Name: SPARCS XII: Pushing Toward the Final Frontier
Start: 2024-05-06T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-10T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Bologna, Italy

SPARCS XII: Pushing Toward the Final Frontier

from Monday, May 6, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Friday, May 10, 2024 (5:00 PM)

Monday, May 6, 2024

1:45 PM Registration
Registration
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

2:45 PM

2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
3:05 PM
3:05 PM - 4:25 PM
Contributions

3:05 PM Wide-field continuum observations with Apertif at 1.4GHz: new data release and combine view with LOFAR - Alexander Kutkin (ASTRON)

3:30 PM The MPIfR MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (MMGPS) - Akriti Sinha (Indian Institute of Technology Indore)

3:55 PM The sub-uJy radio sky at sub-arcsecond resolution: lessons learned from VLA extragalactic radio surveys - Eric Faustino Jiménez Andrade (Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics - National Autonomous University of Mexico)

4:10 PM Aper-V - The Apertif Circular Polarisation Survey - Björn Adebahr (AIRUB)
4:30 PM Coffe Break
Coffe Break
4:30 PM - 4:55 PM
4:55 PM
4:55 PM - 5:35 PM
Contributions

4:55 PM A combined JVLA, GMRT, and XMM study of Abell 795: a candidate radio phoenix? - Nicolò Rotella

4:57 PM Abell 3667: understanding the nature of radio relics - Alessandro Benati (INAF - IRA)

4:59 PM The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA Survey at 300 MHz - Stefan Duchesne (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin University)

5:01 PM Serendipitous Discovery of 100 kpc Twin Jets in a Peculiar S-Shaped Radio Galaxy - Sagar Sethi (Jagiellonian University)

5:03 PM DISENTANGLING STAR FORMATION AND AGN ACTIVITY IN THE GAMA (G23) REGION - Harris Yao Fortune Marc (University of Felix Houphouet Boigny)

5:05 PM Radio continuum and HI 21-cm line emission from M51 analogs observed with SKA - Masoumeh Ghasemi Nodehi (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory)

5:07 PM Radio Observations of Ram-Pressure-Stripped tails: A New Window into Galaxy Evolution - Alessandro Ignesti (INAF - Padova)

5:09 PM En route to the SKA era: MeerKAT's sharp new view on galaxy clusters - Konstantinos Kolokythas (Rhodes University)

5:11 PM The interplay between relativistic plasma and thermal gas in a galaxy group - Davide Brustio (University of Bologna)

5:13 PM LOFAR-GAMA cross-matching - radio emission from dusty early-type galaxies - Aleksandra Lesniewska (Copenhagen University/DARK)

5:15 PM Revealing remarkable emission in Abell 1367 with LOFAR and MeerKAT) - Shubham Bhagat (Thuringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg)

5:17 PM Primordial Magnetic Fields as seen by the Rotation Measure analysis in the rarified cosmic regions - Salome Mtchedlidze (University of Bologna, Ilia State University)

5:19 PM The Faint Radio Relics of the Low-Mass Cluster A2108 - Swarna Chatterjee (IIT Indore)

5:21 PM Thermal and Non-thermal Processes in the Evolution and Structure Formation in the Center of the Milky Way - Farideh Mazoochi (IPM (Institute For Research In Fundamental Sciences))

5:23 PM A preview of SKA-VLBI: a cosmological application of strong lensing and VLBI - Filippo Malvolti

5:25 PM Unveiling Magnetic Fields From Star Forming Regions to Diffuse ISM in M31 - Amir Yarahmadi (IPM(Institute for research in fundamental science))

5:27 PM MeerKAT Observations of the Abell 141 Galaxy Cluster - Savannah Stanbury (Rhodes University)

5:29 PM Probing Early Universe using the uGMRT, and SKA - Rashmi Sagar (IIT Indore)

5:31 PM Using Self-Organising Maps to Identify and Classify Complex Radio Sources in Next Generation Surveys - Afrida Alam (University of Hull)
5:40 PM Aperitivo (Welcome Reception and Posters)
Aperitivo (Welcome Reception and Posters)
5:40 PM - 7:40 PM
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM The Evolutionary Map of the Universe - Andrew Hopkins (Macquarie University)

9:25 AM POlarization Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism - Cameron Van Eck (Australian National University)

9:40 AM Update on the SKA-Low Aperture Array Verification System 3 (AAVS3) - Jess Broderick (SKAO)

9:55 AM Update on the The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - Timothy Shimwell (Leiden University)

10:10 AM The continuum science pathfinder experiment for the SKA, a.k.a. the superMIGHTEE project - Dharam Lal (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Early science with GLEAM-X and what's next? - Kathryn Ross (ICRAR - Curtin)

11:25 AM LOFAR LEGACY 60 MHZ SURVEY OF THE 3CRR CATALOGUE - Jort Boxelaar (IRA - INAF)

11:40 AM The LeMMINGs survey: probing sub-kpc radio structures of nearby galaxies with e-MERLIN - Ranieri D. Baldi (INAF-IRA)

11:55 AM The MeerKAT S-band: early science on the DEEP2 field and prospects for MeerKAT+ - Shilpa Ranchod (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

12:10 PM The MIGHTEE continuum survey: cross-matching, source classification and science results - Imogen Whittam (University of Oxford / University of the Western Cape)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM The ViCTORIA project: a multi-frequency radio survey of the Virgo galaxy cluster - Francesco de Gasperin (IRA INAF)

1:45 PM The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey - Stefan Duchesne (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin University)

2:00 PM The MeerKAT View of the Shapley Supercluster: Calibration, Imaging and Mosaicing - Keegan Trehaeven (Rhodes University)

2:25 PM Cosmic dance in the cluster complex A3528-A3532 in the Shapley Concentration Core - Gabriella Di Gennaro (Hamburg Observatory)

2:40 PM The head-tail radio galaxy and revived fossil plasma in Abell 1775 - Ardiana Bushi (University of Bologna)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM New radio continuum surveys and the life-cycle of radio AGN - Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON/Kapteyn Institute Groningen (NL))

3:55 PM Discovery of a dominant new population of jet-mode AGN at high redshift - Rohit Kondapally

4:10 PM A Complete Characterisation of Ultra Steep Spectrum Sources in the COSMOS Field - Davi Barbosa (Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences - Lisbon)

4:25 PM Searching for Young Radio AGN via Broadband Radio Spectral Analysis - Pallavi Patil (Johns Hopkins University)

4:40 PM Fun with Faraday Cubes - Lawrence Rudnick (University of Minnesota)
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Radio Galaxy Zoo: EMU - paving the way for EMU cataloguing - Hongming Tang (Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University)

9:25 AM RadioCAT: Detection Pipeline and Catalogue of Radio Galaxies in EMU Pilot Survey - Nikhel Gupta (CSIRO Space & Astronomy)

9:40 AM EMU Pilot Survey - Redshifts Estimated using Machine Learning - Kieran Luken (Western Sydney University)

9:55 AM A Pipeline for Detection of Sources from Radio Observation Images Based On Deep Learning Framework - Peng Jia (Taiyuan University of Technology)

10:10 AM Deep Field Imaging of the GAMA9 and GAMA23 Regions - Sean Paterson (Curtin University)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Numerical simulations keeping up with the complexity of radio discoveries - Franco Vazza (Università di Bologna)

11:15 AM Stacking radio stars in MIGHTEE - Francesco Cavallaro (INAF-OACt)

11:30 AM Low frequency transient searches – a LOFAR perspective - Iris de Ruiter (Anton Pannekoek Institute/University of Amsterdam)

11:45 AM Dynamic imaging with MeerKAT: is the time axis the final frontier? - Oleg Smirnov (Rhodes University & SARAO)

12:00 PM Automated deep sub-arcsecond wide-field imaging of ELAIS-N1 with LOFAR - Jurjen de Jong

12:15 PM On-The-Fly interferometric imaging using MeerKLASS survey - S Chatterjee (PDF, University of the Western Cape)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM The magnetised intergalactic medium revealed by ASKAP and LOFAR - Shane O'Sullivan (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

1:55 PM Revealing the complex shock features in the double-relic in MACS J1752.0+4440 - Maicol Della Chiesa

2:10 PM The Planck clusters in the LOFAR sky: latest statistical results - Virginia Cuciti (UNIBO)

2:25 PM Results from the first tier of the MERGHERS survey - Kenda Knowles (Rhodes University / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)

2:40 PM Radio-X study of CHEX-MATE radio halo clusters - Marco Balboni (INAF-IASF MIlan)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Ageing and rejuvenation: the tailed radio galaxies in Abell 2142 - Luca Bruno (INAF-IRA, DIFA-UNIBO)

3:45 PM Source dynamics and evolution of low-luminosity FRII radio galaxies - Bonny Barkus (Open University)

4:00 PM Connecting the fine structure of jets with the complex geometry of lobes in radio galaxies: a 144 MHz to 9 GHz, multi-scale radio journey in RBS 797 - Francesco Ubertosi (University of Bologna)

4:15 PM MALS Data Release I: Probing Evolution of Cold gas in AGNs - Partha Pratim Deka (IUCAA)

4:30 PM Science Highlights from the VLA Sky Survey and the Quest for a 4th Epoch Adventure - Kristina Nyland (NRL)

4:45 PM The most extreme z>5 AGN uncovered by RACS - Luca Ighina (INAF-Brera)
Thursday, May 9, 2024
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM The Crab Nebula with the LOFAR Long Baselines - Maria Arias

9:25 AM Discovery of Bow-Shock Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the EMU Surveys - Sanja Lazarevic (Western Sydney University)

9:40 AM Unveiling a hidden population of radio shells with MeerKAT - Cristobal Bordiu (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania (INAF))

9:55 AM The SKA precursor view of Galactic extended sources - Filomena Bufano (INAF-OACT)

10:10 AM Wide-band multi-scale images of the Galactic Plane at low radio frequencies - Silvia Mantovanini
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM The detection of radio emission from exoplanetary systems - Cyril Tasse (Observatoire de Paris)

11:15 AM Odd Radio Circles Four Years On - Ray Norris (CSIRO)

11:30 AM Active galaxies in the LoTSS DR2 survey - Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire)

11:45 AM The nature of compact radio-loud AGN: a systematic look at the LOFAR AGN population - Jones Chilufya (University of Hertfordshire)

12:00 PM Decoding DDRG growth and environment with the largest sample from LoTSS - Pratik Dabhade (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain))

12:15 PM A population-based approach to understanding radio AGN feedback with LOFAR-VLBI - Jonny Pierce (The University of Hertfordshire)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Opening up the radio sky with VLBI - Jack Radcliffe (University of Pretoria / University of Manchester)

1:55 PM LoTSS-HR: The high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey - Roland Timmerman (Durham University)

2:20 PM Strap on your Boötes: The Journey to Achieve Widefield Sub-arcsecond Resolution with LOFAR - Emmy Escott (Durham University)

2:35 PM Resolving blazar jets with LOFAR-VLBI - Etienne Bonnassieux (JMU Wuerzburg)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Enhanced Imaging With e-MERLIN - Tom Muxlow (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics)

3:45 PM Gravitational lensing with SKA-VLBI precursors: testing the ΛCDM model at milliarcsecond scales - Cristiana Spingola (INAF - Institute for Radioastronomy)

4:10 PM Strong lensing by galaxies with the SKA - Alessandro Sonnenfeld (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

4:25 PM Searching for Radio-Loud Gravitational Lenses in VLASS - Michael Martinez (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

4:40 PM Measuring the cosmic radio dipole with MeerKAT - Jonah Wagenveld (Max Planck institute for Radio Astronomy)
Friday, May 10, 2024
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM A resolved and multiscale study of star-formation in local U/LIRGs - Geferson Lucatelli (The University of Manchester - JBCA)

9:25 AM MeerLIRGs: A MeerKAT 1.28 GHz study of local Luminous Infrared galaxies in the southern hemisphere - Malebo Moloko (University of Cape Town)

9:40 AM Peering into the unknown with COSMOS LOFAR and JWST observations - Eleni Vardoulaki (Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg)

9:55 AM Radio Ring Galaxies - Neda Rajabpour (Western sydney university)

10:10 AM Analyzing the Global Magnetic Field Configuration of Edge-On Galaxies with Radio Polarimetry Data - Michael Stein (Ruhr University Bochum, Astronomical Institute)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Re-lighting the fire in galaxy groups: the case of Hickson Compact Group (HCG) 15 - Christopher Riseley (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)

11:15 AM Unveiling the spectral properties of radio halos in the galaxy clusters of the LOFAR survey - Koushika Sri Lakshmi Srikanth (University of Bologna)

11:30 AM Constraining the origin of radio halos in galaxy clusters - Thomas Pasini (Hamburg University)

11:45 AM Unveiling fossil plasma sources with Decameter observations - Christian Groeneveld

12:00 PM Bridging the gap: Mpc-scale diffuse radio emission between galaxy clusters - Giada Pignataro (Università di Bologna)
12:15 PM

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM