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1 I TERM Academic Year Lecture (45min+45min) Lecturer Introduction to General Relativity Antonio Lanza 13 Lectures Stellar Structure and Evolution Alessandro Bressan 13 lectures Cosmology Luigi Danese 12 lectures Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, Francesca Perrotta 6 lectures Computational Physics I (mandatory, 4 lectures) & II (optional, 3 lectures), Riccardo Valdarnini, valda at sissa.it Statistical Methods in Astrophysics and Cosmology, Andrea Lapi lapi@sissa.it, 12 lectures I II TERM Dark Matter & Energy, Paolo Salucci, salucci@sissa.it, 13 lectures Linear Cosmological Perturbation Theory and Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies, Carlo Baccigalupi, bacci at sissa.it, Advanced GR + QFT Stefano Liberati liberati@sissa.it, 14 lectures Early Universe Sabino Matarrese matarrese@pd.infn.it, 3 lectures Large Scale Structure, I, Riccardo Valdarnini, valda at sissa. It, 3 lectures Large Scale Structure, II, Matteo Viel, viel at sissa.it, 13 lectures III TERM Compact Objects J, John Miller, jcm@astro.ox.ac.uk, 6 lectures, Relativistic hydrodynamics Compact Objects M, Monica Colpi, colpi@mib.infn.it, 4 lectures, Binary systems Emission of Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects, Enrico Barausse, 4 lectures High Energy Astrophysics, Annalisa Celotti, celotti@sissa.it, 8 lectures Gamma Ray Bursts, Lara Nava, nava at oats.inaf.it, 4 lectures Data Analysis in Astrophysics, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, giancarlo.ghirlanda@brera.inaf.it, 2 lectures Star Dynamics: Explosive NucleoSynthesis, Marco Limongi, marco.limongi@oa-roma.inaf.it, 3 lectures Dynamics of stars and Black Holes in dense environments, michela.mapelli@oapd.inaf.it, 4 lectures Sub-mm Astronomy, Marcella Massardi, massardi at ira.inaf.it, 4 lectures Inter-Galactic Medium, Stefano Cristiani, stefano.cristiani@oats.inaf.it, 5 lectures Astrobiology, Giovanni Vladilo, 5 lectures, vladilo at oats.inaf.it

2 5-Nov-17 Room :11 11:13 14:16 6-Nov AM, WELCOME MEETING TO STUDENTS Intro to GR 1 Stellar Struct Evol 1 7-Nov-17 Stellar Struct Evol 2 Intro to GR 2 8-Nov-17 Stellar Struct Evol 3 Intro to GR 3 9-Nov-17 Stellar Struct Evol 4 Intro to GR 4 10-Nov Nov Nov Nov-17 Stellar Struct Evol 5 Intro to GR 5 14-Nov-17 Stellar Struct Evol 6 Radiative Processes 1 15-Nov-17 Stellar Struct Evol 7 Radiative Processes 2 Intro to GR 6 16-Nov-17 Stellar Struct Evol 8 Radiative Processes 3 Computational Physics I 1 17-Nov-17 Computational Physics I 2 18-Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov-17 Stellar S. E.: Chemical Evol. 9 Cosmology 1 Intro to GR 7 23-Nov-17 Statistical Methods 1 Cosmology 2 Radiative Processes 4 24-Nov-17 Computational Physics I 3 Radiative Processes 5 25-Nov Nov Nov-17 Stellar Struct Evol 10 Intro to GR 8 28-Nov-17 WELCOME DAY WELCOME DAY Stellar S. E.: Pop. Synth. 11 (at 15:30) 29-Nov-17 Statistical Methods 2 Cosmology 3 Intro to GR 9 30-Nov-17 Statistical Methods 3 Cosmology 4 Radiative Processes 6 and 7 1-Dec-17 Computational Physics I 4 SS&E First Stars 12 2-Dec-17 3-Dec-17 4-Dec-17 SS&E First Stars 13 Intro to GR 10 5-Dec-17 Statistical Methods 4 Radiative Processes 8 6-Dec-17 Statistical Methods 5 Cosmology 5 Intro to GR 11 7-Dec-17 Statistical Methods 6 Cosmology 6 Radiative Processes 9 8-Dec-17 9-Dec Dec Dec-17 Radiative Processes 10 Intro to GR Dec-17 Statistical Methods 7 Cosmology 7 Intro to GR Dec-17 Statistical Methods 8 Cosmology 8 14-Dec-17 Statistical Methods 9 Cosmology 9 15-Dec Dec Dec Dec-17 Statistical Methods 10 Cosmology Dec-17 Statistical Methods 11 Cosmology Dec-17 Cosmology Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec-17 1-Jan-18 2-Jan-18 3-Jan-18 4-Jan-18 5-Jan-18 6-Jan-18 7-Jan-18 8-Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 1 Early Universe 1 9-Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 2 Early Universe 2 10-Jan-18 Early Universe 3 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 3 11-Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 4 Computational Physics II 1

3 12-Jan Jan Jan Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 5 CMB and Cosm. Pertur Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 6 Advanced GR 1 17-Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 7 CMB and Cosm. Pertur Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 8 Advanced GR 2 19-Jan-18 CMB and Cosm. Pertur. 3 Computational Physics II 2 20-Jan Jan Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 9 CMB and Cosm. Pertur Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 10 Advanced GR 3 24-Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 11 CMB and Cosm. Pertur Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 12 Advanced GR 4 26-Jan-18 Computational Physics II 3 27-Jan Jan Jan-18 Dark Matter & Dark Energy 13 CMB and Cosm. Pertur Jan-18 LSS 1 Advanced GR 5 31-Jan-18 LSS 2 CMB and Cosm. Pertur. 7 1-Feb-18 LSS 3 Advanced GR 6 2-Feb-18 CMB and Cosm. Pertur. 8 3-Feb-18 4-Feb-18 5-Feb-18 Inter-Galactic Medium 1 Advanced GR 7 6-Feb-18 Inter-Galactic Medium 2 Advanced GR 8 7-Feb-18 Advanced GR 9 8-Feb-18 Advanced GR 10 9-Feb Feb Feb Feb-18 Inter-Galactic Medium 3 CMB and Cosm. Pertur. 9 Data Analysis in Astrophysics 1 13-Feb-18 Inter-Galactic Medium 4 CMB and Cosm. Pertur Feb-18 High Energy Astrophysics 1 CMB and Cosm. Pertur. 11 Data Analysis in Astrophysics 2 15-Feb-18 Inter-Galactic Medium 5 CMB and Cosm. Pertur Feb Feb Feb Feb-18 High Energy Astrophysics 2 CMB and Cosm. Pertur Feb-18 CMB and Cosm. Pertur. 14 Advanced GR Feb-18 STUDENT DAY STUDENT DAY STUDENT DAY 22-Feb-18 High Energy Astrophysics 3 Advanced GR Feb Feb Feb Feb-18 High Energy Astrophysics 4 LSS II, 1 27-Feb-18 CMB and Cosm. Pertur. 15 Advanced GR Feb-18 High Energy Astrophysics 5 LSS II, 2 1-Mar-18 High Energy Astrophysics 6 Advanced GR 14 2-Mar-18 Gamma Ray Bursts 1 3-Mar-18 4-Mar-18 5-Mar-18 High Energy Astrophysics 7 LSS II, 3 6-Mar-18 Compact Objects 1 J Advanced GR 15 7-Mar-18 High Energy Astrophysics 8 LSS II, 4 8-Mar-18 Compact Objects 2 J Advanced GR 16 9-Mar-18 Compact Objects 3 J Gamma Ray Bursts 2 10-Mar Mar Mar-18 Compact Objects 4 J LSS II, 5 13-Mar-18 Gamma Ray Bursts 3 Advanced GR Mar-18 Compact Objects 5 J LSS II, 6 15-Mar-18 Gamma Ray Bursts 4 Advanced GR 18 Compact Objects 6 J 16-Mar-18 Compact Objects 7 J 17-Mar Mar-18

4 19-Mar-18 LSS II, 7 Sub-mm Astronomy 1 20-Mar-18 Compact Objects 8 E LSS II, 8 21-Mar-18 Compact Objects 9 E LSS II, 9 Sub-mm Astronomy 2 22-Mar-18 Compact Objects 10 E LSS II, Mar-18 Compact Objects 11 E 24-Mar Mar Mar-18 LSS II, Mar-18 LSS II, Mar-18 LSS II, 13 Astrobiology 1 29-Mar-18 Explosive Nucleosynthesis 1 Astrobiology 2 Explosive Nucleosynthesis 2 30-Mar-18 Explosive Nucleosynthesis 3 31-Mar-18 1-Apr-18 2-Apr-18 3-Apr-18 4-Apr-18 5-Apr-18 6-Apr-18 7-Apr-18 8-Apr-18 9-Apr-18 Astrobiology 3 Star Collisions 1 Sub-mm Astronomy 3 10-Apr-18 Star Collisions 2 Sub-mm Astronomy 4 11-Apr-18 Star Collisions 3 Astrobiology 4 12-Apr-18 Star Collisions 4 13-Apr-18 Astrobiology 5 0

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