Courses

Dark matter

1.Evidenze sperimentali (accenni)
2.Candidati di materia oscura:?Modiche della gravità (brevi accenni)?Buchi neri primordiali?Candidati Particellari
3.Produzione di Materia Oscura nell’Universo primordiale:?Freeze-out?Freeze-in?Meccanismi di produzione non termica.
4.Candidati notevoli diMateria Oscura:?WIMPs;?Assioni;?Neutrini Sterili?DM asimmetrica (forse)
5.Ricerche di MateriaOscura:?Rivelazione Diretta?Rivelazione Indiretta?Ricerca agli acceleratori?Ricerche inesperimenti di bassa energia.

ADAPTIVE AND FRACTAL DATA ANALYSIS

- Adaptive time series analysis algorithms: Empirical Mode Decomposition, Ensemble
EMD, time varying filter EMD.
- Algorithms for fractal time series analysis: detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA),
multifractal DFA and the local Hurst exponent.
- Applications: scattered light noise mitigation in the Virgo interferometer,
beryllium-7 time series sampled by the CTBTO.

 

APPLIED NUCLEAR PHYSICS

- Radiometric dating
- Uncertainties and results of radiometric dating 
- Applications: atmospheric transport modelling, nuclear non-proliferation

Effective one-body model in general relativity: Post-Newtonian, Post-Minkowskian and gravitational self-force approximations

Abstract: The course is devoted to an illustration of the effective one-body model, a powerful approach to discuss the dynamics of a gravitationally interacting 2-body system,
whose key feature  is to 1) easily capture  any new information coming from different perturbation methods and 2) convert  into an improved knowledge of
the various gravitational potentials entering the 2-body Hamiltonian.

A part from an introduction to the classical general relativistic treatment of the
2-body dynamics (gravitational perturbations on a black hole spacetime),
the course offers an overview of all recent theoretical  developments,
including the better understanding of the nonlocal features of the gravitational interaction which start at the 4th Post-Newtonian level of approximation.

PHYSICAL PROCESSES OF CARBON CYCLE

Earth climate and role of greenhouse gases. Fundamentals of atmospheric radiation.  Climate sensitivity.  Carbon in the atmosphere, in the ocean, in the biosphere and in the geosphere. Processes controlling the atmospheric carbon dioxide. Physical principles of atmospheric CO₂ measurement. Natural and anthropogenic fluxes and sources. Carbon dioxide exchange between atmosphere, ocean, vegetation; global carbon budget.  Measurement of CO₂ turbulent fluxes.  C isotopes and their budget.  Emission scenarioes, carbon dioxide and climate projections.