
- Nissim Kanekar (NCRA - TIFR)
- Gabriella De Lucia (INAF - Trieste)
- Elizabeth Mahony (CSIRO - ATNF)
- D.J. Pisano (University of Cape Town)
- Paolo Serra (INAF - Cagliari)
- Snezana Stanimirovic (UW - Madison)
- Jing Wang (chair; KIAA)
LOC
- Qifeng Huang (KIAA)
- Xuchen Lin (KIAA)
- Ms. Min Sun (KIAA)
- Dong Yang (KIAA)