Contact information Cristian Vignali and Donatella Romano.

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

JANUARY 2012

Thursday
12 January
h.14:00
  Benedetta Vulcani
(University of Padova, IT)
  The galaxy stellar mass function in different environments and its time evolution (abstract)  ref. Bolzonella
Thursday
19 January
h.14:00
  Olga Cucciati
(INAF-OA Trieste, IT)
  Tracing a coherent picture of the Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density in the past ~12 Gyr with the VVDS Deep and Ultra-Deep spectroscopic surveys (abstract)  ref. Bolzonella
Thursday
26 January
h.14:00
  Laura Greggio
(INAF-OA Padova, IT)
  Stellar Populations. A User Guide from Low to High Redshift (abstract)  ref. Ciotti

FEBRUARY 2012

Thursday
2 February
h.14:00
  Thomas de Boer
(Kapteyn Astronomical Institute - Groningen, NL)
  The Star Formation & Chemical Evolution Timescales of Two Nearby Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies (abstract) CANCELLED  ref. Fiorentino
Thursday
9 February
h.14:00
  Emanuele Daddi
(CEA-Saclay, Service d'Astrophysique, France)
  The different star formation modes during cosmic time (abstract)  ref. Gilli
Thursday
16 February
h.14:00
 
  NO SEMINAR - Planck Workshop at IASF  
Thursday
23 February
h.14:00
  Michele Moresco
(Universita` di Bologna, IT)
  Improved constraints on the Hubble parameter from the spectroscopic evolution of cosmic chronometers: measurements and cosmological implications (abstract)  ref. Pozzetti

MARCH 2012

Thursday
1 March
h.14:00
 
  No seminar  
Thursday
8 March
h.14:00
  Alberto Sesana
(Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationsphysik, DE)
  Unveiling the massive black hole cosmic history with eLISA/NGO (abstract)  ref. Comastri
Thursday
15 March
h.14:00
  Antonio Pipino
(ETH, Zurich, CH)
  Specific star formation rate, quenching and the evolution of the galaxies across cosmic time (abstract)  ref. Calura
Thursday
22 March
h.14:00
  Mirko Krumpe
(ESO Garching, DE)
  Large-scale clustering of Active Galactic Nuclei. What can we learn? (abstract)  ref. Cappelluti
Thursday
29 March
h.14:00
  Roberto Orosei
(INAF-IFSI, Roma)
  Radar sounding of the Martian subsurface from orbit: data processing and interpretation of results (abstract)  ref. Maestri/Bartolini
Friday
30 March
h.11:00-11:30
  Joseph Hennawi
(Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, DE)
  Quasars Probing Quasars: Circumgalactic Gas in Absorption and Emission (abstract)  ref. Comastri

APRIL 2012

Thursday
5 April
h.14:00
  Franco Meddi
(Universita' La Sapienza, Roma, IT)
  Development of a new fast multi channel photometer based on sensors SiPM (abstract)  ref. Zitelli
Thursday
12 April
h.14:00
  Giulia Rodighiero
(Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita` di Padova)
  A galaxy's life in and out the main-sequence of star-forming galaxies at z~2 (abstract)  ref. Gruppioni
Friday
20 April
h.11:00
  Carme Jordi
(Barcelona University, ES)
  Studying the corona of M67 open cluster (abstract)  ref. Cacciari
Thursday
26 April
h.14:00
  Chris Sneden
(Univ. of Texas, Austin, USA)
  New Initiatives on RR Lyrae Chemical Compositions (abstract)  ref. Bragaglia

MAY 2012

Thursday
3 May
h.14:00
  Annalisa Calamida
(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, IT)
  The European Extremely Large Telescope (abstract)  ref. Battaglia
Thursday
10 May
h.14:00
  Douglas Geisler
(Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
  What is a Globular Cluster? What is an Open Cluster? (abstract)  ref. Mucciarelli
Thursday
17 May
h.14:00
  Alvaro Villalobos
(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, IT)
  Simulating the evolution of disc galaxies in group environments (abstract)  ref. Battaglia
Thursday
24 May
h.14:00
  Ruben Salvaterra
(INAF - IASF Milano, IT)
  High-z Gamma-ray Bursts (abstract)  ref. Gilli
Thursday
31 May
h.14:00
  Simone Recchi
(Institute of Astronomy, Vienna University, A)
  The chemical evolution of galaxies with variable initial mass functions (abstract)  ref. Calura

JUNE 2012

5 June (h. 11-18:45)
6 June (h. 9:30-16:30)
Aula 1
 
  Workshop on The High-Redshift Universe (List of Talks)  Gilli/Vignali/Comastri
Thursday
7 June
h.14:00
  Eros Vanzella
(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, IT)
  Sources of Hydrogen reionization: observational constraints and open issues (abstract)  ref. Gilli
Thursday
14 June
h.14:00
  Cosimo Fedeli
(University of Florida, USA)
  IDCSJ1426.5+3508: The cluster that should not exist? (abstract)  ref. Moscardini
Thursday
21 June
h.14:00
  R. Ben Metcalf
(Dipartimento di Astronomia, Bologna)
  Simulating Gravitational Lensing on All Scales  ref. Moscardini

SEPTEMBER 2012

Thursday
27 September
h.14:00
  Giuseppina Battaglia
(INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, IT)
  Wide-field views of Local Group dwarf galaxies (abstract)  ref.

OCTOBER 2012

Thursday
4 October
h.14:00
 
  Festa S. Petronio
 
Thursday
11 October
h.14:00
  Santi Cassisi
(INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo, IT)
  Multiple Stellar Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters: the evolutionary theoretical framework (abstract)  ref. Romano
Thursday
18 October
h.14:00
  Victor P. Debattista
(Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire, UK)
  The Impact of, and Evidence for, Stellar Migration in Disk Galaxies (abstract)  ref. Fraternali
Thursday
25 October
h.14:00
  Heng Hao
(SISSA, Trieste, IT)
  Type 1 AGN SEDs in COSMOS (abstract)  ref. Zamorani

NOVEMBER 2012

Thursday
1 November
h.14:00
 
  Ognissanti
 
Thursday
8 November
h.14:00
  Andreas Burkert
(Universitatssterwarte Munich/MPE, DE)
  Watching a Little Gas Cloud on its Way into the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole (abstract)  ref. Brighenti
Thursday
15 November
h.14:00
  Raffaele Gratton
(INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, IT)
  SPHERE, the VLT Planet Finder (abstract)  ref. Romano
Thursday
22 November
h.14:00
  Jacopo Chevallard
(Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, FR)
  Insights into the star formation and dust properties of galaxies from integrated spectral energy distributions (abstract)  ref. Pozzetti
Thursday
29 November
h.14:00
  Eike Guenther
(Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, DE)
  Studying extrasolar planets with CoRoT (abstract)  ref. Cusano

DECEMBER 2012

Thursday
6 December
h.14:00
  Livia Origlia
(INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, IT)
  [IR] spectra & spectrographs: a taste of the state-of-the-art (abstract)  
Thursday
13 December
h.14:00
  Orsola De Marco
(Macquarie University, Sydney, AU)
  How common envelope binary interactions change the life of stars and planets (abstract)  ref. Buzzoni