CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Programme

Galactic Bars, Bulges and Disks · Lipari, 1 – 5 June 2026

Disks Bars Bars / Bulges MW / Local Group Future Prospects E-Poster ★ Review talk
Sun 31 May
Mon 1 Jun
Morning ChairEnrico Maria Corsini Afternoon ChairJuntai Shen
9:15 – 9:30 · Opening
Disks Session 9:30 – 10:00 Ignacio Trujillo (Review) The outer regions of disk galaxies: past, present, and future 10:00 – 10:20 Eva Durán Camacho Bar formation and evolution in isolated Milky Way-mass disc galaxies: the role of gas dynamics 10:20 – 10:40 John Beckman Flared and warped structure of galactic stellar discs
Coffee Break11:00 – 11:30
Disks Session 11:30 – 11:50 Elena D'Onghia When Do Disks Become Bars? A New Global Stability Criterion 11:50 – 12:10 Alessandro Pizzella Disentangling stellar populations in counter-rotating galaxies: a test. Disks · MW / LG Session 12:10 – 12:40 Kathryne Daniel (Review) The Milky Way’s Disk: An Orbit-Based Perspective 12:40 – 13:00 Elizabeth Moreno Hilario 3D Mapping of the Milky Way Spiral Arms through their Metal-Rich Stellar Populations
Lunch Break13:00 – 14:30
Bars / Bulges · MW / LG Session 14:30 – 14:50 Neige Frankel What drives the evolution of the Milky Way disk? 14:50 – 15:10 Matthew Orkney Build-up and survival of the Milky Way disc, a perspective from simulations 15:10 – 15:30 Elena Bannikova Origin of the double nucleus in M31: a spontaneous m = 1 mode 15:30 – 15:50 Kiyan Tavangar Exploring dynamical influences on phase spiral winding across galactic disks in simulations E-Poster Session 15:50 – 15:52 Ignacio Ruiz Cejudo Lessons from the outermost regions of disk galaxies: how do disk galaxies grow? 15:52 – 15:54 Mattia Merola Dynamical modeling of the counter-rotating S0 galaxy NGC 1366 15:54 – 15:56 Anna Lena Schaible Mock integral field spectroscopic predictions for kinematic components in edge-on galaxies 15:56 – 15:58 Tristan Boin When bars and spirals conspire: Recurrent build-up of the nuclear regions of disc galaxies 15:58 – 16:00 Martyna Winiarska The connection between stellar and dark bars in cosmological simulations
Coffee Break16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 16:50 Ronald Drimmel Non-axisymmetric structure of the disk of the Milky Way 16:50 – 17:10 Karl Fiteni The edge of the Milky Way's star-forming disc: evidence from a U-shaped stellar age profile 17:10 – 17:30 Chervin Laporte Early phases of Milky Way disc formation as told by field stars and globular clusters
Tue 2 Jun
Morning ChairVictor Debattista Afternoon ChairElena D'Onghia
Bars Session 9:30 – 10:00 Dimitri Gadotti (Review) Bars and nuclear discs in disc galaxies 10:00 – 10:20 Santi Roca Fabregas Resolution effects on the bar orbital structure 10:20 – 10:40 Ewa Lokas Two phases of buckling instability in galactic bars 10:40 – 11:00 Roberto Saglia From bulges to black holes: 20 years of science with Peter Erwin
Coffee Break11:00 – 11:30
Bars Session 11:30 – 11:50 Marcin Semczuk Evolution of galactic bars in the cosmological simulation TNG50 11:50 – 12:10 Sioree Ansar How do stellar bars interact with dark matter halos in cosmological simulations? 12:10 – 12:30 Stefano Zarattini (Carlos Marrero de la Rosa) The Impact of Bulges and Mergers on Disc Growth: Insights from BEARD and TNG50 12:30 – 12:50 Oscar Jimenez-Arranz Tidal interactions can stop galactic bars E-Poster Session 12:50 – 12:52 Huangshengzhi Ding Deprojection of Barred Galaxies 12:52 – 12:54 Ilia Tikhonenko Recovering parameters of nearly face-on barred galaxies via Schwarzschild modelling 12:54 – 12:56 Saili Kumari Keshri From Bars to Nuclear Discs: Star Formation, Quenching and Central Structure Formation in Barred Interacting Galaxies 12:56 – 12:58 Stuart Anderson Flat Profiles Reveal the Secular Growth of Bars 12:58 – 13:00 Valentina Araya Bar pattern speed modulation across Large Magellanic Cloud stellar populations
Lunch Break13:00 – 14:30
Bars / Bulges Session 14:30 – 14:50 Paula Gherghinescu Bar–Halo Interaction: The Role of Orbital Anisotropy and Net Rotation 14:50 – 15:10 Witold Maciejewski (Tutku Kolcu) MUSE view of gas inflows in nearby galaxies: Connections to Nuclear Activity and Central Morphology 15:10 – 15:30 Aura Obreja The role of the bars and bulges in the formation of disk galaxies 15:30 – 15:50 Patricia Sanchez-Martin Dynamical impact of off-centre and internally asymmetric bars on arm morphology E-Poster Session 15:50 – 15:52 JunXian Lin The Imprint of the Galactic Bar on the Vertical Phase Spiral: Constraints from Test-Particle Simulations 15:52 – 15:54 Artem Lutsenko Local Mass Density of stars and stellar remnants in the solar neighbourhood 15:54 – 15:56 Edoardo Borsato INTERBARS, characterising bar formation driven by galaxy interaction 15:56 – 15:58 Seungwon Baek Bar-driven Stellar Kinematic Signatures in Disk Galaxies
Coffee Break16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 16:50 Amelia Fraser-McKelvie The role of bulges and bars in shaping Milky Way-like galaxies 16:50 – 17:10 Tetsuro Asano Action Space Mapping of Chemistry in Boxy Peanut Bulges 17:10 – 17:30 Florent Renaud Barred tensions: what are we doing wrong?
Wed 3 Jun
Morning ChairEnrico Maria Corsini
Bars Session 9:30 – 9:50 Karin Menedez-Delmestre Bar Mass, size and strength at z~0 — a benchmark for bar evolution at higher redshifts 9:50 – 10:10 Martin Bureau Bar Pattern Speed Measurements using Multiple Tracers for Hundreds of MaNGA Galaxies 10:10 – 10:30 Adriano Poci Physical decompositions of galaxies: full data-cube fitting with dynamical models 10:30 – 10:50 Victor Debattista Demographics of box/peanut bulges and shoulders E-Poster Session 10:50 – 10:52 Ilia Chugunov Clumps and spiral structure in galaxies at z ≲ 3: Disentangling two spatial modes of star formation 10:52 – 10:54 Mattia Sormani (Arianna Vasini) The Structure of the Central Molecular Zone: constraining cloud distances with proper motions and stellar extinctions 10:54 – 10:56 Julio Olivares Carvajal The ancient Milky Way bulge traced by RR Lyrae stars: Kinematics, structure, and chemical abundances 10:56 – 10:58 Shourya Khanna Vertex deviation of the Milky Way's velocity ellipsoid 10:58 – 11:00 Alex Lv Nuclear Starburst-Driven Outflows from the Central Molecular Zone
Coffee Break11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 11:50 Sabine Thater Galactic Archaeology: Decoding the Assembly History of Bulges Bars / Bulges · MW / LG Session 11:50 – 12:20 Paola Di Matteo (Review) The Heart of the Milky Way 12:20 – 12:40 Francisco Nogueras-Lara Unveiling the Structure of the Inner Milky Way: First Results from the VVVX-GalCen ESO Public Survey 12:40 – 13:00 Daniel Horta Darrington Disentangling the Galaxy's Gordian knot: evidence for a knotted and slower bar
Lunch Break13:00 – 15:00
Boat Tour of Stromboli 15:00 – 21:00
Thu 4 Jun
Morning ChairRoberto Saglia Afternoon ChairJohn Beckman
Bars / Bulges · MW / LG Session 9:30 – 9:50 Rimpei Chiba Unravelling the evolutionary history of the Galactic bar 9:50 – 10:10 Santi Cassisi Galactic Archaeology: decoding the fossil record of Galaxy formation and evolution 10:10 – 10:30 Mattia Sormani The Milky Way's Nuclear Stellar Disc 10:30 – 10:50 Jason Hunt The dark matter wake of a galactic bar revealed by multichannel Singular Spectral Analysis 10:50 – 11:10 Janez Kos Pattern speed of the Milky Way bar measured using the tidal tails of open clusters
Coffee Break11:10 – 11:40
Bars / Bulges · MW / LG Session 11:40 – 12:00 Zi-Xuan Feng Gas Simulations to Study Radial Inflow from Central Molecular Zone to Circum-nuclear Disk 12:00 – 12:20 Adam Dillamore Bar-driven dispersal of Galactic substructure 12:20 – 12:40 Mercè Romero-Gomez With new glasses: decoding the Milky Way bar 12:40 – 13:00 Nathan Deg The Milky Way Without a Bulge: Building a Plausible Box/Peanut Bulge from Bulgeless Initial Conditions
Lunch Break13:00 – 14:30
Bars / Bulges · MW / LG Session 14:30 – 14:50 Sergey Khoperskov Deconstructing the Milky Way bar and bulge with orbit superposition: lessons for extragalactic systems 14:50 – 15:10 Michele De Leo Stars and globular clusters of the Milky Way trapped in bar-induced resonances: impact on the identification of the progenitors of merger events 15:10 – 15:30 Manuela Zoccali The stellar population of the Milky Way nuclear region 15:30 – 15:50 Giuliano Iorio Metal-rich RR Lyrae stars: an unexpected probe of the formation and dynamical evolution of the Galactic disc E-Poster Session 15:50 – 15:52 Gustavo Gonçalves Euclid and JWST-like barred galaxies mock images: an apple-to-apple bar fraction comparison using TNG50 15:52 – 15:54 Shuyu Wang Phase spirals induced by the gas warp 15:54 – 15:56 Bin-Hui Chen Bar Formation Timescales in Disk Galaxies: Dependence on Host Disk Properties 15:56 – 15:58 Xingchen Li 15:58 – 16:00 Marco Donati Satellite driven gas inflow into the Galactic Center
Coffee Break16:00 – 16:30
Fri 5 Jun
Morning ChairMercè Romero-Gomez
Future Prospects 9:30 – 10:00 Sandor Kruk (Review) Galactic bars in the era of JWST, Euclid, and ELT 10:00 – 10:20 Virginia Cuomo Probing bar evolution at z ~ 1 with NIRSpec@JWST 10:20 – 10:40 Zoe Le Conte The evolution of barred galaxies in the last 12 billion years 10:40 – 11:00 Samane Raji JWST Views of Galaxy Edges and Disk Growth at z=1
Coffee Break11:00 – 11:30
Future Prospects 11:30 – 11:50 Miguel Querejeta Pérez Challenging the Classical Picture: Star Formation in Bars and Spiral Arms 11:50 – 12:10 David O'Ryan The Galactic Environment and Bars: Insight from the Hubble Legacy Archive 12:10 – 12:30 Srikanth Nagesh To bar or not to bar: Insights from idealised hydrodynamic galaxy simulations 12:30 – 12:50 Takafumi Tsukui JWST and ALMA Views of Thin and Thick Disk Formation
Closing · 12:50

Programme subject to minor changes. indicates Review talks. Speakers in italics within parentheses are presenters in place of the listed author.

PARTICIPANTS

Confirmed participants · 90

A
  • AndersonStuart
  • AnsarSioree
  • ArayaValentina
  • AsanoTetsuro
B
  • BaekSeungwon
  • BannikovaElena
  • Beckman-AbramsonJuan Esteban
  • BoinTristan
  • BorsatoEdoardo
  • BureauMartin
  • ButtittaChiara
C
  • CalviRosa
  • CassisiSanti
  • ChibaRimpei
  • ChugunovIlia
  • CorsiniEnrico Maria
  • CuomoVirginia
D
  • D'OnghiaElena
  • De LeoMichele
  • DebattistaVictor
  • DegNathan
  • Di MatteoPaola
  • DillamoreAdam
  • DingHuangshengzhi
  • DonatiMarco
  • DrimmelRonald
  • Durán CamachoEva
F
  • FengZi-Xuan
  • FiteniKarl
  • FrankelNeige
  • Fraser-McKelvieAmelia
G
  • GadottiDimitri
  • GarlandIzzy
  • GherghinescuPaula
  • GonçalvesGustavo
H
  • Horta DarringtonDaniel
  • HuntJason
I
  • IorioGiuliano
J
  • Jiménez ArranzÓscar
K
  • KeshriSaili Kumari
  • KhachaturyantsTigran
  • KhannaShourya
  • KhoperskovSergey
  • KosJanez
  • KrukSandor
L
  • LaporteChervin
  • Le ConteZoe
  • LiXingchen
  • LinJunXian
  • LokasEwa
  • LoniAlessandro
  • LuHong Yi
  • LutsenkoArtem
M
  • MaciejewskiWitold
  • MauroFederica
  • Menéndez-DelmestreKarín
  • MerolaMattia
  • Moreno HilarioElizabeth
N
  • NageshSrikanth
  • Nogueras-LaraFrancisco
O
  • O'RyanDavid
  • ObrejaAura
  • Olivares CarvajalJulio
  • OrkneyMatthew
P
  • PizzellaAlessandro
  • PociAdriano
Q
  • Querejeta PérezMiguel
R
  • RajiSamane
  • RenaudFlorent
  • Roca FabregaSanti
  • Romero-GómezMercè
  • Ruiz CejudoIgnacio
S
  • SagliaRoberto
  • Sanchez-MartinPatricia
  • SchaibleAnna Lena
  • SemczukMarcin
  • ShenJuntai
  • Soler-TerricabrasToni
  • SormaniMattia
  • SpavoneMarilena
T
  • TavangarKiyan
  • ThaterSabine
  • TikhonenkoIlia
  • Trujillo CabreraIgnacio
  • TsujimotoTakuji
  • TsukuiTakafumi
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  • WangShuyu
  • WiniarskaMartyna
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  • ZarattiniStefano
  • ZoccaliManuela