Journey Across our Nifty-galaxy (JAN):
Jan’s Masers and Star Formation legacy in Bologna and beyond
In celebration of Jan Brand’s retirement, the Italian node of the ALMA Regional Centre Italiano organizes a workshop dedicated to the research activities and accomplishments he has undertaken throughout his academic career.”
Dates and locations
- October 25th (15.00 – 18.30) and 26th (9.00 – 12.30) 2023
- INAF-IRA 4th floor seminar room
Area della Ricerca campus,
via Gobetti 101 Bologna
(https://arc.ira.inaf.it/about/how-to-reach-us/) - Remotely at the link:
https://meet.google.com/sue-bwvk-axf
Program (Bologna time zone):
25/10, Wednesday
chair Massardi
15:00 Massardi: Welcome from the Italian ARC
15:05 Brunetti: Welcome and best wishes from the IRA Director
chair Rygl
15:20 Brand: Review talk
15:50 Engels: H2O masers: Lessons learned from a decades long monitoring program
16:15 Massi: A long-standing collaboration with Jan on NGC6357: the environment of very high-mass star formation
16:40 coffee break
chair Liuzzo
16:55 Dall’Olio: Masers as tool to study magnetic fields in protostars
17:20 Wouterloot: A cloud in the FOG
17:45 Magnani: Young Jan at the University of Maryland in 1986 (remote)
18:10 Palazzi/Russo: Libraries in the Bologna Area
20:00 dinner at Cantina Bentivoglio
https://www.cantinabentivoglio
26/10, Thursday
chair Bonato
09:00 Testi: The early days of ALMA in Italy and the role of Jan and the Italian ARC in Bologna
09:25 Massardi: Running the Italian ARC
chair Baronchelli
09:40 Richards: The weather around old, wet stars: Pulsation, evolutionary progress or playfulness? (remote)
10:05 Etoka: H2O maser variability in evolved stars (remote)
10:30 coffee break
chair Marchili
10:45 Olmi: Jan and the SF/radio group at Arcetri
11:10 Giannetti: Chemistry at low metallicity: altering the reipe for complexity
11:35 Sabatini: Timing the formation process of high-mass stars
12:00 Bonato: Final remarks and cheers