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Program

Tuesday 10 December, 10:00-13:00 / 14:30-17:30

10:00 – 10:30Welcome and Opening Address
Pre-history (with flashes to the contemporary era)
Chairperson: Angelo ANTONELLI
10:30 – 10:50M. Fulchignoni – “The young Enrico & C.”
10:50 – 11:10E. Massaro – “Early works with stratospheric balloons: The FIGARO experiment”
11:10 – 11:30S. Masi – “The stratospheric balloons from early work at Milo base to today”
11:30 – 11:50H. Sipilä – “Enrico in Finland”
11:50 – 12:10G. Matt – “A long journey with Enrico from SXRP to IXPE (and beyond)”
12:10 – 12:40F. Frontera – “Story of a long and successful collaboration”
12:40 – 13:00L. Piro – “From SUGAR to BeppoSAX”
13:00 – 13:10Group Photo
13:10 – 14:00Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30Toasts and Group Photo
The Middle-Age
Chairperson: Giorgio MATT
14:30 – 14:50L. Amati – “From the BeppoSAX Gamma Ray Burst Monitor to Theseus”
14:50 – 15:10P. Kaaret – “The story of the Stellar X-Ray Polarimeter”
15:10 – 15:30L. A. Antonelli – “Enrico & me from BeppoSAX SDC to the ASI SSDC”
15:30 – 15:50L. Burderi – “From the TIGRE's roar on GRAAL to the launch of HERMES towards towards GrailQuest: probing cosmic transients & space-time foam”
15:50 – 16:20 Coffee Break
16:20 – 16:40N. Lund - “Greetings from Denmark”
16:40 – 17:00R. Ruffini – “Title Relevant episodes in Beppo-SAX and IXPE”
17:00 – 17:20F. Frontera – “Story of a long and successful collaboration – The recent times”

20:00
Social Dinner “Da Franco ar vicoletto”

Wednesday 11 December, 10:00-13:00/14:30-17:30

The Modern Era
Chairperson: Filippo FRONTERA
10:00 - 10:20B. Negri – “When I met Enrico…”
10:20 - 10:40I. Donnarumma – Title TBD
10:40 - 11:00R. Battiston – “Enrico @ASI”
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:50M. Tavani – “Mixing X rays and gamma rays”
11:50 – 12:10E. Del Monte – “The making of SuperAGILE”
12:10 – 12:30Y. Evangelista – “HERMES @IAPS”
12:30 – 12:50M. Rapisarda – Title TBD
13:00 – 14:30Lunch break
Eventually, getting polarized!
Chairperson: Barbara NEGRI
14:30 – 15:00M. Weisskopf – “The history of X-ray Polarimetry and the debt we owe Enrico”
15:00 – 15:30R. Bellazzini – “The GPD: the concept, the first steps, the first prototype...”
15:30 – 15:50Hua Feng – “Enrico’s help to the development of X-ray polarimetry in China”
15:50 – 16:20Coffee Break
16:20 - 16:40F. Muleri – “Photoelectric X-ray polarimetry @IAPS”
16:40 - 17:00S. Fabiani – “Polarimetry of Solar flares”
17:00 - 17:20L. Titarchuk – “Black Hole x-ray polarization and timing from view point of x-ray missions”
17:20 – 17:40F. Marin – “How X-ray polarimetry revealed the bright history of the Galactic center using Enrico's Gas Pixel Detector”

Thursday 12 December, 10:00-13:00

Good old friends
Chairperson: Lorenzo AMATI
10:00 – 10:20Shuang-Nan Zhang – “Enrico Costa: a fascinating and exciting scientist without limit”
10:20 – 10:40S. Fineschi – “My highly polarized relationship with Enrico”
10:40 – 11:00G. Galanti – “Looking for new physics with X-ray polarimetry”
11:00 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:50A. Possenti – “A treasure chest of memories”
11:50 – 12:20A. Santangelo – “Concluding remarks”
12:30End of the meeting
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