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 plus (+) symbols in the bottom-left corner.
You may also be interested in the summary page of talks at other INAF institutes.
Upcoming Seminars
| 9/4/2026 | Cecilia Ceccarelli | The voyage of water from the interstellar medium to the inner rockyplanets of the Solar System |
| 16/4/2026 | Uta Grothkopf | Shaping the Future of Scientific Publishing in Astronomy |
| 23/4/2026 | Daniela Calzetti | The JWST View of Star Formation, Feedback and Timescales |
| 30/4/2026 | Gabriele Ponti | The Hot Phase of the Milky Way: From the Local Bubble to the Circumgalactic Medium |
| 7/5/2026 | Francesco Di Renzo | Gravitational Wave Observations in the Fourth Observing Run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA |
| 14/5/2026 | Stephane Courteau | Puzzles in galaxy scaling relations and Dark Matter Distributions |
| 21/5/2026 | Andrea Melis | Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence |
| 28/5/2026 | Alice Concas | The Galaxy Baryon Cycle: Gas, Star Formation, and Feedback |
| 4/6/2026 | Thales Gutcke | From Cosmic Dawn to Local Dwarfs: Resolving the Smallest Galaxies in the Universe |
| 11/6/2026 | Ylva Gotberg | Stars stripped in binaries: from theory to observation |
| 18/6/2026 | Andrea Maccio' | A dark future for dark matter |
| 26/6/2026 | Erwin de Blok | A Deep Look at Neutral Hydrogen: Exploring the Outer Disks of Galaxies with MHONGOOSE and MeerKAT |
A list of past seminar can be found at this link.
