Last updated: April 9th.

Day 1 - Monday, 15 April

09:00 Marcello Giroletti: Logistics

09:05 Tiziana Venturi: Welcome from IRA Director

Session 1 - EHT results and related Eating VLBI activities; Chairperson: K. Hada

09:10 Mareki Honma (Invited, remote): Black hole observations with EHT and EAVN (pdf)

09:30 Elisabetta Liuzzo (Invited): First results of EHT observations and related Eating VLBI activities (pdf)

09:50 Guangyao Zhao (Invited): Multi-λ VLBI view of Sgr A* (pdf)

10:10 Evgeniya Kravchenko (Oral): Locating the region of TeV gamma-ray emission in radio galaxy M87 (pdf)

10:25 Yuzhu Cui (Oral): EAVN observations along with EHT for M87 in 2017 (keynote)

10:40 Coffee break

Session 2 - Blazars: VLBI & MWL-MM connection; Chairperson: G. Giovannini

11:10 Jongho Park (Invited): Faraday Rotation in the Jet of M87 Inside the Bondi Radius: Indication of Winds from Hot Accretion Flows Confining the Relativistic Jet (pdf)

11:30 Carolina Casadio (Oral): The magnetic field structure in CTA 102 from high-resolution mm-VLBI observations during the flaring state in 2016-2017 (pdf)

11:45 Jee Won Lee (Oral): Multi-wavelength study of flares in S5 0716+714 (pdf)

12:00 Rocco Lico (Invited): Radio and gamma-ray emission connection in blazars (pdf)

12:20 Filippo D'Ammando (Oral): The gamma-ray properties of a sample of low-redshift BL Lacs (pdf)

12:35 Hongmin Cao (Oral): Blazars with VLBI - along the way from the local Universe to the highest redshifts (pdf)

12:50 Giacomo Principe (Oral): The first catalog of Fermi-LAT sources below 100 MeV (pdf)

13:05 Lunch

Session 3 - Misaligned sources: young radio sources, FR0s, giant radio galaxies; Chairperson: M. Orienti

14:20 Alessandro Capetti (Invited): Exploring the properties of FR0 radio galaxies (pdf)

14:40 Ranieri Diego Baldi (Oral): The multi-frequency radio properties of FR0 radio galaxies (pdf)

14:55 Xiaopeng Cheng (Invited): VLBI observations of FR0 radio galaxies (pdf)

15:15 Giulia Migliori (Invited): Radio and high energy properties of young radio sources (pdf)

15:35 Hiroshi Nagai (Oral): Circumnuclear Region of NGC 1275 Probed by VLBI and ALMA Observations (pdf)

15:50 Paola Castangia (Oral): Extragalactic water masers and VLBI: the case of IRAS 15480+0534 (pdf)

16:05 Coffee break

Session 4 - Results from recent Eating VLBI observations of AGNs; Chairperson: C. Casadio

16:30 Kazuhiro Hada (Invited): Results from recent EATING VLBI observations (I) (pdf)

16:50 Bong Won Sohn (Invited): The results from recent EATING VLBI observations of AGNs (II) (pdf)

Session 5 - Star formation, stellar evolution; Chairperson: M. S. Kim

17:10 Tomoya Hirota (Invited): Progress of Italy-Japan collaboration on high-mass star-formation studies (pdf)

17:30 Luca Moscadelli (Invited): The POETS survey (pdf)

Day 2 - Tuesday, 16 april

Session 6 - Transients: GW and GRBs, microquasars, and more; Chairperson: M. Giroletti

09:00 Giancarlo Ghirlanda (Invited): Gamma Ray Bursts: studying relativistic jets in the radio band (pdf)

09:20 Jun Yang (Invited): Surprises in the VLBI Observations of Radio Transients (pdf)

09:40 Marta Burgay (Invited): Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts as probes of fundamental physics (pdf)

10:05 Jeong-Sook Kim (Invited): Flaring Activity of Microquasar Cygnus X-3 and the Prospect of Wide-band recording observation in KVN, VERA and KaVA (pdf)

10:25 Elise Egron (Oral): Single-dish and VLBI observations of the microquasar Cyg X-3 (pdf)

10:40 Coffee break

Session 7 - Arrays and coordination; Chairperson: B. W. Sohn

11:10 Govoni Federica (Invited): Status of the radio astronomical facilities in Italy (pdf)

11:30 Rusen Lu, on behalf of Zhiqiang Shen (Invited): Status of the East-Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) (pdf)

11:50 Guangyao Zhao, on behalf of Taehyun Jung (Invited): Simultaneous multi-frequency mm-VLBI activities in East Asia and the Extended-KVN project (pdf)

12:10 Liu Xiang (Oral): Urumqi 26m telescope and research activity (pdf)

12:25 Maria Rioja (Oral): Astrometic VLBI in the SKA Era (pdf)

12:40 Richard Dodson (Oral): Advances in Source Frequency Phase Referencing (keynote)

12:55 Lunch

14:45 Departure for social trip from CNR main entrance

15:30 Guided tour of medieval Dozza castle and town

17:00 Free time and possiblity to visit the regional winery

18:45 Departure for social dinner

19:30 Social dinner at Terantiga Varignana

22:00 Return to Bologna, with one stop downtown (Piazza VIII agosto) and one at CNR

Day 3 - Wed, 17 April

Session 8 - Receivers, dishes, backends, correlators & connection to industries; Chairperson: G. Surcis

09:00 Alessandro Orfei (Invited): Developments towards 3 mm range at the Italian radio telescopes (pdf)

09:20 Kotaro Niinuma (Oral): Development of NRO 3mm VLBI system (pdf)

09:35 Andrea Melis (Oral): Digital acquisition systems at Italian Radio Telescopes: status and ongoing development (pdf)

09:50 Kazi Rygl (Oral): CASA for VLBI (pdf)

Session 9 - VLBI clock timing; Chairperson: R. Ambrosini

10:05 Takefuji Kazuhiro (Invited): Wide bandwidth synthesis on Italy and Japan baseline (pdf)

10:25 Monia Negusini (Invited): VLBI for Time & Frequency applications (pdf)

Session 10 - Outreach; Chairperson: R. Ambrosini

10:45 Stefania Varano (Invited): Astronomy beyond (pdf and movie)

11:05 Coffee break

11:30 Breakout sessions

Room 216, conference center: Future science opportunities in the field of VLBI, SKA, EHT, and more; future funding opportunities. Chairing persons: Monica Orienti, Bong Won Sohn

Room Padrielli, Institute of Radioastronomy: Definition of standars for setups/templates for joint observation; how to streamline operations for ToOs/DDTs. Chairing persons: Kazuhiro Hada, Gabriele Surcis

13:00 Monica Orienti, Bong Won Sohn, Kazuhiro Hada, Gabriele Surcis: Reports from breakout sessions

14:50 Marcello Giroletti: Closing remarks (pdf)

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Rooms remain available for continued discussion

16:00 Coffee break

List of posters

Rusen Lu: VLBI imaging the jet launching region in M87

Oh Junghwan: Double nuclear structure discovered in 3C84