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

STARS II: current challenges, upcoming solutions

from Monday, June 16, 2025 (8:30 AM) to Friday, June 20, 2025 (6:00 PM)

Monday, June 16, 2025

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

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

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

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

11:30 AM 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 AM CERES survey: chemical abundances of light neutron capture elements - Linda Lombardo (Goethe University Frankfurt)

12:10 PM The Bulge Cluster Origin (BulCO) survey: first results in Liller 1 - Lanfranco Chiappino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Invited talk - Donatella Romano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:40 PM Europium, do we have a problem? Modelling r-process enrichment across Local Group galaxies - Marco Palla (University of Bologna, INAF-OAS)

3:00 PM Unveiling the Chemical Enrichment with CRIMSONS - Martina Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:20 PM Unravelling the chemical abundance patterns of the Milky Way building blocks - Alice MORI (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze)
3:40 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM Homogenous chemical characterisation of accreted streams in the local stellar halo - Emma Dodd (Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University)

4:30 PM Tracing the evolution of the Milky Way through high-resolution spectroscopy - Edoardo Ceccarelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

4:50 PM A Sequoia Candidate with Exceptionally High Be and Li Abundances: Hypernova or Planetary Engulfment? - Lorenzo Monaco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:10 PM 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, June 17, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Resolved stellar systems: from Globular Clusters to the Milky Way - Ronald Drimmel (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:40 AM Myths and challenges behind the formation of the Galactic disc - Matthew Orkney (ICCUB (Universitat de Barcelona))

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

10:20 AM 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 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

12:10 PM 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 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Invited talk - Michele Bellazzini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:40 PM The future of astrometry in space: from Gaia DR4 to GaiaNIR - Antonella Vallenari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:00 PM The chrono-dynamic structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster system - Florian Niederhofer (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

3:20 PM Exploring the Impact of Satellite Galaxies on Milky Way Evolution - Ingrid Beloto Latini (ICC-UB)
3:40 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM
4:10 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM Status and challenges for dark matter inferences in Local Group dwarf galaxies - Giuseppina Battaglia (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC))

4:30 PM Tracing the Local Group evolution with resolved stellar populations - Matteo Monelli (INAF - Osservatorio di Roma)

4:50 PM Dwarf-dwarf mergers and the hierarchical build-up of galaxies at the smallest scales - Francesca Annibali (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:10 PM Unveiling nearby young stars from planet search surveys - Silvano Desidera (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:30 PM 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, June 18, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Invited talk - Giuseppe Bono (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:40 AM The stellar age distribution of the Galactic bulge - Annalisa Calamida

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

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

11:10 AM 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 AM Morphology and dynamics of open clusters with tidal tails - Anna Parul (Observatoire de Paris)

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

12:10 PM Do we really expect a metallicity spread in all stellar clusters? Not so fast, please - Angela Bragaglia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Thursday, June 19, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Invited talk - Andrea Miglio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:40 AM Nitrogen-rich stars through the lens of asteroseismology - Ellie Leitinger (UNIBO)

10:00 AM 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 AM The nucleosythesis of massive stars: a bridge between stellar modelling and galactic archaeology - Federico Rizzuti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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

11:30 AM 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 AM Semi-analytical models of core-helium-burning stars: Structural glitches near the core - Massimiliano Matteuzzi (Università di Bologna, INAF - OAS)

12:10 PM ÆSOPUS 2.1: low-temperature gas opacities library and its application in stellar models - Diego Bossini (Università degli studi di Padova)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Invited talk - Scilla Degl'Innocenti (Università di Pisa)

2:40 PM Testing the asteroseismic estimates of stellar radii with surface brightness-colour relations and Gaia DR3 parallaxes - Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni (Università di Pisa)

3:00 PM Physics for stellar interiors, recent advancements - Oscar Straniero (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:20 PM The impact of stellar evolution uncertainties on binaries - Erika Korb (Università di Padova)
3:40 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM New sets of PARSEC v2.0 stellar model for low-metallicity - Chi Thanh Nguyen (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

4:30 PM 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)

4:50 PM The Milky Way traced by pulsating stars: theory versus observations - Marcella Marconi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:10 PM Unveiling Carbon Stars Properties in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds - Alessio Liberatori (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
7:30 PM Social Dinner at "Ristorante La Capriata", Corte Isolani, 1e, 40125 Bologna BO
Social Dinner at "Ristorante La Capriata", Corte Isolani, 1e, 40125 Bologna BO
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Friday, June 20, 2025
9:20 AM
9:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:20 AM Invited talk - Umberto Michelucci

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

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

11:10 AM

11:10 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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