Astrobiology

Lecture Register

Academic year 2021/2022
Lecturer Simona Gallerani, Giuseppe Brancato

Lecture

  • 10 Dec 2021 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Timeliness of Astrobiology: Astrophysical and Space technology progress

  • 17 Dec 2021 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Star formation I: The virial theorem and the Jeans mass

  • 14 Jan 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Star formation II: Phenomenology of proto-stars

  • 21 Jan 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Star formation III: Angular momentum and magnetic field effect on star formation

  • 28 Jan 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Planet formation I: dust grains coagulation and growth. Weak gravitational focusing

  • 04 Feb 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Seminario Dott. Fontani: Observations of star forming regions: the kitchen pf pre-biotic molecules

  • 18 Feb 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Planet formation I: dust grains coagulation and growth. Weak gravitational focusing

  • 25 Feb 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Online

    Planet formation II: Strong gravitational focusing

  • 02 Mar 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Techniques for detection of exoplanets: Radial velocity measurement, transit, lensing

  • 04 Mar 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Origin of water on Earth

  • 06 Mar 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Classical Habitable Zones, tidal locking, impact, climate changes. TRAPPIST

  • 18 Mar 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Classical Habitable Zones, Greenhouse effect, CS cycle, low mass parent stars

  • 25 Mar 2022 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Galactic Habitable zones, Drake equation, paradosso di Fermi, SETI

  • 08 Apr 2022 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Introduction to protein structure, properties, and function.

  • 28 Apr 2022 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Amino acids chemical structure and properties. Peptide bond. Elements of the primary structure.

  • 10 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Protein secondary structure: alpha-helix, beta sheet, loops, turns.

  • 20 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Introduction to nucleic acids. Chemical nature and structure of nucleotides. Phosphate bonds. DNA single and double strand.

  • 27 May 2022 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Introduction to Chemical Thermodynamics.

  • 03 Jun 2022 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Free energy, enthalpy and entropy. Free energy change of a chemical transformation. Reaction free energy.

  • 14 Jun 2022 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Introduction to chemical kinetics. Definition of a rate of a chemical reaction. Rate constant. Order of a chemical reaction. Activation energy. Role of temperature. Deterministic and stochastic approaches to solve numerically a system of chemical rate equations.

  • 28 Jun 2022 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Historical and recent experiments about DNA and aminoacid synthesis and polymerization in a prebiotic era