Name: The Sixth Zeldovich meeting
Start: 2026-07-13T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-17T18:35:00+02:00
Location: ICRANet, Pescara, Italy

The Sixth Zeldovich meeting

from Monday, 13 July 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 17 July 2026 (18:35)

Monday, 13 July 2026
09:00 Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and cosmology
09:00 - 13:20
Contributions

09:00 Opening - Remo Ruffini (ICRANet, ICRA, INAF)

09:35 Little Red Dots as Sites for Cosmic Prebiotic Chemistry - Yu Wang (ICRA/ICRANet/INAF)

10:10 The LSST era: opportunities, challenges, and simulations for AGN science - Angela Bongiorno (INAF-Observatory of Rome)

11:00 22 years of work with my Great Mentor Yakov Zeldovich - Rashid Sunyaev (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching and Space Research Institute, Moscow)

11:35 The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two Decades of Precision Cosmology - Elia Stefano Battistelli (Spaienza University of Rome)

12:10 Next Frontiers in Cosmology with CMB Spectral Distortions - Jens Chluba (JBCA)

12:45 The Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect as a Test of Gravity - Patricio Gallardo (University of Pennsylvania)
15:00 Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and cosmology
15:00 - 18:00
Contributions

15:00 Fractal properties of the Cosmic Web - Jaan Einasto (Prof.)

15:35 MOND: An alternative to particle dark matter - Federico Lelli (INAF - Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory)

16:10 New Discovery Space in Gravitational-wave Astronomy from Model- agnostic Analysis - Maurice Van Putten (Sejong University)

16:45 Coherence-Regulated Structure Formation in Kalpa-Self-Regulating Cosmology (Kalpa-SRC) - Manasse Mbonye (University of Rwanda)

17:00 The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in a gravitational field - Andrew KOSHELKIN (In person, Moscow, Russia)

17:15 Spacetime foam correlation renders the cosmological constant (dark energy) - She-Sheng Xue (ICRANet, Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome)

17:30 Constraining Inflation Models with Spinning Voids - GeonWoo Kang (Seoul National University)

17:45 Indications of relevant quantum corrections for cosmological parameters from unimodular quantum cosmology - Natascha Riahi (University of Vienna)
21:00 What is possible to see in principle from the next exoplanet? (public lecture) - Roland Walter
What is possible to see in principle from the next exoplanet? (public lecture)
- Roland Walter
21:00 - 22:00
Tuesday, 14 July 2026
09:00 Observations across electromagnetic spectrum: from gamma to radio
09:00 - 13:20
Contributions

09:00 UPE Self-Similarity in Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Comparative Study of Thermal Plus Nonthermal Continuum Prompt Emission - Rahim Moradi (ICRANet and ICRA-Sapienza)

09:35 The UPE of GRB 220101A - Jorge Armando Rueda Hernandez (ICRANet)

10:10 The physics of fast radio bursts - Bing Zhang (University of Hong Kong)

11:00 Galileo, Hertz and the "Time Frontier" - DI LI (Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University)

11:35 20 years of testing GR with the Double Pulsar - Marta Burgay (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)

12:10 A concordance picture of Tidal Disruption Event - Tsvi Piran (The Hebrew University)

12:45 X-ray polarimetry of black hole X-ray binaries – results and models - Vadzim Krautsou (University of Turku)
15:00 Compact objects and gravitational waves
15:00 - 18:00
Contributions

15:35 New insights on cosmic sources from X-ray polarimetry - Giorgio Matt (Roma Tre University)

16:10 High energy collisions in strong gravitational field: general approach - Oleg Zaslavskii (Kharkov V. N. Karazin National University)

16:45 Neutron and starnge stars in the uniform density approximation. - Gennady Bisnovatyi-Kogan (Space Research Institute Rus. Acad. Sci., Moscow, Russia)

17:00 Gravitational Refraction of Compact Objects with Quadrupoles - Nurzada Beissen (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan)

17:15 Anisotropic hybrid stars: Interplay of superconductivity and magnetic field leading to gravitational waves - Zenia Zuraiq (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

17:30 Gravitational waves passing through matter - Nigel Bishop (Rhodes University)

17:45 On expectations of detection of gravitational waves originating from Core-collapse supernovae - Monis Naidoo (Rhodes University; National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS))
21:00 Multi-messenger astrophysics (public lecture) - Bing Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
Multi-messenger astrophysics (public lecture)
- Bing Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
21:00 - 22:00
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
09:00 Strong fields and dark matter
09:00 - 13:20
Contributions

09:00 GRB-SN Association within the Binary-Driven Hypernova Model - Yerlan Aimuratov (Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute)

09:35 A pulsar from the second Supernova in GRB 220101A - Taghi Mirtorabi (Department of Fundamental Physics, Faculty of Physics, Alzahra University)

10:10 Photon Acceleration in Magnetized Plasma: A Potential Source of Fast Radio Bursts - Sergey Bulanov (ELI-ERIC, ELI BEAMLINES, Za Radnicí 835, Dolní Břežany, 25241, Czech Republic)

11:00 Demonstration of Nonlinear Compton Scattering in the Strongly Nonlinear Regime with Its Implications to High-energy Astrophysics - Chul Min Kim (Center for Relativistic Laser Science, IBS; and Advanced Photonics Research Institute, GIST)

11:35 Nuclear physics and astrophysics driven by intense lasers - Yuanbin Wu (Nankai University)

12:10 Self-Confined Quarks: A General Relativistic Perspective on Strong Nuclear Forces - Yousef Sobouti (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences - Zanjan)

12:45 SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey results in the Eastern Galactic hemisphere - Marat Gilfanov (MPA, Garching & IKI, Moscow)
15:00 Observations across electromagnetic spectrum: from gamma to radio
15:00 - 18:00
Contributions

15:00 The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project - Maura Pilia (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)

15:35 X-ray and gamma-ray radiation from a high-temperature plasma and the spectra of accreting black holes - Sergei Grebenev (Space Research Institute, Moscow)

16:10 Dark Hydrogenic Atoms and Ions as Baryonic Dark Matter and their Role in Structure Formation - Eugene Oks (Auburn University, USA)

16:45 The Higgs vacuum and the Cosmological Constant - Muhammad Usman (Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad)

17:00 Dynamical systems approach to teleparallel cosmologies - Manuel Hohmann (University of Tartu)

17:15 Black hole shadows as diagnostics of nonlinear electrodynamics - Bobir Toshmatov (New Uzbekistan University)

17:30 Significant correlation between optical activity of blazars and high-energy IceCube neutrino events - Kirill Zhirkov (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

17:45 Spontaneous creation/annihilation of pairs of particles in selected cosmological models –evolution of a vaccum state - Andrzej Radosz (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)
Thursday, 16 July 2026
09:00 Black holes and Penrose process
09:00 - 13:20
Contributions

09:00 Black hole irreducible mass increase by particle accretion - Shurui Zhang (ICRANet)

09:35 Energy extraction from rotating black holes: electromagnetic and radiative Penrose processes - Arman Tursunov (Silesian University in Opava and Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

10:10 Black Hole─Halo Mass Relation from UNIONS Weak Lensing - Wentao Luo (USTC)

11:00 Near-horizon Polarization as a Diagnostic of Black Hole Spacetime - Bin Chen (Ningbo University)

11:35 Black holes in alternative theories of gravity - Jutta Kunz (University of Oldenburg)

12:10 Influence of a warm plasma on gravitational lensing by black holes - Volker Perlick

12:45 The Global MASTER Network and the Scenario Machine: Discovery and Interpretation of the Third Optically Super-Luminous GRB in XXI century - Vladimir Lipunov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department)
15:00 Gravity and black holes
15:00 - 18:00
Contributions

15:00 Can the center of low-mass active galaxies be powered by dark matter? - Carlos Raúl Argüelles (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

15:35 The closest environment of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in X-rays - Roman Krivonos (Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, Russia)

16:10 Magnetized white dwarf and its observational implications: Beyond the Chandrasekhar limit - Banibrata Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Science)

16:45 Weyl Incorporated Gravity and Galactic Halo Rotation - Asghar Qadir (None)

17:00 The no--hair theorems at work in M87* - Lorenzo Iorio (MIM)

17:15 Induced Wald Charge on Magnetized Kerr Black Hole - Martin Kološ (Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava)

17:30 Electromagnetic field of charged axially-symmetric conductor with charge in the vicinity of Kerr black hole - Stanislav Komarov (Belarusian State University)

17:45 New Gravitational Instanton on a Warped Brane World Model - Reinoud Slagter (ASFYON, Astronomisch Fysisch Onderzoek Nederland)
21:00 Zeldovich as the Big Bang of Mind (public lecture) - Vladimir Lipunov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department)
Zeldovich as the Big Bang of Mind (public lecture)
- Vladimir Lipunov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department)
21:00 - 22:00
Friday, 17 July 2026
09:00 Artificial Intelligence and cosmology
09:00 - 13:20
Contributions

09:00 Gamma-Ray Bursts as probes of dark energy - Maria Dainotti (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

09:35 Ranking Prompt–Plateau Correlations in Gamma-Ray Bursts with Symbolic Regression - Fatemeh Rastegar Nia (Alzahra university and ICRANet)

10:10 Revision and explaining SN 1054 by GRB 190114C and GRB 220101A - Costantino Sigismondi (ICRA Sapienza and ICRANET Pescara)

11:00 Optical transients from non-explosive double white-dwarf mergers: the case of a central neutron star remnant - Ridha Fathima Mohideen Malik (Università degli Studi di Ferrara)

11:35 Overview of the Euclid mission - Mario Ballardini

12:10 Cooling and emission of newborn quark stars - Gregory Vereshchagin (ICRANet)

12:45 On Synchrotron Radiation Within Non-homogeneous Astrophysical Radiator Paradigm - Mile Karlica (Astronomical Observatory Belgrade)
15:00 Gravity and cosmology
15:00 - 18:00
Contributions

15:00 On the formation of compact-object binaries from binary-driven hypernovae - Laura Marcela Becerra Bayona (Universidad Industrial de santander)

15:35 Extreme Kerr-Newman Black Holes: Differential Geometry, Symmetry, and the Golden Ratio - Giorgio SONNINO (International SOLVAY Institutes for Physics and Chemistry & Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.))

16:10 Non-Keplerian Galaxy Rotation Curves as a Testing Ground for Precanonical Quantum Gravity - Igor Kanatchikov (Natl. Quantum Information Center in Gdansk)

16:45 Evolution of Virial Clouds -- II: From the formation of first stars up to their explosion - Noraiz Tahir (Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Natural Sciences (SNS), National University of Science and Technology (NUST), H12, Islamabad, Pakistan)

17:00 Neutrino Mixing in Torsionful Spacetimes: Quantum-Gravity Signatures and Dark-Universe Implications - Simone Monda (Università degli Studi di Salerno)

17:15 Towards an Action Principle Unifying the Standard Model and Gravity - Fernando Izaurieta (Universidad San Sebastián)

17:30 Addressing the Hubble tension with a dynamical Λ(z) induced by galactic gravitational self-energy and by backreaction force from gas cloud collapse - Stephan Walrand (université catholique de Louvain)

17:40 Concluding remarks - Remo Ruffini (ICRANet, ICRA, INAF)