School Notes
The educational material from some schools/workshops I attended during 2019-2020 can be found via this page.
1. GROWTH Astronomy School 2020
The Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) school was designed to offer comprehensive training to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in observational techniques and tools for follow-up of transient events at X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths. The school sessions are organized by wavelength range, and the format includes a short lecture that introduces the topic followed by an interactive workshop. Students are engaged in data analysis using real data from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Palomar Observatory in California, the VLA in New Mexico, and telescopes in the GROWTH global network of observatories.
2. Multi-Messenger Astrophysics School Asiago 2020
The past four years were marked by immense advancements in this field, with countless invaluable results. For example, the detection of the first gravitational waves, also in correspondence with photons, as well as simultaneous observation of photons with a 300 TeV neutrino from an active galaxy. The foundation of high-energy astroparticle physics is shaken, and new theoretical buildings are raised. This finding calls for additional focused experimental efforts, with careful planning of multi-wavelength and multi-experiments coordinated observation, in particular when pointing telescopes with a limited field of view are involved.
3. First Light School 2019: Stars, Galaxies, and Black Holes in the Epoch of Reionization
This was a school to introduce the future generation of young astronomers to the forefront of the theoretical and observational developments of the astrophysics of the epoch of reionization (EoR), including the following topics taught by international experts: the first stars, the first galaxies, the first black holes, gravitational lensing, the development of structure, observation techniques for the early universe, etc.
