INAF PhD School Francesco Lucchin - Agerola

26 Oct 2025, 13:00 → 31 Oct 2025, 15:10 UTC

Campus Principe di Napoli, Agerola (NA)

Sunday 26 October

19:00 → 21:00 Welcome cocktail

Monday 27 October

09:00 → 09:30 Opening and Institutional Greetings

09:30 → 11:00 Pulsating variables in the classical instability strip

Speaker: Vincenzo Ripepi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Neutron stars in X-ray binaries as observed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Speaker: Alessandro Di Marco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Population II pulsating stars as tracers of the Milky Way and Local Group evolution - part I

Speaker: Dr Matteo Monelli (INAF - Osservatorio di Roma)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 The hitchhiker's guide to the IXPE data analysis

Speaker: Alessandro Di Marco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:00 → 19:00 Student Presentations (Master Thesis or PhD Project)

Tuesday 28 October

09:30 → 11:00 Classical Cepheids as distance indicators and young population pulsating tracers

Speaker: Vincenzo Ripepi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:00 → 11:30 Cofee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Using multi-band observations to unveil the secrets of X-ray binaries I: accretion flows

Speaker: Alessio Marino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Hands on: Pulsation models

Speaker: G. De Somma/M. Marconi

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 Hands on: Uncoherent timing analysis of X-ray binaries

Speaker: Sara Elisa Motta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

18:00 → 19:00 Student Presentations (Master Thesis or PhD Project)

Wednesday 29 October

09:30 → 11:00 Population II pulsating stars as tracers of the Milky Way and Local Group evolution - part II

Speaker: Dr Matteo Monelli (INAF - Osservatorio di Roma)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 X-ray binaries: taking the beat of the quickest spinning compact objects - part I

Speaker: Alessandro Papitto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 23:30 Ravello tour with a visit to Villa Cimbrone and Amalfi tour

Thursday 30 October

09:30 → 11:00 The role of giants and variables in tracing the Milky Way bulge formation and evolution: part I

Speaker: Elena Valenti (ESO)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 Using multi-band observations to unveil the secrets of X-ray binaries II: jets

Speaker: Alessio Marino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Hands on: Time series analysis of variable stars

Speaker: V. Braga/G. Bono

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 Hands on: Coherent timing analysis of binary radio pulsars for fundamental physics investigations

Speaker: M. Burgay/A. Possenti

19:00 → 23:00 Social Pizza Dinner (Pizza-Making Class)

Friday 31 October

09:30 → 11:00 The role of giants and variables in tracing the Milky Way bulge formation and evolution: part II

Speaker: Elena Valenti (ESO)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 X-ray binaries: taking the beat of the quickest spinning compact objects - part II

Speaker: Alessandro Papitto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

13:00 → 13:30 Conclusions SOC/LOC

13:30 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 15:10 Transfer to Naples Airport/Train Station