Recent selected talks

A unifying model for black hole X-ray binaries [pdf]
talk at LOFT Science Meeting,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 27, 2011
Bursting and transient neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries [pdf]
talk at The Extreme and Variable High Energy Sky
Sardinia, Italy, September 19-23, 2011
New advances in spectral modeling of X-ray bursts: constraining neutron star parameters [pdf]
invited talk at Physics of Neutron stars - 2011
St.Petersburg, Russia, July 11-15, 2011
Fermi observations of blazars: implications for gamma-ray production [pdf]
talk at JENAM 2011, S8: Status and prospects in high-energy & particle astrophysics across the electromagnetic spectrum
St.Petersburg, Russia, July 4-8, 2011
Neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries: X-ray bursts and persistent emission [pdf]
talk at JENAM 2011, SPS1: Close binaries with compact objects
St.Petersburg, Russia, July 4-8, 2011
GeV spectroscopy in the Fermi era and supercritical phenomena in relativistic jets [pdf]
talk at Understanding Relativistic Jets
Krakow, Poland, May 23-26, 2011
Fermi observations of blazars: implication for the origin of gamma-rays [pdf]
talk at The 2011 Fermi symposium
Rome, Italy, May 8-11, 2011
Accreting millisecond pulsars and X-ray bursters as probes of neutron star masses and radii [pdf]
invited talk at Fast X-ray timing and spectroscopy at extreme count rates
Champery, Switzerland, Feb 7-11, 2011
Burst spectra as probes of the equation of state [pdf]
invited talk at X-ray bursts and burst oscillations
Lorentz center, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 26, 2010
GeV breaks in blazars [pdf]
talk at COSPAR 2010, E11 - Time Variability at High Energies: a Probe of AGN Physics
Bremen, Germany, July 19, 2010 
Modeling the cooling tracks of X-ray bursts and constraints on the neutron stars radii and masses [pdf]
talk at COSPAR 2010, H02 - Probing strong gravity with gravitational and electromagnetic waves
Bremen, Germany, July 18, 2010
Non-thermal processes in black hole accretion disks [pdf]
invited talk at High energy phenomena in relativistic outflows II
Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 26-30, 2009
Particle heating and thermalization in compact magnetized sources and spectral state transitions in accreting black holes [pdf]
invited talk at Black Holes in Binary Systems: Observations versus Theory
Ferrara, Italy, September 11-12, 2009
On the nature of pulse profile variations and timing noise in accreting millisecond pulsars, or How to see invisible [pdf]
talk at X-ray astronomy 2009
Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009
Polarization in X-ray millisecond pulsars, [pdf]
invited talk at The coming of age of X-ray polarimetry
Rome, Italy, April 27-30, 2009
Time-dependent simulations of the spreading layers and the origin of quasi-period oscillations in accreting weakly-magnetized neutron stars [pdf]
talk at Physics of Neutron Stars
St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24-27, 2008
Pair cascades in AGNs [pdf]
invited talk at Workshop on Blazar Variability across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Paris, France, April 22, 2008
Modelling pulse profiles of accreting millisecond pulsars [pdf] 
invited talk at A Decade of Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 14-18, 2008
Photon breeding - a new particle acceleration mechanism and the emission from relativistic jets [pdf] 
invited talk at Workshop on AGNs and relatived fundamental physics in high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
MAGIC collaboration meeting, Jerisjärvi, Finland, April 1-5, 2008