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 27 November 2023 (13:45) to Friday 1 December 2023 (13:30)

Monday 27 November 2023
14:00 (chair Grazia Umana)
(chair Grazia Umana)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:00 Institutional Welcome from the University of Catania - TBD

14:15 Welcome: INAF President, Catania Obs. Director - Isabella Pagano (INAF) Marco Tavani (INAF)

14:30 The SKAO: Science & Status - Philippa Hartley (SKAO)

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

15:40 The Italian SKA Regional Centres: the development plan - Andrea Possenti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Aula Magna
16:30 (chair Isabella Pagano)
(chair Isabella Pagano)
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:30 SKAlow – The INAF contribution - Jader Monari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:50 SKA Observation Management and Control Software: the italian contribution - Mauro Dolci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:10 LOFAR and the the Italian involvement - Gianfranco Brunetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:30 SKA Precursors: The Italian participation to MeerKAT and MeerKAT+ - Grazia Umana (INAF)

17:50 STILES for SKA - Francesco Schilliro' (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:10 An overview of INAF's cooperation with South Africa: context, programmes and opportunities - Pierguido Sarti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Tuesday 28 November 2023
09:00 (chair Gianni Bernardi)
(chair Gianni Bernardi)
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 EoR, Cosmic Dawn and the SKA - Steven Murray (Scuola Normale Superiore)

09:30 Late-time cosmology with the SKA Observatory - Marta Spinelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

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

11:30 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 Updates on the INAF C-band PAF development project - Tonino Pisanu (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

12:30 Visualization Tools - Ugo Becciani (INAF)
12:50 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:50 - 14:30
Room: Aula Magna
14:30 (chair Rossella Cassano)
(chair Rossella Cassano)
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:30 Paving the way to SKA observations of galaxy clusters with pathfinder and precursor instruments - Andrea Botteon (INAF-IRA)

15:00 The magnetized Universe - Francesca Loi (Università di Bologna & INAF)

15:30 Pulsars science towards the SKA - Marta Burgay (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Aula Magna
16:30 (chair Corrado Trigilio)
(chair Corrado Trigilio)
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:30 Galactic science with SKA & precursors: towards the sharpest view of Our Galaxy - Cristobal Bordiu (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:00 Astrochemistry of protoplanetary disks on the Solar System scale: living ALMA, preparing SKA - Claudio Codella (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:30 Galactic transients: X-ray binaries: accretion & feedback around stellar-mass compact objects - Sara Elisa Motta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:00 Fast Radio Bursts in the SKA era - Maura Pilia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Wednesday 29 November 2023
09:00 EoR
EoR
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Room 3
Contributions

09:00 Synergies of SKA with high-z galaxy surveys - Laura Pentericci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:35 Inference and modeling of early galaxy properties: the role of stochacity during EoR. - Ivan Nikolić (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)

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

10:35 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
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Department of Physics, Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Shocks (among us) in the IGrM of HCG15 - Christopher Riseley (Universita di Bologna)

09:20 Recovering diffuse extended emission in the SKA era - Luca Bruno (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:40 Addressing the challenges of deep LOFAR observations of the Coma galaxy cluster - Chiara Stuardi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

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

10:40 Combining single dish and interferometric observations of galaxy clusters: the case of the cluster CL0217+70 - Paolo Marchegiani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Room 2
Contributions

09:00 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)

09:50 Unveiling planet formation with the SKA - Leonardo Testi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna)

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

10:50 Discussion
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula Magna
11:30 EoR
EoR
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Room 3
Contributions

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

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

12:30 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 - 13:00
Room: Department of Physics, Aula Magna
Contributions

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

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

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

12:30 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 - 13:00
Room: Room 2
Contributions

11:30 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 Discussion
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Aula Magna
14:30 EoR
EoR
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room 3
Contributions

14:30 Discussion: Galaxy synergy with SKA EoR
High density environments
High density environments
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room 1
Contributions

14:30 Radio observations of ram-pressure-stripped tails: a new window into galaxy evolution - Alessandro Ignesti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:50 HI morphology as a tracer of environmental interactions: present and future - Paolo Serra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:10 ViCTORIA: A MeerKAT survey of the Virgo cluster - Alessandro Boselli (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France, scientific associate INAF presso Osservatorio astronomico di Cagliari)

15:30 The low HI mass population in the Fornax cluster as never seen before - Alessandro Loni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room 2

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Aula Magna
16:30 Cosmology
Cosmology
16:30 - 18:05
Room: Room 3
Contributions

16:30 Prospects for physical cosmology in the SKA era - Matteo Viel (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:05 Large Scale Structure on very large scales: relativistic, wide-angle and the ‘finger of the observer’ effects - Daniele Bertacca (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:35 Synergies with sub-mm and mm observations - Giuseppe Puglisi (University of Catania)
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Department of Physics, Aula D
Contributions

16:30 Discussion
Galaxy dynamics, ISM, galaxy scaling relations
Galaxy dynamics, ISM, galaxy scaling relations
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Room 1
Contributions

16:30 Galaxy dynamics in the era of large HI surveys - Konstantin Haubner (Universita' Firenze)

16:50 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))

17:10 Unveiling the atomic gas content of quenched galaxies at 0.2<z<0.5 - Giulia Rodighiero (University of Padova)
Thursday 30 November 2023
09:20 AGN physics and duty cycle
AGN physics and duty cycle
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Room 1
Contributions

09:20 Understanding the AGN accretion and ejection physics with SKA - Francesca Panessa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:40 The GRACE project: high-energy giant radio galaxies and their duty cycle - Gabriele Bruni (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali)

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

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

10:40 From cold gas to black hole: the AGN duty-cycle as revealed by MeerKAT - Filippo Maccagni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Room 2
Contributions

09:20 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))

09:55 Detecting magnetic fields in exoplanets through Auroral Radio Emission - Corrado Trigilio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

10:35 Discussion
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Room 3
Contributions

09:20 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)

09:45 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 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 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 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula Magna
11:30 Radio surveys & Galaxy evolution
Radio surveys & Galaxy evolution
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Room 1
Contributions

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

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

12:10 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 Heavily obscured AGN detection with current and future deep radio surveys - Roberto Gilli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Room 2
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Room 3
Contributions

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

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

12:20 Discussion
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Aula Magna
14:30 Cosmology
Cosmology
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room 2
Contributions

14:30 Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room 1
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room 3
Contributions

14:30 Isolated black holes and neutron stars in the Galaxy - Sandro Mereghetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:55 How many transitional millisecond pulsars are out there? - Alessandro Papitto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:20 Studying the afterglow phase of Gamma-Ray Bursts in radio - Stefano Giarratana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Aula Magna

16:30 Cosmology
Cosmology
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Room 2

Joint Discussion with Galaxy Clusters and Magnetism
Joint Discussion with Galaxy Clusters and Magnetism
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Room 1
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Room 3
Contributions

16:30 The great synergy between SKA and next generation GRB missions - Lorenzo Amati (INAF .- IASF Bologna)

16:55 A faint persistent radio source associated to FRB20201124A - Gabriele Bruni (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali)

17:20 Charting New Frontiers: Italian Efforts in FRB Multi-wavelength Studies and the CHORD Experiment - Matteo Trudu (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:45 Discussion
Friday 1 December 2023
09:00 (chair Gabriele Giovannini)
(chair Gabriele Giovannini)
09:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 EoR and Cosmology - Andrei Mesinger (SNS)

09:30 Galaxy Evolution (RC & HI) - Isabella Prandoni (INAF) Paolo Serra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

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

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

11:30 - 11:40
Room: Aula Magna

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

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