The many tones of accretion - to the memory of Tomaso Belloni

7–11 Sept 2026

Cefalù

Europe/Rome timezone

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Speaker List

Kevin Alabarta (INAF-OAB)
- Speaker at Piecing together the disc-jet-corona puzzle in MAXI J1348$-$630: radio/OIR diagnostics and X-ray spectral-timing constraints
Ali Alpar (Sabanci University)
- Speaker at Determination of accretion disk inner radius taking angular momentum exchange into account: transients, transitions and evolution
Diego Altamirano (University of Southampton)
- Speaker at NEBULA-Xplorer: A Dedicated Mini-Fast X-ray Observatory for Time-Domain Studies of Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Kewal Anand (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
- Speaker at Spectral–Timing Insights into Millisecond Variability in 4U 1728–34 from AstroSat
Alessio Anitra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at The first IXPE view of the eclipsing ADC source 4U 1822-37
Montserrat Armas Padilla (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC))
- Speaker at A Self-Shadowing Black Hole Accretion Disc during a Soft State Decay
Matteo Bachetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at What can we learn from the variability of M82 ULXs?
Maria Cristina Baglio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Polarimetry Across the Spectrum: Probing Accretion and Outflows in Black Hole X-ray Binaries
Fergus Baker (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Speaker at X-ray reverberation from a ring-like corona
Caterina Ballocco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Multi-band analysis of the pulsed profiles of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
Srimanta Banerjee (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Hard-State Accretion Geometry of GX 339-4: Investigating the Role of Jet Synchrotron Emission
Rosaria Bonito (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at The Glass Ceiling Through the Lens of Science: Gender Inequality in Astronomy, at INAF and Beyond
- Speaker at Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time: the start of the decade-long survey
Pau Bosch Cabot (University of Lethbridge)
- Speaker at A cooler look at the environment of Cygnus X-1: searching for dynamical interactions within cold molecular gas
David Buckley (UCT)
- Speaker at An AstroSat Anticipated ToO: observing the state transition of 4U 1630−47
Barbora Bílá (Silesian University in Opava)
- Speaker at Unified Model for Quasi-Periodic Modulation of X-Ray Flux
Francesco Carotenuto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Modelling the kinematics of large-scale jets from black hole X-ray binaries
Jorge Casares (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
- Speaker at The Galactic population of accreting black holes
Piergiorgio Casella (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Multiwavelength Variability from X-ray Binaries
Chun Hei Chan (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University)
- Speaker at Optical–X-ray Anti-correlations Analysis in 3FGL J1544.6−1125 and Optical Behavior During Low-to-High Mode Transitions in Transitional Millisecond Pulsars
Suchismito Chattopadhyay (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics)
- Speaker at QPOs to track the Disk Restoration signatures after Type-I X-Ray Bursts from 4U 1636−536
Andrea Comastri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at AGN high energy emission: highlights from selected space missions.
- Speaker at ROSAT years at the C3 container
Justine Crook-Mansour (University of OXford)
- Speaker at Radio Monitoring of the Extremely Luminous Be/X-ray Binary A0538–66
- Speaker at The Homogeneous MeerKAT and Swift/XRT Radio:X-ray Plane
Marcio Guilherme Bronzato de Avellar (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
- Speaker at Kozai–Lidov–driven episodic accretion as a trigger for FRB-like activity in compact triples
Barbara De Marco (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
- Speaker at The accretion flow in black hole X-ray binaries through the “lens” of X-ray spectral-timing
Nathalie Degenaar (University of Amsterdam)
- Speaker at States and transitions in X-ray binaries
Tiziana Di Salvo (University of Palermo)
- Speaker at On Tomaso - a tribute
chris done (university of Durham)
- Speaker at New results on winds from accretion discs in binaries
Gastón Escobar (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
- Speaker at Searching for quiescent black hole candidates through optical variability
Rob Fender (University of Oxford)
- Speaker at Accretion - ejection coupling in X-ray binaries
Marco Feroci (INAF Brera Astronomical Observatory)
- Speaker at Advances in X-ray Missions
Federico Ferretti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Flip-Flops and QPO switching in GX 339–4 during the 2021 and 2024 NICER outbursts
Carlo Ferrigno (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Pulsed fraction spectra constrain properties of neutron-star High Mass X-ray binaries
Federico Garcia (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia (IAR-CONICET))
- Speaker at Spectral-timing methods and insights with GHATS: Listening to accretion in compact objects
Kelebogile Gasealahwe (UCT, SARAO)
- Speaker at SAX J1808.8-3658's 2025 outburst in the multi-wavelength regime
Jiří Horák ((Silesian University in Opava, Bezrucovo namesti 13, CZ 746 01 Opava))
- Speaker at Testing the Lense–Thirring interpretation of LF QPOs in neutron stars
Rosario Iaria (University of Palermo)
- Speaker at A gravitationally redshifted absorption line in the NICER spectrum of 4U 1820–30
Pei Jin (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
- Speaker at Type-B QPOs in the Hard-Intermediate State of Black Hole X-ray Binaries
Emrah Kalemci (Sabanci University)
- Speaker at Comparing 3D GRMHD Simulation Outputs with Observations of Black Hole Transients
Siham Kalli (M'sila University)
- Speaker at Investigating the Accretion Disk and Iron Line Complexity in Mrk 841
Kateřina Klimovičová (Silesian university in Opava)
- Speaker at A systematic method for determining neutron star parameters from kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations
Amy Knight (Durham University, UK)
- Speaker at A New Spectrally Soft Pulsating Ultraluminous X-ray Source Candidate in Centaurus A
- Speaker at Epic Fail! A Multi-Wavelength Summary of the Surprisingly Short 2024/25 Outburst from EXO 0748-676
Erik Kuulkers (ESA/ESTEC)
- Speaker at Tomaso, dips, Cygnus X-1
Nick Kylafis (Institute of Astrophysics, FORTH, Crete)
- Speaker at Why is our community allergic to timelags being produced by Comptonization?
Eleonora Veronica Lai (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Timing analysis of X-ray binaries with Stingray
Debora Lančová (Nicolas Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Warsaw, Poland, Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic)
- Speaker at A magnetically-supported disk-corona model for Changing-Look AGN transitions
Seth Larner (Washington University, St. Louis MO, USA)
- Speaker at Evolution in concert: Spectral-timing correlation of variability components in Cyg X-1
Wladimiro Leone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Kilosecond hard lag in NGC 7456: Tracing propagation and reprocessing through the super-Eddington wind
Wasutep Luangtip (Srinakharinwirot University)
- Speaker at Addressing the Deficit of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in High Star-Forming Environments
Seshadri Majumder (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
- Speaker at Search for 'rocking' of the iron line in black hole binaries through LFQPO phase-resolved spectroscopy
Julien Malzac (IRAP (CNRS / Universite de Toulouse))
- Speaker at Coupling accretion flow and jets in black hole X-ray binaries: insights from the multi-wavelength emission of Cygnus X-1
Isabella Mariani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at MeerKAT detection of a bow-shock structure close to the black-hole X-ray binary GRO J1655-40
- Speaker at The peculiar outburst of the black hole binary candidate 4U 1630-47: unveiling the radio polarimetry with MeerKAT
Guglielmo Mastroserio (IUSS Pavia)
- Speaker at X-ray spectral analisys in Low Mass Black Hole Binaries
Daniel Mata Sanchez (IAC)
- Speaker at Ubiquitous broad absorptions in low-mass X-ray binaries: their impact on accretion-disc wind studies
Sandro Mereghetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at The peculiar variability of the Be/NS system 1A 0538-66
Marco Maria Messa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Optical spectroscopy of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
Carlotta Miceli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Investigating the Peculiar Obscured State of GRS 1915+105 with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR
Romana Mikusincova (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at A SERENDIPITOUS IXPE VIEW OF THE ECLIPSING NEUTRON STAR BINARY AX J1745.6-2901
Kaya Mori (Columbia University)
- Speaker at Decoding and Forecasting Non-linear Variability Patterns in X-ray Binaries Using Koopman Operator Theory
Mokhine Motsoaledi (New York University Abu Dhabi)
- Speaker at Probing the optical spectral and timing properties of the elusive mini-outbursts of V4641 Sgr
Sara Elisa Motta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at A short tribute to Tomaso Belloni
Teo Muñoz-Darias (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
- Speaker at Accretion disc winds in X-ray binaries: a multiwavelength view
Sara Navarro Umpiérrez (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
- Speaker at Mini-HAWKs: First results from a pilot survey designed to uncover quiescent black holes
Asaf Pe'er (Bar Ilan University)
- Speaker at Radiative cooling changes the dynamics of disks in MAD state
Sara Peluso (ESO)
- Speaker at Unveiling the disk atmosphere properties of UCXB 4U1916-05
Ciro Pinto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at The enchanted kingdom of ultra-luminous X-ray sources
Juri Poutanen (University of Turku)
- Speaker at X-ray polarization from hybrid electrons in coronae of accreting black holes
Vladislav Revnivtsev (SAI MSU, IKI RAS)
- Speaker at Dynamical features of the tilted precessing accretion disk in Her X-1
Dave Russell (New York University Abu Dhabi)
- Speaker at Multi-wavelength correlations in X-ray binaries and beyond
Enzo Agustin Saavedra (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
- Speaker at A superorbital modulation connecting the quiescent states of A0620–00
Chiara Salvaggio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at A MeerKAT detected ULX radio bubble in NGC 1313
Andrea Sanna (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars: Insights into Accretion and Spin Evolution
Edwin Santiago (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica)
- Speaker at Circumbinary accretion onto Supermassive Black hole Binaries with the presence of a Dark Matter Spike
Katherine Savard (University of Oxford)
- Speaker at Load and behold: simulating the launching and mass loading of discrete ejecta in X-ray binaries
Boris Sbarufatti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at Swift's legacy
Simone Scaringi (Durham University)
- Speaker at Optical variability properties of accretion white dwarfs: Tomaso’s legacy beyond X-ray binaries
Kyle Solomons (INAF Brera Astronomical Observatory)
- Speaker at JetKAT: The MeerKAT monitoring of the jets from GRS 1915+105
Rene Sprna (SLU - Institute of Physics in Opava)
- Speaker at Radial profile of iron K line emissivity induced by neutron star spreading layer irradiation
Tomáš Stanovský (Silesian University in Opava)
- Speaker at Simulated Observations of High-Frequency Variability in X-ray Binaries
Luigi Stella (INAF Rome Astronomical Observatory)
- Speaker at On Tomaso and maurizio - memorialtalk
Gianpiero Tagliaferri (INAF Brera Astronomical Observatory)
- Speaker at On Tomaso - memorial talk
Abhisek Tamang (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru & Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru)
- Speaker at Super-orbital period evolution of Her X-1
- Speaker at Timing and Spectroscopic studies of Vela X-1 with XPoSat/XSPECT
Khushi Taori
- Speaker at The Effects of Magnetic Flux on X-ray Binary Outbursts
Alex Tetarenko (University of Lethbridge)
- Speaker at Probing black hole jets through rapid multi-wavelength timing techniques
Gabriel Török (Silesian University in Opava)
- Speaker at Neutron star mass and equation of state determined from precession models of quasi-periodic oscillations
Martin Urbanec (Silesian University in Opava)
- Speaker at Mass and radius of neutron star in 4U1608-52
Simo van de Vosse (Anton Pannekoek Institute)
- Speaker at Modelling the time-dependent spectral evolution of accretion disks during Type-I X-ray bursts
Alexandra Veledina (University of Turku)
- Speaker at X-ray polarimetric view of X-ray binaries
Federico Vincentelli (Coventry University)
- Speaker at QPOs in X-ray binaries
Joern Wilms (Remeis-Observatory & ECAP, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg)
- Speaker at X-ray binaries: Future and perspectives
Anna Wolter (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
- Speaker at A Ring is not enough: Testing the origin of extreme ULX populations in Ring Galaxies
Jing Xue
- Speaker at Assessing the Effects of Comptonization on Black Hole Spin Estimates for LMC X-1
Pengcheng Yang (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)
- Speaker at An atypical X-ray variability component in the black hole candidate AT2019wey
Bei You (Wuhan University)
- Speaker at Reverberation lags viewed in hard X-rays from an accreting stellar-mass black hole
Andrzej Zdziarski (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center)
- Speaker at Geometry of X-ray sources in accreting black-hole binaries
Yijia Zhang
- Speaker at Radio counterparts of ultraluminous X-ray sources in nearby galaxies
haifan zhu
- Speaker at Timing and Spectral Analysis of the 2025 Outburst of 4U 1630$-$47 with NICER