Presentations to international conferences and meetings
(pdf files available for free download)
"Internal kinematics of globular clusters"
Francesco R. Ferraro
Invited talk at Science with MOS: towards the E-ELT Era, 7-11 September 2015, Cefalu`, Italy
PDF version: Ferraro_Cefalu15.pdf
"Clocks and scales to understand the physics of BSS"
Francesco R. Ferraro
Invited talk at Modest 15-S, 7-11 December 2015, Kobe, Japan
PDF version: Ferraro_Kobe15.pdf
"Internal dynamics of globular clusters: an observational perspective"
Barbara Lanzoni
Invited talk at Modest 15-S, 7-11 December 2015, Kobe, Japan
PDF version: Lanzoni_Kobe15.pdf
"Clocks and Scales to understand Globular Cluster and BSS Physics"
Francesco Ferraro
Invited talk at OABO-UniBO Joint Thursday Seminars, 11 February 2016, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Ferraro_BO_feb16.pdf
"The COSMIC-LAB Project: overiew & results"
Francesco Ferraro
Talk at COSMIC-LAB / MODEST 16 Conference, 18-22 April 2016, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Ferraro_CosmicLab16.pdf
"BSSs in globular clusters: observational results"
Emanuele Dalessandro
Talk at COSMIC-LAB / MODEST 16 Conference, 18-22 April 2016, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Dalessandro_CosmicLab16.pdf
"N-body simulations with BSSs: defining mass segregation indicators"
Emiliano Alessandrini
Talk at COSMIC-LAB / MODEST 16 Conference, 18-22 April 2016, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Alessandrini_CosmicLab16.pdf
"Optical companions to millisecond pulsars in globular clusters"
Cristina Pallanca
Talk at COSMIC-LAB / MODEST 16 Conference, 18-22 April 2016, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Pallanca_CosmicLab16.pdf
"Optical identification of the Black Widod M71A and the dynamical status of its host GC"
Mario Cadelano
Talk at COSMIC-LAB / MODEST 16 Conference, 18-22 April 2016, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Cadelano_CosmicLab16.pdf
"Searching for IMBHs in globular clusters with SINFONI"
Barbara Lanzoni
Talk at COSMIC-LAB / MODEST 16 Conference, 18-22 April 2016, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Lanzoni_CosmicLab16.pdf
"Searching fin the dark: mass content of globular clusters"
Antonio Sollima
Talk at COSMIC-LAB / MODEST 16 Conference, 18-22 April 2016, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Sollima_CosmicLab16.pdf
"Spurious and real iron spreads in globular clusters"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Talk at COSMIC-LAB / MODEST 16 Conference, 18-22 April 2016, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Mucciarelli_CosmicLab16.pdf
"Terzan 5: the remnant of a pristine fragment of the Galactic Bulge"
Francesco R. Ferraro
Invited talk at Origin and Complexity of Massive Star Clusters - Special Session at IAU XXVIII General Assembly, 20-24 August, 2012, Beijing, China.
PDF version: Ferraro_Beijing12.pdf
"Probing the dynamical evolution of stellar aggregates with blue straggler stars"
Barbara Lanzoni
in Origin and Complexity of Massive Star Clusters - Special Session at IAU XXVIII General Assembly, 20-24 August, 2012, Beijing, China.
PDF version: Lanzoni_Beijing12.pdf
"Probing dynamics of globular clusters with Blue Stragglers and Millisecond Pulsars"
Francesco R. Ferraro
Invited talk at Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters, 10-14 September, 2012, Leiden, the Netherlands.
PDF version: Ferraro_Leiden12.pdf
"Optical companions to binary millisecond pulsars in globular clusters"
Cristina Pallanca
in Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters, 10-14 September, 2012, Leiden, the Netherlands.
PDF version: Pallanca_Leiden12.pdf
"BSS as probe-particles of cluster internal dynamics: an observational prospective"
Francesco R. Ferraro
Invited talk at The Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars , 5-9 November, 2012, Santiago, Chile.
PDF version: Ferraro_Chile12.pdf
"Probing the dynamical evolution of stellar aggregates with BSS radial distributions"
Barbara Lanzoni
in The Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars , 5-9 November, 2012, Santiago, Chile.
PDF version: Lanzoni_Chile12.pdf
"Probing the dynamical state of stellar aggregates with BSS double sequences"
Emanuele Dalessandro
in The Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars , 5-9 November, 2012, Santiago, Chile.
PDF version: Dalessandro_Chile12.pdf
"Chemical properties of Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Clusters"
Alessio Mucciarelli
in The Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars , 5-9 November, 2012, Santiago, Chile.
PDF version: Mucciarelli_Chile12.pdf
"Kinematical properties of BSS in Gaactic Globular Clusters"
Loredana Lovisi
in The Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars , 5-9 November, 2012, Santiago, Chile.
PDF version: Lovisi_Chile12.pdf
"UV propeties of Galactic globular clusters with GALEX"
Emanuele Dalessandro
in Reading the book of globular clusters with the lens of stellar evolution, 26-28 November, 2012, Rome, Italy.
PDF version: Dalessandro_Roma12.pdf
"Candidate optical companions to Globular Cluster Pulsars"
Cristina Pallanca
in Physical Applications of Millisecond Pulsars, 19-24 January, 2013, Aspen, CO-USA.
PDF version: Pallanca_Aspen13.pdf
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"Kinematics of NGC 6388 from the radial velocities of individual stars"
Barbara Lanzoni
in SnowPAC 2013, Black Hole Fingerpints, 17-23 March, 2013, Snowbird, Utah, USA.
PDF version: Lanzoni_SnowPAC13.pdf
"TERZAN 5: The remnant of a pristine fragment of the Galactic Bulge?"
Francesco R. Ferraro
Invited talk at ESO/MPA/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Colloquium, 18 April, 2013, Garching, Germany.
PDF version: Ferraro_ESO13.pdf
"An empirical clock to measure the dynamical age of stellar systems"
Emanuele Dalessandro
in 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, May 27-31, 2013, Seoul, Korea.
PDF version: Dalessandro_Seoul13.pdf
Small Stellar Systems in Tuscany:
From Globular Cluster to Dwarf Galaxies and Eveything in Between
10-14 June 2013, Prato, Italy
"TERZAN 5: The remnant of a pristine fragment of the Galactic Bulge?"
Francesco R. Ferraro
Invited talk at Small Stellar Systems in Tuscany: From Globular Cluster to Dwarf Galaxies and Eveything in Between, 10-14 June, 2013, Prato, Italy.
PDF version: Ferraro_Prato13.pdf
"Stellar models for clusters and individual stars: an observational perspective"
Francesco R. Ferraro
in Steps Towards a New Generation of Stellar Models, 1-5 July, 2013, Leiden, the Netherlands.
PDF version: Ferraro_Leiden13.pdf
"TERZAN 5: the remnant of a pristine fragment of the Galactic Bulge?"
Barbara Lanzoni
in EWASS 2013, Local Group, Local Cosmology, 8-9 July, 2013, Turku, Finland.
PDF version: Lanzoni_Turku13.pdf
"An IMBH in the core of NGC 6388? New constraints from the radial velocities of individual stars"
Barbara Lanzoni
in VIII Congresso Nazionale sugli Oggetti Compatti, 17-19 September, 2013, Ferrara, Italy.
PDF version: Lanzoni_CNOCVIII13.pdf
"Optical companions to binary millisecond pulsars in globular clusters"
Cristina Pallanca
in VIII Congresso Nazionale sugli Oggetti Compatti, 17-19 September, 2013, Ferrara, Italy.
PDF version: Pallanca_CNOCVIII13.pdf
"Old stellar systems in UV: resolved and integrated propeties"
Emanuele Dalessandro
in ESO/NUVA/IAG Workshop on Challenges in UV Astronomy, 7-11 October 2013, Garching, Germany.
PDF version: Dalessandro_ESO13.pdf
ESO/NUVA/IAG Workshop on Challenges in UV Astronomy
7-11 October 2013
ESO-Garching, Germany
"Globular clusters: a chemical roadmap between anomalies and homogeneity"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Invited talk at Metal Production and Distribution in a Hierarchical Universe, Les Rencontres de l’Observatoire 2013 - ESO Workshop, 21-25 October 2013, Meudon (Paris), France.
PDF version: Mucciarelli_Paris13.pdf
Reading the book of globular clusters
with the lens of stellar evolution
Rome, 26-28 November 2012
"Chemical abundances of Blue Straggler Stars in Galactic Globular clusters"
Loredana Lovisi
in Metal Production and Distribution in a Hierarchical Universe, Les Rencontres de l’Observatoire 2013 - ESO Workshop, 21-25 October 2013, Meudon (Paris), France.
PDF version: Lovisi_Paris13.pdf
"Terzan 5: a pristine fragment of the Galactic bulge?"
Davide Massari
in Metal Production and Distribution in a Hierarchical Universe, Les Rencontres de l’Observatoire 2013 - ESO Workshop, 21-25 October 2013, Meudon (Paris), France.
PDF version: Massari_Paris13.pdf
"Rotational velocities of Blue Straggler Stars in Galactic Globular clusters"
Loredana Lovisi
in 400 years of stellar rotation, 21-26 November 2013, Natal, Brasil.
PDF version: Lovisi_Brasil13.pdf
"Terzan 5: the remnant of a pristine fragment of the Galactic Bulge?"
Alessio Mucciarelli
in ESO Santiago Science Colloquia and Seminars, 29 November 2013, Santiago, Chile.
PDF version: Mucciarelli_ESOChile13.pdf
"Terzan 5: the remnant of a pristine fragment of the Galactic Bulge?"
Francesco Ferraro
Invited talk at Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, 14 March 2014, Bonn, Germany.
PDF version: Ferraro_Bonn_march14.pdf
"An empirical clock to measure the dynamical age of stellar systems"
Francesco Ferraro
in Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV, Looking to the future, Accademia dei Lincei, 17-20 March 2014, Rome. Italy.
PDF version: Ferraro_Rome_march14.pdf
"Optical companions to binary millisecond pulsars in globular clusters: the case of the transient IGR J18245-2452/PSR J1824-2452I"
Cristina Pallanca
in The structure and signals of Neutron Stars, from Birth to Death, 24-28 March, 2014, Florence, Italy
PDF version: Pallanca_Firenze14.pdf
"Observing Tools. Feedback from the Cosmic-Lab project"
Livia Origlia
Invited talk at the 38th User Committee Meeting, 11 April, 2014, Garching, Germany
PDF version: Origlia_ESOUserComm_apr14.pdf
"An empirical clock to measure the dynamical age of stellar systems"
Francesco Ferraro
Invited talk at Astromeeting Colloquia at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, 7 May, 2014, Napoli, Italy
PDF version: Ferraro_Capodimonte14.pdf
"An empirical clock to measure the dynamical age of stellar systems"
Francesco Ferraro
Invited talk at LVIII Congresso SAIt, 14 May, 2014, Milano, Italy
PDF version: Ferraro_sait_may14.pdf
"Searching for intermediate-mass black holes in Galactic globular clusters"
Barbara Lanzoni
Invited talk at The dance of stars: dense stellar systems from infant to old, 2-6 June, 2014, Bad Honnef, Germany
PDF version: Lanzoni_modest14_Bonn.pdf
"Blue Straggler Stars in globular clusters as dynamical probes"
Francesco Ferraro
Invited talk at The dance of stars: dense stellar systems from infant to old, 2-6 June, 2014, Bad Honnef, Germany
PDF version: Ferraro_modest14_Bonn.pdf
"Optical companions to Red-Backs and Black-Widows in Globular Clusters"
Cristina Pallanca
in The unquiet universe, 9-14 June, 2014, Cefalu`, Italy
PDF version: PallancaCefalu14.pdf
"Terzan 5: the remnant of a pristine fragment of the Galactic Bulge?"
Francesco Ferraro
Invited talk at The Evolution of Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters & Early-type Galaxies, 17-19 June, Seoul, Korea
PDF version: Ferraro_Seoul14.pdf
"First evidence of a fully spatially mixed first and second generation in GCs"
Emanuele Dalessandro
in A Critical Look at Globular Cluster Formation Theories: Constraints from Young Massive Clusters, 14-18 July, Sexten, Italy
PDF version: Dalessandro_Sesto14.pdf
"Terzan 5: a pristine fragment of the Galactic bulge?"
Davide Massari
in A Critical Look at Globular Cluster Formation Theories: Constraints from Young Massive Clusters, 14-18 July, Sexten, Italy
PDF version: Massari_Sesto14.pdf
"The Magellanic Clouds: an extragalactic view on the globular cluster formation"
Alessio Mucciarelli
in A Critical Look at Globular Cluster Formation Theories: Constraints from Young Massive Clusters, 14-18 July, Sexten, Italy
PDF version: Mucciarelli_Sesto14.pdf
"Exotic populations in GGCs: BSS as tracers of the internal dynamical evolution of star clusters"
Francesco Ferraro
Invited talk at Star Clusters and Black Holes in galaxies across the cosmic time”, IAU Symposium 312, 25-29 August 2014, Beijing, China
PDF version: Ferraro_Beijing14.pdf
"Searching for IMBHs in globular clusters through the radial velocities of individual stars"
Barbara Lanzoni
Invited talk at Star Clusters and Black Holes in galaxies across the cosmic time”, IAU Symposium 312, 25-29 August 2014, Beijing, China
PDF version: Lanzoni_Beijing14.pdf
"An empirical clock to measure the dynamical age of star clusters"
Francesco Ferraro
Invited talk at Stellar N-body dynamics, 9-12 September 2014, Sexten, Italy
PDF version: Ferraro_Sesto14.pdf
"Globular clusters in UV: from the Horizontal Branch to integrated colors"
Emanuele Dalessandro
Talk at Rasputin - Resolved And unresolved Stellar PopUlaTIoNs, 13-17 October 2014, ESO Garching, Germany
PDF version: Dalessandro_rasputin14.pdf
"The Horizontal Branch morphology and UV properties of old stellar populations"
Emanuele Dalessandro
Invited talk at INAF - Roma Observatory, 18 November 2015, Roma, Italy
PDF version: Dalessandro_Roma14.pdf
"IMBHs in globular clusters through individual star radial velocities"
Barbara Lanzoni
Talk at Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters, 2015 Aspen Conference, 17-22 January 2015, Aspen, USA
PDF version: Lanzoni_Aspen15.pdf
"IMBHs (& velocity dispersion profiles) in Galactic globular clusters through radial velocities of individual star "
Barbara Lanzoni
Talk at MODEST 15, Modelling and observing dense stellar systems, 2-6 March 2015, Concepcion, Chile
PDF version: Lanzoni_modest15.pdf
"Rotational Velocities in Globular Cluster Blue Straggler Stars"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Talk at MODEST 15, Modelling and observing dense stellar systems, 2-6 March 2015, Concepcion, Chile
PDF version: Mucciarelli_modest15.pdf
"The primordial binary fraction in low-density Galactic globular clusters"
Emanuele Dalessandro
Talk at MODEST 15, Modelling and observing dense stellar systems, 2-6 March 2015, Concepcion, Chile
PDF version: Dalessandro_modest15.pdf
"An empirical clock to measure the dynamical age of stellar systems"
Francesco R. Ferrao
Talk at MODEST 15, Modelling and observing dense stellar systems, 2-6 March 2015, Concepcion, Chile
PDF version: Ferraro_modest15.pdf
"The chemical composition of AGB stars in globular clusters"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Talk at EWASS 2015, Sp5 - AGB stars: a key ingredient in the understanding and interpretation of stellar populations, 26 June 2015, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
PDF version: Mucciarelli_AGB_ewass15.pdf
"Constraining the He abundance in the horizontal branch of globular clusters"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Talk at EWASS 2015, Sp11 - Horizontal branch stars and UV radiation from old stellar populations: what we know and what we are still missing, 22 June 2015, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
PDF version: Mucciarelli_HB_ewass15.pdf
"Hunting for Black Widow Optical Companions in Globular Clusters"
Mario Cadelano
Talk at EWASS 2015, Symposium S11 - Neutron stars at the crossroads: X-ray binaries and transitional millisecond pulsars, 25-26 June 2015, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
PDF version: Cadelano_ewass15.pdf
"The Magellanic Clouds: an extragalactic view on the globular cluster formation"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Invited talk at at INAF - Roma Observatory, 3 June 2014, Roma, Italy PDF version: Mucciarelli_Roma14.pdf
"The impact of NLTE on the globular cluster metallicity"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Invited talk at INAF-Arcetri Observatory, 9 April 2015, Arcetri (Firenze), Italy
PDF version: Mucciarelli_Arcetri15.pdf
"The impact of NLTE on the globular cluster metallicity"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Talk at Frontiers of Stellar Spectroscopy in the Local Group and beyond, 27-30 April 2015, Heidelberg, Germany
PDF version: Mucciarelli_heidelberg15.pdf
"Spurious and real iron spreads in globular clusters"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Invited talk at Universidad de Concepcion, 13 July 2015, Concepcion, Chile
PDF version: Mucciarelli_Concepcion15.pdf
"Spurious and real iron spreads in globular clusters"
Alessio Mucciarelli
Invited talk in ESO Santiago Science Colloquia and Seminars, 14 July 2015, Santiago, Chile.
PDF version: Mucciarelli_EsoChile15.pdf
"Optical Companions to Millisiconds Pulsars in Globular Clusters"
Mario Cadelano
Talk at IX Congresso Nazionale sugli Oggetti Compatti, 22-25 September, 2015, Monte Porzio Catone (Roma), Italy
PDF version: Cadelano_CNOC15.pdf
"COSMIC-LAB: project overview and results"
Francesco Ferraro
Invited talk at OABO-UniBO Joint Thursday Seminars, 14 January 2014, Bologna, Italy.
PDF version: Ferraro_BO_jan14.pdf