Name: STARS II: current challenges, upcoming solutions
Start: 2025-06-16T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-20T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Bologna

Monday 16 June 2025

09:00

09:00 - 10:20

10:20 Welcoming
Welcoming
10:20 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Contributions

10:30 Invited talk - Sara Lucatello (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:10 The Ba puzzle, an (un-)solved puzzle - Martina Baratella (European Southern Observatory, Chile)

11:30 High-resolution spectroscopy of metal-poor stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud - Lorenzo Santarelli (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Università di Bologna (DIFA - UniBo))

11:50 CERES survey: chemical abundances of light neutron capture elements - Linda Lombardo (Goethe University Frankfurt)

12:10 The Bulge Cluster Origin (BulCO) survey: first results in Liller 1 - Lanfranco Chiappino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Invited talk - Donatella Romano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:40 Europium, do we have a problem? Modelling r-process enrichment across Local Group galaxies - Marco Palla (University of Bologna, INAF-OAS)

15:00 Unveiling the Chemical Enrichment with CRIMSONS - Martina Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:20 Unravelling the chemical abundance patterns of the Milky Way building blocks - Alice MORI (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze)
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10
16:10 - 17:30
Contributions

16:10 Homogenous chemical characterisation of accreted streams in the local stellar halo - Emma Dodd (Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University)

16:30 Tracing the evolution of the Milky Way through high-resolution spectroscopy - Edoardo Ceccarelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:50 A Sequoia Candidate with Exceptionally High Be and Li Abundances: Hypernova or Planetary Engulfment? - Lorenzo Monaco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:10 Icarus Revisited: An Ancient, Metal-poor Accreted Stellar Stream in the Disk of the Milky Way - Paola Re Fiorentin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Tuesday 17 June 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Resolved stellar systems: from Globular Clusters to the Milky Way - Ronald Drimmel (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:40 Myths and challenges behind the formation of the Galactic disc - Matthew Orkney (ICCUB (Universitat de Barcelona))

10:00 Exploring the history of the Milky Way halo: Integrating chemistry and kinematics for clustering analysis - Leda Berni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 Orbit integration with an updated potential model: insights into the globular cluster populations of the Milky Way and resonances induced by the bar - Michele De Leo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Contributions

11:10 Low-alpha, low-metallicity Milky Way disc stars at z>2 - Chervin Laporte (Observatoire de Paris - PSL)

11:30 Chemical Tagging and Stellar Migration with Graph Attention Networks - Lorenzo Spina (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:50 The kinematics of young stars in the Milky Way disc: first results from SDSS-V - Eleonora Zari (University of Florence)

12:10 Chemical gradients of the thin disk from a Non Local Thermal Equilibrium spectral synthesis of Cepheids - Antonino Nunnari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Invited talk - Michele Bellazzini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:40 The future of astrometry in space: from Gaia DR4 to GaiaNIR - Antonella Vallenari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:00 The chrono-dynamic structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster system - Florian Niederhofer (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

15:20 Exploring the Impact of Satellite Galaxies on Milky Way Evolution - Ingrid Beloto Latini (ICC-UB)
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10
16:10 - 17:50
Contributions

16:10 Status and challenges for dark matter inferences in Local Group dwarf galaxies - Giuseppina Battaglia (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC))

16:30 Tracing the Local Group evolution with resolved stellar populations - Matteo Monelli (INAF - Osservatorio di Roma)

16:50 Dwarf-dwarf mergers and the hierarchical build-up of galaxies at the smallest scales - Francesca Annibali (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:10 Unveiling nearby young stars from planet search surveys - Silvano Desidera (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:30 Using a Deep Neural Network to Estimate Effective Temperatures and Derive Stellar Ages in Star-Forming Regions - Loredana Prisinzano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Wednesday 18 June 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Invited talk - Giuseppe Bono (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:40 The stellar age distribution of the Galactic bulge - Annalisa Calamida

10:00 Novae as Galactic lithium factories: indications from optical and gamma-ray observations - Luca Izzo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 Metallicity dependence of Classical Cepheids Period-Luminosity relations - Vincenzo Ripepi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Contributions

11:10 The dynamical evolution of the stellar clumps in the Sparkler galaxy - Eric Giunchi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Augusto Righi" - Università di Bologna)

11:30 Morphology and dynamics of open clusters with tidal tails - Anna Parul (Observatoire de Paris)

11:50 A 3D view of multiple populations’ kinematics: clues on globular clusters formation and early evolution - Emanuele Dalessandro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 Do we really expect a metallicity spread in all stellar clusters? Not so fast, please - Angela Bragaglia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Thursday 19 June 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Invited talk - Andrea Miglio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:40 Nitrogen-rich stars through the lens of asteroseismology - Ellie Leitinger (UNIBO)

10:00 JWST unveils the brown dwarf population of the most extreme star clusters of the Milky Way: Westerlund 1 and 2 - Victor Almendros Abad (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 The nucleosythesis of massive stars: a bridge between stellar modelling and galactic archaeology - Federico Rizzuti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Contributions

11:10 High-Precision Ages and Abundances: Unlocking the Milky Way's History - Giada Casali (Australian National University (ANU), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:30 Simulating the populations of binaries and products of binary interactions in the Kepler's field - Alessandro Mazzi (Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Augusto Righi")

11:50 Semi-analytical models of core-helium-burning stars: Structural glitches near the core - Massimiliano Matteuzzi (Università di Bologna, INAF - OAS)

12:10 ÆSOPUS 2.1: low-temperature gas opacities library and its application in stellar models - Diego Bossini (Università degli studi di Padova)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Invited talk - Scilla Degl'Innocenti (Università di Pisa)

14:40 Testing the asteroseismic estimates of stellar radii with surface brightness-colour relations and Gaia DR3 parallaxes - Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni (Università di Pisa)

15:00 Physics for stellar interiors, recent advancements - Oscar Straniero (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:20 The impact of stellar evolution uncertainties on binaries - Erika Korb (Università di Padova)
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10
16:10 - 17:30
Contributions

16:10 New sets of PARSEC v2.0 stellar model for low-metallicity - Chi Thanh Nguyen (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:30 New grids of PARSEC evolutionary tracks, with final fates, ejecta, and ionizing photons from intermediate-mass to very massive stars - Guglielmo Costa (University of Lyon 1)

16:50 The Milky Way traced by pulsating stars: theory versus observations - Marcella Marconi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:10 Unveiling Carbon Stars Properties in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds - Alessio Liberatori (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
19:30 Social Dinner at "Ristorante La Capriata", Corte Isolani, 1e, 40125 Bologna BO
Social Dinner at "Ristorante La Capriata", Corte Isolani, 1e, 40125 Bologna BO
19:30 - 22:30
Friday 20 June 2025
09:20
09:20 - 10:40
Contributions

09:20 Invited talk - Umberto Michelucci

10:00 Deep Learning-driven MCMC for fast and accurate stellar spectroscopy - Cristiano Fanelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 1-DREAM and model based ML techniques for low-dimensional structure identification in the MW halo - Marco canducci (University of Birmingham)
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10

11:10

11:10 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00