DAY 1
Monday, May 22nd
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:05 Welcome
09:05 – 09:30 Venturi – Introduction to the meeting: 40 years of VLBI in Italy
Session: Synergies
Chair: M. Giroletti
09:30 – 09:55 Lico – The Event Horizon Telescope journey from the Earth to the heart of the Milky Way (invited)
09:55 – 10:10 Moriyama – Future prospects for constraining black hole space time
10:10 – 10:25 Eppel – VLBI probes of jet physics in neutrino-candidate blazars
10:25 – 10:40 Nanci – At the extremes of the electromagnetic spectrum: synergy of MAGIC and VLBI arrays
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 11:25 Roesch – The impact of Southern hemisphere VLBI blazar observations on Neutrino Astronomy
11:25 – 11:50 Timmerman – Low-frequency VLBI with the International LOFAR Telescope (invited)
11:50 – 12:05 Bondi – Deep International LOFAR observations of the NEP region
Session: Cosmology
Chair: M. Garrett
12:05 – 12:30 Radcliffe – Surveys using VLBI – the past, present, and its bright future (invited)
12:30 – 12:45 Communications about the social programme
12:45 – 14:10 Lunch
14:10 – 14:35 Spingola – Cosmological studies with VLBI and strong gravitational lensing (invited)
14:35 – 14:50 Casadio – The SMILE project
14:50 – 15:05 Pötzl – Results from the EVN follow-up study of a sample of milli-lens candidates
15:05 – 15:20 McKean – Gravitational lensing in the age of ILT and SKA-VLBI
15:20 – 15:35 Powell – Fuzzy dark matter constraints from a single VLBI observation of a gravitationally lensed radio jet
15:35 – 16:05 Coffee break
Session: AGN
Chair: A. Zensus
16:05 – 16:10 Zensus – Introduction to AGN session
16:10 – 16:25 Lu – A sharp view of the AGN central engine in M87
16:25 – 16:40 Ro – Transverse oscillations of the M87 jet revealed by KaVa observations: superluminal wave propagation along the jet
16:40 – 16:55 Baldi – Parsec-scale jets of FR0 radio galaxies
16:55 – 17:10 Yang – Intermediate mass black holes: episodic jet activity in dwarf galaxies
17:10 – 17:25 Shetgaonkar – High-resolution low-frequency probes of X-ray emitting knots in blazar jets
17:25 – 17:55 Discussion