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
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