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Gravitational lenses and dark matter – Black holes in astrophysics

This Course of the School of Astrophysics "F. Lucchin" for PhD students will be held in Madonna di Campiglio (Trento) during the week June 27-July 2, 2010.

Aims of the school

The School of Astrophysics "F. Lucchin" is mainly designed for PhD students in Astronomy and Physics, but interested young researchers and younger prospective graduate students are also encouraged to apply. The school aims at providing a comprehensive background in Astronomy and Astrophysics, from both a theoretical and an observational point of view. An attempt to reach this goal is performed through several series of lectures on forefront research topics.

The school is organized in cycles of two years, with a total amount of 120 hours of lectures per cycle. Each cycle is divided into four courses of one week. Each course is focused on two topics that are relevant for PhD students working in different research fields. The courses are usually located in centres that are close to different Astronomical Observatories and/or Universities to facilitate the interaction between students and the local astronomical research groups.
The archive of the past edition of the school can be found in a dedicated page.

Topics and speakers

The scientific organizing committee has chosen as topics for this Course of the school "Gravitational lensing and dark matter" and "Black holes in astrophysics."  The list of lecturers for both topics is reported below:

Gravitational lensing and dark matter
(Director: Marco Lombardi)
Black holes in astrophysics
(Director: Monica Colpi)
  • Matthias Bartelmann
  • Claudio Grillo
  • Charles Keeton
  • Marco Lombardi
  • Shude Mao
  • Elena Gallo
  • Andrew King
  • Alessandro Marconi
  • Giorgio Matt
More details on the topics and the speakers are given in the Program and Scientific rationale pages.

Scientific Organizing Committee

Giuseppe Bertin (University of Milano) 
Giuseppe Bono (University of Roma Tor Vergata)
Annalisa Celotti (SISSA, Trieste)
Priscilla Cerroni (IASF Roma)
Cesare Chiosi (University of Padova)
Lauro Moscardini (University of Bologna)

Local Organizing Committee

Claudio Grillo (Excellence Cluster, Garching)
Marco Lombardi (University of Milan, ESO)
Lauro Moscardini (University of Bologna)

Sponsor

The School has been sponsored by INAF, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica.

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