Teaching

Official information on my courses can be found on the eLearning webpage of the University of Milano-Bicocca:

• Elementi di Astrofisica
• Laboratorio di Astrofisica
• Astrofisica Applicata

Elementi di Astrofisica (AA 2019/2020)

• Introduzione al corso
• Diagrammi H-R
• Evoluzione Stellare
• Nane Bianche
• Stelle di Neutroni
• Supernovae
• Buchi Neri
• Sistemi Binari ed Onde Gravitazionali
• Galassie
• AGN ed Ammassi di Galassie
• Cosmologia

Courses held at the University of Trento

Fisica Generale III (AA 2018/2019)

• Video sulla polarizzazione della luce [YouTube]
• Matlab script per la trasformata di Fourier di un’onda armonica [matlab file]
• Matlab script per la trasformata di Fourier di un pacchetto d’onde [matlab file]
• Light Sail
• Matlab script per plottare il vettore di Poynting per il dipolo elettrico oscillante [matlab file]
• Esperimento di Franck e Hertz con gas Neon [slides in pdf]
• Dualismo Onda Particella (vedi anche queste slides e http://toutestquantique.fr/en/)
• Soluzione Numerica dell’Equazione di Schroedinger [script matlab e filmati] (vedi anche arXiv:0704.1622)

High Energy Astrophysics (AY 2018/2019)

Main References (L-1 means for example Chapter 1 of Longair):

• “High Energy Astrophysics” by M. S. Longair [L]
• “Introduction to High-Energy Astrophysics” by S. Rosswog and M. Brueggen [RB]
• “Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars” by S. L. Shapiro and S. A. Teukolsky [ST]
• “A First Course in General Relativity” by B. F. Schutz [S]

Lectures:

1. 19/02 (16:30-18:30 A212) Introduction [L-A1, L-A4, L-1]
2. 22/02 (14:30-16:30 A218) Stellar Structure [L-2]
   26/02 (16:30-18:30 A212) no lecture
3. 01/03 (14:30-16:30 A218) Stellar Evolution [L-2], Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters [L-3, L-4]
4. 05/03 (16:30-18:30 A212) Polytropic Equation of State [ST-2]
5. 08-03 (14:30-16:30 A218) White Dwarfs [ST-3]
6. 12-03 (16:30-18:30 A212) White Dwarfs [ST-4] [exercise 1]
7. 15-03 (14:30-16:30 A218) TOV Equations
8. 19-03 (16:30-18:30 A212) Pulsars [RB-5]
9. 22-03 (14:30-16:30 A218) Black Holes [ST-12]
10. 26-03 (16:30-18:30 A212) Black Holes [ST-12]
11. 29-03 (14:30-16:30 A218) Gravitational Waves [S-8, S-9]
12. 02-04 (16:30-18:30 A212) Gravitational Waves [S-9]
13. 05-04 (14:30-16:30 A218) GW Sources: NS Collapse to BH
14. 09-04 (16:30-18:30 A212) GW Sources: Binary Black Holes
15. 12-04 (14:30-16:30 A218) GW Sources: Binary Neutron Stars
16. 16-04 (16:30-18:30 A212) GW Sources: Binary Neutron Stars
    19-04 (14:30-16:30 A218) no lecture
17. 30-04 (16:30-18:30 A212) Gamma Ray Bursts [RB-7]
18. 03-05 (14:30-16:30 A218) Gamma Ray Bursts [RB-7]
19. 07-05 (16:30-18:30 A212) EM Counterparts of NS-NS and NS-BH Mergers
20. 10-05 (14:30-16:30 A218) GW170817
21. 14-05 (16:30-18:30 A212) Active Galactic Nuclei [L-18, RB-8] [exercise 2]
22. 17-05 (14:30-16:30 A218) Active Galactic Nuclei [L-18, RB-8]
23. 21-05 (16:30-18:30 A212) Active Galactic Nuclei [L-18, RB-8]
24. 24-05 (14:30-16:30 A218) Active Galactic Nuclei [L-18, RB-8]

List of Possible Topics for the Final Exam