Name: Active Galactic Nuclei XVI: A Sea of Discoveries
Start: 2026-06-14T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-06-19T23:00:00+00:00
Location: Brindisi

Active Galactic Nuclei XVI: A Sea of Discoveries

from Sunday, 14 June 2026 (18:00) to Friday, 19 June 2026 (23:00)

Monday, 8 June 2026
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Friday, 12 June 2026
Saturday, 13 June 2026
Sunday, 14 June 2026

18:00 Registration Desk & Welcome Cocktail at Santa Spazio Culturale (Yeahjasi) - Ex convento di Santa Chiara
Registration Desk & Welcome Cocktail at Santa Spazio Culturale (Yeahjasi) - Ex convento di Santa Chiara
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
18:30 Social events: Presentation EVOOS Project and Piano Concert
Presentation EVOOS Project and Piano Concert
18:30 - 20:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

18:30 Presentation: EVOOS Project (Extra-Virgin Olive Oil in Space) - Featuring Giovanni Ripa (President of Coldiretti Brindisi)

19:00 Piano Concert: Aksinja Gioia

Monday, 15 June 2026

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:15
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
09:15 Institutional Welcomes and Opening Remarks
09:15 - 10:15
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

09:15 Institutional Welcomes (Mayor of Brindisi) - Giuseppe Marchionna

09:30 SEZIONE INAF Università del Salento - Francesco Strafella

09:45 Opening Remarks - Fabrizio Fiore
10:15 S1 - Black Hole Accretion and Outflows: Focusing on the physics of accretion disks, the mechanisms driving high-velocity winds, and the geometry of circumnuclear regions
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

10:15 (Review) The X-ray Corona and its dependence on AGN Accretion Properties - Claudio Ricci (University of Geneva)

10:45 Tracing disc-corona coupling and ionising output of quasars across the Lx-Luv plane - Susanna Bisogni (INAF-IASF Milano)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
11:30 S1 - Black Hole Accretion and Outflows: Focusing on the physics of accretion disks, the mechanisms driving high-velocity winds, and the geometry of circumnuclear regions
11:30 - 13:05
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

11:30 (Highlight) The Quasar X-ray View at the Epoch of Reionization: Implications for Early Black Hole Accretion, AGN Emissivity, and Future Surveys - Luca Zappacosta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:50 X-ray Insights into Extreme SMBH Accretion Across Cosmic Time - Alessia Tortosa (INAF - OAR)

12:05 Winds of Change: XRISM-Resolve X-ray spectroscopy of NGC 4051 - Valentina Braito (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:20 Cosmic Tides: Relativistic Disk Winds and the Accretion–Ejection Coupling in AGN - Francesco Tombesi (Tor Vergata University of Rome & INAF)

12:35 Unveiling BLR Scale Outflows: Models for the Era of High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy - Scott Hagen (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:50 First time-evolving ionisation analysis of the X-ray spectrum of NGC 4051: energetic, distance and a Broad Line-wind unification scenario - Alfredo Luminari (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
13:05 Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
13:05 - 14:30
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
14:30 S1 - Black Hole Accretion and Outflows: Focusing on the physics of accretion disks, the mechanisms driving high-velocity winds, and the geometry of circumnuclear regions
14:30 - 15:45
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

14:30 Discovery of ultra-fast outflows with vout > 0.3c in local, bright AGN - Laura Borrelli

14:45 Beyond the dust: probing AGN-driven molecular outflows and phase-dependent extinction in ULIRGs - Giovanna Speranza (Instituto de física fundamental (IFF, CSIC))

15:00 Decoupling Line and Continuum Variability: Evidence for Disc Truncation in High-Accretion Quasars - Chiara Niccolai (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

15:15 Directly tracking the accretion disc formation around a supermassive black hole - Riccardo Middei (INAF-OAR)

15:30 X-ray polarization in Radio-Quiet AGN: insights from the Wedge Corona model - Daniele Tagliacozzo (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
16:15 S9 - Current and Future Facilities for AGN Science: Discussing the implementation and scientific exploitation of major current and future space-based and ground-based facilities with Italian involvement, focusing on maximizing their impact on AGN studies
16:15 - 16:35
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

16:15 (Highlight) Millimeter and Infrared Probes of Active Galactic Nuclei: From ALMA to the Future Infrared mission PRIMA - Francesca Pozzi (University of Bologna)
16:35 S2 - Relativistic Jets and Particle Acceleration: Investigating the launching, collimation, and energetic processes within relativistic jets, including their composition and impact
16:35 - 17:55
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

16:35 (Highlight) The Accretion-Ejection Mechanism in Low-Power Radio AGN - Ranieri Diego Baldi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:55 The life cycle of relativistic jets: low-power radio sources in the spotlight - Monica Orienti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:10 From compact to giant: the lives of radio AGN on the smallest and largest scales - Kathleen Kelly Lindiwe Charlton (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
18:30 Social events: Brindisi city tour & Football match
Brindisi city tour & Football match
18:30 - 20:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

18:30 Brindisi City Tour - Departing from Palazzo Nervegna (Italian & English)

19:00 Football match
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
09:30 S7 - The Early Growth of Supermassive Black Holes: Examining the formation, growth rates, and census of SMBHs in the high-redshift universe (z>6) and their role in cosmic reionization
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

09:30 (Review) The Formation and Early Growth of Supermassive Black Holes - Roberto Maiolino (University of Cambridge)
10:00 S2 - Relativistic Jets and Particle Acceleration: Investigating the launching, collimation, and energetic processes within relativistic jets, including their composition and impact
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

10:00 (Review) Dynamics, dissipation and emission of relativistic jets: new observational clues and theoretical scenarios. - Fabrizio Tavecchio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 A detailed study of the radio-gamma connection in a large sample of 4LAC AGNs - Alessandro Paggi

10:45 Tracing the end of AGN jets: the first large sample of remnant radio galaxies - Marisa Brienza (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
11:30 S2 - Relativistic Jets and Particle Acceleration: Investigating the launching, collimation, and energetic processes within relativistic jets, including their composition and impact
11:30 - 12:15
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

11:30 Modeling of multi-zone Synchrotron polarization of blazars: insights from new data and connection to particle acceleration - Andrea Tramacere

11:45 A FLASH on Blazars: mapping relativistic jets from MHz radio to GeV gamma rays with SKA pathfinders - Meriem Behiri

12:00 Unveiling the Physics of Blazar Emission Through Quasi-Periodic Oscillations Studies - Alba Rico
12:15 S3 - Black Holes Across the Mass Scale and Time-Domain Probes: Exploring the accretion and ejection coupling through analogies and differences between supermassive black holes (SMBHs), intermediate and stellar-mass compact objects and through transient sources
12:15 - 12:45
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

12:15 (Review) Accretion and jets in X-ray binaries - Sara Elisa Motta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:45 Il divario di genere nella scienza
Il divario di genere nella scienza
12:45 - 13:10
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale

13:10 Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
13:10 - 14:35
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
14:35 S3 - Black Holes Across the Mass Scale and Time-Domain Probes: Exploring the accretion and ejection coupling through analogies and differences between supermassive black holes (SMBHs), intermediate and stellar-mass compact objects and through transient sources
14:35 - 15:55
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

14:35 (Highlight) Transient Probes of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes: TDEs and QPEs - Elisa Bortolas

14:55 A fundamental plane of black hole accretion in the millimetre - Ilaria Ruffa (INAF - OAA)

15:10 Rising Tides in Active Galaxies: Nuclear Transients and Episodic Activity in NGC 7213, AT2021hdr, and SDSS J1335+0728 - Gabriele Bruni (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali)

15:25 Feeding a Black Hole with a star: Tidal Disruption Events in the Time Domain Astronomy Golden Age - Francesca Onori (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:40 HLX-1: a TDE on an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole? - Maya Garbaccio Gili (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
15:55 S3 - Black Holes Across the Mass Scale and Time-Domain Probes: Exploring the accretion and ejection coupling through analogies and differences between supermassive black holes (SMBHs), intermediate and stellar-mass compact objects and through transient sources
15:55 - 16:25
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

15:55 The Timedomes project: probing AGN populations through legacy optical monitoring campaigns. - Maurizio Paolillo (Università di Napoli Federico II)
16:25 S4 - Binary and Dual AGN Systems: Studying the observational signatures, dynamics, and gravitational wave implications of closely separated and merging black hole systems
16:25 - 17:45
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

16:25 (Review) Dual and Binary AGN: observational signatures and connections to Gravitational-Waves - Paola Severgnini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:55 Multiple AGN systems at z ~ 3 revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFU - Michele Perna (Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), INTA-CSIC)

17:10 Dual AGN and where to find them - Filippo Mannucci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:25 Black Hole Growth in the Densest Regions of the Universe: AGN activity in protoclusters from Cosmic dawn to the present days - Alberto Traina (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
18:30 Social events: Public Lecture (Palazzo Nervegna) - Prof. Roberto Maiolino "La nascita e l'evoluzione di stelle, galassie e buchi neri attraverso le epoche cosmiche”
Public Lecture (Palazzo Nervegna) - Prof. Roberto Maiolino "La nascita e l'evoluzione di stelle, galassie e buchi neri attraverso le epoche cosmiche”
18:30 - 20:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
09:30 S4 - Binary and Dual AGN Systems: Studying the observational signatures, dynamics, and gravitational wave implications of closely separated and merging black hole systems
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

09:30 (Highlight) Gravitational Waves from the Cosmic Dawn: Tracing Cosmic Black Hole Binaries with ET, LGWA and LISA - Rosa Valiante

09:50 Dual AGN at Cosmic Noon: Bridging Observations and Theory with the First Statistical Sample - Martina Scialpi (Università di Firenze, Università di Trento, INAF/OAA)

10:05 MBH pairs below 100 pc (and more?): toward robust detection strategies - Fabio Rigamonti

10:20 Did We Just Confirm a Gravitational Wave Recoiling Black Hole in 3C 186? - Marco Chiaberge

10:35 The role of major mergers in triggering super-Eddington accretion - Riccardo Caleno (Sapienza Università di Roma)
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:15
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale

11:15 Poster Session 1

11:15 - 12:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
12:00 S5 - Multi-Messenger: Leveraging variability studies, gravitational waves, and high-energy neutrinos (multi-messenger astronomy) to understand the immediate vicinity of the central engine
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

12:00 (Review) Cosmic-Ray Acceleration and Hidden Neutrino Production in Seyfert Galaxies - Enrico Peretti

12:30 A VHE gamma-ray perspective of Neutrino emitting Seyfert candidates - Sweta Menon (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:45 All they know is what they are not: the accretion of neutrino-emitting blazars - Gaia Delucchi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
13:00 Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale

14:30 Poster Session 2

14:30 - 15:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
15:00 S5 - Multi-Messenger: Leveraging variability studies, gravitational waves, and high-energy neutrinos (multi-messenger astronomy) to understand the immediate vicinity of the central engine
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

15:00 (Highlight) Extragalactic cosmic rays - Stefano Gabici
15:20 S6 - AGN Feedback and the Host Galaxy: Analyzing how AGN energy output (kinetic and radiative feedback) impacts star formation and gas distribution within the host galaxy and its surrounding dark matter halo
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

15:20 (Review) Exploring the impact of (radio) AGN on galactic scales by tracing different phases of the gas - Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON/Kapteyn Institute)
15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
16:20 S6 - AGN Feedback and the Host Galaxy: Analyzing how AGN energy output (kinetic and radiative feedback) impacts star formation and gas distribution within the host galaxy and its surrounding dark matter halo
16:20 - 17:25
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

16:20 (Highlight) The physical properties, acceleration mechanism and impact of AGN outflows from low to high redshift - Giovanni Cresci (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:40 Unveiling the driving mechanism of AGN-driven outflows: a multi-wavelength perspective - Cosimo Marconcini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:55 Disrupting the ISM: How AGN Feedback Reshapes Molecular Gas Clumpiness - Federico Esposito (Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN-IGN, Madrid))

17:10 Unveiling the role of multi-phase AGN outflows with MIRACLE - Matteo Ceci (Università di Firenze)
18:30 Social events
18:30 - 22:35
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

18:30 Meet at Autorità Portuale to take a boat to Castello Alfonsino

19:00 Visit to Castello Alfonsino

20:30 Social Dinner at "Al Porticciolo" Restaurant

22:30 Bus back to Autorità Portuale
Thursday, 18 June 2026
09:30 S6 - AGN Feedback and the Host Galaxy: Analyzing how AGN energy output (kinetic and radiative feedback) impacts star formation and gas distribution within the host galaxy and its surrounding dark matter halo
09:30 - 10:45
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

09:30 (Review) Probing the link between dense environment and SMBH growth at high redshift - Fabio Vito (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 An HIPER view of AGN feedback on the gas reservoirs at cosmic noon - Elena Bertola (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:15 Gentle but Persistent: Shock-Driven Feedback in Low-Accreting Black Holes - Ivan Ezequiel Lopez (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 Cracking the quasar accretion puzzle: a thin disc and an intrinsically narrow Eddington ratio distribution are enough - Bartolomeo Trefoloni (Scuola Normale Superiore)
10:45 S7 - The Early Growth of Supermassive Black Holes: Examining the formation, growth rates, and census of SMBHs in the high-redshift universe (z>6) and their role in cosmic reionization
10:45 - 11:05
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

10:45 (Highlight) Pushing the redshift frontier: Discovery and Characterization of Quasars at Cosmic Dawn with Euclid - Silvia Belladitta (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
11:05 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:05 - 11:35
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
11:35 S7 - The Early Growth of Supermassive Black Holes: Examining the formation, growth rates, and census of SMBHs in the high-redshift universe (z>6) and their role in cosmic reionization
11:35 - 13:05
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

11:35 AGN-heated dust revealed in (most) Little Red Dots - Ivan Delvecchio (INAF-OAS)

11:50 Independent evidence for evolving dark energy from high-redshift AGN probes - Elisabeta Lusso (Università di Firenze. Dipartimento di fisica e astronomia)

12:05 High-redshift galaxy ecosystems: multi-phase gas flows and quasar feedback at z>6 - Manuela Bischetti (Università di Pisa)

12:20 GA-NIFS: The cosmic evolution of AGN outflows up to z~3-6 with JWST NIRSpec - Giacomo Venturi (Scuola Normale Superiore)

12:35 Out of Place: Evidence for an Off-Center Black Hole at z = 7.2 - Sandra Zamora (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

12:50 The WISSHFUL XMM Heritage Program: probing accretion and ejection in luminous QSOs at Cosmic Noon - Giorgio Lanzuisi (INAF-OAS)
13:05 Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
13:05 - 14:30
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
14:30 Social events: Torre Guaceto Nature Reserve & Dinner at "La braceria"
Torre Guaceto Nature Reserve & Dinner at "La braceria"
14:30 - 22:35
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

14:30 Meet at Autorità Portuale to take a bus to Torre Guaceto Nature Reserve (visit & swim)

15:30 Excursion: Trip to Torre Guaceto Nature Reserve

20:00 Dinner at "La braceria" (near Torre Guaceto Nature Reserve)

22:30 Bus back to Autorità Portuale
Friday, 19 June 2026
09:40 S8 - Cosmological Implications and Large-Scale Environment: Discussing the role of AGN in structure formation and galaxy evolution models, including the effect of the large-scale environment on AGN activity
09:40 - 11:05
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

09:40 (Highlight) The sharp high energy sky seen by XRISM - Elisa Costantini (SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research)

10:00 (Highlight) The LX-LUV relation in quasars - A New Sample - Matilde Signorini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 The "Menus" of SMBHs in the most massive galaxies: hot, warm, or cold gas? - Francesco Ubertosi (Università di Bologna)

10:35 Quantifying the AGN enhancement in z>2 protoclusters - Monica Natalia Isla Llave (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:50 Bright Beacons in the Cosmic Web: Cosmology with QUBRICS - Stefano Cristiani
11:05 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:05 - 11:35
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
11:35 S8 - Cosmological Implications and Large-Scale Environment: Discussing the role of AGN in structure formation and galaxy evolution models, including the effect of the large-scale environment on AGN activity
11:35 - 12:35
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

11:35 First results from the Study of QUasar Environment at Early-z Epochs (SQUEEzE) - Virginia Lucia Cavicchi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:50 HIDE AND SEEK: cosmic evolution of the ISM and its implications for nuclear obscuration. - Lucia Fiorani (Università di Bologna)

12:05 Bridging the gap: AGN feedback GPU- accelerated simulations from micro to macro scales - Vieri Cammelli

12:20 Early Black Hole Growth via Super-Eddington Accretion: insights from High-Resolution Simulations - Alessandro Trinca
12:35 S9 - Current and Future Facilities for AGN Science: Discussing the implementation and scientific exploitation of major current and future space-based and ground-based facilities with Italian involvement, focusing on maximizing their impact on AGN studies
12:35 - 12:55
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

12:35 (Highlight) The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory and its gamma-ray view on Active Galactic Nuclei - Giacomo Bonnoli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:55 Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
Lunch break (lunch is not provided as part of the event)
12:55 - 14:20
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
14:20 S9 - Current and Future Facilities for AGN Science: Discussing the implementation and scientific exploitation of major current and future space-based and ground-based facilities with Italian involvement, focusing on maximizing their impact on AGN studies
14:20 - 16:00
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

14:20 (Highlight) Investigating AGN in the SKA Era - Isabella Prandoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:40 (Highlight) NewAthena - Luigi Piro (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:00 (Highlight) KM3NeT/ARCA: status, recent results and perspectives for AGN studies - Simone Biagi (INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)

15:20 (Highlight) The IXPE revolution in AGN: from the hot corona to the torus - Vittoria Elvezia Gianolli (Clemson University)

15:40 (Highlight) The AGN content in eRASS/DR1 and eRASS/DR2 - Mara Salvato (MPE)
16:00 Closing Remarks and End of Conference
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale
Contributions

16:00 Concluding remarks - Andrea Merloni
21:00 Social events: Teatro Scienza Special Event - "Crazy Space" - Teatro Verdi (Brindisi)
Teatro Scienza Special Event - "Crazy Space" - Teatro Verdi (Brindisi)
21:00 - 22:30
Room: Sala Conferenze presso Autorità di Sistema Portuale