Academic Year 2023-24

Advanced topics in astrophysics I: Galaxy evolution and interstellar medium

Lecturers: Carlotta Gruppioni, Livia Vallini

22-26 Gennaio 2024 Aula I

  • Monday 22 Jan, 10:00-12:00
  • Tuesday 23 Jan, 14:00-16:00
  • Wednesday 24 Jan, 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00
  • Thursday 25 Jan, 14:00-16:00
  • Friday 26 Jan, 10:00-12:00

Carlotta Gruppioni:

  •  Galaxy and ISM Evolution from Cosmic Noon to the Reionisation Epoch (1<z<6)
  •   The different components of the interstellar medium: interstellar dust, infrared emission.
  •  The Star formation Rate Density: a powerful tool for understanding how galaxies form and evolve
  •  The Black Hole accretion Rate density and the role of AGN in galaxy evolution
  •  The cosmic evolution of the ISM as a function of redshift
  •  State-of-the-Art: latest results from ALMA and JWST and future perspectives

 

Livia Vallini:

  •  The Interstellar medium in the Epoch of Reionization (z>6)
  •  The evolution of the interstellar medium in the Epoch of Reionization
  •  Photodissociation regions and X-Ray Dominated regions: peculiarities in the EoR
  •  Star formation and cold gas in the EoR 
  •  Cosmological zoom-in simulations & line emission modeling 
  •  Interpreting ALMA and JWST data with simulations

 

Advanced numerical and computational techniques:  Introduction to 'HPC and ML  +  Parallel computing

Lecturers/organisers: CINECA (DIFA reference: Moscardini)

April / May  2024 @CINECA

1st year(Introduction to HPC and ML), 2 days:

Day 1:

  • Introduction to HPC e resources available to students
  • Introduction to parallel computing
  • How-to compile codes and Slurm

Day 2:

Introduction to Machine Learning

 

2nd year (Parallel computing), 3 days:

  • Parallelisation on CPU
  • Parallelisation on GPU
  • Examples of applied parallel computing to Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Advanced topics in astrophysics II: High-energy astrophysics, AGN

Lecturers/organisers: Andrea Comastri, Stefano Marchesi,  Giorgio Lanzuisi, Fabio Vito 

7-10 October 2024 Aula Sollima, 4E10 INAF-OAS

  • Monday 7    10-12    Stefano Marchesi: “From observational phenomenology to physics: the internal structure of AGN as inferred from X-ray emission.”
  • Tuesday 8    10-12   Andrea Comastri:  “Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes: the X-ray background and radiation efficiency.”
  • Tuesday 8 14-16 Giorgio Lanzuisi: “AGN winds, feedback and the baryon cycle in galaxies.”
  • Wednesday  9 10-11 Stefano Marchesi “X-ray Surveys and demography”
  • Wednesday  9 11-12 Andrea Comastri: "Present opportunities and Future perspectives in the X-ray and gamma-ray domain”
  • Wednesday  9 14-15 Fabio Vito: "X-rays from distant accreting SMBHs” 
  • Wednesday  9 15-16 Fabio Vito: “Probing the large-scale environment of AGN” 
  • Thursday 10 9-11 Fabio Vito/Giorgio Lanzuisi/Stefano Marchesi : “Hands on session"

Joint Astrophysical Colloquia, Seminars

https://www.oas.inaf.it/en/seminars/ see also weekly Tuesday (DiFA) and Friday (IRA) seminars.

ISA Lectures:

https://site.unibo.it/isa/en/activities/isa-lectures