Planet formation and Stellar astrophysics"
Leonardo Testi, Andrea Miglio
9-17 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 - Planet formation and young planet properties Lecturer: Leonardo Testi
12/12, 09.00-11.00: Aula Sollima - Disks bulk properties and evolution Lecturer: Carlo Felice Manara
15/12, 14.00-16.00: Aula Sollima - Asteroseismology: introduction and theory (PartI) Lecturer: Andrea Miglio
16/12, 11.00-12.00: Aula Sollima - Asteroseismology: theory (PartII) Lecturer: Andrea Miglio
16/12, 15.00-17.00: Aula Sollima - Asteroseismology: Seismic inference and applications to stellar physics, exoplanets, galactic archaeology Lecturer: Andrea Miglio
17/12, 11.00-12.00: Aula Sollima - Asteroseismology: data, elements of time-series analysis Lecturer: Andrea Miglio
17/12, 14.00-16.00: Aula M - Hands-on examples of seismic data analysis Lecturers: Massimiliano Matteuzzi, Andrea Miglio
Advanced Topics in astrophysics II
“Dynamics of stellar systems"
Luca Ciotti (8hr), Barbara Lanzoni, Federico Marinacci, Carlo Nipoti, Silvia Pellegrini,
9-13 febbraio 2026
9/2, 10-12 CIOTTI Classical gravitation. Stellar systems. The phase-space distribution function and its moments. The tensor virial theorem for multi-component systems.
9/2, 14-16 MARINACCI Basics of N-body methods
10/2, 10-12 CIOTTI Collisionless and collisional systems. Two-body relaxation time and dynamical friction time. Collisionless systems: self-consistent equilibria, Jeans equations.
10/2, 14-16 CIOTTI Collisional systems: gravothermal catastrophe, gravitational evaporation, BH merging.
11/2, 10-12 LANZONI Globular Clusters
11/2, 14-16 NIPOTI Gravitational instability
12/2, 10-12 CIOTTI Disk galaxies, epicyclic theory. DM halos, stability.
12/2, 14-16 PELLEGRINI Galaxies
- Period during which lessons are held: March 2026
- Number of hours: 15
- Doctoral credits: 1
- Year of study: First or Second
This course will provide skills related to the writing, design and preparation of scientific articles, computing/telescope hour proposals or funding proposals in the field of astrophysics.
The aim of the course is to equip doctorate students with the tools required for the written and oral communication and dissemination of their results, as well as problem-solving skills.
- Period during which lessons are held: 11-15 May 2026
- Number of hours: 18
- Doctoral credits: 2,3
- Year of study: First or second
The course covers numerical and computational techniques with applications in astrophysics.
The aim of the course is to provide doctorate students with specific skills in the computational field, concerning numerical and statistical techniques that may be useful in research.
The course will be delivered by researchers from national and international institutes as well as through a collaboration with CINECA
to be complemented (not necessarily in Y1) with a CINECA specialised course
https://eventi.cineca.it/en/course-calendar