Contact information Cristian Vignali and Donatella Romano.

List of Seminars: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, present

JANUARY 2013

Thursday
10 January
h.14:00
  Eleonora Torresi
(INAF-IASF Bologna)
  New insights on misaligned AGN in the Fermi era (abstract)   ref. Vignali
Thursday
17 January
h.14:00
  Marco Baldi
(University of Bologna)
  Dark Energy Simulations (abstract)  ref. Moscardini
Thursday
24 January
h.14:00
 
  The seminar has been cancelled  
Thursday
31 January
h.14:00
  Tsvi Piran
(Racah Institute of Physics, Jerusalem, Israel)
  Relativistic Transient Explosions (abstract)  ref. Clementini

FEBRUARY 2013

Thursday
7 February
h.14:00
  Gianni Bernardi
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, US)
  Polarization sky surveys at cm wavelengths (abstract)  ref. Brusa
Thursday
14 February
h.14:00
 
Samuel Boissier
(Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, FR)
  Star formation and Stellar Mass functions in the redshift range 0 to 1: "backward" models of disk galaxies, and the GRB hosts bias (abstract)  ref. Calura
Thursday
21 February
h.14:00
  Marcella Brusa
(University of Bologna)
  Placing obscured AGN in the merging sequence: perspectives for IR and mm observations (abstract)  
Tuesday
26 February
h.14:00
  Thijs van der Hulst
(University of Groningen, NL)
  Galaxy Evolution in Voids (abstract)  ref. Moscardini

MARCH 2013

Thursday
7 March
h.14:00
  Gianluigi Cibinetto
(INFN, Sezione di Ferrara)
  Observation of Time-Reversal Violation in the B0 Meson System at BaBar (abstract)  ref. Fusi Pecci
Thursday
14 March
h.14:00
  Federico Tosi
(INAF-IAPS Roma)
  Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE): exploring the emergence of habitable worlds around giant planets (abstract)  ref. Maestri

APRIL 2013

Thursday
4 April
h.14:00
  Laurent Eyer
(Observatoire de Genève, CH)
  The Gaia mission (abstract)  ref. Clementini
Monday-Friday
8-12 April
  Andrea Merloni (MPE, Garching)- Chris Done (Durham University)
  Course for PhD students on "Accretion onto compact objects and its role in shaping galaxies" (program)  ref. M. Cappi/Vignali
Thursday
11 April
h.14:00
  Chris Done
(Durham University, UK)
  Black hole accretion flows (abstract)  ref. Vignali/M. Cappi
Thursday
18 April
h.14:00
  Bianca Poggianti
(INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)
  The evolution of galaxy sizes (abstract)  ref. Bardelli

MAY 2013

Thursday
2 May
h.14:00
  Maria Rosa Cioni
(Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik, Potsdam, DE)
  Status of the VMC survey and Proper Motion of the Magellanic Clouds (abstract)  ref. Clementini
Monday
6 May
h.14:00
  Chiara Feruglio
(Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique, Grenoble, FR)
  Multiwavelength signatures of AGN feedback in local AGN (abstract)  ref. Brusa
Tuesday-Friday
7-10 May
 
 
LVII Congresso SAIt (Program)
 ref. Fusi Pecci
Thursday
16 May
h.14:00
  Karina I. Caputi
(Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen, NL)
  Chasing AGN at z>1: a New IR Diagnostic (abstract)  ref. Gruppioni
Thursday
23 May
h.14:00
  Paola Popesso
(Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching, DE)
  The role of the structure formation process in the evolution of the galaxy star formation activity (abstract)  ref. Brusa
Thursday
30 May
h.14:00
  Stephanie Juneau
(CEA-Saclay, FR)
  Hidden Supermassive Black Holes in Star-Forming Galaxies (abstract)  ref. Zamorani

JUNE 2013

Thursday
6 June
h.14:00
  Maria Messineo
(Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, D)
  A starred walk in the Inner Galaxy (abstract)  ref. Brusa
Thursday
13 June
h.14:00
  Alessandro Bressan
(SISSA, Trieste, IT)
  Dust formation in AGB stars and implications for galaxies (abstract)  ref. Fusi Pecci
Thursday
20 June
h.14:00
  Favio Faifer
(Universidad National de la Plata, ARG)
  Globular clusters and dwarf galaxies in Pegasus I (abstract)   ref. Buzzoni
Thursday
27 June
h.14:00
  Massimo Ricotti
(Institut Lagrange de Paris and University of Maryland, US)
  Growth and X-rays from intermediate mass black holes in the early universe (abstract)  ref. Cappelluti

JULY 2013

Thursday
11 July
h.14:00
  Colin Norman
(Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University; STScI, US)
  Clusters of Galaxies, LOFAR Radio Sources and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (abstract)  ref. Gilli


SUMMER BREAK




SEPTEMBER 2013

Thursday
5 September
h.14:00
 
   
Thursday
12 September
h.14:00
  Wolfgang Gieren
(Universidad de Concepcion, Departamento de Astronomia, Chile)
  Improving the accuracy of the Cepheid method to determine the Hubble constant (abstract)  ref. Cacciari
Thursday
19 September
h.14:00
  Ohad Shemmer
(Dept. of Physics, University of North Texas, US)
  Solving the Mystery of Weak Emission Line Quasars at High Redshift (abstract)  ref. Vignali
Wednesday
25 September
h.14:00
  Maurizio Salaris
(Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
  First detailed self-consistent modelling of a galaxy Horizontal Branch: results and implications (abstract)  ref. Ferraro

OCTOBER 2013

Thursday
3 October
h.14:00
  Valentina D'Orazi
(Macquarie University, Sydney, AU)
  On the nature of the internal polluters in globular clusters: clues from light and heavy element abundances (abstract)  ref. Romano
Thursday
10 October
h.15:00
  Roberto Battiston
(Dip. di Fisica, Università di Trento, I)
  Recent results from the AMS experiment on the International Space Station (abstract)  ref. Fusi Pecci
Thursday
17 October
h.14:00
  Myriam Gitti
(Dip. di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna)
  Black Hole Twins in the BCG of RBS 797 (..and A2626?) (abstract)  
Thursday
24 October
h.14:00
  Leon V.E. Koopmans
(Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, NL)
  Reionization and LOFAR (abstract)   ref. Pellegrini
Thursday
31 October
h.14:00
  Federico Marinacci
(Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, GE)
  Forming disc galaxies on a moving mesh: zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-sized haloes (abstract)   ref. Nipoti & Fraternali

NOVEMBER 2013

Thursday
7 November
h.14:00
  Nikolay Britavskiy
(National Observatory, Athens, EL)
  Chemical abundances of solar neighborhood RR Lyrae as tracers of Omega Cen history (abstract)  ref. Pancino & Romano
Thursday
14 November
h.15:00
  Piero Rosati
(Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Ferrara)
  CLASH: using massive clusters to probe the cosmological paradigm, structure formation and primordial galaxies (abstract)  ref. Gilli
Thursday
21 November
h.14:00
  Kazuhiro Hada
(INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna)
  Probing the relativistic jets and the nuclear structures in M87(Virgo A) and M104(Sombrero galaxy) at the highest resolution (abstract)  ref. Giovannini
Thursday
28 November
h.14:00
  John Cannon
(Macalester College, Saint Paul, US)
  Harvesting ALFALFA: The Faint End of the Galaxy Luminosity Function (abstract)  ref. Clementini

DECEMBER 2013

Thursday
5 December
h.14:00
  Cesare Chiosi
(Dip. di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Padova)
  Theory of Stellar Convection: Removing the Mixing-Length Parameter (abstract)  ref. Romano
Thursday
12 December
h.14:00
  Vasili Belokurov
(IoA, Cambridge, UK)
  The faintest of the Milky Way satellites (abstract)  ref. Fraternali
Thursday
19 December
h.14:00
  Davor Krajnovic
(Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik, Potsdam, DE)
  ATLAS3D Project: connecting early-type galaxies to spirals (abstract)  ref. Clementini