Aperto al pubblico, il seminario è organizzato dai LNF nell’ambito della International School on Modern Physics and Research (INSPYRE 2015) alla quale partecipano studenti di scuole superiori italiane e straniere.
Un’occasione per tutti gli interessati di seguire una lezione di fisica in lingua inglese.

I will outline the history of both the discovery and study of neutron stars. I will show how these compact stellar objects are “super”-stars in which extreme conditions are reached in their densities, velocities of rotation and in the property of matter in their interiors. I will discuss the fundamental role played by general relativity in the description of their structure and stability. I will show how they are connected to explosive phenomena such as Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts. Finally I will outline what we can learn from them in the near future thanks to new observational apparatus.

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ALESSANDRO DRAGO
is associate professor of Theoretical Nuclear Physics at the University of Ferrara. He has been studying nuclear and hadronic physics and the implications of the dense-matter Equation of State for the formation and structure of compact stars. He has proposed, in collaboration with other researchers, a model for Gamma Ray Bursts in which the deconfinement of quarks plays a crucial role in the energy balance and in the time-structure of the burst.