Sixth Workshop on Millimetre Astronomy in Italy
Organized by the Italian node of the European Regional Center (ARC), the meeting will take place in Bologna (CNR campus), in person, on June 3 – 6, 2025.
The workshop will cover the latest Italian scientific research with mm/sub-mm telescopes, synergies with facilities observing at different wavelengths, and discuss future developments with the community. It will consist of invited and contributed presentations, and includes time to exchange ideas to stimulate collaborations.
The workshop sessions will be related to a broad range of science topics:
- spectral line studies
- multi-band synergies
- multi-scale observations
- polarisation
- VLBI observations and the Italian tri-band receivers
- innovative computational techniques (including machine and deep learning)
- ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU) and ALMA2040
Confirmed invited contributors are:
- Maite Beltran (INAF-OAA)
- Eleonora Bianchi (INAF-OAA)
- Gianfranco Brunetti (INAF-IRA Director)
- Pietro Bolli (INAF- OAA)
- Alessandro Coletta (INAF-IAPS)
- Carlos De Breuck (ESO)
- Stefano Facchini (UniMi)
- Vincenzo Galluzzi (INAF-IRA)
- Fabrizia Guglielmetti (ESO)
- Rocco Lico (INAF-IRA)
- Alessia Moretti (INAF-OAPD)
- Isabella Pagano (INAF – Scientific Director)
- Isabella Prandoni (INAF-IRA)
- Giovanni Sabatini (INAF – OAA)
- Chiara Stuardi (INAF-IRA)
- Leonardo Testi (UniBO)
- Fabrizio Villa (INAF-OAS)
Registration and abstract submission
To register at the meeting, please fill in the following form before 28 May 2025 on the event agency website (please submit inquiries about registration to info@momedaeventi.com – phone number +39-051-5876729):
The workshop will start with lunch on Tuesday 3 June and will end with lunch on Friday 6 June .
The registration fee is 50 euros for students and 100 euros for post-docs and staff. It will cover coffee breaks and lunches from 3 to 6 June, and the social dinner on Thursday 5 June.
The submission of contributions is now closed.
Program
Here the Book of Abstracts of contributions and the list of Participants
=== TUESDAY 3RD JUNE ===
- 12:30 Welcome Lunch and registration
- 13:30 Welcome and logistics
VLBI observations and Italian tri-band receivers
Chair: Liuzzo
- 13:40 Liuzzo – Introduction
- 13:50 Bolli (i) -Triband receivers for INAF radio telescopes: technical characteristics and status
- 14:20 Rygl (c) – Tri-band maser studies of star-forming regions
- 14:40 Lico (i) – Radio astronomy in the era of triple-band receivers: new science perspectives for the Italian radio telescopes.
- 15:10 Spingola (c) – Observational cosmology with mm-VLBI: a science case for the tri-band receivers
- 15:30 Giroletti (c) – Eating VLBI triple-band observations of M87 and other low-luminosity AGNs.
- 15:50 Giovannini (c) – The baby jet in 3C84 (video1) (video2)
16:10 Coffee Break
Spectral line studies
Chair: Rygl
- 16:40 Rygl – Introduction
- 16:50 Villa (i) – ALMA Band 2: the future is now
- 17:20 Andreetto (c) – ALMA Band 2 Receiver Development in Bologna: towards the WSU
- 17:40 Allande-Gonzalez (c) – The largest glycolaldehyde and ethylene glycol survey of high-mass star-forming regions
- 18:00 Bianchi (i) – Astrochemistry: The Power of Spectral Lines to Study Planet-Forming Disks
==== WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE ====
Multi-scale observations
Chair: Marchili
- 09:00 Marchili – Introduction
- 09:10 Sabatini (i) – The FAUST revolution: Chemical diversity in young Solar System analogues
- 09:40 Rygl (c) – Initial stages of star cluster formation in the W48 star-forming complex
- 10:00 Schisano (c) – How do star clusters form? Clues from the spatial distribution of star-forming cores in the ALMAGAL dense clumps
- 10:20 Coletta (i) – Investigating massive star formation with ALMAGAL: Compact source catalog, fragmentation statistics and physical evolution of the core population
10:50 Coffee Break
Spectral line studies
Chair: Casasola
- 11:20 Paspaliaris (c) – Relating optical attenuation, dust and gas at sub-kpc scales
- 11:40 Gururajan (c) – Understanding the nature of strongly lensed dusty star-forming galaxies at z~2-4 with ALMA
- 12:00 Maio (c) – Numerical simulations of sub-mm line emission from high-redshift galaxies
- 12:20 Bertola (c) – The molecular view of AGN feedback at cosmic noon: do AGN gas-deplete their hosts?
12:40 Lunch
Multi-scale observations
Chair: Ruffa
- 13:40 Moretti (i) – The cold gas content of ram-pressure stripped galaxies and the importance of a multi wavelength dataset
- 14:10 Zanchettin (c) – Probing the molecular gas in multiphase outflows of obscured QSOs
Polarization
Chair: Paladino
- 14:30 Paladino – Introduction
- 14:40 Beltran (i) – Polarization studies with current and new ALMA capabilities
- 15:10 Law (c) – Unveiling the magnetized path of massive star formation with MAGMA.
- 15:30 Belfiori (c) – Unveiling dust and magnetic field structures in the heart of a starburst system
15:50 Coffee Break
Multi-scale observations
Chair: Garufi
- 16:20 Lamperti (c) – Resolving molecular outflows in local ULIRGs using ALMA
- 16:40 Costa (c) – Tales of dust: a survey of dust temperature in quasars at Cosmic Dawn
- 17:00 Islalave (c) – Lighting the Beacon: Environmental Triggering of AGN in z > 2 Protoclusters
=== THURSDAY 5TH JUNE ===
Multi-Band Synergies
Chair: Bonato
- 09:00 Bonato – Introduction
- 09:10 Prandoni (i) – The SKA Observatory: perspectives and synergies with ALMA
- 09:40 Codella (c) – Astrochemistry of protostellar jet/disk systems on the Solar System scale: from ALMA to SKA using the HH 212 textbook case
- 10:00 Galluzzi (i) – The SKA Regional Centre Network: a globally distributed e-infrastructure for accessing SKA data
- 10:30 Poster presentations (Dall’Olio, Ronconi, Soave, Veraldi, )
10:40 Coffee Break
WSU and ALMA2040
Chair: Massardi
- 11:10 Massardi – Introduction
- 11:20 DeBreuck (i) – How to participate in ALMA development
- 11:50 Facchini (i) – ALMA2040: a high-definition view of the cold universe with a next-generation ALMA
- 12:20 Pagano (i) – DS welcome
12:50 Lunch with Group Photo
14:00 Round Table (Chair: Massardi, Panelists: Pagano, DeBreuck, Brunetti, Testi, Facchini) – Introduction to the discussion
16:00 Coffee Break
Multi-Band Synergies
Chair: Zanchettin
- 16:30 Behiri (c) – Multi-Wavelength Affairs: Ushering in a New Era in Radio-mm Relations
- 16:50 Gandolfi (c) – Unveiling the New Redshift Frontier: Breaking Dust-Redshift Degeneracies with JWST and Far-Infrared/millimetre observations
- 17:10 Decarli (c)- Infrared fine-structure lines at high redshift
- 17:30 Giulietti (c) – Searching for radio-emitting high-redshift dust-obscured galaxies with ALMA: predictions from SEMPER, a new semi-empirical model for extragalactic radio emission
20:00 Social dinner at Vamola Restaurant and Dinner Speech: Testi – Va mo la’, che bél-a stòria! ALMA yesterday, today and tomorrow, an Italian perspective
=== FRIDAY 6TH JUNE ===
Innovative computational techniques
Chair: Baronchelli
- 09:30 Baronchelli – Introduction
- 09:40 Guglielmetti (i) – BRAIN: Empowering ALMA Imaging with AI
- 10:10 Stuardi (i) – Machine learning approaches for source detection and classification in large radio surveys
- 10:40 Torsello (c) – The ViSta method for stacking in the Fourier domain and its application to the Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies in the ALMA Science Archive
11:00 Coffee Break
Multi-Band Synergies
Chair: Baldi
- 11:30 Trobbiani (c) – NOEMA discovery and lens modeling of Planck-selected lensed sub-mm galaxies
- 11:50 Armante (c) – What’s in the cavity of the transitional disk around CQ Tau ?
- 12:10 Salvestrini (c) – The Rise of Massive Galaxies and SMBHs at the Epoch of Reionization
12:30 Lunch
Notes:
- (i) indicates invited talk: 25 mins+ 5 mins of Q&A
- (c) is for contributed presentation: 15 mins+ 5 mins of Q&A
- posters must be smaller than 95 cm (width) x 113 cm (high)
SOC and LOC
SOC:
Italian ARC node – Ivano Baronchelli, Matteo Bonato, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Nicola Marchili, Marcella Massardi, Rosita Paladino, Kazi Rygl
LOC:
Italian ARC node + Matteo Gandolfi and Elia Gasperini
Venue, logistics and contact
The meeting will be held at the Congress Centre of the CNR-campus, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, Sala 216.
Directions to reach the campus can be found here
Hotels close to the campus are listed here.
For any request please contact the Italian ARC: help-desk@alma.inaf.it