Welcome to the Astro-Siesta page!
Astro-Siesta are informal talks on various astrophysical/astronomical research projects, but different topics are also welcome!
Astro-Siesta are usually held by IASF staff members and last 20 min (30 min for “external” people), plus additional time for questions. It is recommended to include a brief general introduction on the topic for non-experts in the presentation.
The next astro-siesta are listed below. Astro-siesta are held in the EXPO meeting room every other Wednesday (holidays permitting) at 11:30am.
Board:
From September 2018: Adriana Gargiulo, Mariachiara Rossetti
January 2007 – June 2018: Adamantia Paizis, Mauro Fiorini, Andrea Giuliani
| When | Who | What |
| 22 October 2025 | Eleonora (Villa) | The power of Normalizing Flows for smarter Bayesian inference |
| 5 November 2025 | Edoardo (Arrigoni) | Observations of Magnetar Giant Flares with THESEUS |
| 26 November 2025 | Graziano (Chiaro) | LaserSETI con i telescopi ottici. un esperimento italiano |
| 17 December 2025 | Mariachiara (Rossetti) e Matteo David Alaimo | Sopravvivere al troppo aiuto: la crescita dei junior software developer (e dei ricercatori) nell’era dell’AI |
| 21 January 2026 | Fabio (Gastaldello) | Finally becoming a spectroscopist: the XRISM observation of the A2142 cluster |
| 28 January 2026 | Marianna (Annunziatella) | Time delay measurements of strongly lensed variable sources from the VST monitoring campaign |
| 4 February 2026 | Mari (Polletta) | What regulates star formation in galaxies? |
| 25 February 2026 | Alice (Deconto Tavares) | Acceleration and deceleration of extreme Broad-Absorption Line (BAL) quasar winds |
| 18 March 2026 | Marco (Scodeggio) | An analogic view of the night sky. The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (and the companion Southern Sky Survey) |
| 25 March 2026 | Andrea (Giuliani) | The ASTRI Mini-Array : status and perspectives |
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