Academic Year 2023-2024

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