Contact information Micol Bolzonella and Cristian Vignali.

List of Seminars: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, present

JANUARY 2011

Thursday
13 January
h.14:00
  Alessio Mucciarelli
(University of Bologna, IT)
  Lithium abundance in the globular cluster M4: from the Turn-Off to the RGB Bump (abstract)  
Thursday
20 January
h.14:00
  Will Percival
(Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth, UK)
  Answering Cosmological Questions with Galaxy Surveys (abstract)  ref. Moscardini
Thursday
27 January
h.14:00
  Massimo Dotti
(MPA Garching, DE)
  Massive black hole binaries in gas-rich galaxy mergers (abstract)  ref. Vignali

FEBRUARY 2011

Thursday
03 February
h.14:00
  Juan Carlos Forte
(Universidad de La Plata y CONICET, AR)
  The connection between globular clusters and galaxy halos (abstract)  ref. Buzzoni
Thursday
10 February
h.14:00
  Paolo Salucci
(SISSA Trieste, IT)
  Dark Matter in Galaxies in the DMAW initiative (abstract)  ref. Romano
Thursday
17 February
h.14:00
  Giuseppe Lodato
(University of Milano, IT)
  The dynamics of protostellar discs and the formation of planets (abstract)  ref. Nipoti
Thursday
24 February
h.14:00
  Mauro Roncarelli
  Laura Schreiber

  4+(3+2)+3=12: discussione sulla L.240 (Gelmini)  

MARCH 2011

Thursday
03 March
h.14:00
  Mario Pasquato
(University of Pisa, IT)
  Intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters: the mass-segregation tracer (abstract)  ref. Lanzoni
Thursday
10 March
h.14:00
  Gabriele Ponti
(University of Southampton, UK)
  Discovery of a Superluminal Fe K Echo at the Galactic Center: The Glorious Past of Sgr A* Preserved by Molecular Clouds (abstract)  ref. Vignali
Thursday
17 March
h.14:00

150th Anniversary Of Unity Of Italy
 
Thursday
24 March
h.14:00
  Alessandro Sozzetti
(INAF-OA Torino, IT)
  Exoplanet Characterization in Multi-Body Systems: Successes, Challenges, and the Future (abstract)  ref. Bolzonella
Thursday
31 March
h.14:00-16:00
  Julian Krolik
(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US)
  Lectures on AGN accretion physics (1st part) (abstract)  ref. Gilli

APRIL 2011

Friday
1 April
h.11:00-13:00
  Julian Krolik
(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US)
  Lectures on AGN accretion physics (2nd part) (abstract)  ref. Gilli
Thursday
07 April
h.14:00
  Flavio Fusi Pecci
(INAF-OA Bologna, IT)
  A signature of multiple stellar populations in bright metal-rich M31 globular clusters? (abstract)  
Thursday
14 April
h.14:00
  Bradley M. Peterson
(Ohio State University, US)
  Masses of Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei (abstract)  ref. Tosi
Thursday
21 April
h.14:00
  Henry Joy McCracken
(Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, FR)
  Connecting visible galaxies to dark matter haloes in COSMOS and CFHTLS surveys (abstract)  ref. Bolzonella
Thursday
28 April
h.14:00
  Marco Baldi
(Excellence Cluster Universe & University of Munich, DE)
  Simulating the impact of Dark Energy interactions on the formation and evolution of cosmic structures (abstract)  ref. Moscardini

MAY 2011

Thursday
05 May
h.14:00
  Adriana Gargiulo
(INAF-OA Brera - Milano, IT)
  Color gradients of early-type galaxies at 1<z<2 (abstract)  ref. Bolzonella
Thursday
12 May
h.14:00
  Ryan Hickox
(Durham University, UK)
  The dark and the light: Black holes, dark matter halos, and their influence on galaxy evolution (abstract)  ref. Comastri
Thursday
19 May
h.15:00
  Cesare Barbieri
(University of Padova, IT)
  Novel utilisations of light for very high time and space resolution (abstract)  ref. Fusi Pecci
Thursday
26 May
h.14:00
  Ravi Sheth
(ICTP Trieste, IT - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US)
  Drinking tea with a fork: Galaxy evolution from photometric redshift surveys (abstract)  ref. Moscardini

JUNE 2011

Wednesday
01 June
h.14:00
  Hagai Nezter
(School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, IL)
  The earliest growth of the most massive black holes: the active z=4.8 Universe (abstract)  ref. Comastri
Thursday
09 June
h.14:00
  L. Angelo Antonelli
(INAF-OA Roma, IT)
  The MAGIC Telescopes (abstract)  ref. Vignali
Thursday
16 June
h.14:00
  Nadège Lagarde
(Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève, CH)
  Thermohaline instability and rotation-induced mixing in low and intermediate-mass stars (abstract)  ref. Romano
Thursday
23 June
h.14:00
  Viola Allevato
(IPP/MPE Garching, DE)
  Redshift Evolution of AGN Bias and Subdominant Role of Mergers in Triggering Moderate Luminosity AGN at Redshifts up to 2.2 (abstract)  ref. Cappelluti
Thursday
30 June
h.14:00
  Carmelo Arcidiacono
(INAF-OA Bologna, IT)
  Simulation, alignment and commissioning of adaptive optics instrument (abstract)  ref. Fusi Pecci


SUMMER PAUSE


SEPTEMBER 2011

Thursday
8 September
h.14:00
  NO SEMINAR
  Euclid consortium meeting
 
Thursday
15 September
h.14:00
  Preethi Nair
(INAF-OABo, IT)
  The role of secular features in the evolution and establishment of the Hubble Sequence at z<1 (abstract)  ref. Zamorani
Thursday
29 September
h.15:00
  Alessandro Baldi
(University of Bologna, IT)
  An XMM-Newton spatially-resolved study of metal abundance evolution in distant galaxy clusters (abstract)  

OCTOBER 2011

Thursday
6 October
h.14:00
  Justin Read
(ETH Zurich, CH)
  A new measurement of the local dark matter density (abstract)  ref. Fraternali
Tuesday-Friday
11-14 October
  M. Viel/J. Bland-Hawthorn/F. Nicastro/
  PhD Course: "Missing Baryons" (program)  ref. Fraternali/Vignali
Thursday
13 October
h.14:00
  Joss Bland-Hawthorn
(University of Sydney, AU)
  The HERMES project - reconstructing the ancient Galaxy (abstract)  ref. Fraternali
Thursday
20 October
h.14:00
  Andrea Pastorello
(University of Padova - INAF-OA Padova, IT)
  New types of stellar explosions (abstract)  ref. Bolzonella
Thursday
27 October
h.14:00
  Francesca Panessa
(INAF-IASF Roma, IT)
  X-ray accretion versus radio ejection in local AGN (abstract)  ref. Vignali

NOVEMBER 2011

Thursday
3 November
h.14:00
  Eleonora Sani
(INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
  Connecting Star Formation and AGN in active galaxies (abstract)  ref. Vignali
Thursday
10 November
h.14:00
  Floor van Leeuwen
(Cambridge University, UK)
  The differential rotation in the globular cluster omega Centauri (abstract)  ref. Cacciari
Thursday
17 November
h.14:00
  Fabrizio Tamburini
(University of Padova, IT)
  Quantum gravity constraints from the farthest quasars (abstract)  ref. Fusi Pecci
Thursday
24 November
h.14:00
  Beate Stelzer
(INAF - OA Palermo, IT)
  Magnetic activity and accretion in low-mass stars and brown dwarfs (abstract)  ref. Gilli

DECEMBER 2011

Thursday
1 December
h.14:00
  Else Starkenburg
(Kapteyn Astronomical Institute - Groningen, NL)
  Galactic archaeology in and around the Milky Way (abstract)  ref. Romano
Thursday
15 December
h.14:00
  Francesc Ferrer
(Washington University, St Louis, US)
  Mapping the dark universe in colliders, stars and galaxies (abstract)  ref. Nipoti