Passion for Physics 2017
On the occasion of its 120th Anniversary, the Italian Physical Society (SIF) will organise in Varenna, Lake Como, in the beautiful venue of Villa Monastero, a new edition of the International Scientific Symposium "Passion for Physics" on Saturday, 24 June 2017.
Plaque of the President of the Italian Republic
Webcast available at this link
(Courtesy of INFN Multimedia Group)
PROGRAMME
Aula Fermi |
9.00 - Opening Addresses
Luisa Cifarelli – SIF President
Fernando Ferroni – INFN President
Massimo Inguscio – CNR President
Cristina Messa – Rector of Università di Milano Bicocca
Rüdiger Voss – EPS President
and local Authorities
9.45 - Chair: Renato Angelo Ricci – Università di Padova and SIF
Gravitational wave astrophysics: a new window on the Universe.
Laura Cadonati – Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
The Big Bang revisited.
Gabriele Veneziano – CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
From quarks to pentaquarks: a journey in Gatto’s and Cabibbo’s schools of theorists. (presentation)
The Charm of Theoretical Physics (1958-1993) (article)
Luciano Maiani – Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
11.15 - Coffee break
11.45 - Chair: Alessandro Bettini – Università di Padova and SIF
Exploring particle-antiparticle asymmetry in neutrino oscillation. (presentation)
Atsuko Ichikawa – Kyoto University (Japan)
Illuminating the dark-searches for dark matter in the Milky Way. (presentation)
Laura Baudis – University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Exploring matter at the atomic level. (presentation)
Corrado Spinella - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma (Italy)
13.15 - Lunch break, interviews, etc.
14.45 - Chair: Luisa Cifarelli – Università di Bologna and SIF
Entropy, fluctuations and rare events.
Michele Parrinello – ETH Zurich and Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano (Switzerland)
From coherent perfect transparency to coherent perfect absorption: how to control light with light.
Alessandro Tredicucci – Università di Pisa (Italy)
From copper-based to iron-based superconductors. Recent development in superconductivity.
Maw-Kuen Wu – Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan)
16.15 - Coffee break
16.45 - Chair: Rüdiger Voss – CERN, Geneva (Switzerland) and EPS
Prospects in high energy physics. (presentation)
Halina Abramowicz – Tel Aviv University (Israel) and Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich (Germany)
Exploring matter at the angstrom-femtosecond space and time scale with the X-ray FEL.
Claudio Pellegrini – UCLA, Los Angeles and SLAC, Menlo Park (USA)
Fermi, Majorana and the whole of our knowledge.
Antonino Zichichi – Università di Bologna (Italy)
18.30 – Closing Remarks
Luisa Cifarelli – SIF President
18.45 - End of Scientific Programme
19.30 - Concert, Dinner and Light Show at Villa Monastero
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