Tentative Final Program - Frontier Research in Astrophysics

MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
FINAL PROGRAM
(29th May 2014)
Sunday 25 Afternoon
15.30
REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
19.00
END OF REGISTRATION
19.30
WELCOME COCKTAIL PARTY
20.00
DINNER
Monday 26 Morning
08.00
REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
08.25
END OF REGISTRATION
08.25
08.25
BEGINNING of the WORKSHOP
Franco GIOVANNELLI
Welcome Address
OPENING REMARKS
Chairperson: DMITRY BISIKALO
08.30
09.05
Franco GIOVANNELLI &
Lola SABAU-GRAZIATI
Arno STRAESSNER
09.40
Thomas STRAUSS
10.15
Nino PANAGIA
10.50
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
News from ATLAS at LHC: Recent
Results on Higgs Physics.
Neutrinos: The Big Question and
Physics Opportunities.
Is the Universe Really Accelerating?
Coffee Break
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Monday 26 Morning
OPENING REMARKS
Chairperson: NINO PANAGIA
11.20
11.55
12.30
12.50
Christopher FRYER
Dorota ROSINSKA
Jacques MARITZ
The Zoo of Compact Binary Mergers.
Gravitational Wave Astronomy: A Review.
Constraining GW signatures in pulsar
timing: A multi-frequency timing analysis.
END OF THE SESSION
Talk in Advance of
ONGOING EXPERIMENTS
12.50
13.10
Memmo FEDERICI &
Bruno Luigi MARTINO
An Automatic System Based on Open Source
Solutions to Create Virtual Machines of
Linux Systems Booted.
End of the Talk in Advance
I N T E R V A L
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Monday 26 Afternoon
COSMOLOGY
Chairperson: ARNO STRAESSNER
17.00
Sergio COLAFRANCESCO
17.35
Saleem ZAROUBI
18.10
Gennady BISNOVATYiKOGAN
Sara BUSON
18.45
19.20
Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect (SZE): Results
from New Generation Space Experiments.
The Epoch of Reionization with 21 cm
Experiments.
Dark Energy in Rich Clusters of Galaxies.
The Extragalactic Background Light: the
Emission from All Stars and Black Holes.
I N T E R V A L
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Tuesday 27 Morning
COSMOLOGY
Chairperson: SARA BUSON
08.30
Todor STANEV
High Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Signals.
09.05
END OF THE SESSION
HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS
09.05
Vladimir LIPUNOV
09.40
Giuseppina FABBIANO
Evolution of Binar Systems in the Line
of Magnetic Rotators.
X-ray Binaries and Their Makers.
10.00
Janusz ZIOLKOWSKI
The First Be/Black Hole Binary.
10.20
Coffee Break
Chairperson: VLADIMIR LIPUNOV
10.50
Pietro PARISI
11.25
Solen BALMAN
11.45
Pieter MEINTJES
12.05
Vojtech SIMON
The Importance of Cataclysmic Variables
in Astrophysics: A Review.
Probing Disk Truncation in Dwarf Novae and
Cataclysmic Variables with X-ray Variations
and Comparison with Work on Other
wavelengths.
Magnetized Accretion Disks and the Dwarf
Nova Phenomenon.
Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables versus
Non Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables.
Talk in Advance of
JET SOURCES & GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
12.25
12.45
Daniele FARGION
Neutrino Flavors and Gamma Ray
Bursts: A Missing Revolution.
End of the Talk in Advance
I N T E R V A L
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Tuesday 27 Afternoon
HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS
Chairperson: PAUL MASON
17.00
Dmitry KONONOV
17.20
Hideyuki MORI
17.40
Alida ODENDAAL
18.00
Norbert SCHARTEL
18.20
18.40
Matteo GUAINAZZI
Natalia LEWANDOWSKA
19.00
Paolo PERSI
19.20
Ivan DE MITRI
19.40
Doppler Tomography: Pas, Present, and
Perspectives.
The Impact of SUZAKU in Frontier
Astrophysics.
CAL 83 – The Prototypical Close Binary
Supersoft X-ray Source in the Large
Magellanic Cloud: A Short Review.
Progress on the Knowledge of Neutron
Stars and Their Magnetc Fields with
XMM-Newton.
Seyfert Galaxies in the XMM-Newton Era.
The Pulsar in the Crab Nebula:
A short Review.
IGR J16328-4726: The nearest known
Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient (SFXT)
detected by INTEGRAL.
The contribution of ARGO-YBJ to the
knowledge of Cosmic Ray Spectrum.
I N T E R V A L
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Wednesday 28 Morning
HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS
Chairperson: PIETER MEINTJES
08.30
09.05
Thomas BOLLER
Josep Maria PAREDES
09.40
Athina MELI
10.15
Wlodmierz BEDNAREK
10.35
The Extended ROSAT All-Sky Survey.
Very High Energy Astrophysics: Theory
versus Observations.
Cosmic ray Acceleration and radiation
in Extragalactic Sources.
Gamma-rays from Millisecond Pulsar
Binary Systems.
O F F I C I A L
P H O T O
Coffee Break
Chairperson: THOMAS BOLLER
11.05
Wlodmierz BEDNAREK
11.25
Brian van SOELEN
11.45
Beatrice PANICO
12.05
Andreas ECKART
12.40
Gamma-rays from the Central Stellar
Cluster in the Galactic Center.
Search for Very High Energy Candidate
Sources Among the FERMI Sources.
Positron anisotropy studies with PAMELA
experiment.
The Center of the Milky Way from Radio
to X-rays.
END OF THE SESSION
I N T E R V A L
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Wednesday 28 Afternoon
F R E E
Wednesday 28 Night
22.00
E T R U S C A N
W I N E
P A R T Y
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Thursday 29 Morning
JET SOURCES & GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
Chairperson: ANDREAS ECKART
08.30
09.05
James H. BEALL
James H. BEALL
09.25
Wolfgang KUNDT
09.45
Jean-Luc ATTEIA
10.20
10.50
11.25
A Review of Astrophysical Jets.
Modelling Astrophysical Jets:
Benchmarking the PLUTO Code and
the VH-1.
A Uniform Description of All the
Astrophysical Jets.
Gamma Ray Bursts: a Review.
Coffee Break
Giancarlo GHIRLANDA
Janusz ZIOLKOWSKI
11.45
Gamma Ray Bursts.
A Gamma Ray Burst Remnant in
Our Galaxy ?
END OF THE SESSION
STAR FORMATION & PMS Stars
Chairperson: JOSEP MARIA PAREDES
11.45
Andrew HOPKINS
12.05
Lev PIROGOV
12.25
Paolo PERSI
12.45
Ana Inés GOMEZ
de CASTRO
13.20
The Star Formation Rate in the
Reionization Era.
Induced Star Formation in the
W40 Region.
The Formation of Massive Stars:
A Search for Shocked H2.
Pre-Main Sequence Star Evolution.
I N T E R V A L
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Thursday 29 Afternoon
STAR FORMATION & PMS Stars
Chairperson: ADA ORTIZ-CARBONELL
17.00
17.35
Guido DE MARCHI
Pre-Main Sequence Stars in the Milky
Way and Magellanic Clouds.
END OF THE SESSION
PLANETS FORMATION & EVOLUTION
17.35
Diego TURRINI
18.10
Alberto ADRIANI
18.45
Dmitry BISIKALO
19.20
Konrad DENNERL
19.40
Planetary Formation: Lessons Learned
from the Solar System and Extrasolar
Planets.
The Atmospheric Composition of the Giant
Planets as Reflection of Their Formation
And Evolution.
Types of Gaseous Envelopes of “Hot Jupiter”
Exoplanets.
X-ray Emission from Comets and Planets
in the Solar System.
END OF THE SESSION
I N T E R V A L
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Thursday 29 Night
P E R F O R M A N C E
I N
P A L E R M O
(Splendid Hotel La Torre - Conference Room)
22.00
HIC HABITAT FELICITAS
Mozarterie from the Kingdom Behind
Alessandro Perpich – Violin
Valentina Usai - Piano
Lisa Colosimo – Voice
Flavia Giovannelli – Voice
23.00
END OF PERFORMANCE
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Friday 30 Morning
ORIGIN OF LIFE
Chairperson: DIEGO TURRINI
08.30
Riccardo CLAUDI
09.05
09.25
10.00
Carlos EIROA
Paul MASON
Ada ORTIZ-CARBONELL
10.35
Search for life: an Astrophysicist’s
point of view.
Dust Around Nearby Stars.
Habitable Niches in the Galaxy.
Solar-Terrestrial Relations.
Or How the Solar Magnetic Field
Shapes Our Lives.
Coffee Break
Chairperson: CARLOS EIROA
11.05
Riccardo CLAUDI
11.25
Alessandro SOZZETTI
11.45
Ivan ALMAR
12.20
High Contrast Imaging of Extrasolar
Planets: First Steps.
Gaia and Exoplanetology: Sinergies
in the Making.
Old and New from SETI: A Review.
END OF THE SESSION
I N T E R V A L
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Friday 30 Afternoon
ONGOING EXPERIMENTS
Chairperson: BORIS SHUSTOV
17.00
17.20
Tino RIETHMÜLLER
Sam KRUCKER
17.40
Paolo SOFFITTA
18.00
Paolo SOFFITTA
18.20
Soomin JEONG
18.40
René HUDEC
19.00
Silvia MASI
19.20
Sunrise Mission Highlights.
Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI):
First Results and Future Developments.
Photoelectric X-ray Polarimetry of Solar
Flares with the Gas Pixel Detector.
XIPE: the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry
Explorer.
Observation of Early Photons from GRBs
with UFFO-Pathfinder.
GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent
Array for e-Science.
OLIMPO Experiment.
I N T E R V A L
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Saturday 31 Morning
Postponed Talks of
OPENING REMARKS
Chairperson: ANDREA SANTANGELO
08.30
Alessia TRICOMI
09.05
Paolo DE BERNARDIS
09.40
The LHCf Experiment: the Impact on High
Energy Cosmic Ray (HECR) Physics.
CMB polarization: A Review.
End of Postponed Talks
ONGOING EXPERIMENTS
09.40
Antonio MASIERO
INFN engagement in Astroparticle
Physics.
10.15
Boris SHUSTOV
Major Science with UV World Space
Observatory (WSO-UV).
10.35
Coffee Break
Chairperson: BORIS SHUSTOB
11.05
Sergey PILIPENKO
11.25
René HUDEC
11.45
René HUDEC
12.05
The current status of the space mission
Millimetron.
Scientific Astrophysical Payloads for
Pico and Nano-Satellites.
Digitized Astronomical Photographic
Archives as Large Area Sky Survey of Large
Amount of Astronomical Data.
END OF THE SESSION
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188
MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2014
May 26 – 31, Palermo, Italy
Frontier Research in Astrophysics
Saturday 31 Morning
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Chairperson: JAMES HOWARTH BEALL
12.05
12.20
12.35
12.50
13.00
Gennady BISNOVATYI-KOGAN
Diego TURRINI
Janusz ZIOLKOWSKI
René HUDEC
END OF THE SESSION
CONCLUDING ADDRESS
13.00
13.15
Franco GIOVANNELLI
E N D
O F
Concluding Address.
T H E
W O R K S H O P
Organized by:
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy; INTA - Departamento de Cargas Utiles y Ciencias del
Espacio, Madrid, Spain; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy; RAS - Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia;
ASCR - Astronomical Institute, Ondrejov & Prague Technical University, Czech Republic; NRL/SSD, Washington D.C. & SJC,
Annapolis, USA; MPE, Garching, Germany; School of Physics – Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa; IAA,
Universität Tübingen, Germany; National Solar Observatory, Tucson, NM, USA
Mail to: [email protected] Phone: +39 06 45488 442 Fax: +39 06 45488 188