Name: Theoretical Insights into Star Formation: from the Early to the Present Day Universe
Start: 2025-05-06T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-09T13:10:00+02:00
Location: Pisa

Theoretical Insights into Star Formation: from the Early to the Present Day Universe

from Tuesday, 6 May 2025 (08:30) to Friday, 9 May 2025 (13:10)

Monday, 5 May 2025
Tuesday, 6 May 2025

08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:15

09:15 Welcome

09:15 - 09:30
09:30 Session 1a: Galactic Star Formation (1) (chairs Fred Adams & Francesco Fontani)
Galactic Star Formation (1) (chairs Fred Adams & Francesco Fontani)
09:30 - 12:50
Contributions

09:30 The first steps of star and planet formation - Paola Caselli (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

10:00 From Psuedodisk Formation in Magnetized Collapse to the Interplay with Multi-faced Outflow Phenomena - Hsien Shang (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica)

10:20 Characterizing the emission of molecular clouds using a sampling technique - Mario Tafalla (Observatorio Astronomico Nacional (Spain))

10:40 Poster session (1)

11:20 Gas infall via accretion disk feeding Cepheus A HW2 - Alberto Sanna (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:40 The accretion/ejection properties of Class 0 protostars studied with near-infrared spectroscopy - Valentin Le Gouellec (ICE-CSIC)

12:00 ALMAGAL: Evolutionary study of high-mass protocluster formation in the Galaxy - Alvaro Sanchez-Monge (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC))

12:20 Rotation and angular momentum transport mechanisms in molecular clouds and filaments - Griselda Arroyo-Chavez (Steward Observatory - University of Arizona)

12:40 Poster Session (2)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:30
14:30 Session 1b: Galactic Star Formation (2) (chairs Antonella Natta & Riccardo Cesaroni)
Galactic Star Formation (2) (chairs Antonella Natta & Riccardo Cesaroni)
14:30 - 17:50
Contributions

14:30 How we think planet formation disks are forming? The past, the present and the future - Patrick Hennebelle (CEA)

15:00 Theoretical models for filamentary structures and collapse of pre-stellar cores - Claudia Toci (European Southern Observatory (ESO))

15:20 Accretion disks and massive stars: New light on an ancient history - Riccardo Cesaroni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:40 Investigating the origin of stellar masses with ALMA-IMF - Thomas Nony (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:00 Poster Session (3)

16:40 Exploring Accretion Variability via Jet Evolution in G023.01-00.41 - Tatiana Rodriguez (University of Cologne)

17:00 Dusty protostellar collapses simulations in 3D with dust growth - Anaëlle Maury (Institute of Space Sciences (Barcelona) & CEA Astrophysics department (Paris-Saclay))

17:20 Core Formation in Molecular Clouds: Evidence Favoring Turbulent Over Gravitational Fragmentation - Fumitaka Nakamura (NAOJ)
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
09:30 Session 2: History of Astronomy (chair Lapo Casetti)
History of Astronomy (chair Lapo Casetti)
09:30 - 10:40
Contributions

09:30 Giovan Battista Donati and the birth of a new physics for stars - Mauro Gargano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 The life and time of a Pisan Astronomer - Simone Bianchi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 Beyond Academic Boundaries: Scientific Collaboration and Friendship in the Lorenzoni-Abetti Partnership - Valeria Zanini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Session 3: Magnetic Fields (chairs: Anaëlle Maury, Luca Moscadelli, Maite Beltran)
Magnetic Fields (chairs: Anaëlle Maury, Luca Moscadelli, Maite Beltran)
11:10 - 17:00
Contributions

11:10 Magnetized star formation - Josep M Girart (Institut de Ciències de l'Espai, CSIC)

11:40 Formation and structure of magnetized protoplanetary disks - Susana Lizano

12:00 Planets Formation via Gravitational Instability: Magnetic Fields, Opacity Limited Fragmentation, and the Mass Distribution - Fred Adams (University of Michigan)

12:20 Self-similarity of the magnetic field in G31.41+0.31 from cloud to circumstellar scales - Maite Beltrán (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

12:40 The launching mechanism of protostellar winds via water masers - Luca Moscadelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:30 Origin of fossil fields in Ap/Bp-type stars - Dominik Schleicher (Sapienza University of Rome)

14:50 Magnetic fields in prestellar cores: a new perspective from meter-wavelength radio data - Andrea Bracco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:10 Magnetized Clustered Star Formation in Orion - Bo Huang (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC))

16:00 Signatures of magnetic braking in Class 0 protostars: Exploring the gas kinematics in magnetized models of low-mass star formation - Nacho Añez-Lopez (CEA Paris-Saclay)

16:20 Dust Properties of Taurus Protostellar Twins in a Magnetized Environment - Asako Sato (Institut de Ciències de l’Espai, CSIC)

16:40 Unveiling the magnetized path of massive star formation with MAGMA - Chi Yan Law (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Thursday, 8 May 2025
09:10 Session 4: Galaxy formation and evolution (chair SImone Bianchi)
Galaxy formation and evolution (chair SImone Bianchi)
09:10 - 10:35
Contributions

09:10 Bar-spiral interaction produces star formatin bursts - Lea Marques (Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam, Germany (AIP))

09:30 Star formation history of the Milky Way thick and thin discs from chemical evolution models - Valeria Grisoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:50 Revisiting the Milky Way’s Star Formation Rate: A New and Improved Estimate - Davide Quintino Elia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:10 From Island Universes to Noisy Neighborhoods: the chemical evolution of galaxies - Steven N. Shore (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Pisa)

10:30 Poster session (6)
10:35 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:35 - 11:10
11:10 Session 5: Primordial Universe (chair Dominik Schleicker)
Primordial Universe (chair Dominik Schleicker)
11:10 - 12:40
Contributions

11:10 Back where it all begins: the formation of the first stars and black holes - Raffaella Schneider

11:40 The POPSICLE project: star cluster formation at cosmic dawn - Piyush Sharda (Leiden University)

12:00 Dust Attenuation of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Early Universe with JWST - Vladan Markov (FMF, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

12:20 Are Local Dwarf galaxies the first safe planet-hosting environments? - Stefano Ciabattini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:25

14:25 Free Afternoon
Free Afternoon
14:25 - 17:00

17:00 Social event and Aperitivo: Social event
Social event
17:00 - 19:30
Friday, 9 May 2025
09:10 Session 6: Cosmic Rays and Astrochemistry (chairs: Andrea Bracco & Paola Caselli)
Cosmic Rays and Astrochemistry (chairs: Andrea Bracco & Paola Caselli)
09:10 - 13:00
Contributions

09:10 Cosmic rays and star formation - Elena Redaelli

09:40 Interpretable Machine Learning for Astrochemistry - Tommaso Grassi

10:00 NEGATIVE ION CHEMISTRY AMONG STARS AND CLOUDS : MOLECULAR PROCESSES IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM - Francesco Gianturco (Institute of Ion Physics, Innsbruck University, Innsbruck Austria)

10:20 Cosmic ray ionization in the local Milky Way: How well do we understand it? - Alexei Ivlev (MPI for extraterrestrial physics)

11:10 Impacts of Energetic Particles from T Tauri Flares on Inner Protoplanetary Discs. - Valentin Brunn (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:30 Transport of spectrally-resolved cosmic-ray protons and electrons in the multiphase interstellar medium - Lucia Armillotta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:50 The Effect of Weak Cosmic Ray Heating Events on the Desorption of H2 - Olli Sipilä (Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

12:10 Chemical signatures of a prestellar cluster in the Galactic Center - Laura Colzi (Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB), CSIC-INTA)

12:30 Exploring the limits of chemical complexity in the interstellar medium: present and future - Víctor M. Rivilla (Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA))

12:50 Poster session (8)
13:00 Final remarks

13:00 - 13:10

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