General Seminars
General Seminars are held on Thursdays, 11.30-12.30, between September and July. The Seminar programme covers all areas of astrophysics and related technologies, and is aimed at sharing new scientific results with the entire Observatory community.
The Colloquia Organising Team (Giovanni Sabatini, Giada Peron, Anna Rita Gallazzi, Carolina Belli, Eleonora Zari) is responsible for selecting and scheduling the general seminars. Suggestion for potential speakers can be submitted through this form, or by contacting Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.
Seminars are currently offered in hybrid mode: in person in Arcetri and online. Recordings are available here using INAF credentials. The connection details to each seminar can be found in the Google calendar event or in the weekly email.
To stay up to date with seminar schedule, please add this Google Calendar by clicking on the link in the bottom-left corner.
You may also be interested in the summary page of talks at other INAF institutes.
Upcoming Seminars
| 24/9/2026 | Stefano Bovino | Astrochemistry: how molecules shape a complex Universe |
| 1/10/2026 | Braine & Lisenfeld | Star formation in extreme environments |
| 8/10/2026 | Grazia Umana | Expanding MeerKAT’s Capabilities: INAF’s Contribution to MeerKAT+ and Band 5B |
| 15/10/2026 | Mattia Sormani | The Central Regions of the Milky Way: Bar, Nuclear Disc, and Cluster |
| 20/10/2026 | Catherine Doougados - Distinguished Visitor | Accretion-Ejection processes: from young stars to protoplanets |
| 22/10/2026 | Luca Zampieri | Stellar intensity interferometry with Cherenkov |
| 29/10/2026 | Cristiana Spingola | Strong gravitational lensing in the survey era |
| 5/11/2026 | Riccardo Urso | Formation and alteration of organics by ion bombardment of icy surfaces |
| 9-11-13/11/2026 | Rossi Lectures - Amina Helmi | The Milky Way assembly history and dynamics |
| 19/11/2026 | Stéphanie Cazaux | Icy moons in our solar system: From Cassini and JWST observations to laboratory experiments |
| 26/11/2026 | Emanuele Spitoni | LEGARE: Linking the Evolution of Galactic discs AcRoss diversE scales (with chemical evolution models) |
| 3/12/2026 | Damiano Fiorillo | Collective neutrino flavor evolution: the neutrino-plasma viewpoint |
| 10/12/2026 | Christmas Lecture - Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
A list of past seminar can be found at this link.
