SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT - OAT and DAUT SEMINAR - Tomorrow, Tuesday May 8th, at 12:00 noon (Villa Bazzoni)

[Gabriella Schiulaz]

I announce you tomorrow's seminar:

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                 OATS-DAUT SEMINAR 
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Speaker: Ennio Poretti (INAF / Oss. Astron. di Brera) 

Title: The scientific profile of the space mission Corot: 

Date: Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 (Please note date!)
Time: 12:00 
Venue: Villa Bazzoni 

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Abstract: The COROT (COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits) mission, very successfully launched in December 2006, is intended to provide high-precision (noise level in the frequency spectrum 0.7 ppm over a 5 d time baseline) photometric monitoring of stellar targets to achieve three main objectives: 
1) stellar seismology of dwarf stars to give direct information on the structure and dynamics of their interiors (Seismology programme). Among those, a few bright stars (V<8.0) will be studied continuously for 150 days (primary targets), along with up to 9 fainter stars (V<9.5, secondary targets), located in the same field of the primary targets; 
2) the detection of Earth-like planets from eclipses of their parent stars (Exoplanet programme); 
3) the accurate high precision, continuous, photometric monitoring of many thousands of fainter stars that lie aside in the Exoplanetary fields. 
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Future Seminars 

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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR 
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Speaker: Nick Schneider (University of Colorado, Boulder) 
Title: Jupiter's Magnetosphere: A Volcano-Powered Nebula 

Date: Friday, May 11th, 2007 
Time: 12:00 
Venue: Villa Bazzoni 

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Abstract: The presence of extreme volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io has profound consequences on the entire jovian system. One of the most fascinating is the creation of a torus of heavy-ion plasma encircling Jupiter. This plasma torus is analogous to many astrophysical nebulae, but its study by telescope and spacecraft offers some cautionary lessons on interpretation. I will describe the origin of this plasma as well as its impact, both literal and figurative, on Jupiter and its other satellites. I will end by comparing Io with Saturn's moon Enceladus, recently discovered by the Cassini spacecraft to undergo equally remarkable activity. 


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JOINT DAUT-ICTP-OATS-SISSA COLLOQUIUM 
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Speaker: Max Pettini (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK) 
Title: The First Stars: Clues from Damped Lyman alpha Systems and Lyman Break Galaxies 

Date: Thursday, May 17th, 2007 
Time: 16:00 
Venue: Villa Bazzoni 


 
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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR 
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Speaker: Ettore Minguzzi (Università di Firenze) 
Title: Galactic flat rotational curves and Pioneers' anomalous acceleration 

Date: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 
Time: 12:00 
Venue: Villa Bazzoni 



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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR 
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Speaker: Erica Ellingson (University of Colorado, Boulder) 
Title: To Be Announced 

Date: Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 
Time: 12:00 
Venue: Villa Bazzoni 



 
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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR 
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Speaker: Andrea Vacchi (INFN Trieste) 
Title: To Be Announced 

Date: Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 
Time: 12:00 
Venue: Villa Bazzoni 



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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR 
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Speaker: Kenji Bekki (University of New South Wales, Australia) 
Title: Globular cluster systems and galaxy formation 

Date: Wednesdday, June 6th, 2007 
Time: 12:00 
Venue: Villa Bazzoni 

Abstract: We discuss the origin of physical properties of globular cluster systems (GCSs) in galaxies in terms of galaxy formation and evolution processes. Based on numerical simulations of dynamical evolution of GCSs in galaxies, we particularly discuss (1) the origin of radial density profiles of GCSs, (2) kinematics of GCSs in elliptical galaxies, (3) transformation from nucleated dwarf galaxies into GCs (e.g., omega Centauri), (4) the origin of GCSs in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and (5) formation of intragroup and intracluster GCs.


 
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JOINT DAUT-ICTP-OATS-SISSA COLLOQUIUM 
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Speaker: Albert Stebbins (Fermilab, Chicago) 
Title: Cosmological Large-Scale Structure 

Date: Thursday, June 21th, 2007 
Time: 16:00 
Venue: SISSA, Room D 

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For additional information on scheduled OAT seminars see:
http://adlibitum.oats.inaf.it/seminari/

Gabriella Schiulaz
segreteria OAT
Phone: 040-3199241
schiulaz at oats.inaf.it
segreteria at oats.inaf.it