Scientific program and presentations

Wednesday Nov 25th

Opening Session
Piero Rosati - WFXT Science Overview
Giovanni Pareschi - WFXT Technology Overview

Session 1: STARS AND COMPACT OBJECTS
Salvo Sciortino - X-ray emission from stars
Sergio Campana - Neutron Stars
Massimo Della Valle - The X-ray Supernovae detection rate
Luigi Stella - Searching for the X-ray counterparts of LIGO/VIRGO gravitational waves trigger with WFXT

Session 2: GALAXIES
Piero Ranalli - The evolution of normal and star forming galaxies in the X-rays
Silvia Pellegrini - X-ray emission from early type galaxies

Session 3: CLUSTERS AND LSS
Stefano Borgani - Astrophysics and cosmology with galaxy clusters
Paolo Tozzi - Simulated X-ray fields with WFXT
Luigi Guzzo - Cosmology with the cluster distribution and large scale motions
Stefano Ettori - Observations of the intracluster medium
Silvano Molendi - Cluster outskirts
Roberto Fusco-Femiano - Interpretations of galaxy cluster observations through the Supermodel
Pasquale Mazzotta - Synergies between X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich surveys

Thursday Nov 26th

Session 4: AGN
Roberto Gilli - Demography of obscured and unobscured AGN
Fabrizio Fiore - High-z AGN: observations and predictions from semi-analytic modeling
Alessandro Marconi - Evolution of supermassive black holes
Marcella Brusa - Evolution and identification of X-ray sources
Maurizio Paolillo - AGN variability over cosmic time
Guido Risaliti - X-ray spectral variability of nearby Seyferts
Giorgio Matt - X-ray spectroscopy of bright AGN

Session 5: SYNERGIES WITH FUTURE FACILITIES
Fabio Favata - ESA Cosmic Vision and missions for the next decades
Paolo Giommi - ASI scientific plans
Paolo Padovani - Synergies with next-generation radio surveys
Gianni Zamorani - Euclid spectroscopy: overview and synergies with WFXT
Lauro Moscardini - Euclid imaging: overview and synergies with WFXT
Roberto Della Ceca - The EXIST view of the Super-Massive Black Holes in the Universe
Andrea Comastri - Overview of the International X-ray Observatory
Nico Cappelluti - The eROSITA mission
Summary and wrap up discussion