Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology

Seminars/Seminarji

  • Seminar on Thursday, September 26th, 2024, at 11:00 am. by Dr. Elena Pinetti (Fermi National Laboratory, USA): Hunting dark matter lines with the James Webb Space Telescope
  • Seminar on Thursday, September 5th, 2024, at 11:00 am. by Dr. Maruša Žerjal (Instituto Astrofisico de Canarias, Spain): Substellar science with the Euclid space telescope
  • Seminar on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024, at 2:00 pm. by Nina Bavdaž (Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Slovenia): The Future of Gamma-Ray Astronomy: CTAO and the sensitivity to Fermi Bubbles
  • Seminar on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024, at 11:00 am. by Darko Kolar (Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Slovenia): Observing the Universe with very high-energy cosmic photons
  • Seminar on Wednesday, July 24th, 2024, at 2:00 pm. by Prof. dr. Katarina (Dida) Markovič (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech, USA): Cosmology with Euclid and Roman Space Telescope
  • Seminar on Friday, June 14th, 2024, at 2:00 pm. by Prof. dr. Masahiro Teshima (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo, Japan and Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Germany): Toward shorter and brighter pulses: Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy and Future Prospects
  • Seminar on Wednesday, June 5th, 2024, at 2:00 pm. by Francesco Xotta (Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Slovenia): The Mysteries of the Gamma-Ray Universe
  • Seminar on Wednesday, June 5th, 2024, at 1:00 pm. by Eduardo Concepción (Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Slovenia): What is flaring in galactic nuclei?
  • Seminar on Thursday, May 23th, 2024, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Ilia Musco (La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy): Primordial Black Holes: formation and cosmological impact in the current Universe
  • Seminar on Monday, May 13th, 2024, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Rene A. Ong (UCLA, USA): The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory: Science and Status
  • Seminar on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024, at 1:00 pm. by Dr. Alenka Guček (Institute Jožef Stefan, Slovenia): The Power of Visuals: Learning to Display Scientific Data Effectively
  • Seminar on Thursday, April 11th, 2024, at 11:00 am. by Prof. Dr. Lukasz Wyrzykowski (University of Warsaw, Poland): Studying the hidden population of black holes in the Milky Way with microlensing and Gaia
  • Seminar on Tuesday, April 9th, 2024, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Robert Szabo (HUN-REN CSFK, Konkoly Observatory, Hungary): Variable Star Classification with Machine Learning
  • Seminar on Thursday, February 29th, 2024, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Anže Slosar (Brookhaven National Laboratory, US): LuSEE-Night: a Pathfinder Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon
  • Seminar on Tuesday, January 9th, 2024, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Enrico Peretti (CNRS, Paris Cité University): Particle acceleration and multi-messenger radiation from astrophysical outflows
  • Seminar on Thursday, November 30th, 2023, at 2:00 pm. by Prof. dr. Taeho Ryu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany): Two types of nuclear transients - tidal disruption events and disruptive collisions
  • Seminar on Thursday, November 9th, 2023, at 2:00 pm. by Mag. Blaž Bortolato (Institute Jožef Stefan, Slovenia): Learning the Composition of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
  • Seminar on Thursday, October 26th, 2023, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Mateja Gosenca (University of Vienna): Ultralight Dark Matter
  • Seminar on Thursday, August 31st, 2023, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Jurij Simčič (Institute Jožef Stefan): The role of mass spectrometers in space exploration
  • Seminar on Thursday, July 6th, 2023, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Justin Pierel (Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), US): Leveraging HST and JWST for Precision Cosmology with Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae
  • Seminar on Thursday, July 6th, 2023, at 9:00 am. by Mario Aguilar (Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Nova Gorica): Numerical Modelling of Tidal Disruptions Events
  • Seminar on Thursday, June 15th, 2023, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Alenka Guček (Institute Jožef Stefan): Effective data visualisation in scientific research
  • Seminar on Thursday, May 18th, 2023, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Sergey Popov (ICTP): Magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts
  • Seminar on Thursday, May 4th, 2023 at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Giorgos Leloudas (National Space Institute at Technical University of Denmark): Stars swallowed by supermassive black holes: just before the Vera Rubin Observatory
  • Seminar on Thursday, February 2nd, 2023, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Iztok Bončina: Virgo observatory - gravitational waves hunter
  • Two Seminars on Wednesday, December 21:
    • At 10:00 am, Dr. Kelly Hambleton Prša: Pulsations and Precision: Why Binary Stars Form the Building Blocks of Stellar Astrophysics
    • At 11:00 am, Dr. Andrej Prša: Life in the Universe
  • Seminar on Thursday, December 16, 2022, at 2:00 pm by Dr. Chiara Righi: CUBES - The high efficient UV spectrograph for the VLT
  • Seminar on Thursday, December 15, 2022, at 11:00 am by Dr. Marco Landoni: Active Galactic Nuclei and Neutrino emission
  • Seminar on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Clément Bonnerot: First light from tidal disruption events
  • Seminar on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 2:00 pm. by Dr. Giacomo Principe: The first catalog of Fermi-LAT sources below 100 MeV and future perspective for studies in the MeV band
  • Seminar on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. by Dr. Matteo Biagetti from the Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU): Exploring Cosmic Origins Through Large Scale Structure Observations
  • Seminar on Thursday, June 16th at 2:00 p.m. by Prof. Sašo Grozdanov, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana: From string fluids to a new theory of magnetic diffusion in neutron stars
  • Seminar on Thursday, May 5th at 2:00 p.m. by Prof. Danijel Skočaj, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana: Deep learning – key enabling technology for solving data-based problems
  • Seminar on Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. by Dr. Gauri Sharma, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy: A study of redshift evolution of dark matter density profile
  • 21 October 2021, Dr. Aleksandar Shulevski (Leiden University, Netherlands): Monitoring nearby stars for low-frequency radio transients using the AARTFAAC-12 dense aperture array telescope
  • 27 May 2021, Dr. Chris Stoughton (Fermilab, Illinois, USA), 'Fermilab g-2: Measuring the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon’. Recording of the talk.
  • 4 March 2021, Prof. Marusa Bradac (University of California, Davis, USA), 'Dark Matter and First Galaxies Light Up.’
  • 24 February 2020, Dr. Miha Petac (Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), France), 'Determination of Galactic dark matter distribution using machine learning.'
  • 20 November 2019, Prof. dr. Rebecca M. Bresnik (Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston, USA), 'Introduction to the space law’ and 'The future of space exploration.’
  • 25 September 2019, Dr. Sc. Vibor Jelić (Institut Ruđer Bošković, Croatia), 'Mysterious structures in our Galaxy obscuring the view towards the first stars in the Universe.’
  • 25 September 2019, Dr. Sc. Lovro Palaversa (Institut Ruđer Bošković, Croatia), 'Mapping the stars in the Milky Way’
  • 15 July 2019, Brenna Mockler (University of California, Santa Cruz USA), 'Weighing black holes with tidal disruption events’
  • 15 July 2019, Dr Nadejda Blagorodnova (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), 'Common envelope transients’
  • 11 July 2019, Dr Gerard Williger (Konkoly Observatory – University Louisville USA), 'Euclid and Large Synoptic Survey Telescope projects’, Slides
  • 15 May 2019, Prof. Dr. William Forman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), 'Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) at Work: The Effects of SMBH Outbursts on the Evolution of Gas Rich Galaxies, Groups, and Galaxy Clusters’
  • 18 April 2019, Arianna Miraval Zanon (University of Insubria and INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy), 'The challenge of transitional millisecond pulsars’
  • 21 March 2019, Dr. Fabrizio Fiore (Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Italy), 'HERMES: a constellation of nano-satellites for high energy astrophysics and fundamental physics’
  • 21 December 2018, Dr. Darko Donevski (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste), 'Characterising the most distant dusty galaxies in the Universe’
  • 21 June 2018, 14h, Dr. Vid Iršič (Department of Astronomy, University of Washington (USA)), 'Small scale structure of the inter galactic medium: a dark matter tale’.
  • 6 June 2018, Prof. Andrea de Simone (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste), 'From Machine Learning to High-Energy Physics’
  • 26 April 2018, 11am, Prof. Omar Tibolla (Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Mexico), ‘The Origin of Cosmic Rays, Pulsar Wind Nebulae and Unidentified High Energy Sources’
  • 26 April 2018, 11am, Prof. Željka Bošnjak (University of Zagreb), ‘Modelling of gamma-ray bursts and predictions for CTA observations’
  • 9 April 2018, Prof. Pierluigi Monaco (INAF – Astronomical Observatory & University of Trieste), ‘Simulating the Universe’
  • 9 April 2018, Herman Mikuž (Črni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics), 'Searching for NEO asteroids, comets and transient objects at Črni Vrh Observatory’
  • 23 November 2017, Dr. Aleksandra Ciprijanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia), “Particle Acceleration on Different Scales in Light of the Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Observations”
  • 26 October 2017, Dr. Jean-Marc Casandjian (CEA Saclay, France), “Gamma-ray interstellar emission: what did we learn with FermiLAT”
  • 13 April 2017, Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Amati (INAF – IASF Bologna), “Shedding light on the dark Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts”
  • 2 December 2016, Prof. Dr. Massimo Perisic (INAF – Astronomical Observatory & INFN, Trieste, Physics & Astronomy Dept., Univ. of Bologna), “MAGIC Highlights”
  • 9 November 2016, Iztok Bončina (Palladio), “The largest telescopes in the world”
  • 1 July 2016, Dr. Lara Nava (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), “High Energy radiation from Gamma Ray Bursts: what can we learn?
  • 9 June 2016, Dr. Dunja Fabjan (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana), “Scaling relations and their evolution from simulated galaxy clusters”
  • 19 May 2016, Prof. Dr. Tijana Prodanovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia), “Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in galactic Interactions and its implications”
  • 29 October 2015, Dr. Giacomo Bonolli (INAF – Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera – Sede di Merate, Italy), “Selected physics cases for observations of extreme blazars with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes”
  • 23 April 2015, Dr. Michele Doro (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Germany, University and INFN Padova, Italy), “Dark matter and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array”
  • 1 April 2015, Prof. Dr. Anita Reimer (University of Innsbruck, Avstrija), “Active Galactic Nuclei as Multimessenger Sources”
  • 3 December 2014, Prof. Dr. Francesco Longo (University of Trieste-INFN Trieste, Italy), “High Energy Astrophysics with current and future gamma-ray experiments”