Name: VST Science Workshop 2026
Start: 2026-04-09T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-10T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Monte Mario

VST Science Workshop 2026

from Thursday, April 9, 2026 (9:30 AM) to Friday, April 10, 2026 (5:00 PM)

Monday, April 6, 2026
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Thursday, April 9, 2026
9:30 AM Opening Session
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Sala Cimmino
Contributions

9:30 AM Welcome

9:35 AM Progress report from the VST Team - Enrichetta Iodice (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 AM The role of the VST within the panorama of INAF ground-based observing facilities - Marcella Marconi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:40 AM The impact of the VST released data on the ESO Science Archive Facility - Martino Romaniello (ESO - Garching)
11:00 AM coffee-break
coffee-break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Sala Cimmino
11:30 AM Session 1: Rubin-LSST in-kind@VST
11:30 AM - 1:10 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino
Contributions

11:30 AM Rubin-LSST@Italy, in-kind program status & perspectives - Massimo Brescia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:50 AM VST as a Facility for Rubin/LSST Follow-up - Felice Cusano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 PM Unveiling the Transient Universe: VST Synergies with Euclid and Rubin - Vincenzo Petrecca (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:30 PM The Timedomes project: building on the VST legacy in the time domain - Maurizio Paolillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

12:50 PM Exploiting the synergy between LSST and VST to investigate the cosmos: the expansion rate and the geometry of the Universe measured through the time delays of strongly lensed variable sources - Claudio Grillo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
1:10 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino
2:10 PM Session 2: Large Programs at VST
2:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino
Contributions

2:10 PM STEPping stones between the Clouds: the star formation history of the Magellanic Bridge - Francesco Ficara (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:30 PM The search for very nearby astrophysical transients with the VST - Luca Izzo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:50 PM From Autopsy to Diagnosis: Direct Detection of Episodic Mass Loss in SN Progenitors - Fabrizio Bocchino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:10 PM VST-SMASH: the outskirts of IC 5332 and the discovery of new satellite candidates in the field of NGC 5068 - Crescenzo Tortora (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
3:30 PM coffee-break
coffee-break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino
4:00 PM Session 2: Large Programs at VST
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino
Contributions

4:00 PM HAGRPS: an H-alpha narrow-band imaging survey of galaxy groups in the Local Supercluster - Elena Sofia Mangola (LAM, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS)

4:20 PM VST-MAGNET: Mechanisms Affecting Galaxies Nearby and Environmental Trends with VST - Marco Gullieuszik (INAF - OAPd)
4:40 PM Session 3: SP-Young programs
4:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino
Contributions

4:40 PM A VST survey of multiple populations inglobular clustes - Emanuele Dondoglio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:00 PM The UMBREON project: revealing the invisible side of dark galaxies - Chiara Buttitta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:20 PM Into the jaws of darkness - Hunting for Dark Galaxies - Marco Monaci (Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing - Swinburne University of Technology)
Friday, April 10, 2026
9:30 AM Session 4: Normal Programs & ToO
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Sala Cimmino
Contributions

9:30 AM YEARS: Young Exoplanet Analysis in Rich Stellar cluster - Ignazio Francesco Pillitteri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

9:50 AM Known by the Loss: Probing the Mass-Loss History of Supernova Progenitors through Circumstellar Interaction - Fabio Ragosta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:10 AM NEOVST: A survey of newly-discovered Near-Earth Objects through the VLT Survey Telescope - Pedro Henrique Hasselmann (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:30 AM The unexpected stellar populations of the Milky Way's satellite Fornax dSph - Massimo Dall'Ora (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:50 AM coffee-break
coffee-break
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Sala Cimmino
11:20 AM Session 4: Normal Programs & ToO
11:20 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino
Contributions

11:20 AM BEARD at the VST, characterising the low surface brightness features in Milky Way analogues - Edoardo Borsato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:40 AM INTERBARS, characterising bar formation driven by galaxy interaction - Edoardo Borsato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:00 PM A MAGNHIFFIC view of nearby AGN, their circum-galactic medium and low-surface brightness satellites - Filippo Maccagni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:20 PM Nuclear activity and star formation in the HYPER-MAX fields J231 and J1342 - Demetra De Cicco (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")
12:40 PM Fantastic images and where to find them - Claudia Mignone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Fantastic images and where to find them
- Claudia Mignone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino This talk presents some of images based on VST observations that have been distributed to the general public over the past couple of years. This includes also images of peculiar galaxies from the famous Arp catalogue, as part of the Arp@Vst project.
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino
2:00 PM Session 5: Overview of the planned and new instrument developments at the VST
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino
Contributions

2:00 PM VSTPol - Pietro Schipani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:20 PM Science cases for VSTPOL: the first large survey telescope for optical polarimetry - Gianluca Castignani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:40 PM Determination of Classical Cepheids distances in the Magellanic Clouds using polarimetric analysis - Erasmo Trentin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:00 PM A VST/OmegaCAM Large Programme for DESI-II: 1000 deg$^2$ medium-band imaging with a custom M5168 filter - Giuseppe D'Ago (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)
3:20 PM Concluding Remarks

3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Sala Cimmino

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