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Turin, 2017 February 27th - March 1st

This is the 1st Italian meeting on galaxy clusters & groups aiming at initiating a series of biennial meetings, avoiding conflicts with GEE and AGN meetings so to be complementary, that will allow the whole Italian community interested and working on galaxy clusters & groups to join and share ideas.

GOALS:

• to map the current situation within the national community of the ongoing research activities on galaxy clusters & groups, deemed both as cosmological probes and astrophysical laboratories, and studied through either theoretical models, numerical simulations, or multi-band observations;

• to share ideas on the fundamental questions that these research activities aim at solving, and we feel more urgent;

• to get an overview on how the Italian community is involved in major international collaborations.

We expect to cover a large variety of topics, including: the physics of the intracluster medium and of the feedback processes; the importance of clusters for cosmological studies; numerical simulations; theoretical models; weak and strong lensing; Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect; and multi-wavelength observations from radio to X-ray.

The talks should be focused on the role of the Italian community involved in the study of the galaxy clusters & groups science, as part of national projects as well as international ones. Abstract aiming at presenting the current status and the latest results on "local" projects, and the state-of-art of research activity of italian groups involved in international collaboration are welcome.

The meeting format will also include a half-day open discussion on the key questions that can be addressed in the near future on galaxy clusters & groups.

VENUE

The conference will be held in the Aula Magna del Rettorato of the University of Turin (UniTO), located in Via Verdi 8, in the center of Turin and right between Palazzo Madama and La Gran Madre, just a few steps close to La Mole Antonelliana.