JOURNAL CLUB
Anno 2010

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

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Meetings start at 14.00 unless otherwise specified.

2010

Dec 13:
Mario Damasso : "A Precise Asteroseismic Age and Radius for the Evolved Sun-like Star KIC 11026764 "
(Metcalfe, T. S. et al. 2010)

Dec 6:
Anna Sponselli: "The Chemical Composition of the Sun "
(Asplund, M. et al. 2009)
Elena Zaninoni: "The nature of "dark" gamma-ray bursts "
(Greiner, J. et al.)

Nov 30: (PhD Workshop 2010 - 3rd Year: 9.00 - 17.00)
Proceedings (visibile solo con password) - Abstracts (ancora da inserire)

AREA: EXTRAGALATTICO
COMMISSIONE: Corsini, Ciroi, Secco
ore 09.00 Tommaso Grassi: ISM in cosmological numerical simulations: energy feedback and related issues - numerical methods
ore 09.40 Svetlana Starikova: Clustering analysis of cosmic sources at high redshifts
ore 10.20 Valentina Cracco: Gas origins in the Extended Narrow Line Region of nearby AGN
ore 11.00 Andrea Cardullo: Study of metallicity in distant galaxies

AREA: TECNOLOGICO
COMMISSIONE: D'Onofrio, Claudi
ore 11.40 Enrico Verroi: Very fast photon counting photometers for astronomical Application
ore 14.00 Dino Mesa: Planet detection with SPHERE and EPICS
ore 14.40 Gabriele Mainetti: The Herschel Space Observatory Pipeline development and early cosmological surveys results

AREA: STELLE E PIANETI
COMMISSIONE: Gratton, Vallenari, Marigo, Bianchini, Barbaro
ore 15.20 Cesare Grava: Study of the Exospheres of the Solar System Bodies
ore 16.00 Claudio Germanà: Timing studies of compact objects
ore 16.40 Stefano Rubele: The Star Formation History of the Magellanic Clouds from HST and VISTA data
ore 17.20 Tenay Saguner: Observed and synthetic stellar spectra as templates for Gaia

Nov 29: (PhD Workshop 2010 - 1st and 2nd Year: 9.00 - 17.00)
Proceedings (visibile solo con password) - Abstracts (ancora da inserire)

AREA: EXTRAGALATTICO
Secondo Anno
ore 09.00 Rosa Calvi: Groups of galaxies: a key environment for galaxy evolution
ore 09.20 Benedetta Vulcani: The evolution of the galaxy mass assembly and star formation activity from z=1 to z=0 as a function of environment
Primo Anno
ore 09.40 Matteo Bonato: Searching for primordial non-Gaussian signals in temperature and polarization CMB maps at Planck Surveyor satellite resolution and in gravitational lensing data
ore 09.55 Anna Feltre: Multi-band emission of active galaxies and nuclei and their contributions to the cosmic background radiation
ore 10.10 Elisa Portaluri: Supermassive Black Holes and Nuclear Star Clusters in Galaxies
ore 10.25 Elena Zaninoni: Survey and Analysis of the Optical Flares in the Light Curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Secondo Anno
ore 10.40 Letizia Cassarà: High redshift galaxies: theory versus observations
ore 11.00 Lucia Marchetti: Normal and active galaxy luminosity functions based on Spitzer and Herschel Space Observatory cosmological surveys

AREA: TECNOLOGICO
Primo Anno
ore 11.20 Maria Bergomi: Wave-front sensors for astronomy and for the human eye
ore 11.35 Anna Sponselli: Study Of The Propagation Through A Turbulent Medium Of The Orbital Angular Momentum Of Light
Secondo Anno
ore 11.50 Alessandro Brunelli: Development of optics instruments for dust and fluid tomographic analysis in space environment
ore 12.10 Valentina Viotto: From 8 (m) to 8 (mm): wavefront sensing from cosmological to human scales

AREA: STELLE E PIANETI
Primo Anno
ore 14.30 Mario Damasso: An M dwarf planet search programme using the photometric transit method: implementation of a new ground-based survey
ore 14.45 Luca Malavolta (skype): New Spectroscopic and Astrometric Techniques for Studying the Galactic Globular Cluster Dynamics
ore 15.00 Fabio Pintore: X-Ray Spectra and Chemical Abundances in ULXs
Secondo Anno
ore 15.15 Elena Carolo: Observations of the extrasolar planets with direct and indirect methods
ore 15.35 Valerio Nascimbeni (Skype): New groundbased methods for detecting transiting exoplanets
ore 15.55 Matteo Miluzio: Wide field optical/infrared supernovae searches to probe SN progenitor scenarios
ore 16.15 Luca Santoro: Stellar rotation and the age of star determination: Application to stellar clusters
Primo Anno
ore 16.35 Barbara Lo Faro (Skype): A multi-wavelength view of galaxy formation and evolution through the characterization of the diffuse media and active phases

Nov 22:
Fabio Pintore: " Identification of a Population of X-ray Emitting Massive Stars in the Galactic Plane "
(Anderson, G. E.)
Elisa Portaluri: "The evolution of M*/M_BH between z = 2 and z = 0"
(Trakhtenbrot, B. & Netzer, H.)

Nov 15:
Matteo Bonato: " Neutrino lumps and the Cosmic Microwave Background "
(Pettorino, V. et al. 2010)
Matteo Bonato: " Very large scale structures in growing neutrino quintessence "
(Wintergerst, N. et al. 2010)
Anna Feltre: "Star formation in AGN hosts in GOODS-N"
(Shao, L. et al. 2010)

Nov 8:
Maria Bergomi: " Lucky imaging and adaptive optics on 10-m class telescopes: a real promise for diffraction limited imaging in the visible? "
(Femenía Castellá, B. et al 2010)
Luca Malavolta: "Kepler Observations of Three Pre-Launch Exoplanet Candidates: Discovery of Two Eclipsing Binaries and a New Exoplanet"
(Howell, Steve B.)

Oct 11:
Letizia Cassarà: "Simple stellar population models including blue stragglers"
(Yu Xin et al. 2010)
Lucia Marchetti: "A multiwavelength study of a sample of 70 μm selected salaxies in the COSMOS field. II. The Role of Mergers in Galaxy Evolution"
(Kartaltepe et al. 2010)

June 21:
Rosa Calvi: "Star formation and AGN activity in SDSS cluster galaxies"
(von der Linden et al. 2010)
Elena Carolo: "Superdense Massive Galaxies in Wings Local Clusters"
(Valentinuzzi et al. 2010)

Jun 14:
Valerio Nascimbeni: "Selection, prioritization, and characteristics of Kepler target stars"
(Batalha et al. 2010)
Alessandro Brunelli: "A close companion search around L Dwarfs using aperture masking interferometry and Palomar laser guide star adaptive optics"
(Bernat et al. 2010)

Jun 07 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Andrea Bellini: High-precision astrometry and photometry of star clusters from HST and ground-based telescopes

May 31:
Luca Malavolta: "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIV. Gl 176b, a super-Earth rather than a Neptune, and at a different period"
(Forveille et al. 2009)
Anna Sponselli: "Optical Turbulence in High Angular Resolution Techniques in Astronomy"
(Jacques 2008)

May 24:
Elisa Portaluri: "The disk mass survey I. Overview"
(Bershady et al. 2010)
Elena Zaninoni: "The cosmic chemical evolution as seen by the brightest events in the Universe"
(Savaglio 2010)

May 17:
Barbara Lo Faro: "A fundamental relation between mass, SFR and metallicity in local and high redshift galaxies"
(Mannucci et al. 2010)
Fabio Pintore: "The effect of metallicity on the detection prospects for gravitational waves"
(Belczynski et al. 2010)

May 10:
Mario Damasso: "Morphological lightcurve distortions due to finite integration time"
(Kipping 2010)
Anna Feltre: "How was the Hubble sequence 6 Gyr ago?"
(Delgado-Serrano et al. 2010)

May 03:
Maria Bergomi: "A new sensor for laser tomography on ELTs"
(Gendron et al. 2010)
Matteo Bonato: "Variations of the fine-structure constant"
(Murphy et al. 2010)
Matteo Bonato: "Searching for space-time variation of the fine structure constant using QSO spectra: overview and future prospects"
(Berengut et al. 2010)

Apr 26:
Valentina Viotto:
- "FERMI-LAT discovery of GeV gamma-ray emission from the young supernova remnant Cassiopeia A "
- "Observation of supernova remnant IC 443 with the FERMI Large Area Telescope"
- "Gamma-ray emission from the shell of Supernova Remnant W44 Revealed by the FERMI-LAT "
-" FERMI-LAT discovery of extended gamma-ray emission in the direction of supernova remnant W51C "
(Abdo et al. 2010)

Apr 19:
Lucia Marchetti: "Statistical Methods for Cosmological Parameter Selection and Estimation"
(Liddle 2009)
Matteo Miluzio: "On the stellar masses of IRAC detected Lyman Break Galaxies at z ~ 3"
(Magdis et al. 2010)

Apr 12:
Elena Carolo: "The response of atmospheric chemistry on earthlike planets around F, G and K Stars to small variations in orbital distance"
(Grenfell et al. 2007)
Letizia Pasqua Cassara': "Morphological classification of galaxies and its relation to physical properties"
(Wijesinghe et al. 2010)

Mar 29:
Alessandro Brunelli: "PYRAMIR: exploring the on-sky performance of the World's first near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor"
(Peter et al. 2010)
Rosa Calvi: "Star formation in galaxies falling into clusters along supercluster-scale filaments"
(Porter et al. 2008)

Mar 15 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Anna Sponselli: "Study Of The Propagation Through A Turbulent Medium Of The Orbital Angular Momentum Of Light"
Elena Zaninoni: "Survey and Analysis of the Optical Flares in the Light Curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts"

Mar 08 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Fabio Pintore: "X-Ray Spectra and Chemical Abundances in ULXs"
Elisa Portaluri: "Supermassive Black Holes and Nuclear Star Clusters in Galaxies"

Mar 02 (programma di ricerca/research program) start at 11.00:
Barbara Lo Faro: "A multiwavelength view of galaxy formation and evolution through the characterization of the diffuse media and active phases"
Luca Malavolta: "New Spectroscopic and Astrometric Techniques for Studying the Galactic Globular Cluster Dynamics"

Feb 22 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Mario Damasso: "An M dwarf planet search programme using the photometric transit method: implementation of a new ground-based survey"
Anna Feltre: " Multiband emission of active galaxies and nuclei and their contributions to the cosmic background radiation"

Feb 15 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Maria Bergomi: "Wave-front sensors for astronomy and for astronomy and for the human eye"
Matteo Bonato: "Searching for primordial non-Gaussian signals in temperature and polarization CMB maps at Planck Surveyor satellite resolution and in gravitational lensing data"

Feb 01:
Valentina Viotto: "Instrument Performance in Kepler's First Months"
(Caldwell et al. 2010)
"The CoRoT satellite in flight: description and performance"
(Auvergne 2009)
Benedetta Vulcani: "The Build-Up of the Hubble Sequence in the COSMOS Field"
(Oesch et al. 2009)

Jan 25:
Enrico Verroi: "The effect of dust geometry on the Lyman-alpha output of galaxies"
(Scarlata et al. 2009)
Elena Carolo: "The cluster Terzan 5 as a remnant of a primordial building block of the Galactic bulge"
(Ferraro et al. 2009)

Jan 18:
Valerio Nascimbeni:
"Initial Characteristics of Kepler Long Cadence Data For Detecting Transiting Planets"
(Jenkins et al. 2010)
"Kepler-4b: Hot Neptune-Like Planet of a G0 Star Near Main-Sequence Turnoff"
(Borucki et al. 2010)

Jan 11:
Lucia Marchetti: "An extremely deep, wide-field near- infrared survey: bright galaxy counts on local large scale structure"
(Keenan et al. 2009)
Matteo Miluzio: "Early-type galaxies in the Pears survey: probing the stellar populations at moderate redshift "
(Ferreras et al. 2009)

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