JOURNAL CLUB
Anno 2008

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

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Meetings start at 14.00 unless otherwise specified.

2008

Jan 14 :
Irene Agnoletto: "Complex stellar populations in massive star clusters: trapping stars of a dwarf disc galaxy in a new born stellar supercluster " (Fellhauser et al. 2006 MNRAS 372, 338)
Alessandra Beifiori : "The hot interstellar medium of normal elliptical galaxies. I A. Chandra gas gallery and comparison of X-ray and optical morphology " (Diehl et al. 2007, ApJ, 668, 150)

Jan 21:
Andrea Bellini : "The redshift evolution of early-type galaxies in cosmos: do massive early-type galaxies form by dry mergers?"
(Scarlata et al. 2007, astro-ph/0701746)
Chiara Bertolin :"An X-ray view of radio millisecond pulsars" (Bogdanov et al. 2007, arXiv:0711.2367v1)

Jan 28:
Federico Biondi : "Void statistics and void galaxies in the 2dFGRS" (von Benda-Beckmann et al. 2007, arXiv:0710.2783v1)
Mariangela Bonavita: "Chemical abundances in six nearby star-forming regions: implications for galactic evolution and planet searches around very young stars" (Santos et al. 2008, arXiv:0801.2529v1)

Feb 04:
Anna Marino : "The dichotomy of the galactic halo in the Milky Way"
Sabrina Masiero : "A Hubble view of star forming regions in the Magellanic Clouds" (Gouliermis et al. 2007, arXiv:0706.0620v1)

Feb 10:
Svetlana Starikova : "Star formation in the HI bridge between M81 and M82" (de Mello et al. 2007, arXiv:0711.2685v1)
Elena Tundo : "Star formation and stellar populations across nuclear rings in galaxies" (Sarzi et al. 2007, MNRAS, 380, 949)

Feb 18:
Luigi Vaona : "Ionized nebulae surrounding brightest cluster galaxies" (Hatch et al. 2007, MNRAS, 380, 33)

Feb 25 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Andrea Cardullo : "Study of metallicity in distant galaxies"
Valentina Cracco : "Gas origins in the extended narrow line regionq of nearby AGN"

Mar 03 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Umberto Buonuomo : "Numerical models of elliptical galaxies with cosmological initial condition and magnetic fields"
Enrico Verroi : "Very fast photon counting photometers for astronomical application"

Mar 10 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Tommaso Grassi : "ISM in cosmological numerical simulations: energy feedback and related issues - numerical methods"
Cesare Grava : "Study of the exospheres of the Solar System bodies"

Mar 17(programma di ricerca/research program):
Jasna Krivicic : "Stellar evolution code with rotation "
Gabriele Mainetti : "Cosmological survey with Herschel Space Observatory "

Apr 07(programma di ricerca/research program):
Dino Mesa : "Planet detection with EPICS, the E-Elt Planet Finder "
Tenay Saguner : "Reference synthetic spectra for Gaia "

Apr 21 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Claudio Germana : "Timing studies of compact objects"
Stefano Rubele: "Deep near infrared observations of Magellanic System"

Apr 28:
Irene Agnoletto : "Spatially resolved properties of the GRB 060505 host: implications for the nature of the progenitor"
(Thoene et al. 2008, ApJ 676, 1151-1161)
Andrea Bellini : "Blue straggler stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies" (M. Mapelli et al. 2007, MNRAS, 380, 1127)

May 05:
Alessandra Beifiori: "Multiwavelength study of massive galaxies at z~2. II. Widespread compton-thick active galactic nuclei and the concurrent growth of black holes and bulges" (Daddi et al. 2007, ApJ, 670, 173)
Chiara Bertolin : "Tidal evolution of close–In extra-solar planets" (Jackson et al. 2008, arXiv:0802.1543)

May 12:
Federico Biondi : "Strong size evolution of the most massive galaxies since z~2" (Trujillo et al. ,2007, MNRAS, 382, 109)
Mariangela Bonavita : "Theoretical spectra and light curves of close-in extrasolar giant planets and comparison with data"
(Burrows et al. , 2008, ApJ, 678, 1436)

May 19 :
Sabrina Masiero: "The Universe in a Doughnut – Science in the Simpsons” (presentazione del libro “La Scienza dei Simpson” di Marco Malaspina, Sironi Editore, Milano 2007)
Svetlana Starikova : "Very weak lensing in the CFHTLS wide: cosmology from cosmic shear in the linear regime" (Fu et al., A&A, 479, 9, 2008)

May 26:
Elena Tundo : "The regulation of cooling and star formation in luminous galaxies by AGN feedback" ( Rafferty, D., McNamara, B. & Nulsen, P. 2008, ArXiv e-prints, 802, arXiv:0802.1864)
Luigi Vaona : "exploring star formation using the filaments in the Sloan Ditital Sky Survey Data Release Five" ( Pandey, B. & Bharadwaj, S. 2008, ArXiv e-prints, 804, arXiv:0804.0072)

Jun 09 (relazioni finali/final reports):
Elena Ricciardelli (XX ciclo) : "Semi-analytical models of galaxy formation and comparison with observations"
Paola Mucciarelli (XIX ciclo) :"Investigating the nature of ultraluminous X-ray sources through X-ray and optical data"
Davide Fedele (XX ciclo) :"Structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks"

Jun 16 (aula Jappelli) :
Andrea Cardullo:"The spatially resolved stellar populations of isolated early-type galaxies" (Reda et al. 2007, MNRAS, 377, 1772)
Claudio Germana': "On tidal evolution of the orbits of low-mass satellites around black holes" (Cadez et al. 2008, A&A, in press)

Jun 23 :
Valentina Cracco :"The black hole mass of nearby QSOs: a comparison of the bulge luminosity and virial methods" (Labita et al. 2006, MNRAS, 373)
Umberto Buonuomo': "f(R) theories of gravity" (Sotiriou et al. 2008, arXiv:0805.1726)

Jun 30 :
Cesare Grava: "A multi-wavelength study of the merger candidate Abell S0721 and the activities of its merger galaxies" Pei-Li Ho & Lin-Wen Chen, Advances in Space Research 42 (2008) 550 – 559
Gabriele Mainetti ': "Star formation histories from multi-band photometry: A new approach" Simon Dye, arXiv:0806.1222v1

Oct 06 (relazioni annuali/annual reports) (aula Jappelli) :
Irene Agnoletto: "Overluminous supernovae: the case of SN 2006gy "
Sabrina Masiero': "Communicating Astrophysics"

Oct 13 (relazioni annuali/annual reports):
Federico Biondi: "The best choice of the order of Taylor series expansion in the ST02-progenitor mass function"

Oct 20 (relazioni annuali/annual reports):
Chiara Bertolin: "Methodologies of climatological investigations: historical series in Italy and sky-quality analysis from data satellite "
Svetlana Starikova: "Clustering analysis of SWIRE galaxies"

Oct 27 (relazioni annuali/annual reports):
Alessandra Beifiori: "Understanding the relations between supermassive black holes, spheroids, and dark matter halos"
Marica Valentini: "ARCS: the Asiago Red Clump Spectroscopic Survey and its applications"

Nov 03 (relazioni annuali/annual reports):
Mariangela Bonavita: "Scientific preparation of SPHERE and EPICS planet search surveys"
Luigi Vaona: "Photoionization models and determination of parameters of ionized gas within Seyfert 2 galaxies"

Nov 10 (relazioni annuali/annual reports):
Umberto Buonomo: "Simulating the formation of galaxies: work in progress"
Andrea Cardullo: "Gas metallicity in distant galaxies"
Valentina Cracco: "Gas origin in the Extended Narrow Line Region of nearby AGN"

Nov 17 (relazioni annuali/annual reports):
Claudio Germana': "Timing studies of compact objects"
Tommaso Grassi: "ISM model suited for treeSPH simulations: numerical methods"
Cesare Grava: "Study of the Exospheres of the Solar System Bodies - preliminary data reduction"

Nov 24 (relazioni annuali/annual reports):
Gabriele Mainetti: "Herschel: pipeline development and preliminary science"
Dino Mesa: "Planet Detection with EPICS, the E-ELT Planet Finder"
Elena Tundo: "Supermassive Black Holes, Galaxy Evolution and AGN feedback"

Dec 01 (relazioni annuali/annual reports):
Stefano Rubele: "Deep Near Infrared Observations of the Magellanic System"
Tenay Saguner: "Reference Synthetic Spectra For Gaia"
Enrico Verroi: "Very fast photon counting photometers for astronomical applications"

Dec 02 (relazioni finali/final reports) (10.30 - 12.30):
Rodolfo Angeloni (XXI) : "Gas and dust spectral analysis of galactic and extragalactic symbiotic stars"
Giovanni. La Mura (XXI): "Physics of the Broad Emission Line Regions in Active Galactic Nuclei and the Spectral Properties of the Balmer Series"

Dec 03 (relazioni finali/final reports) (14.30 - 17.30):
Gabriele Anzolin (XXI): "Applications of optical vortices to Astronomy"
Daniele Bindoni (XXI): "New approach to Clausius Virial Maximum theory and its link to Cusp/Core problem on galaxy scale"
Mary Cesetti (XXI): "Observational constraints to the stellar populations in the center of galactic spheroids"
Matteo Realdi (XXI): "Cosmology at the turning point of relativity evolution. The debates during the 1920's on the "de Sitter ""

Dec 04 (relazioni finali/final reports) (14.30 - 17.30):
Milena Bufano (XXI): "The Ultraviolet View of Supernovae"
Antonio Milone (XXI): "Multiple Stellar Population in Globular Clusters"
Emanuela Chiosi (XIX): "Cluster and field star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud"

Dec 09 (relazioni finali/final reports) (10.30 - 12.30):
Veronica Sommariva (XXI): "A search for spectroscopic binaries for the Galactic Globular Cluster M4"
Emiliano Merlin (XXI): "Simulating the formation and evolution of early-type galaxies in cosmological context. Hierarchical or monolithic scenario? Methods and results"

Dec 15:
Umberto Buonomo: "f(R) Theories of gravity"( Sotiriou & Faraoni 2008, arXiv: 0805.1726)
Andrea Cardullo: "The Spatially resolved stellar population of isolated early-type galaxies" (Reda et al. 2007, MNRAS, 377, 1772)

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