Name: WST - the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: surveying the Universe in the 2040’s and beyond
Start: 2025-03-10T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-12T18:00:00+01:00
Location: INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte

WST - the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: surveying the Universe in the 2040’s and beyond

from Monday, 10 March 2025 (14:00) to Wednesday, 12 March 2025 (18:00)

Monday, 10 March 2025
14:00 Introduction and Welcome
14:00 - 14:45
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

14:00 Introduction and Welcome - Pietro Schipani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:15 In memory of Bianca Garilli - Marco Scodeggio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
14:45 The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope
14:45 - 16:05
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

14:45 WST: context and Italian participation - Maria Sofia Randich (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:05 WST: Status and plans - Roland Bacon

15:25 The WST science drivers: transformational science in the 2040s - Vincenzo Mainieri (ESO)

15:45 Expanding Horizons: Transforming Astronomy in the 2040s - Mariya Lyubenova
16:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:35
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
16:35 The landscape
16:35 - 18:05
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

16:35 INAF Landscape - Isabella Pagano (INAF)

17:00 The Scientific Landscape in the 2040+ - Marcella Marconi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:25 Are there valuable synergies between CTAO and WST? - Roberta Zanin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:45 The SKA Observatory: perspectives and synergies with the WST - Isabella Prandoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
09:00 Origin of the Solar System, planets, stars and the Milky Way
09:00 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

09:00 Investigation of Solar System objects with WST - Alessandra Migliorini (INAF)

09:20 Towards the characterization of planet-host stars with WST from future missions: the case of Ariel - Maria Tsantaki (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:35 Young stellar populations: the origin of stars and planets - Mario Giuseppe Guarcello (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:55 Tracing the Evolution of Young Stellar Populations with the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope - Giuseppe Germano Sacco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:10 Exploiting large multiplex spectroscopic surveys of young clusters with neural networks - Da Eun Kang (UniBo)

10:25 Three-dimensional structure and chemo-dynamical evolution of the Milky Way - Eloisa Poggio (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino)

10:45 Tracing Milky Way spiral arms with High-Resolution spectroscopy of Classical Cepheids - Erasmo Trentin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
11:20 Variable objects and their role as tracers of galaxy structure and evolution
11:20 - 12:55
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

11:20 Synergies between Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and WST - Sara Bonito

11:40 Novelty and value of WST in the context of time-domain astronomy - Fatemeh Zahra Majidi (Postdoc fellow at the University of Padova)

11:45 WST and the Variable Sky - Matteo Monelli (INAF - Osservatorio di Roma)

12:05 A New Bayesian Method for Analyzing the Structure of the Galactic Bulge Using δ Scuti Stars - Mami Deka (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)

12:10 RR Lyrae Guiding WST in Unraveling Local Universe History - Emanuela Luongo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:25 Exploring Star Formation Histories in Local Group Galaxies: A Deeper Perspective with the WST - Francesco Ficara (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:40 Unveiling the Secrets of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies with WST - Massimiliano Gatto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:55 Lunch
Lunch
12:55 - 14:25
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
14:25 The Local Universe
14:25 - 15:50
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

14:25 A chemical close-up of the Local Group galaxies - Alessio Mucciarelli (DIFA - University of Bologna)

14:45 The galaxy matter cycle as seen by WST - Francesco Belfiore (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:05 Understanding the origin of present-day galaxy Hubble types in different environments - Antonino Marasco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:20 Probing the limits of spectroscopy in the low-surface brightness Universe with LEWIS - Chiara Buttitta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:35 Spectroscopic analysis of novel HI detections - Filippo Maccagni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
15:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
16:20 Galaxy assembly and evolution
16:20 - 17:15
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

16:20 Galaxy assembly and the cosmic web - Olga Cucciati (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:40 Probing the distribution and nature of DM of tens of millions of galaxies: more and better than before - Crescenzo Tortora (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:55 Environment effects on galaxy evolution with WST: insights from the COSMOS Wall - Fabio Rosario Ditrani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:00 Unveiling the cosmic web through Lyα emission: from MUSE to WST - Davide Tornotti (Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca)
17:15 Multi-messenger Astrophysics: the landscape and synergies
17:15 - 17:50
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

17:15 Transients and multi messenger astrophysics (and synergy with ACME project) - Paolo D'Avanzo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:35 The great synergy between WST and THESEUS - Lorenzo Amati (INAF .- IASF Bologna)
19:00 Bus
Bus
19:00 - 20:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"

20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
09:00 Multi-messenger Astrophysics: the landscape and synergies
09:00 - 09:55
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

09:00 Einstein Telescope: the next generation European Gravitational Wave observatory - Michele Punturo

09:20 WST and Gravitational Waves: Exploring the Era of Next-Generation Ground-Based Observatories - Marica Branchesi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:40 WST-ET synergy for next generation gravitational wave multi-messenger observations - Sofia Bisero
09:55 Cosmology and fundamental physics
09:55 - 11:10
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

09:55 The promise of WST for Cosmology - Carmelita Carbone (INAF IASF-MI) Michele Moresco

10:15 Type II Cepheids as an alternative route to the Hubble constant - Teresa Sicignano (ESO)

10:30 Cosmology with cosmic voids - Giulia Degni (Università Roma Tre)

10:35 Gravitational Wave Cosmology in the age of wide-field spectroscopic surveys - Nicola Borghi (University of Bologna / National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF))

10:50 Cosmology with higher-order statistics with the Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope - Massimo Guidi (University of Bologna)

10:55 Back-in-time Void Finder: dynamical void finding for new generation Cosmology - Simone Sartori (CPPM/CNRS)

11:00 The WST view of the TDE population - Francesca Onori (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:05 WST survey of fundamental constant variations - Dinko Milakovic (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:40
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
11:40 Synergies, lesson learned, and challenges
11:40 - 13:15
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

11:40 The ESO ELT - progress update - Joel Vernet

12:00 WEAVE and 4MOST: the lessons we (can) learn - Marcella Longhetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:15 The Big Data Challenges of WST in the 2040's - Stefano Zibetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:35 AI for astronomical spectroscopy: current challenges and future prospects for the WST - Nils G. F. D. Candebat (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:50 Classify and Modeling the optical spectrum via neural network - Fucheng Zhong (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:55 New enabling (disrupting) technologies - Jacopo Farinato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:40
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"

14:40 Discussion

14:40 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"