Heraeus 2016 : Origins of stars and planets
Tuesday August 23
18.15: Arrival; transfer to hotels.
Wednesday August 24
08.30 - 09.00: Registration
09.00 - 09.15: Alessandro Marconi (Incoming Director of the Department of the Department Physics and Astronomy) Welcome
09.15 - 10.45: Karl-Heinz Lotze and Silvia Simionato (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Why are the stars as they are. A qualitative study in Physics and Astronomy, a la Victor Weisskopf
10:45 - 11.00: Coffee break
11:00 - 12.30: Daniele Galli (INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) A primer on star formation
12.30 - 13.00: Students’ talk: Martina Baratella, Enrico Congiu, Gianluca Daniel (Padova) Star Formation Rate (SFR) and Star Formation History (SFH) of galactic nuclei
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 15.30: Hubert Klahr (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg) Turbulence in Protoplanetary disks and the formation of planetesimals, Asteroids and Kuiper belt objects
15.30 - 15.50: Michael Vater (Jena) Star formation for my students
15.50 - 16.10: Students’ talks: Giada Faraon e Alessandro Mazzi (Padova) Simulations of a collapsing gas cloud using GANDALF code, part A
16.10 - 16.30: Students' talks: Nicola Merlo, Giovanni Munaretto, Stefano Zebellin (Padova) Simulations of a collapsing gas cloud using GANDALF code, part B
16.30 - 17.00: Coffee break
17.00 - 18.45: Tutorial: Mirko Curti & Giacomo Venturi (Firenze) The Virtual Observatory tools pdf here
Thursday, August 25
09.00 - 10.30: Alessandro Marconi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze) The growth of galaxies
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30: Markus Mugrauer (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena) The failed stars and their evolution
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30 - 15.00: Markus Mugrauer, Richard Bischoff Exoplanet observations at your school
15.00 - 16.30: Luca Moscadelli (INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) Fundamentals of radio interferometry
16.30 - 17.00: Coffee break
17.00 - 18.45: Tutorial: Claudia Toci (Firenze) Simulation of a radio interferometer
Friday August 26
09.00 - 10.30: Tutorial: Richard Bischoff Radial Velocity measurement and analysis of binaries
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30: Richard Toellner (Heidelberg) N-body problem at the high school
12.30 - 12.50: Students' talks: Ugo Niccolò Di Carlo, Enrico Montanari (Padova) Effects of initial mass functions on the evolution of star clusters by means of N-body simulations
13.00 - 13.45: Lunch
14.00 - 16.30: Lecture at Osservatorio di Arcetri : Samuele Straulino (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze) Galileo Galilei and his experiments and
Simone Bianchi (INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) Solar observations at the Amici telescope
16.30: Visit to Museo Opera del Duomo (www.ilgrandemuseodelduomo.it)
Saturday August 27
09.00 - 10.30: Leonardo Testi (ESO) Origins of the Solar System: observing the dawn of planets
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30: Cesare Chiosi (Padova) Star formation at high redshift
12.30 - 13.00: Paul Eckartz (Heidelberg) Probing the cosmic star formation history with Lofar
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 15.30: Riccardo Claudi (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova) Search for life: the point of view of an astrophysicist
15.30 - 16.15: Fabrizio Massi (INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) Stellar clusters as laboratories to test stellar evolution theories: the role of optical and near-infrared photometry in astrophysics
16.15 - 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.15: Tutorial: Fabrizio Massi (INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisicodi Arcetri) Live session of stellar photometry: from images to colour-colour diagrams
Sunday August 28
09.00 - 10.30: Bringfried Stecklum (Thueringer Landessternwarte) Star formation as an aggregate phenomenon, embedded and young stellar clusters
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30: Tutorial: Michela Mapelli (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova) How to make star clusters out of gas
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00: Visit to Museo Galileo (www.museogalileo.it)
Monday August 29
09.00 - 10.30: Leonardo Testi (ESO) ALMA: joys and tribulations in building a transformational observatory
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 11.20: Students' talks: Francesca Brotto, Rosaria De Michele, Valeria Politino (Padova) Cosmic star formation
11.20 - 11.30: Damiano Trisciani (OPC) The transit of HD 189733 b on July, 28
11.30 - 12.00: Stefan Brems (Heidelberg) Chasing young, giant exoplanets with NaCo-ISPY
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30: Visit to the Interferometric Antenna for Gravitational Waves VIRGO (www.ego-gw.it)
19.00: Drink at Villa Il Gioiello, home of Galileo Galilei, and social dinner at Ristorante Omero (www.ristoranteomero.it)
Tuesday August 30
09.00 - 09.20: Stefan Jorda The Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Stiftung
09.20 - 09.40: Daniele Galli (INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) Francesco’s Legacy
09.40 - 10.30: Karl-Heinz Lotze (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Final remarks
12.30: Bus to Airport
