JOURNAL CLUB
Anno 2012

Aula "L. Rosino", Department of Astronomy
Everyone is invited

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Meetings start at 14.00 unless otherwise specified.

2012

Feb 18 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Laura Bisighello: ¨Physical and kinematical properties of NLR¨
Supervisor: dr. Stefano Ciroi
Alexander Burtovoy: ¨The very high energy emission of the galactic gamma-ray sources with CTA¨
Supervisor: dr. Luca Zampieri (OAPD/Inaf)
Luca Marafatto:"Ground layer correction on an 8m telescope: a NIRVANA from the lab to the sky"
Supervisor: prof. Roberto Ragazzoni (OAPD/Inaf)

Feb 11 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Andrea Bonfanti: ¨Characterisation of stars hosting planets¨
Supervisor: prof. Sergio Ortolani
Laura Bisighello: ¨Physical and kinematical properties of NLR¨
Supervisor: dr. Stefano Ciroi
Michele Boldrin: ¨Clustering and lensing properties of dark matter in the Euclid area¨
Supervisor: prof. Giuseppe Boldrin

Feb 04 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Marco Berton: "Parent-Population of gamma-narrow line Seyfert 1 and spectral deconvolution¨
Supervisor: dr. Stefano Ciroi
Mattia Libralato: ¨High precision photometry and astrometry with wide-field IR images¨
Supervisor: prof. Giampaolo Piotto

Dec 10
Stefano Cavazzini: "Building the terrestrial planets: constrained accretion in the inner solar system"
(Raymond et al. 2009)
Fiorangela La Forgia: "Strong chaos induced by close encounters with Ceres and Vesta"
(Laskar et al.2012)

Ph.D. workshop 2012 – Aula Rosino
nov 29
9.00 CAVAZZANI STEFANO Remote sounding of atmospheric layer motions for site testing and photon propagation properties
9.20 DE PASCALE MARCO Machine learning and data mining in astronomy in the era of big surveys
9.35 DESPALI GIULIA Ellipsoidal collapse of dark matter haloes in cosmological simulations
9.50 CALVI VALENTINA An Overview on High Redshift Galaxies
10.10 SIMONA PAIANO Study of Unidentified Fermi Objects (UFOs) with MAGIC telescopes
10.30 PARMIGGIANI MARCO Dwarf galaxy evolution in groups and clusters
10.45 CANTAT-GAUDIN TRISTAN Open Clusters as Tracers of the Galactic Disk
11.00 FIORANGELA LA FORGIA Solar System small bodies photometric analysis by spacecraft observations

PRANZO

14.00 BRUNETTO ZIOSI Advanced algorithms for cosmological N-body simulations
14.15 RODEGHIERO GABRIELE Scientific and Technological aspects of the Intensity Interferometry technique with the New Generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
14.30 ISAIAS ROJAS Characterizing exoplanetary atmospheres
14.45 ALICE DE BIASI The spiral arms effects on the Oort Cloud dynamics
15.05 BARONCHELLI IVANO Analysis of high-redshift far-IR galaxies detected by the Herschel space telescope

COFFEE BREAK

15.30 BORSATO LUCA TRADES: TRAnsits and Dynamics of Exoplanet System
15.50 CUNIAL ANDREA Searching for Extrasolar Planets in Stellar Clusters: Photometric Analysis
16.05 NARDIELLO DOMENICO Improvement of photometric techniques
16.20 MALAVOLTA LUCA Data Reduction, Radial Velocities and Stellar Parameters from Spectra in the Very Low Signal-to-Noise Domain
17.00 PINTORE FABIO X-ray spectra and chemical abundances in ulxs

nov 30
9.00 ELISA PORTALURI Searching for nuclear stellar discs in simulations: the need for dissipation
9.25 DAMASSO MARIO A M-Dwarf Planet Search Program Using The Photometric Transit Method: Implementation Of A New Ground-Based Survey
9.50 BARBARA LO FARO Physical modelling of high redshift galaxy spectra: a new multiwavelength view on galaxy formation and evolution
10.15 ANNA FELTRE Multiband emission of active galaxies and nuclei and their contribution to the cosmic background radiation

COFFE BREAK

10.55 BERGOMI MARIA Pyramid wavefront sensors for astronomy and for the human eye
11.35 SPONSELLI ANNA Study of the propagation and detection of the orbital angular momentum of light for astrophysical applications
12.45 ELENA ZANINONI Gamma-Ray Bursts and their X-Ray and Optical Afterglow

Oct 29
Marco De Pascale: "The interaction between feedback from active galactic nuclei and supernovae"
(C. M. Booth et al. 2012)
Simona Paiano: "Detection of a virial shock around the Coma galaxy cluster"
(U. Keshet et al.2012)

Oct 15
Brunetto Ziosi: "The Millennium Run Observatory: First Light"
(R. Overzier et al. 2012)
Luca Borsato: "Hint of a transiting extended atmosphere on 55 Cancri b"
(D. Ehrenreich et al.2012)

Oct 08
Gabriele Rodeghiero: "The binary progenitor of Tycho Brahe’s 1572 supernova"
(Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente et al. 2004)
Marco Parmiggiani: "Near-infrared observations of Type Ia supernovae: the best known standard candle for cosmology"
(R. L. Barone-Nugent et al.2012)

Oct 01
Valentina Calvi: "A peculiar galaxy appears at redshift 11: properties of a moderate-redshift interloper"
(Hayes et al. 2012)
Domenico Nardiello: "Stellar companions to exoplanet host stars: Lucky Imaging of transiting planet hosts"
(Bergfors et al 2012)

June 25
Andrea Cunial: "Discovery of a double eclipsing binary with periods near a 3:2 ratio"
(Cagaš et al. 2012)
Giulia Despali: "Early-type galaxies at z ~ 1.3. III. on the dependence of formation epochs and star formation histories on stellar mass and environment"
(Rettura et al. 2011)

June 18
Ivano Baronchelli: " Star formation in galaxy Mergers with realistic models of stellar feedback and the interstellar medium"
(Hopkins et al. 2012)
Tristan Cantat Gaudin: "The Milky Way has no thick disk"
(Bovy et al. 2012)

June 07 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Luca Santoro: "Stellar models with rotation for the Gaia Mission" (h 10:30)
Valerio Nascimbeni: "New techniques to detect and characterize extrasolar planets" (h 11:10)
Matteo Miluzio: "Infrared supernova search in starburst galaxies" (h 11:50)
Rosa Calvi: " Groups of galaxies: a key environment for galaxy evolution" (h 12:30)
Lucia Marchetti: "Cosmological surveys with Spitzer and Herschel: luminosity functions and cosmological evolution" (h 13:10)

June 04
Marco De Pascale: "Unsupervised self-organized mapping: a versatile empirical tool for object selection, classification and redshift estimation in large surveys"
(Geach et al. 2012)

May 28
Alice De Biasi: "An analytic method to determine heritable zones for S-Type planetary orbits in binary star systems"
(Eggl et al. 2012)
Simona Paiano: " Probing dark matter with active galactic nuclei jets"
(Gorchtein et al. 2010)

May 21
Luca Borsato: "Period decrease in the three Super WASP eclipsing binary candidates near the short period limit"
(Lohr et al. 2012)
Stefano Cavazzani:" Unbound or distant planetary mass population detected by gravitational microlensing"
(Sumi et al. 2011)

May 14
Gabriele Rodeghiero: "Reaching for the skies (how to design, build and test a space experiment)"
(Page & Walker, Esa bulletin 149, pg 32, Feb 2012)
Isaias Rojas: "The Supernova Gamma-Ray burst connection"
(Woosley et al. 2006)

May 07
Marco Parmiggiani: Stellar population gradients in the cores of nearby field E+A galaxies
(Pracy et al. 2012)
Brunetto Ziosi: The Atacama cosmology telescope: a measurement of the primordial power spectrum
(Hlozek et al. 2012)

Apr 16
Giulia Despali: "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. VI. Constraints on Dark Energy and the Evolution of Massive Galaxies"
(Oguri et al. 2012)
Domenico Nardiello: "Kepler observations of the beaming binary KPD 1946+4340"
(Bloemen et al. 2011)

Apr 02:
Tristan Cantat Gaudin: "Detection of satellite remnants in the Galactic Halo with Gaia - The effect of the Galactic background, observational errors and sampling"
(Brown et al. 2005)
Andrea Cunial: "The Factory and the Beehive. I. Rotation Periods for Low-mass Stars in Praesepe"
(Agüeros et al 2011)

Mar 26
Ivano Baronchelli: "Probing the peak of the star formation rate density with the extragalactic background light"
(Raue et al. 2012)

Mar 19
Stefano Cavazzani: "Statistics of the sodium layer parameters at low geographic latitude and its impact on adaptive-optics sodium laser guide star characteristics"
(N. Moussaoui et al. 2010)
Alice De Biasi: "Sedna and the Oort Cloud around a migrating Sun"
(Kaib et al. 2011)

Mar 12
Luca Borsato: "Preliminary results for RR Lyrae stars and Classical Cepheids from the Vista Magellanic Cloud (VMC) Survey"
(Ripepi et al. 2012)
Simona Paiano: "A simplified view of blazars: clearing the fog around long-standing selection effects"
(Giommi et al. 2012)

Mar 05 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Marco De Pascale: "Machine learning and data mining with Gaia"
Ivano Baronchelli: "Analysis of high-redshift far-IR galaxies detected by the Herschel space telescope"
Fiorangela La Forgia: "Comets as Building Blocks"

Feb 27 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Marco Parmiggiani: "Dwarf galaxies in groups and clusters"
Barbara Biasuzzi: "Structural properties of disk galaxies: implications for the formation and evolution of galactic disks"
Tristan Cantat Gaudin: "Open clusters as tracers of the galactic disk"

Feb 20 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Andrea Cunial: "Searching for Extrasolar Planets in Stellar Clusters"
Giulia Despali: "Ellipsoidal collapse of dark matter haloes in cosmological simulations "
Domenico Nardiello: "The Helium Content of the Multiple Stellar Populations in w Centauri "

Feb 13 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Brunetto Ziosi: "Advanced algorithms for cosmological N-body simulations"
Gabriele Rodeghiero: "Scientific and technical aspects of the intensity interferometry technique with the new generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes"
Isaias Rojas: "Characterizing exoplanetary atmospheres"

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