Seminars and visiting astronomers

1. January 16, 2003, Dario Trevese (Dipartimento di Fisica - Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"), Variabilita' del Continuo Ottico-UV dei Nuclei Galattici Attivi

   
   

2. January 30, 2003, Vincent Icke (Sterrewacht Leiden, NL), Hydrodynamics from one to three dimensions

   
   

3. February 4, 2003, T.D. Kinman (NOAO/KPNO, Tucson, USA), Preston's Blue Metal-Poor (BMP) Stars

   
   

4. February 13, 2003, Paolo Mazzali (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste), Hypernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts

   
   

5. February 27, 2003, Massimo Meneghetti (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova), Le proprietà degli archi gravitazionali come strumento cosmologico

   
   

6. March 6, 2003, Elena Pancino (INAF-OABo & Dipartimento di Astronomia, Bologna), Popolazioni stellari multiple in Omega Centauri

   
   

7. March 20, 2003, Christian Marinoni (Lab. d'Astrophysique, Marseille, France), Rivelazione dell'Energia Oscura mediante redshift survey profonde

   
   

8. March 27, 2003, Horace Smith (Department of Physics and Astronomy - Michigan State University, USA), RR Lyrae Stars and Oosterhoff Groups

   
   

9. April 3, 2003, Steinn Sigurdson (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, USA), PSR 1620-26: an unusual triple revealed

   
   

10. April 29, 2003, Alessia Gualandris (Astronomical Institute ``Anton Pannekoek' & Section Computational Science - University of Amsterdam, NL), N-body simulations of stars escaping from the Orion nebula

    
    

11. May 15, 2003, Giorgio Bianciardi (Università degli Studi di Siena), L'origine della vita nel cosmo

    
    

12. May 22, 2003, Eline Tolstoy (Kapteyn Institute - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL), Dwarf Galaxies: Important Clues to Galaxy Formation

    
    

13. May 29, 2003, Francesca D'Antona (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), Necessità e modalità dell'autoinquinamento negli Ammassi Globulari

    
    

14. June 5, 2003, Jacqueline van Gorkom (Department of Astronomy, Kapteyn Institute, NL), The Fate of Gas in Merger Remnants: an HI perspective

    
    

15. June 12, 2003, Marco Limongi (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), The (still small) zoo of the Extremely Metal Poor Stars: what do they tell us about the first stellar generation?

    
    

16. September 18, 2003, Tommaso Treu (California Institute of Technology - Astronomy Department, USA), The dark halos of early-type galaxies and the Hubble constant

    
    

17. September 25, 2003, Manuela Magliocchetti (SISSA - Astrophysics Division - Trieste), How many galaxies can fit a dark matter halo? Constraints on their halo occupation number and spatial distribution from the 2dF Redshift Survey.

    
    

18. October 2, 2003, Gian Luigi Granato (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova), A Physical model for the co-evolution of QSOs and their spheroidal hosts

    
    

19. October 9, 2003, Matteo Viel (Institute of Astronomy - University of Cambridge, UK), The Lyman-alpha forest as a cosmological probe

    
    

20. October 17, 2003, Lodewijk Woltjer (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Arcetri), The Absorbing Torus in AGN

    
    

21. October 23, 2003, Stefano Ettori (European Southern Observatory - Garching, DE), Confrontando ammassi di galassie vicini e lontani: proprietà fisiche e relazioni di scala

    
    

22. October 31, 2003, Gustavo Bruzual (Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia (CIDA) Merida, Venezuela), Population Synthesis of Galaxies at the Resolution of 2003

    
    

23. November 6, 2003, Mercedes Filho (Istituto di Radioastronomia (IRA-CNR), Bologna), Nuclear Activity in Nearby Galaxies

    
    

24. November 13, 2003, Rob Swaters (Department of Physics and Astronomy - Johns Hopkins University, US), Dwarf Galaxies and CDM: A Core Problem

    
    

25. November 27, 2003, Andrea Merloni (Max-Planck-Institute für Astrophysik, Garching, DE) The fundamental plane of black hole activity and the cosmological history of accretion

    
    

26. December 2, 2003, Brian Chaboyer (Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH, USA), The Evolution of Metal-Poor Stars

    
    

27. December 4, 2003, Vincenzo Mainieri (Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), DE), Deep X-ray surveys: beyond the optical spectroscopic limit and a new X-ray luminosity function for AGN