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High school maturity thesis in astronomy
In between the third and the fourth year of high school, students have to choose a subject and work for one year on a research project. At the end they sum up their research results and write a maturity thesis. This page presents the astronomy maturity thesis that I supervised.Astronomy maturity thesis done during 2008
At the end of 2007, I proposed a project in physics (astronomy): the data reduction of deep long-slit spectra obtained at the Very Large Telescope of ESO, one of the largest telescope on Earth. Lia Sartori and Clara Pelloni have been working on this project during 2008 and handed in the final version in January 2009.The maturity thesis of Lia Sartori and Clara Pelloni:
LAM_Analisi_spettroscopica_galassie_ellittiche.pdf (in
).
Publication
Their work has been published in the ESO Messenger, see the article here (in).
Awards
- Fioravanzo price:
Their work has won the first prize of the Fioravanzo competition of 2008.
Lia Sartori and Clara Pelloni
From left to right: Sergio Cortesi, Silvia Pestoni (second prize), Clara Pelloni and Lia Sartori (first prize), Simone Dresti (third prize), Rita Erica Fioravanzo. - "Scienza e gioventù" price:
Their work has won two prizes at the 43th national competition Scienza e gioventù and received the mention "excellent": the price of the Metrohm foundation and the special prize of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (a trip to the ESO telescopes in Chile: La Silla, Paranal and ALMA).
Lia Sartori discussing with the expert Piero Rosati
Lia Sartori and Clara Pelloni
Lia Sartori receiving the special Astronomy price form Pierre Dubath
Clara Pelloni receiving the special Astronomy price
Andreas Cuni, Clara Pelloni and Lia Sartori at the La Silla Observatory
Pierre Dubath, Clara Pelloni, Lia Sartori and Andreas Cuni at the Paranal Observatory - The best Maturity thesis of the high school (year 2008-2009):
Their work has also won the "best maturity thesis" of the Lugano 2 high school. The bank Wegelin & Co (Private banking) offered 1'500 CHF for this prize.
Lia Sartori
Lia Sartori and Clara Pelloni
Lia Sartori and Clara Pelloni
Lia Sartori and Clara Pelloni
Lia Sartori and the director Jurg Nigsch
All the students who received a prize
Lia Sartori also received the first prize of 2'500 CHF for the highest score, with a mean of 6.0 (over 6!) amongst all the 122 students who graduated this year. Clara Pelloni received the fifth prize of 500 CHF, with a mean score of 5.50. The grades go from 1 to 6 (the best) and 4 is required to pass.
Astronomy maturity thesis done during 2010
Gabriele Cugno and Giorgio Ciocca:"Observation of variable stars in the constellation Camelopardalus"
Awards
- At the 45th national competition Scienza e gioventù Gabriele Cugno and Giorgio Ciocca received the mention "excellent" and won the
price of the Metrohm foundation and a participation to the international Science Expo in Bratislava.
- At the International Science Expo in Bratislava (July 2011), they received the Special Award in the Physics and Astronomy category. See the press release (in german).
- In 2011 they received the first price of the Fioravanzo competition.
- In 2013 they received a price of 4'000 CHF from the Virgilio Pattani Foundation, which rewards individuals from Ticino who published high quality scientific work.
Publication
Their discovery of seven new variable stars in Camelopardalis and Monoceros has been published in the Geos Circular on new variables.Astronomy maturity thesis done during 2011
1. Stefano Andreoli and Gent Ismaili: Central cinematics of galaxies. |
2. Nathalie Ziehl: Formation and evolution of galaxies in a cosmological context. |
3. Simone Mathyer and Jonathan Foroni: Evolution of the solar system: Jupiter and planet migration. |
4. Amos Pirotta and Stefano Pontarolo: A galaxy of numbers. |
5. Anna Boila, Lucia Bottani and Giona Pellegri: Observation of variable stars in the constellations of Leo and Monoceros. |
Awards
At the 2012 national competition Scienza e gioventù, Anna Boila e Lucia Bottani received the mention "excellent" and won a price from the Metrohm foundation with a participation to the International Science Expo in Tula (Russia). Nathalie Ziehl received the mention "very good"; Stefano Andreoli and Ismaili Gent received the mention "good".
Astronomy maturity thesis done during 2015
1. Tanya Boila and Christopher Magnoli: Observation of exoplanets. |
2. Vania Vicenzi and Gianluca Giuliani: Hunt for exoplanets with the transit method. |
3. Edo Ressegatti: Evolution of galaxies. |
Awards
- Award "Fioravanzo":
From left to right: Rita Erica Fioravanzo, Tanya Boila, Christopher Magnoli, Sergio Cortesi.
The work of Tanya Boila e Christopher Magnoli won first prize at the Fioravanzo competition in 2015. - Award "Scienza e gioventù":
At the 2016 national competition Scienza e gioventù, Christopher Magnoli, Gianluca Giuliani and Vania Vicenzi received the mention "excellent" and won a special price "Ricerca sullo Jungfraujoch (3550 msm)". Check out their interview at the Reteuno Radio here.