Name: The Fifth National Workshop on the SKA Project
Start: 2025-11-24T13:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-28T13:30:00+01:00
Location: Bologna, Area della Ricerca del CNR

The Fifth National Workshop on the SKA Project

from Monday, 24 November 2025 (13:45) to Friday, 28 November 2025 (13:30)

Monday, 24 November 2025
14:00 SKAO General
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

14:00 Welcomes and general information (remote talk) - I. Pagano, G. Umana (INAF)

14:20 The SRCNet project, status and forward look (remote talk) - Rosie Bolton (SKAO)

14:40 The SKA project: status update - Marco Bartolini (SKAO, INAF)

15:00 The SKA Observatory: scientific perspectives and timelines - Anna Bonaldi (SKAO)

15:20 Commissioning SKA-Low: first results and plans towards Science Verification - Giulia Macario (SKAO)
15:40 SKA Italy
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

15:40 The SKA Observatory from an Italian perspective - Isabella Prandoni (INAF)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Centro Congressi
16:30 SKA Italy: SKA-Italy
SKA-Italy
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

16:30 The Italian SKA Regional Center: development plans - Andrea Possenti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:50 The SKA Observation Management and Control Software: the italian contribution - G. Marotta & M. Canzari

17:10 SKA Precursors: The Italian participation to MeerKAT and MeerKAT+ - Grazia Maria Gloria Umana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:30 The STILES MeerKAT Band 5 project - Maria Grazia Labate (INAF)

17:45 Science with MeerKAT and MeerKAT+: present involvement of the Italian community and plans - Tiziana Venturi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
18:00 Welcome cocktail

18:00 - 19:30
Room: Centro Congressi
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
09:00 Epoch of Reionization
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Report from SWG - Andrei Mesinger (University of Catania)

09:15 ESO SKA Synergy: Cross-correlating 21-cm with Lyman alpha emitters during the EoR (remote talk) - Samuel Gagnon-Hartman (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

09:30 Epoch of Reionization observations with SKAO: lessons learnt from LOFAR and synergies with MeerKAT - Emilio Ceccotti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:45 Hunting for the 21 cm Forest in High-redshift Quasars with SKAO - Chanasorn Kongprachaya (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and constraints on the neutral IGM during EoR - Tomas Soltinsky (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:15 Forecasting AA* and AA4 SKA observations with a 2Gpc 21cmFASTv4 simulation - Daniela Breitman (Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS))
10:30 Cosmology
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

10:30 Introduction - Report from SWG - Stefano Camera (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)

10:45 Detecting of the HI auto-power spectrum with MeerKAT data - Matilde Barberi Squarotti (Università degli Studi di Milano)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Centro Congressi
11:30 Cosmology
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

11:30 The EMU Cosmology Project - Benedict Konrad Wilhelm Bahr Kalus (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:45 Probing the post-reionization HI distribution using the redshifted 21-cm marked power spectrum - Mohammad Kamran (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Trieste)

12:00 Illuminating the dark Universe through strong gravitational lensing in the SKA era - Cristiana Spingola (INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia)

12:15 Using SKAO to understand the clustering of gravitational wave sources - Michele Bosi (University of Trento / SISSA)

12:30 Dipole analyses of cosmic radio background with SKA - Carlo Burigana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:45 Measuring our peculiar velocity with SKAO - Bartolomeo Bottazzi Baldi (Università degli Studi di Padova)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Centro Congressi
14:30 Flash talks
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

14:30 High-frequency tecno signatures search with MeerKAT Band 5B - Andrea Melis (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:33 Carbon chain diversity in L1544 and IRAS 16293-2422: an astrochemical pathfinder study for the SKAO - Eleonora Bianchi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

14:36 Dust evolution in protoplanetary disks with SKA and precursors - Melanie Isabelle Monique Armante (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:39 SHORES: Multi-frequency exploration of the faint radio sky - Meriem Behiri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:42 The emerging population of high-energy radio galaxies - Gabriele Bruni (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali)

14:45 BL Lac or FR I? A MeerKAT spectropolarimetric analysis of PKS 2316-423 - Fabrizio Gandossi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:48 Collapse of the galaxy HI mass function in the Fornax cluster - Paolo Serra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:51 Strongly Lensed Dual AGN Systems in the Era of SKA-VLBI - Cecilia Stella (University of Bologna / INAF-IRA)

14:54 Constraints on dark matter annihilation from the study of radio halos in galaxy clusters - Paolo Marchegiani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:57 Ionized gas emission in protoplanetary disks with SKA - Greta Guidi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
15:00 Cradle of Life & Our Galaxy
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

15:00 Introduction - Report from SWG - Eleonora Bianchi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

15:15 Chemical complexity in the early stages of star formation in the SKA era - C. Codella & L. Podio

15:30 Jets and outflows in young stellar objects in the SKAO Era - Giovanni Sabatini (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

15:45 One step closer to planet formation - Antonio Garufi (Istituto di Radioastronomia)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Centro Congressi
16:30 Cradle of Life & Our Galaxy
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

16:30 Emission from Ordered Magnetospheres of Low-Mass Stars, UCDs, and Massive Star - Francesco Cavallaro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:45 The SKA view on supernova remnants - Sara Loru (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:00 One telescope to find them all: a MeerKAT hunt for radio rings (remote talk) - Cristobal Bordiu (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:15 Magnetic fields in prestellar cores: a new perspective from meter-wavelength radio data - Andrea Bracco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:30 Cosmic Rulers: Masers as Tools for Studying Galactic Structure from AU to kpc - Kazi Rygl (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:45 The ionised Milky Way: the SKA survey of the continuum radio in the Galactic Plane - Chiara Mininni (INAF-IAPS)
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
09:00 Galaxy Evolution & AGN
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Report from SWG - Paolo Serra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:15 AGN feeding and feedback revealed in detail by MeerKAT and the SKA - Filippo Maccagni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:30 SKA contribution to multi-band and multi-scale studies of nearby galaxies - Rosita Paladino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:45 What is the nature of Neutral Hydrogen tails in the MeerKAT Fornax Survey? - Sambatriniaina Hagiriche Aycha Rajohnson (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 The MeerKAT HI View of NGC 1365, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy - Viviana Casasola (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:15 HI properties of quiescent galaxies at <z>=0.4 - Alessandro Bianchetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 Galaxy dynamics with statistical HI samples in the SKA era - Federico Lelli (INAF)

10:45 SPRITZ+HI: pouring neutral hydrogen into the simulated sky cocktail - Laura Bisigello (INAF-OAPD)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Centro Congressi
11:30 Galaxy Evolution & AGN
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

11:30 Understanding the AGN accretion and ejection physics with SKA-VLBI observations - Francesca Panessa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:45 Small but Mighty: Unveiling Low-Power Radio AGN with the SKA - Ranieri Diego Baldi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:00 AGN or star formation? The role of wide-field VLBI surveys and the path to the SKA - Ivan Delvecchio (INAF-OAS)

12:15 The impact of radio-faint AGN on the SFR–Radio Luminosity Relation: lessons from VLBA - Giorgia Peluso (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:30 Exploring radio processes at cosmic noon with WISSH - Matteo Fanelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:45 A FLASH on blazars: Capturing the radio realm of 4FGL blazars with SKAO pathfinders - Meriem Behiri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Centro Congressi
14:30 Galaxy Evolution & AGN
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

14:30 The Euclid view on the connection between mergers and radio activity from galaxies - Manuela Magliocchetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:45 From protoclusters to clusters: galaxy evolution in high-z structures - Maurilio Pannella (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:00 SEMPER: a semi-empirical model for extragalactic radio emission, insights and predictions with the SKAO - Marika Giulietti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:15 Radio properties of low-redshift Little Red Dot (LRD) candidates (remote talk) - Gayathri Santhosh (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:30 Active or relics? Searching for remnants among young radio sources - Monica Orienti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:45 Tracing AGN remnant plasma in the SKA era - Marisa Brienza (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Centro Congressi
16:30 Galaxy clusters & LSS
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

16:30 Introduction - Report from SWG - Rossella Cassano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:45 Study of polarized emission in radio halos and filaments in the SKA era (remote talk) - Valentina Vacca (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:00 Revealing the Magnetic Landscape of Galaxy Clusters with SKA - Francesca Loi (INAF-OAC)

17:15 Magnetic fields in galaxy clusters in the SKA (and its precursors) era - Annalisa Bonafede (Bologna University & INAF)

17:30 The LOFAR Decameter Sky Survey: status and lessons for SKA-Low - Christian Groeneveld (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:45 Magnetic fields in proto-clusters towards the SKAO era - Annalisa Pagliotta (University of Bologna, INAF - IRA)
Thursday, 27 November 2025
09:00 Galaxy clusters & LSS: Galaxy Clusters & LSS
Galaxy Clusters & LSS
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

09:00 Non-thermal filaments in galaxy clusters with LOFAR-VLBI (remote talk) - Emanuele De Rubeis (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:15 Evolution of large-scale magnetism through SKA and its precursors - Gabriella Di Gennaro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:30 Unveiling the spectral properties of radio halos in LoTSS Galaxy Clusters - Koushika Sri Lakshmi Srikanth (IRA-INAF Bologna)

09:45 New scaling relations for the galaxy cluster diffuse radio emission - Marco Balboni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 The Large-Scale Structure on the Universe through the SKA lenses - Virginia Cuciti (University of Bologna - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:15 Probing clusters outskirts: what can megahalos tell us? - Matteo Cianfaglione (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 MeerKAT observations of galaxy clusters - Andrea Botteon (INAF-IRA)

10:45 ViCTORIA project: the MeerKAT Virgo Cluster Survey - Alessandro Benati (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:00 Coffe break
Coffe break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Centro Congressi
11:30 Galaxy clusters & LSS
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

11:30 Exploring the physics of ram pressure stripping in clusters and groups with SKA - Alessandro Ignesti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:45 AGN feedback in the most massive structures: radio jets heating of groups and clusters - Francesco Ubertosi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:00 Tracing magnetic fields in the cosmic web: insights from ASKAP and prospects with SKA - Chiara Stuardi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:15 Searching for revived fossil plasma sources in galaxy clusters - Luca Bruno (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 Transients & GW follow-up
12:30 - 13:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

12:30 Introduction - Report from SWG - Marcello Giroletti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:45 The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project: status update and future perspectives - Maura Pilia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Centro Congressi
14:30 Transients & GW follow-up
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

14:30 The quest for persistent radio emission associated with FRB and their link with nebulae - Gabriele Bruni (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali)

14:45 Connecting FRBs to progenitors: demographic surveys and associated persisting radio sources - Davide Pelliciari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:00 Gamma-ray bursts in the radio sky: the role of the SKA+VLBI - Stefano Giarratana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:15 Accretion and jets in X-ray binaries: the revolution brought by MeerKAT - Sara Elisa Motta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:30 Large-scale jets from black hole X-ray binaries in the SKA era - Francesco Carotenuto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:45 Unveiling radio polarimetry in X-ray binaries with MeerKAT: the case study of 4U 1630-47 - Isabella Mariani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Centro Congressi
16:30 Flash talks
16:30 - 16:45
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

16:30 Particle Acceleration and Magnetic Fields in Abell 3667: A Multi-Band Polarimetric Study - Alessandro Benati (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:33 MACS J1752+4440 across the spectrum: from SZ signatures to radio polarization - Silvia Cocchi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:36 EP241021A: a cosmic explosion with a complex structure from a massive progenitor - Giulia Gianfagna (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS))

16:39 Gamma-ray Bursts and Kilonovae from Gravitational Wave Events - Marcello Giroletti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:42 Ensuring SKA Science: Spectrum Management Challenges - Fabio Giovanardi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:45 Pulsars & GW detection
16:45 - 18:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

16:45 Introduction - Report from SWG - Marta Burgay (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:00 Advancing Polarization Calibration in LOFAR Beamformed Data: A Stepping Stone to SKA Low - Caterina Tiburzi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:15 TRAPUM: Pulsar Surveys with MeerKAT and Lessons for the SKA Era - Miquel Colom I Bernadich (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:30 Searching for pulsars in the Galactic center with MeerKAT - Federico Abbate (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:45 Multifrequency study of the Crab giant pulses - Luca Beduzzi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Friday, 28 November 2025
09:00 SKAO General
09:00 - 09:25
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

09:00 The SKA Observatory: an overview (remote talk) - Philip Diamond (SKAO)
09:25 SKA Italy
09:25 - 11:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

09:25 The LOFAR ERIC: Italian involvement - Gianfranco Brunetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)) Gianfranco Brunetti

09:45 LOFAR 2.0 - overview, status and the Italian involvement - Francesco De Gasperin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 SRC-Italy within the federated SRCNet - Giuliano Taffoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:15 Developing the Italian SKA Regional Centre: Services, Integration, and Future Directions (remote talk) - Giuseppe Tudisco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 The contribution of itSRC: from science data products to community engagement - Vincenzo Galluzzi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:45 An overview of INAF's cooperation with South Africa: context, programmes and opportunities - Pierguido Sarti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:00 Transients & GW follow-up
11:00 - 11:15
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

11:00 The great synergy between SKA and THESEUS - Lorenzo Amati (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:15 - 11:45
Room: Centro Congressi
11:45 Discussion & Conclusions
11:45 - 13:00
Room: Centro Congressi
Contributions

11:45 Round Table

12:45 Concluding remarks

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