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, March 10, 2025 (2:00 PM) to Wednesday, March 12, 2025 (6:00 PM)

Monday, March 10, 2025
2:00 PM Introduction and Welcome
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction and Welcome - Pietro Schipani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:15 PM In memory of Bianca Garilli - Marco Scodeggio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
2:45 PM The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope
2:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

2:45 PM WST: context and Italian participation - Maria Sofia Randich (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:05 PM WST: Status and plans - Roland Bacon

3:25 PM The WST science drivers: transformational science in the 2040s - Vincenzo Mainieri (ESO)

3:45 PM Expanding Horizons: Transforming Astronomy in the 2040s - Mariya Lyubenova
4:05 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:05 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
4:35 PM The landscape
4:35 PM - 6:05 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

4:35 PM INAF Landscape - Isabella Pagano (INAF)

5:00 PM The Scientific Landscape in the 2040+ - Marcella Marconi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:25 PM Are there valuable synergies between CTAO and WST? - Roberta Zanin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:45 PM The SKA Observatory: perspectives and synergies with the WST - Isabella Prandoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
9:00 AM Origin of the Solar System, planets, stars and the Milky Way
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

9:00 AM Investigation of Solar System objects with WST - Alessandra Migliorini (INAF)

9:20 AM Towards the characterization of planet-host stars with WST from future missions: the case of Ariel - Maria Tsantaki (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:35 AM Young stellar populations: the origin of stars and planets - Mario Giuseppe Guarcello (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:55 AM Tracing the Evolution of Young Stellar Populations with the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope - Giuseppe Germano Sacco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:05 PM 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 PM RR Lyrae Guiding WST in Unraveling Local Universe History - Emanuela Luongo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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

12:40 PM Unveiling the Secrets of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies with WST - Massimiliano Gatto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:55 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:55 PM - 2:25 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
2:25 PM The Local Universe
2:25 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

2:25 PM A chemical close-up of the Local Group galaxies - Alessio Mucciarelli (DIFA - University of Bologna)

2:45 PM The galaxy matter cycle as seen by WST - Francesco Belfiore (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:05 PM Understanding the origin of present-day galaxy Hubble types in different environments - Antonino Marasco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:20 PM Probing the limits of spectroscopy in the low-surface brightness Universe with LEWIS - Chiara Buttitta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:35 PM Spectroscopic analysis of novel HI detections - Filippo Maccagni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
3:50 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
4:20 PM Galaxy assembly and evolution
4:20 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

4:20 PM Galaxy assembly and the cosmic web - Olga Cucciati (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

4:40 PM 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))

4:55 PM Environment effects on galaxy evolution with WST: insights from the COSMOS Wall - Fabio Rosario Ditrani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:00 PM Unveiling the cosmic web through Lyα emission: from MUSE to WST - Davide Tornotti (Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca)
5:15 PM Multi-messenger Astrophysics: the landscape and synergies
5:15 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

5:15 PM Transients and multi messenger astrophysics (and synergy with ACME project) - Paolo D'Avanzo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:35 PM The great synergy between WST and THESEUS - Lorenzo Amati (INAF .- IASF Bologna)
7:00 PM Bus
Bus
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"

8:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
9:00 AM Multi-messenger Astrophysics: the landscape and synergies
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

9:00 AM Einstein Telescope: the next generation European Gravitational Wave observatory - Michele Punturo

9:20 AM WST and Gravitational Waves: Exploring the Era of Next-Generation Ground-Based Observatories - Marica Branchesi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:40 AM WST-ET synergy for next generation gravitational wave multi-messenger observations - Sofia Bisero
9:55 AM Cosmology and fundamental physics
9:55 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

9:55 AM The promise of WST for Cosmology - Carmelita Carbone (INAF IASF-MI) Michele Moresco

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:05 AM WST survey of fundamental constant variations - Dinko Milakovic (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:10 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
11:40 AM Synergies, lesson learned, and challenges
11:40 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

12:55 PM New enabling (disrupting) technologies - Jacopo Farinato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
1:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"

2:40 PM Discussion

2:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci"

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