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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Reminder-"Peering through an opaque ISM - Ferrara 2025" - Abstract Submission Date: 2025-03-07 08:40 From: "Calura, Francesco" francesco.calura@inaf.it To: "Gilli, Roberto" roberto.gilli@inaf.it, Cristiano Guidorzi guidorzi@fe.infn.it, Francesca Pozzi f.pozzi@unibo.it, Miroslava Dessauges Miroslava.Dessauges@unige.ch, hodge hodge@strw.leidenuniv.nl, Véronique Buat veronique.buat@lam.fr, Seiji Fujimoto fujimoto@utexas.edu, cnorman3@jhu.edu

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline for abstract submission for the conference "Peering through an opaque ISM - Ferrara 2025" is 31 March 2025.

The conference will take place on September 1-5, 2025 in Ferrara (Italy) [1].

The rationale is focused on the dense, obscured interstellar medium (ISM) in distant galaxies. Obscuration is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysics that often poses challenges, yet it offers a variety of probes of the properties of the ISM in various bands. We aim to review the different probes of the obscured ISM (such as infrared emission, extinction, and gamma-ray bursts) to constrain its physical properties through the most recent observational results from JWST, ALMA and otherfacilities and state-of-the-art theoretical approaches, such as numerical simulations. We aim to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and advance our understanding of the interplay between different aspects of interstellar obscuration within a broad astrophysical context.

The invited Speakers include: Susanna Vergani - GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, France Matus Rybak - Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands Hiddo Algera - Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Japan Francesca Matteucci - Università di Trieste, Italy Leindert Boogaard - MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany Anita Zanella - INAF OAS Bologna, Italy Roberto Decarli - INAF OAS Bologna, Italy Kazushi Iwasawa - ICCUB, Barcelona, Spain Livia Vallini - INAF OAS Bologna, Italy Irene Shivaei - CAB, CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain

Please, submit your abstract at the link below https://forms.gle/nmw5AqQfYsTCzMwm6 [2]

Please be aware that due to the conference room's capacity, attendance is limited to 100 participants.

More information on the conference (including venue and others) can be found at the site

https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/2969/overview

Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested. For any enquiries, please email us at ismferrara2025@gmail.com

Best regards, Francesco Calura and the SOC

SOC Francesco Calura (Chair) - INAF OAS Bologna, Italy Roberto GIlli - INAF OAS Bologna, ItalyPiero Rosati - Università di Ferrara, Italy Cristiano Guidorzi - Università di Ferrara, Italy Francesca Pozzi - Università di Bologna, Italy Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky - Université de Genève, Switzerland Jacqueline Hodge - Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands Veronique Buat - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France Colin Norman - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Seiji Fujimoto - University of Texas, Austin, USA

Links: ------ [1] https://www.ferraraterraeacqua.it/en/discover-the-area/tourist-locations/fer... [2] https://forms.gle/nmw5AqQfYsTCzMwm6