From the second half of the Twentieth Century, new technologies have permitted us to study the cosmos at all wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum (from radio waves to gamma rays), and in the past few years also other messengers such as gravitational waves and neutrons. Our knowledge of the Universe has made huge progress, which has also brought new questions and new challenges. This conference will present the great questions of modern astrophysics, together with the latest instruments currently in use by astrophysics to look for the answers.

Lucio Angelo Antonelli is an astrophysicist at the National Institute of Astrophysics. Since 2018 he has been the director of the Astronomical Observatory of Rome, one of the institutes of INAF. Previously he was the first director of the Space Science Data Center (SSDC) of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Author of over 350 articles in international astronomical journals (including Science and Nature) that have collected over 16,000 citations,he received the Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society in 1998 for the solution of the extragalactic nature of Gamma-ray bursts. He is a member of the international collaborations MAGIC and CTA and has always been involved in high-energy astrophysics and in particular in the study of transient phenomena better known as Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB).

Informazioni

Entrance ticket to the exhibitions and the meeting: special rate of € 4.00, from 6.00pm, until places last

Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Rotonda

via Nazionale 194