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
22/10/2026 Luca Zampieri  Stellar intensity interferometry with Cherenkov
29/10/2026 Cristiana Spingola  
5/11/2026 TBD  
9-11-13/11/2026 Rossi Lectures - Amina Helmi   
19/11/2026 Stéphanie Cazaux  
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.