"Enrico Fermi" Chair Course 2018/2019
Sapienza Università di Roma, “Enrico Fermi” Chair
Lectures of "Enrico Fermi" Chair in Academic year 2018-2019 will be held by Prof. Giovanna Tinetti, University College of London (UCL).
Course Title: Physics of Exoplanets
The Course will consist of 15 Lectures, which will be held from 16:00 to 18:00 in aula Conversi, Marconi building, according to the following schedule.
Introduction to Extrasolar Planets (1)
16 January 2019
Techniques to discover new exoplanets (5)
23 January 2019 - Radial velocity
6 February 2019 - Transit
27 February 2019 - Direct imaging
20 March 2019 - Astrometry
28 March 2019 - Gravitational microlenses and timing
Planet interior (1)
4 April 2019
Planer formation and disk-planet interaction (3)
11 April 2019 - Stellar formation
17 April 2019 - Circumstellar disks
9 May 2019 - Planet formation
Exoplanetary atmospheres (4)
16 May 2019 - Exoplanetary atmospheres: basic concepts
30 May 2019 - Exoplanetary atmospheres: spectroscopy and remote sensing
6 June 2019 - Observation of exoatmospheres I
26 September 2019 - Observation of exoatmospheres II
Future projects, habitability and biosignatures (1)
3 October 2019
All Lectures and the supporting teaching materials will be published by the Physics Department.