The Fourth Azarquiel School of Astronomy: a Bridge between East and West

11 Jun 2017, 09:00 → 16 Jun 2017, 20:00 Europe/Rome

Portopalo di Capo Passero - Syracuse, Italy

Maurizio Busso (PG)

Sponsored by

Sunday, 11 June

18:00 → 22:00 Registration

20:00 → 22:00 Welcome Party

Monday, 12 June

10:00 → 10:30 Welcome Address

Speaker: Maurizio Busso (PG)

10:30 → 12:45 Morning Lessons

10:30 Arabic Atronomy in Sicily

Speaker: Ileana Chinnici

Slides chinnici.ppt

11:15 Gamma Rays

Speaker: Alessandro De Angelis (PD)

Slides deangelis-1.pdf

12:00 Gamma Rays

Speaker: Alessandro De Angelis (PD)

Slides deangelis-2.pdf

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:45 Afternoon Lessons

14:30 Supernovae and Cosmology

Speaker: Inma Dominguèz

Slides dominguez.ppt

15:15 Nucleosynthesis and Evolution in Low Mass Stars

Speaker: Prof. Mounib El Eid (American University of Beirut (AUB))

Slides eleid-1.pptx

16:00 Nucleosynthesis and Evolution in Massive Stars

Speaker: Prof. Mounib El Eid (American University of Beirut (AUB))

Slides eleid-2.pptx

16:45 → 17:15 Break

17:15 → 18:35 Student Presentations

17:15 Study of diffuse background of cosmic neutrinos with the antares neutrino telescope

Speaker: Mr Pedro De la Torre-Luque (University of Granada)

Slides 01-delatorre.pdf

17:28 Long-Term Spectral Evolution of Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197

Speaker: Ms Eda Vurgun (Istanbul University)

Slides 02-vurgun.pptx

17:41 Thin Accretion Disks Around Black Holes Modeling the Secondary Outburst

Speaker: Mehmet Deniz Aksulu

Slides 03-aksulu.pdf

18:05 Signatures of GCR events of Magnetar flares

Speaker: Mohamed Ismaiel (Helwan University)

Slides 04-ismaiel.pptx

18:20 Probing homogeneity of the Cosmos using Quasars

Speaker: Mr Atul Kedia (University of Notre Dame)

Slides 05-kedia.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Publich Speech

19:00 Arabic Tradition in the Exact Sciences - Tradizione Araba nelle Scienze Esatte

Speaker: Nader El-Bizri

21:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 13 June

10:30 → 12:45 Morning Lessons

10:30 High Resolution Spectroscopy and Stellar/Galactic Chemical Evolution

Speaker: Chris Sneden

Slides sneden-1.pptx

11:15 Stellar Spectroscopic Uses and Abuses

Speaker: Chris Sneden

Slides sneden-2.pptx

12:00 Abundances in Stars and Meteorites

Speaker: Ayşegül Fulya Teker Yelkenci

Slides tekeryelkenci.pdf

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:45 Afternoon Lessons

14:30 Neutrino Astrophysics and KM3NeT - Neutrinos from the Sun and Supernovae

Speaker: Francesco Vissani (LNGS)

Slides vissani.pptx

15:15 Neutrino Astrophysics and KM3NeT - High energies neutrinos IceCube and KM3NeT

Speaker: Francesco Vissani (LNGS)

Slides vissani.pptx

16:00 X-rays

Speaker: Emrah Kalemci

Slides

• kalemci.pptx
• mirror_comparison_lg_2017.mpg
• normaAnim.gif
• rings_full.gif

16:45 → 17:15 Break

17:15 → 19:40 Student Presentations

17:15 New powerful outburst of the unusual young star V1318 Cyg S (LkHα 225 S)

Speaker: Ms Hasmik Andreasyan (Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory)

Slides 01-andreassyan.pptx

17:28 Testing condensation disk hypothesis in the hard state with simulations of the power

Speaker: Mr Armin Vahdat Motlagh (Istanbul Technical University)

Slides 02-vahdat.pdf

17:41 Numerically inverting the fundamental stellar parameters of A/F stars

Speaker: Sarkis Kassounian

Slides 03-kassounian.pdf

17:54 The First Stars in the Universe

Speaker: Cynthia Saad

Slides 04-saad.pdf

18:07 Star Formation Activities in Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Speaker: Suleyman Fisek

Slides 05-fisek.pdf yz.movie.m1v

18:20 Spectral classification & physical parameters of A the IPHAS CBe stars in the BCD system.

Speaker: Mr Leonardos Gkouvelis (University of Valencia)

Slides 06-gkouvelis.pdf

18:33 What can Lithium tell us about the early universe?

Speaker: Ms Tahani Makki (Ph.D student)

Slides 07-makki.pptx

18:46 Study of atomic diffusion and additional mixing on lithium evolution in solar-type stars

Speaker: Ms Wan Aishah WAN HARUN (AISHAH)

Slides 08-wanharun.pdf

18:59 Chemical abundances of the NGC 6940 open cluster from the high-resolution infrared spectra.

Speaker: Dr Gamze Bocek Topcu (Ege University)

Slides 09-topcu.pptx

19:12 A study of the abundances of the chemical elements in stars.

Speaker: Mr Mohammed Talafha (Physics Department, Yarmouk University)

Slides 10-talafha.pptx

19:25 The distance of Galactic novae

Speaker: Aykut OZDONMEZ

Slides 11-ozdonmez.pdf

21:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 14 June

10:00 → 12:15 Morning Lessons

10:00 Progenitors and Explosive Models of Thermonuclear Supernovae

Speaker: Dr Luciano Piersanti (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo; INFN - Sezione di Perugia)

Slides piersanti.pptx

10:45 Progenitors and Explosive Models of Thermonuclear Supernovae

Speaker: Dr Luciano Piersanti (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo; INFN - Sezione di Perugia)

Slides piersanti.pptx

11:30 Cosmic Rays from Space

Speaker: Mr Laurent Derome (LPSC)

Slides derome.pdf.pdf

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 20:00 Excursion to Siracuse

21:00 → 22:00 Social Dinner

Thursday, 15 June

10:30 → 12:45 Morning Lessons

10:30 Core Collapse Supernovae

Speaker: Alessandro Chieffi

Slides

• chieffi.pdf
• expl.mov
• s20_3Dn.mpeg
• xo.mov
• xsic.mov
• xsii.mov
• z9.6_2.mpeg

11:15 Core Collapse Supernovae

Speaker: Alessandro Chieffi

12:00 Cosmic Rays from the Earth

Speaker: Mr Laurent Derome (LPSC)

Slides derome.pdf

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:45 Afternoon Lessons

14:30 Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics - Direct Methods

Speaker: Dr Sotirios Harissopulos (NCSR "Demokritos" - Athens)

Slides harissopulos.pdf

15:35 Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics - Indirect Methods

Speaker: Silvio Cherubini (LNS)

Slides cherubini.pptx

16:45 → 17:15 Break

17:15 → 18:43 Student Presentations

17:15 Chemical enrichment by supernova explosions in Abell 3112 galaxy cluster out to R200

Speaker: Cemile Ezer

Slides 01-ezer.pdf

17:28 XMM-Newton x-ray properties of distant PKS 0745-191 galaxy cluster

Speaker: Ms Aysegul Tumer (Bogazici University Istanbul)

Slides 02-tumer.pdf

17:41 XMM-Newton observations of toothbrush cluster

Speaker: Mr Sinancan Kara (Bogazici University)

Slides 03-kara.pdf

17:54 VIS and NIR high resolution spectroscopy for field and cluster RR Lyrae

Speaker: Davide Magurno (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

Slides 04-magurno.pdf

18:07 Astromaterials in Accreting Neutron Stars

Speaker: Matthew Caplan

Slides 05-caplan.pdf

18:20 Ibn Al-Haytham and his Kitab al-Manazir: knowledge transfer and original contributions

Speaker: Ms Isabella Martire (University of Pisa)

Slides 06-martire.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Publich Speech

19:00 Nuclear Physics for Medicine - Fisica Nucleare per la Medicina

Speaker: Giacomo Cuttone (LNS)

21:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Friday, 16 June

10:00 → 12:15 Morning Lessons

10:00 The Interstellar Medium

Speaker: Valerio Pirronello (CT)

Slides pirronello.ppsx

10:45 The Interstellar Medium

Speaker: Valerio Pirronello (CT)

Slides pirronello.ppsx

11:30 Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Michele Punturo (PG)

Slides punturo.pptx

12:15 → 12:45 Concluding Remarks

12:45 → 14:30 Lunch

19:00 → 20:00 Publich Speech

19:00 The Harmony of Celestian Spheres - Armonia delle Sfere Celesti

Speaker: Roberto Buonanno