Name: The Fourth National Workshop on the SKA Project
Start: 2023-11-27T13:45:00+01:00
End: 2023-12-01T13:30:00+01:00
Location: Universita' di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica

The Fourth National Workshop on the SKA Project

from Monday, November 27, 2023 (1:45 PM) to Friday, December 1, 2023 (1:30 PM)

Monday, November 27, 2023
2:00 PM (chair Grazia Umana)
(chair Grazia Umana)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

2:00 PM Institutional Welcome from the University of Catania - TBD

2:15 PM Welcome: INAF President, Catania Obs. Director - Isabella Pagano (INAF) Marco Tavani (INAF)

2:30 PM The SKAO: Science & Status - Philippa Hartley (SKAO)

3:15 PM The SKA Observatory from an Italian Perspective - Isabella Prandoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:40 PM The Italian SKA Regional Centres: the development plan - Andrea Possenti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
4:30 PM (chair Isabella Pagano)
(chair Isabella Pagano)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

4:30 PM SKAlow – The INAF contribution - Jader Monari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

4:50 PM SKA Observation Management and Control Software: the italian contribution - Mauro Dolci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:10 PM LOFAR and the the Italian involvement - Gianfranco Brunetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:30 PM SKA Precursors: The Italian participation to MeerKAT and MeerKAT+ - Grazia Umana (INAF)

5:50 PM STILES for SKA - Francesco Schilliro' (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

6:10 PM An overview of INAF's cooperation with South Africa: context, programmes and opportunities - Pierguido Sarti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
9:00 AM (chair Gianni Bernardi)
(chair Gianni Bernardi)
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM EoR, Cosmic Dawn and the SKA - Steven Murray (Scuola Normale Superiore)

9:30 AM Late-time cosmology with the SKA Observatory - Marta Spinelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 AM HI Galaxy Science with SKA and Pathfinders - Federico Lelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 AM Tracing the cosmic assembly of supermassive black holes and galaxies in the SKA era - Ivan Delvecchio (INAF-OAB)
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
11:30 AM (chair Gabriele Giovannini)
(chair Gabriele Giovannini)
11:30 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:30 AM Results from observations with the SKA-low prototype station Aperture Array Verification System 2: the INAF contribution towards science commissioning - Giulia Macario (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy)

11:50 AM Updates on the INAF C-band PAF development project - Tonino Pisanu (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 PM From LOFAR to LOFAR 2.0: current and future surveys at the lowest frequencies - Francesco De Gasperin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:30 PM Visualization Tools - Ugo Becciani (INAF)
12:50 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:50 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
2:30 PM (chair Rossella Cassano)
(chair Rossella Cassano)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

2:30 PM Paving the way to SKA observations of galaxy clusters with pathfinder and precursor instruments - Andrea Botteon (INAF-IRA)

3:00 PM The magnetized Universe - Francesca Loi (Università di Bologna & INAF)

3:30 PM Pulsars science towards the SKA - Marta Burgay (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
4:30 PM (chair Corrado Trigilio)
(chair Corrado Trigilio)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

4:30 PM Galactic science with SKA & precursors: towards the sharpest view of Our Galaxy - Cristobal Bordiu (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:00 PM Astrochemistry of protoplanetary disks on the Solar System scale: living ALMA, preparing SKA - Claudio Codella (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:30 PM Galactic transients: X-ray binaries: accretion & feedback around stellar-mass compact objects - Sara Elisa Motta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

6:00 PM Fast Radio Bursts in the SKA era - Maura Pilia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
9:00 AM EoR
EoR
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room 3
Contributions

9:00 AM Synergies of SKA with high-z galaxy surveys - Laura Pentericci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:35 AM Inference and modeling of early galaxy properties: the role of stochacity during EoR. - Ivan Nikolić (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)

10:00 AM Multi-wavelength forward-modeling of the EoR and cosmic dawn - James Davies (Scuola Normale Superiore)

10:35 AM Prospects for a Measurement of the 21 cm Galaxy Cross Spectrum with the SKA - Samuel Gagnon-Hartman (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Groups, Clusters, LSS
Groups, Clusters, LSS
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Department of Physics, Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM Shocks (among us) in the IGrM of HCG15 - Christopher Riseley (Universita di Bologna)

9:20 AM Recovering diffuse extended emission in the SKA era - Luca Bruno (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:40 AM Addressing the challenges of deep LOFAR observations of the Coma galaxy cluster - Chiara Stuardi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 AM Constraining the origin of radio halos in galaxy clusters - Thomas Pasini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 AM Probing diffuse radio emission in bridges between galaxy clusters - Giada Venusta Pignataro (Università di Bologna)

10:40 AM Combining single dish and interferometric observations of galaxy clusters: the case of the cluster CL0217+70 - Paolo Marchegiani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room 2
Contributions

9:00 AM The SKA Working Group Cradle of Life - Where we arrived, what we planned - Claudio Codella (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)) Eleonora Bianchi (Excellence cluster ORIGINS)

9:50 AM Unveiling planet formation with the SKA - Leonardo Testi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna)

10:10 AM Shaping the spectroscopic knowledge for SKA-based molecular searches - Luca Bizzocchi (Dipartimento di Chimica "Giacomo Ciamician", Università di Bologna, via F. Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna)

10:30 AM Astrochemistry with SKA: a laboratory perspective on solid-phase pathways and gas-phase detections - Maria Elisabetta Palumbo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:50 AM Discussion
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
11:30 AM EoR
EoR
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room 3
Contributions

11:30 AM 21cmEMU: an emulator of 21cmFAST summary observables - Daniela Breitman (Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS))

11:55 AM Status of 21 cm global signal measurements - Marta Spinelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:30 PM Extracting the Epoch of Reionization signal for the SKA Foregrounds Data Challenge - Ainulnabilah Nasirudin (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Magnetism, radio galaxies in high density environments
Magnetism, radio galaxies in high density environments
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Department of Physics, Aula Magna
Contributions

11:30 AM First results from the MeerKAT Fornax Survey (broadband continuum data) - Francesca Loi (Università di Bologna & INAF)

11:50 AM The key role of magnetic field to disentangle radio emission in the mini halo of RBS797 - Annalisa Bonafede (Bologna University & INAF)

12:10 PM Physics of the oldest phases of AGN bubbles in a galaxy group - Marisa Brienza (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:30 PM An ILT view of radio galaxies in Abell 2255: a scientific and technical challenge towards the SKA era - Emanuele De Rubeis (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room 2
Contributions

11:30 AM The importance of feedback and magnetic fields from diffuse medium to dense cores and protostellar jets in our Galaxy: radio continuum and synchrotron emission in the SKA era - Alessio Traficante Marco Padovani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 PM Discussion
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
2:30 PM EoR
EoR
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 3
Contributions

2:30 PM Discussion: Galaxy synergy with SKA EoR
High density environments
High density environments
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 1
Contributions

2:30 PM Radio observations of ram-pressure-stripped tails: a new window into galaxy evolution - Alessandro Ignesti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:50 PM HI morphology as a tracer of environmental interactions: present and future - Paolo Serra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:10 PM ViCTORIA: A MeerKAT survey of the Virgo cluster - Alessandro Boselli (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France, scientific associate INAF presso Osservatorio astronomico di Cagliari)

3:30 PM The low HI mass population in the Fornax cluster as never seen before - Alessandro Loni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 2

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
4:30 PM Cosmology
Cosmology
4:30 PM - 6:05 PM
Room: Room 3
Contributions

4:30 PM Prospects for physical cosmology in the SKA era - Matteo Viel (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:05 PM Large Scale Structure on very large scales: relativistic, wide-angle and the ‘finger of the observer’ effects - Daniele Bertacca (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:35 PM Synergies with sub-mm and mm observations - Giuseppe Puglisi (University of Catania)
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Department of Physics, Aula D
Contributions

4:30 PM Discussion
Galaxy dynamics, ISM, galaxy scaling relations
Galaxy dynamics, ISM, galaxy scaling relations
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room 1
Contributions

4:30 PM Galaxy dynamics in the era of large HI surveys - Konstantin Haubner (Universita' Firenze)

4:50 PM The evolution of the 𝑀star-𝑀𝐻𝐼 relation: a stacking-derived snapshot at z=0.4 with the MIGHTEE and CHILES survey - Alessandro Bianchetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:10 PM Unveiling the atomic gas content of quenched galaxies at 0.2<z<0.5 - Giulia Rodighiero (University of Padova)
Thursday, November 30, 2023
9:20 AM AGN physics and duty cycle
AGN physics and duty cycle
9:20 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room 1
Contributions

9:20 AM Understanding the AGN accretion and ejection physics with SKA - Francesca Panessa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:40 AM The GRACE project: high-energy giant radio galaxies and their duty cycle - Gabriele Bruni (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali)

10:00 AM Hotspots as particle acceleration laboratories in the perspective of SKA - Giulia Migliori (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 AM VLBI investigation of candidate neutrino emitters - Cristina Nanci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:40 AM From cold gas to black hole: the AGN duty-cycle as revealed by MeerKAT - Filippo Maccagni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
9:20 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room 2
Contributions

9:20 AM New Galactic Plane Surveys with SKA precursors: the SARAO GPS with MeerKAT and the SNR use case - Filomena Bufano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)) Francesco Cavallaro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:55 AM Detecting magnetic fields in exoplanets through Auroral Radio Emission - Corrado Trigilio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:15 AM Source detection and classification in the SKA precursor era with machine learning - Simone Riggi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:35 AM Discussion
9:20 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room 3
Contributions

9:20 AM Results from the search for very-low frequency gravitational waves with the EPTA DR2 and InPTA DR1 - Aurélien Chalumeau (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

9:45 AM Astrophysics from the PTA evidence for the nanohertz gravitational wave background - Golam Mohiuddin Shaifullah ('G. Occhialini' Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

10:10 AM Search for gravitational waves from individual massive black hole binaries in MeerTime data - Beatrice Moreschi ('G. Occhialini' Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

10:35 AM On the shoulders of giants: searching for individual supermassive blackhole binaries in the presence of a background - Irene Ferranti ('G. Occhialini' Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
11:30 AM Radio surveys & Galaxy evolution
Radio surveys & Galaxy evolution
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room 1
Contributions

11:30 AM The LOFAR view of the Euclid Deep Field North - Marco Bondi (INAF-IRA)

11:50 AM Exploring new SHORES - Vincenzo Galluzzi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 PM The Far-Infrared/Radio Correlation in Strongly Lensed DSFGs: Insights into Galaxy and AGN Co-evolution - Marika Giulietti (International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA))

12:30 PM Heavily obscured AGN detection with current and future deep radio surveys - Roberto Gilli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room 2
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room 3
Contributions

11:30 AM The Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP) as a precursor of SKA - Delphine Perrodin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:55 AM Recent results of the Large Survey Projects on pulsars at MeerKAT - Federico Abbate (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:20 PM Discussion
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna
2:30 PM Cosmology
Cosmology
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 2
Contributions

2:30 PM Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 1
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 3
Contributions

2:30 PM Isolated black holes and neutron stars in the Galaxy - Sandro Mereghetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:55 PM How many transitional millisecond pulsars are out there? - Alessandro Papitto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:20 PM Studying the afterglow phase of Gamma-Ray Bursts in radio - Stefano Giarratana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Magna

4:30 PM Cosmology
Cosmology
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Room 2

Joint Discussion with Galaxy Clusters and Magnetism
Joint Discussion with Galaxy Clusters and Magnetism
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Room 1
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Room 3
Contributions

4:30 PM The great synergy between SKA and next generation GRB missions - Lorenzo Amati (INAF .- IASF Bologna)

4:55 PM A faint persistent radio source associated to FRB20201124A - Gabriele Bruni (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali)

5:20 PM Charting New Frontiers: Italian Efforts in FRB Multi-wavelength Studies and the CHORD Experiment - Matteo Trudu (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:45 PM Discussion
Friday, December 1, 2023
9:00 AM (chair Gabriele Giovannini)
(chair Gabriele Giovannini)
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

9:00 AM EoR and Cosmology - Andrei Mesinger (SNS)

9:30 AM Galaxy Evolution (RC & HI) - Isabella Prandoni (INAF) Paolo Serra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 AM Galaxy Clusters & Magnetism - Rossella Cassano (INAF) Valentina Vacca (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 AM Transients & Pulsars - Andrea Possenti (INAF) Marcello Giroletti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:00 AM Our Galaxy & Cradle of Life - Adriano Ingallinera (INAF) Grazia Umana (INAF) Leonardo Testi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna)
11:30 AM

11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Aula Magna

11:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Aula Magna

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