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, 4 May 2026 (13:30) to Wednesday, 6 May 2026 (16:20)

Monday, 4 May 2026

13:30 Opening of Villa Galileo

13:30 - 14:00

14:00 Welcome

14:00 - 14:20
14:20 Session 1: The early stages years
The early stages years
14:20 - 15:35
Contributions

14:20 Riccardo Cesaroni and star formation - Marcello Felli

14:35 Synchrotron Emission from Supernova Remnants - Rino Bandiera (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

15:05 Riccardo (“il Cesa”) and IRAM - Roberto Neri (IRAM Grenoble)
15:35 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:35 - 16:05
16:05 Session 2: Early stages of star formation
Early stages of star formation
16:05 - 17:35
Contributions

16:05 Per qualche riga in piu' (For a few lines more) - Luca Olmi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

16:35 Before fragmentation: from uniform clouds to stellar clusters - Andrea Giannetti (INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia)

17:05 The earliest phases of massive star formation: pushing Riccardo towards astrochemistry - Francesco Fontani (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
Tuesday, 5 May 2026
09:30 Session 2: Early stages of star formation
Early stages of star formation
09:30 - 15:00
Contributions

09:30 The Early Stages of Star Formation - Paola Caselli (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

10:00 Video - Ana Lopez-Sepulcre

10:05 Video - Tomoya Hirota

10:10 Video - Mario Tafalla

10:15 Video - Pablo De Vicente

10:20 Video - Maria Jose Rioja

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

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

12:00 Riccardo and the monitoring of water masers at Medicina - Jan Brand
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00

14:00 Tour of Villa Galileo

14:00 - 14:30
14:30 Session 3: Star forming regions
Star forming regions
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 The Unique Case of IRAS 18162-2048: A massive protostar driving the largest scale jet in our Galaxy - Sarita Vig (IIST, Trivandrum)

15:00 Observing the heart of IRAS18162-2048. The driving source of HH80-81 revisited in the near-IR - Rubén Fedriani (IAA, Granada)

15:30 High Spatial Resolution Observations of MYSOs in the NIR - Fabrizio Massi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Session 3: Star forming regions
Star forming regions
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 G31 ... what else? - Josep Miquel Girart (Institut de Ciències de l’Espai, CSIC)

17:00 Disky business at Rick's - Daniele Galli (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

17:30 Unveiling Accretion in Massive Protostars through High-Resolution Studies of Jets and Outflows - Ciriaco Goddi (Università di Cagliari)
19:30 Social dinner
Social dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Wednesday, 6 May 2026
09:30 Session 4: Massive disks
Massive disks
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Searching for disks in high-mass star-forming regions - Peter Schilke (University of Cologne)

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

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

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

12:00 Hunting Accretion Disks around Massive Young Stars - Qizhou Zhang (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Session 4: Massive disks
Massive disks
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 High-mass accretion disks - from Riccardo's beginnings to today - Henrik Beuther (MPI fuer Astronomie)

14:30 Chasing disks with Riccardo - Alberto Sanna (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)

15:00 30 years of high-mass star formation by Cesa & Mosca - Luca Moscadelli (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
15:30 Conclusion remarks
Conclusion remarks
15:30 - 15:50

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