The Courses - Each student will have to follow 180 hours of courses during the three years of the Ph.D. program. There is also the possibility to follow courses from the 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:

VERY HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN ASTROPHYSICS (F. Aharonian); COSMOLOGICAL SINGULARITY (V. Belinski); RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS IN ASTROPHYSICS (C.L. Bianco); ACCRETIONS ON BLACK HOLES (S. Chakrabarti); PARTICLE PHYSICS APPLIED TO ASTROPHYSICS (P. Chardonnet); GENERAL RELATIVITY (T. Damour); SUPERNOVAE AND GRBS (M. Della Valle); LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE (J. Einasto); X/GAMMA-RAY INSTRUMENTATION (F. Frontera); HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS: X-RAYS CLUSTERS (R. Giacconi); OBSERVATIONS OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS (C. Guidorzi); FORMATION OF GALAXIES (Y. Jing); ON THE KERR SOLUTION (R. Kerr); RELATIVISTIC FIELD THEORY (H. Kleinert); BOUNCING COSMOLOGY (M. Novello); DEVELOPMENT ON BKL WORK (H. Nicolai); THE HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAY UNIVERSE (M. Tavani); SPECTRAL TIMING FROM BLACK HOLE SOURCES (L. Titarchuk); SINGULARITIES AND GENERAL RELATIVITY (K. Rosquist); BLACK HOLES AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS (R. Ruffini); COLLECTIVE EFFECTS IN ASTROPHYSICS (G. Vereshchagin); ULTRA RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON POSITRON PLASMA (S.S. Xue)