Name: Forging giants: massive stars and their disks.
Start: 2026-05-04T13:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-06T16:20:00+02:00
Location: Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

Forging giants: massive stars and their disks.

from Monday, May 4, 2026 (1:30 PM) to Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (4:20 PM)

Monday, May 4, 2026

1:30 PM Opening of Villa Galileo

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Welcome

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM Session 1: The early stages years
The early stages years
2:20 PM - 3:35 PM
Contributions

2:20 PM Riccardo Cesaroni and star formation - Marcello Felli

2:35 PM Synchrotron Emission from Supernova Remnants - Rino Bandiera (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

3:05 PM Riccardo (“il Cesa”) and IRAM - Roberto Neri (IRAM Grenoble)
3:35 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:35 PM - 4:05 PM
4:05 PM Session 2: Early stages of star formation
Early stages of star formation
4:05 PM - 5:35 PM
Contributions

4:05 PM Per qualche riga in piu' (For a few lines more) - Luca Olmi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

4:35 PM Before fragmentation: from uniform clouds to stellar clusters - Andrea Giannetti (INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia)

5:05 PM The earliest phases of massive star formation: pushing Riccardo towards astrochemistry - Francesco Fontani (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
9:30 AM Session 2: Early stages of star formation
Early stages of star formation
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM The Early Stages of Star Formation - Paola Caselli (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

10:00 AM Video - Ana Lopez-Sepulcre

10:05 AM Video - Tomoya Hirota

10:10 AM Video - Mario Tafalla

10:15 AM Video - Pablo De Vicente

10:20 AM Video - Maria Jose Rioja

10:25 AM Video - Rodolfo Arnaiz
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session 3: Star forming regions
Star forming regions
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM The Riccardo's effect - Victor Rivilla (Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA))

12:00 PM Riccardo and the monitoring of water masers at Medicina - Jan Brand
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Tour of Villa Galileo

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Session 3: Star forming regions
Star forming regions
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM The Unique Case of IRAS 18162-2048: A massive protostar driving the largest scale jet in our Galaxy - Sarita Vig (IIST, Trivandrum)

3:00 PM Observing the heart of IRAS18162-2048. The driving source of HH80-81 revisited in the near-IR - Rubén Fedriani (IAA, Granada)

3:30 PM High Spatial Resolution Observations of MYSOs in the NIR - Fabrizio Massi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Session 3: Star forming regions
Star forming regions
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM G31 ... what else? - Josep Miquel Girart (Institut de Ciències de l’Espai, CSIC)

5:00 PM Disky business at Rick's - Daniele Galli (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

5:30 PM Unveiling Accretion in Massive Protostars through High-Resolution Studies of Jets and Outflows - Ciriaco Goddi (Università di Cagliari)
7:30 PM Social dinner
Social dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
9:30 AM Session 4: Massive disks
Massive disks
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Searching for disks in high-mass star-forming regions - Peter Schilke (University of Cologne)

10:00 AM IRAS 20126+4104 and massive star formation - Nanda Kumar (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session 4: Massive disks
Massive disks
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM The disk and the jet of the massive protostar W75N(B)-VLA3 - Álvaro Sánchez Monge (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC))

11:30 AM The circumstellar environment of W75N(B)-VLA2: SiO toroid, wide-angle outflow, and gas obstruction - José María Torrelles (ICE-CSIC/IEEC)

12:00 PM Hunting Accretion Disks around Massive Young Stars - Qizhou Zhang (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 4: Massive disks
Massive disks
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM High-mass accretion disks - from Riccardo's beginnings to today - Henrik Beuther (MPI fuer Astronomie)

2:30 PM Chasing disks with Riccardo - Alberto Sanna (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)

3:00 PM 30 years of high-mass star formation by Cesa & Mosca - Luca Moscadelli (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
3:30 PM Conclusion remarks
Conclusion remarks
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

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