Passion for Physics 2018

SAVE THE DATE: 13-14 July

This year, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Enrico Fermi's Nobel Prize in Physics (1938), the SIF has decided to organise a new edition of the International Symposium "Passion for Physics" to be held in the beautiful Aula Fermi of Villa Monastero, in Varenna, Lake Como.

Webcast available here (Courtesy of INFN Multimedia Group)

PROGRAMME

13 July

09.00-09.30 Opening Addresses

Chair: Alessandro Bettini - Università di Padova (Italy)

09.30-10.15
Theory of gravitational waves
Mairi Sakellariadou - King's College London (UK)

10.15-11.00
Probing extreme gravity and matter with gravitational waves
Alessandra Buonanno - Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam-Golm (Germany)

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

Chair: Ginevra Trinchieri - INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milano (Italy)

11.30-12.15
Multi-messenger astrophysics
Marica Branchesi - GSSI, L’Aquila (Italy)

12.15-13.00
Electromagnetic signals from gravitational wave events
Enrico Cappellaro - INAF, Padova (Italy)

13.00-14.30 Lunch Break

Chair: Luisa Cifarelli - Università di Bologna (Italy)

14.30-15.15
FERMI
Julie McEnery - NASA, Greenbelt (USA)

15.15-16.00
Gravitational Wave Astronomy within ESA Science Programme
Stefano Vitale - Università di Trento, INFN & ASI (Italy)

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

Chair: Stefano Ragazzi - INFN, LNGS, L'Aquila (Italy)

16.30-17.15
KAGRA Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope in Japan
Takashi Uchiyama - University of Tokyo (Japan)

17.15-18.00
DarkSide
Cristiano Galbiati - Princeton University (USA) & GSSI, L’Aquila (Italy)

18.00 Group photo

20.00 Concert "Quartetto Noûs" & Party

14 July

Chair: Simonetta Croci - Università di Parma (Italy)

09.00-09.45
Theory of cosmic rays
Pasquale Blasi - GSSI, L’Aquila (Italy)

09.45-10.30
Multi-messenger astronomy with high-energy neutrinos detected by IceCube
Anna Franckowiak - DESY, Zeuthen (Germany)

10.30-11.15
Limadou on the CSES Satellite: testing ground – magnetospheric coupling from space
Roberto Battiston - ASI & Università di Trento (Italy)

11.15-11.45 Coffee Break

Chair: Sara Pirrone - INFN, Sezione di Catania (Italy)

11.45-12.30
The ASTRI way to CTA
Patrizia Caraveo - INAF, Milano (Italy)

12.30-13.15
KM3NeT opening a new window on our Universe
Mauro Taiuti - Università di Genova (Italy)

13.15-14.45 Lunch Break

Chair: Giuseppe Grosso - Università di Pisa (Italy)

14.45-15.30
The Pierre Auger Observatory: Probing the arcane ultra-high energy cosmic radiation
Antonio Bueno Villar - University of Granada (Spain)

15.30-16.15
Extreme Energy Events: an unprecedented experiment to study cosmic rays on ground
Rosario Nania - INFN, Bologna (Italy)

16.15-16.30 Closing remarks

16.30-17.00 Coffee

17.00 Guided Tour