ALPINE COSMOLOGY WORKSHOP
Every year since 2009, the University of Helsinki and the Max-Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) organise this workshop in the Alps. The participants are invited to give talks and take part to the hikes to the different huts in which the workshop is hosted. This gives the participants the opportunity to discuss further the topics (e.g. cosmology, physics of galaxy clusters) presented during the workshop and establish new working connections.
100 KM DEL PASSATORE
The 100 km del Passatore is an ultramarathon that takes place on the last weekend of May, stretching between the italian cities of Florence and Faenza. The run is named after a bandit that was active in northern Italy around 1830. On its 46th edition, I have been lucky enough to participate to it and completing it.
ASTROMUNDUS
The University of Innsbruck and four additional institutes in Italy, Serbia, and Germany host the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree program in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astromundus). This project is funded through the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.
Matteo Bianconi 