CONFERENCE PROGRAM (last updated: 2025, March 11)
Monday, March 24
16:30 – 19:00 On-site registration & Welcome cocktail
19:00 - 20:00:
- Historical Talk on Swift (Nick White)
- Remembering Neil Gehrels and Guido Chincarini (Julie McEnery, Filippo Zerbi)
Tuesday, March 25
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome (LOC & SOC)
GRB progenitors (long & short)
09:15 - 09:45 Gamma-ray burst progenitors revisited (Andrew Levan)
09:45 - 10:00 Exploring pathways for long-duration gamma-ray bursts from compact object mergers (Ashley Chrimes)
10:00 - 10:15 The puzzling long GRB 191019A: Evidence for Kilonova Light (Andrea Rossi)
10:15 - 10:30 Exploring Short Gamma-Ray Bursts: afterglow insights from the S-BAT4 extended sample (Riccardo Brivio)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
GRB central engines and jets
11:00 - 11:30 Central Engines of Gamma-ray Bursts and Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis (Brian David Metzger)
11:30 - 11:45 Measuring the expansion of GRB afterglows (Stefano Giarratana)
11:45 - 12:00 The BOAT that rocked: the radio afterglow of GRB 221009A (Lauren Rhodes)
12:00 - 12:15 Where Are All of the Off-Axis GRBs? A Late-Time Radio Campaign of Ic Broad Line Supernovae (Genevieve Schroeder)
12:15 - 12:30 Soft X-ray prompt emission from a high-redshift gamma-ray burst EP240315a (Yuan Liu)
12:30 - 14:30 lunch & posters view
14:30 - 14:45 Interpreting the 10 MeV emission line in GRB 221009A as high-latitude emission from an annihilating pair bubble (Om Sharan Salafia)
14:45 - 15:00 Orphan Afterglows - AT 2023sva and the State of the Field (Gokul Srinivasaragavan)
15:00 - 15:15 Flares, energy injection, and decoding broadband GRB afterglows via XRT observations (Gavin Lamb)
15:15 - 15:30 Magnetar Evidence in Central Engines of Peculiar Gamma-Ray Bursts (Binbin Zhang)
GRB as probes
15:30 - 16:00 GRBs as tracers of star formation and the distant ISM (Patricia Schady)
16:00 - 16:30 coffee break
16:30 - 16:45 GRBs as probes of the high-z Universe (Andrea Saccardi)
16:45 - 17:00 Host galaxies and local properties of a complete sample of short Gamma-Ray Bursts (Matteo Ferro)
17:00 - 17:15 Properties of the populations of Gamma Ray Bursts (Giancarlo Ghirlanda)
17:15 - 17:30 Teaching an old BAT new tricks: New analysis methods and results with Swift/BAT-GUANO (Jimmy DeLaunay)
GRB, GW and Kilonovae
17:30 - 17:45 Impact of Systematic Modeling Uncertainties on Kilonova Property Estimation (Daniel Brethauer)
17:45 - 18:00 Where has all the r-process gone? An Exploration of the Capacity for Swift GRB-Kilonovae to Enrich their HGs (Anya Nugent)
Wednesday, March 26
GRB, GW and Kilonovae
09:00 - 09:30 Multi-messenger studies with GRBs: situation and perspectives (Paolo D'Avanzo)
09:30 - 09:45 The impact of Swift on gravitational wave astronomy (Samuele Ronchini)
09:45 - 10:00 The Diversity of Electromagnetic Counterparts to Neutron Star Mergers Revealed by Swift (Jillian Rastinejad)
The next decade of GRB science (challenges & missions)
10:00 - 10:30 TBA (Maria Grazia Bernardini)
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 The SVOM mission (Bertrand Cordier)
11:30 - 11:45 First Gamma-Ray Burst observations with SVOM (Frédéric Daigne)
11:45 - 12:00 Swift and the Future of TDAMM Astronomy (Jamie Kennea)
12:00 - 12:15 The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor - THESEUS (Lorenzo Amati)
12:15 - 12:30 Mission Director Updates and Orbital Decay Predictions (John van Eepoel)
12:30 - 14:00 lunch & posters view
Magnetars and Pulsars
14:00 - 14:30 Magnetar birth rates, evolution, and their imprint in the transient X-ray sky (Nanda Rea)
14:30 - 14:45 Giant Flares from extragalactic magnetars (Sandro Mereghetti)
14:45 - 15:00 Systematic study of magnetar outbursts (Francesco Coti Zelati)
15:00 - 15:15 A Tale for Two Class of X-ray Pulsars: Two Decades of Swift Sky Observations (Gianluca Israel)
15:15 - 15:45 Recurrent Swift observations of recurrent novae (Kim Page)
15:45 - 16:00 A New Sample of Transient Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources Serendipitously Discovered by Swift/XRT (Murray Brightman)
16:00 - 16:30 coffee break
16:30 - 16:45 The legacy of the Swift Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients Project (Patrizia Romano)
16:45 - 17:00 Unveiling the hard X-ray emitting population of accreting white dwarf binaries: the Swift role (Domitilla de Martino)
17:00 - 17:15 Insights from the Swift satellite on Black Hole X-ray Binaries (Melania Del Santo)
17:15 - 17:30 Completing 20 years of X-ray monitoring of the Galactic Center: A Swift legacy (Nathalie Degenaar)
Multimessenger and Multiwavelength Astronomy
17:30 - 17:45 Gravitational-Wave Follow-Up Strategy for the UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX) Mission (Leo Singer)
17:45 - 18:00 The Swift Perspective of Very High Energy Sources Observed with VERITAS (Amy Furniss)
20:00 Social dinner (Osteria Dei Baroncelli; https://www.osteriadeibaroncelli.it/)
Thursday, March 27
Multimessenger and Multiwavelength Astronomy
09:00 - 09:30 High energy astrophysical neutrinos: Open questions and future prospects (Eli Waxman)
09:30 - 10:00 CTAO a new window for the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength astronomy (Antonio Stamerra)
10:00 - 10:15 The contributions of ESO to Swift followup over 20 years (Nial Tanvir)
10:15 - 10:30 Swift's crucial role in the Einstein Probe era of Fast X-ray Transients (Peter Jonker)
10:30 - 10:45 Multiwavelength Follow-up Observations of Astrophysical Neutrino Events (Riley Anne Sharpe)
10:45 - 11:15 coffee break
Thermonuclear Supernovae, Core-Collapsed Supernovae and FBOT
11:15 - 11:45 The bluest, the fastest and the X-ray bright: Core-collapse SNe and FBOTs (Raffaella Margutti)
11:45 - 12:00 Extragalactic fast X-ray transient from a weak relativistic jet associated with a Type Ic-BL supernova (Hui Sun)
12:00 - 12:15 Swift as an Unprecedented Probe of Young, CSM-Interacting Supernovae (Wynn Jacobson-Galan)
12:15 - 12:30 AT2024wpp and Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients: New Developments from Swift and HST (Daniel Perley)
12:30 - 14:30 lunch & posters view
14:30 - 15:00 An Ultraviolet View of Thermonuclear Supernovae (Peter Brown)
15:00 - 15:20 Swift@ASAS-SN: The Role of Swift for the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (Chris Kochanek)
15:20 - 15:35 BTSbot-nearby: Rapid, autonomous follow-up of nearby infant supernovae with Swift/UVOT (Nabeel Rehemtulla)
15:35 - 15:50 Characterisation of a peculiar Einstein Probe transient EP200408a (Brendan O'Connor)
15:50 - 16:05 The Catalog of Extragalactic Fast X-ray Transients Discovered by Einstein Probe during its Commissioning Phase (Qinyu Wu))
16:05 - 16:35 coffee break
TDEs and Nuclear transients
16:35 - 17:05 Probing Massive Black Hole Demographics with Tidal Disruption events (Yuhan Yao)
17:05 - 17:20 Connecting the Dots: Swift’s Key Role in Unveiling the X-ray-Radio Connection in Delayed Flares from Tidal Disruption Events (Assaf Horesh)17:20 - 17:35 A tidal disruption event that turned off (Rob Eyles-Ferris)
17:35 - 17:50 An overview of Repeating Extragalactic Nuclear Transients (RENTs): Potential Objects Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes (Dheeraj Pasham)
17:50 - 18:05 Holding Out for a Hero: X-ray, UV, and optical characterization of the nuclear transient AT2020afhd (Erica Hammerstein)
Friday, March 28
AGN: Accretion and Outflow, Blazars and Jets
09:00 - 09:30 X-ray/UV/optical continuum reverberation mapping in AGN with Swift (Ed Cackett)
09:30 - 09:50 The legacy of Swift-BAT: A complete census of the heavily obscured AGN population in the local Universe (Stefano Marchesi)
09:50 - 10:10 Too many or just right? Massive jetted quasars in the early Universe (Tullia Sbarrato)
10:10 - 10:30 A first time in the history of astronomy: Observing the formation and evolution of a radio jet from a SMBH in real time (Brad Cenko)
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
Swift and synergies with other facilities
11:00 - 11:20 The Einstein Probe mission (Weimin Yuan)
11:20 - 11:40 ZTF and UVEX (Mansi Kasliwal)
11:40 - 12:00 SOXS: the transient hunter (Sergio Campana)
12:00 - 12:20 Vera Rubin Telescope (Federica Bianco)
12:20 - 12:40 Concluding Remarks (Brad Cenko)
