Planet formation and Stellar astrophysics"
Leonardo Testi, Andrea Miglio
9-18 Dec 2025
9/12, 16.00-18.00: AULA Sollima - Chemical evolution from clouds to disks. Lecturer: Marta De Simone
10/12, 16.00-18.00: AULA Sollima - The role of cosmic rays in star and planet formation. Lecturer: Elena Redaelli
11/12, 16.00-18.00: AULA Sollima - Disks bulk properties and evolution Lecturer: Carlo Felice Manara
12/12, 10.00-12.00: Aula Sollima - Planet formation and young planet properties Lecturer: Leonardo Testi
15/12, 14.00-16.00: Aula Sollima - Asteroseismology: introduction and theory (PartI) Lecturer: Andrea Miglio
16/12, 15.00-17.00: Aula Sollima - Asteroseismology: theory (PartII) Asteroseismology: data, elements of time-series analysis Lecturer: Andrea Miglio
17/12, 14.00-16.00: Aula Sollima - Seismic inference and applications to stellar physics, exoplanets, galactic archaeology Lecturer: Andrea Miglio
18/12, 14.00-16.00: Aula M - Hands-on examples of seismic data analysis Lecturers: Massimiliano Matteuzzi, Andrea Miglio
“Dynamics of stellar systems"
Luca Ciotti (8hr), Barbara Lanzoni, Federico Marinacci, Carlo Nipoti, Silvia Pellegrini,
Mid Feb 2026 TENTATIVE WEEK: 9-13 febbraio 2026 (TBC)
“Stellar Dynamics” (L. Ciotti)
Classical gravitation. Stellar systems. The phase-space distribution function and its moments. The tensor virial theorem for multi-component systems.
Collisionless and collisional systems. Two-body relaxation time and dynamical friction time.
Collisionless systems: self-consistent equilibria, Jeans equations. Disk galaxies, epicyclic theory. DM halos, stability.
Collisional systems: evolution, gravothermal catastrophe, gravitational evaporation, core collapse, BH merging.