2020-21

"From clouds to planets: the astrochemical link" All ingredients to make stars like our Sun and planets like our Earth are present in dense cold interstellar clouds. In these "stellar-system precursors" an active chemistry is already at work, as...

Ionizing Flux at High-redshift & The Future of Astronomical Conferences In this split talk, I will be covering two challenging areas of astronomy. Spectroscopic Confirmation of Ionizing Flux from Individual High-redshift Galaxies Lyman continuum (LyC)...

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" From galaxies to faces: recognizing the implications of Artificial Intelligence in astronomy and society" Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a set of techniques that rely primarily on the data itself for the construction of a quantitative...

"Learning the properties of our Galaxy with Stellar Streams" The Galactic halo is criss-crossed by long stellar streams that are probably the remnants of defunct globular clusters and dwarf galaxies. I will present the recent discoveries of these...

"Surveying the Trans-Neptunian Solar System with TESS" In recent years, the observed orbital geometry of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) has provided intriguing evidence suggesting the existence of an as-yet undiscovered “Planet Nine.” However, the...

"How to find life on exoplanets: Challenges, ideas and adventures" The first exoplanets orbiting in the temperate, Habitable Zone, have revolutionized the field of the search for life in the cosmos. With their discovery comes the question of how you can...

"Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics in the Gaia Era: A New Understanding of Local Stellar Populations " We begin with an overview of the precision stellar astrophysics enabled by the confluence of Gaia parallaxes with large-scale photometric and...

The formation of the first stars - environmental dependence and observational prospects -- The first stars formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, starting the transition from the Dark Ages to Recombination. They are out of reach from...

Title: Building the cosmological rosetta stone Abstract: For centuries, our inability to read hieroglyphs condemn us to miss most of the information about three thousand years of history of the ancient Egypt. Today, most of the information contained in...