Each student will have to follow 180 hours of courses during the three years of the Ph.D. program. There is also a possibility to follow courses from other Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrophysics Ph.D. programs in each participating institution, after approval by the Faculty. Courses can be chosen from the following list:

COSMOLOGY WITH GAMMA RAY BURSTS
Lorenzo AMATI - (INAF-IASF Bologna)
Carlo Luciano BIANCO - (SAPIENZA-Rome and ICRANet)
Michel BOER - (UNICE-France)
Luca IZZO - (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia)

HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN ASTROPHYSICS
Felix AHARONIAN (DIAS-Dublin and MPIK-Heidelberg)
Ulisses Barres de Almeida (CBPF/MCT Rio)
Alessandro DE ANGELIS (Univ. Udine-Italy)
Paolo GIOMMI (ASI-ASDC Rome)
Razmik MIRZOYAN (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)
Marco TAVANI (INAF-IASF Rome)

COSMOLOGICAL SINGULARITY, BKL COSMOLOGY AND HIDDEN SYMMETRIES IN GRAVITY
Vladimir BELINSKI (SAPIENZA-Rome and ICRANet)
Hermann NICOLAI (MPIG-Einstein Institut)

RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES
Giovanni AMELINO-CAMELIA (SAPIENZA-Rome)
Johannes BLUEMLEIN (DESY and FU Berlin)
Gabriele GIONTI (Vatican)
Hagen KLEINERT (FU Berlin and ICRANet)

ACCRETION ON BLACK HOLES AND NEUTRON STARS
Sandip CHAKRABARTI (Bose Centre-Kolkata)
Xiaohui FAN (UA at Tucson)
Grant MATHEWS (CANDU -USA)

GENERAL RELATIVITY
Donato BINI (CNR and ICRANet)
Bruno Carneiro DA CUNHA (UFPE-Recife)
Jutta KUNZ (Univ. Oldenburg-Germany)
Volker PERLICK (Univ. of Bremen-Germany)

SUPERNOVAE AND GAMMA RAY BURSTS
Alexey AKSENOV (ICAD, RAS-Moscow)
Massimo DELLA VALLE (INAF-Naples and ICRANet)
Christopher FRYER (LANL-USA)
Georges MEYNET (Obs. UNIGE-Geneva)
Remo RUFFINI (SAPIENZA-Rome and ICRANet)
Patrick YOUNG (Arizona State University)

GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: THEORY AND DETECTION
Thibault DAMOUR (IHES and ICRANet)
Sergio FRASCA (SAPIENZA-Rome)

SPACE AND GROUND-BASED TESTS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
Francis EVERITT and Paul WORDEN (Stanford University)
Claus LAEMMERZAHL (University of Bremen)
Roberto PERON (INAF-Rome)
Costantino SIGISMONDI (ON Rio and ICRANet)

LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE AND DARK MATTER
Carlos ARGUELLES (ICRANet)
Nikolaos MAVROMATOS (King’s College London)
Marco MERAFINA (Sapienza-Rome)
Piero ROSATI (University of Ferrara)

X/GAMMA-RAY INSTRUMENTATION
Filippo FRONTERA (University of Ferrara)
Shuangnan ZHANG (IHEP – Chinese Academy of Science)

MULTIWAVELENGTH AND TIME-DOMAIN DATA ANALYSIS IN ASTROPHYSICS
Bernardo FRAGA (ICRANet)
Mauro ORLANDINI (University of Ferrara)
Bruno SVERSUT ARSIOLI (ASI-Italy)

ON BLACK HOLES
Roy KERR (ICRANet)
Hernando QUEVEDO (UNAM-Mexico)

GAMMA RAY BURST THEORIES AND OBSERVATIONS
Pascal CHARDONNET (University of Savoie and ICRANet)
Marco MUCCINO (SAPIENZA-Rome and ICRANet)
Ana PENACCHIONI (University of Siena)
Tsvi PIRAN (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

WHITE DWARFS, NEUTRONS STARS, BOSON STARS: OBSERVATIONS AND THEORY
Robert FISHER (University of Massachussets Darmouth)
S. O. KEPLER (UFRGS-Brazil)
Manuel MALHEIRO (ITA Brazil)
Jorge RUEDA (SAPIENZA-Rome and ICRANet)
Cezar ZEN (UFRGS Brazil)

RELATIVISTIC KINETIC THEORY, STRONG COUPLING QED AND ELECTRON-POSITRON PLASMA
Antonino DI PIAZZA and Christoph H. KEITEL (MPIK)
Gregory VERESHCHAGIN and She-Sheng XUE (SAPIENZA-Rome and ICRANet)