Programme

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MondayTuesdayWednesday ThursdayFriday

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9.00 - 10.00McMillan IAmendola IIIHeggie IIMcMillan IIIEttori II

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10.00 - 11.00Amendola IMcMillan IIKitching IIIBaccigalupi IPiotto II

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11.00 - 11.30Coffee Break

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11.30 - 12.30Davies IKitching IGuzzo IIHeggie IIIBaccigalupi III

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Lunch

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Ettori III14.00 - 15.00

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14.30 - 15.30Ferraro IGuzzo IDavies IIIEttori IPiotto III15.00 - 16.00

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15.30 - 16.30Ferraro IIHeggie IGuzzo IIIPiotto I

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16.30 - 17.00Coffee BreakBUS to BO16.25

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17.00 - 18.00Amendola IIDavies IILanzoni IBaccigalupi II

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18.00 - 19.00Student TalksKitching IIStudent Talks

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Social Dinner 19.30


Lectures:

Dark Energy Probes
Luca Amendola "Introduction to Dark Energy": lecture1, lecture2
Carlo Baccigalupi "Analysis and physics of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies: a dark energy perspective": lectures (pdf or ppt), additional images and movies
Stefano Ettori "Galaxy clusters as probes of the Dark Energy": lectures
Luigi Guzzo "Large-scale Structure as a Probe of Dark Energy": lecture1, lecture2, lecture3
Thomas D. Kitching "Weak Gravitational Lensing: From Theory to Practice": lecture1, lecture2, lecture3, notes


Dynamical evolution of globular clusters
Melvyn Davies "Dynamical Evolution and Stellar Collisions in Globular Clusters": lecture1, lecture2, lecture3
Francesco Ferraro "Tracing the Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters with Exotic Stellar Populations": lectures
Barbara Lanzoni "Tracing the Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters with Exotic Stellar Populations": lecture
Douglas Heggie "Long-term Evolution of Globular Clusters": lectures
Steve McMillan "Early Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters and Numerical Techniques": lecture1, lecture2, lecture3
Giampaolo Piotto "Observational study of the structure and stellar content of globular clusters": lectures


Student Talks:

Monday:
Alexander Poul (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge): A Semi-analytic Approach to Modelling the Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters
Bahmani Marzieh (Shiraz University): Modeling M15 with Central BH
Breen Philip (University of Edinburgh): Gravothermal oscillations in two-component models of star clusters
Moretti Maria Ida (Bologna University): Variable stars in the VISTA Y, J, Ks survey for Magellanic Cloud (VMC): first results


Wednesday:
Pallanca Cristina (Bologna University): Optical companions to binary millisecond pulsars in globular clusters.
Serra Ana Laura (Universita' di Torino): Dynamical properties of galaxy clusters beyond their virial radius
Tsupko Oleg (Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences): Gravitational lensing in plasma
Vijaysarathy Bharadwaj (Argelander Institut for Astronomie): AGN feedback in nearby groups based on X-ray and radio data