Vol. 83 n. 4, 2012

30 years of Italian participation to ESO

Rome, July 2-3, 2012

V. Mainieri

	Index
V. Mainieri	Foreword
	List of Participants
G. Setti	Italy's entry in the ESO organization: an historical review
M. Tosi	ESO from an Italian perspective
E. Pian	The most powerful explosions in the Universe: genesis and evolution of Supernova and Gamma-Ray Burst Italian programs at ESO
L. Pentericci	Probing the end of the reionization epoch with the most distant galaxies
G. Cresci	Gas accretion in distant galaxies as the origin of chemical abundance gradients
S. D'Odorico	Italian contribution to the ESO instrumentation, from La Silla to the E-ELT
P. Santin	VLT instrumentation control: the collaboration of OATs with ESO
P. Ciliegi, E. Diolaiti, A. Baruffolo, M. Bellazzini, G. Bregoli, C.R. Butler, J.M. Conan, G. Cosentino, I. Fioppiani, M. Lombini, E. Marchetti, C. Petit, C. Robert, L. Schreiber, V. Biliotti, S. D'Odorico, T. Fusco, N. Hubin	E-ELT Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics module: image quality performance
R.P. Mignani	Thirty years of pulsar studies at ESO. The Italian contribution
E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, L. Sbordone, L. Monaco, P. François	Observing metal-poor stars with X-Shooter
R. Gratton, E. Carretta, A. Bragaglia, S. Lucatello, A. Sollima	Understanding the horizontal branch of globular clusters using FLAMES
F. Massi	Optical Interferometry at the VLTI: Italy's contribution and the latest advancements in understanding the circumstellar environment of young stars
E. Iodice	The structure of the barred galaxy NGC253: target of the VISTA and VST Science Verification extragalactic mini-survey