Italy

For further information related to Italian events, contact the Coordinators:
Prof. Renato Angelo Ricci
INFN Lab. Nazionale di Legnaro
Viale dell'Università 2
35020 Legnaro (PD)
tel: +39 049 806 8313 • fax: +39 049 790 584
Email: raricci@lnl.infn.it

or
Prof. R. Habel
INFN
Lab. Nazionali di Frascati
Via E. Fermi 40
00044 Frascati RM
tel: +39 06 940 32733 fax: +39 06 940 32427
Email: habel@unica.it or roberto.habel@inf.infn.it

Useful links:
www.sif.it
www.wyp2005.it
www.iapht.unito.it/wyp2005/organiz.html
www.ictp.trieste.it
www.pv.infn.it/~spacetimeinaction
www.scienzagiovane.unibo.it
www.bur.it/diamovoce/diamovoce.php
www.fis.unipr.it/wyp
www.fis.uniroma3.it/wyp2005
www.vaccarinews.it

Events:

  • Physics on Train: a travelling exhibition on trains whic will stop for at least 10 days in various Italian stations. It will be the meeting point for a series of activities, e.g. guided tours for Schools, Conferences etc...

  • Environmental Radioactivity measurements with the participation of students of Secondary Schools. In collaboration with MIUR, INFN and ENEA

  • Make a Physics Experiment by yourself: devoted to Secondary Schools, in collaboration with MIUR.

  • A national conference on “Physics in the last Century” dedicated to italian physicists

  • History of Physics will be put online

  • Exhibitions and museum activities

  • European Workshops in Varenna of the Scientific Faculties deans in Europe. This is importante as you can approche and explain what physics can do.

  • International Conference on "Spacetime in action: 100 years of relativity" held in Pavia (March 29-April 2, 2005) Read More

  • International conference on “Einstein and Astrophysics” in Pescara

  • Fourth Meeting Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Cala Gonone (Sardinia, Italy) September 12-16, 2005. Read More

  • “La rivoluzione Einstein” (Einstein Revolution)
    Meeting with high school students. To celebrate the World Year of Physics 2005 (PWY 2005), the authors of “ScienzaGiovane”.
    Bologna University web site for Science Communication will present, through interviews, video clips and videoconferences, the consequences of Einstein’s discoveries and ideas in various fields (physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, chemistry, philosophy and social science). Saturday 20 november 2004, 10:00 h Università degli Studi di Bologna, AULA D, Viale B. Pichat 6/2 Bologna.
    The event will be transmitted in webcast over Internet

  • Il Mistero della Gravità (The Mystery of Gravity)
    Type: Exhibition
    Period: Opens January 23rd 2005, thru September 11th 2005.
    Description: 45 panels take the visitors through an amazing trip among the main ideas about gravity since Newton. A wealth of hands-on experiences are offered and ready to be used. Cavendish device, pendulums, free-fall area, zero gravity machine allow the curiosity of the public to go beyond the imagination. Events: Opens January 23rd 2005 with an opening ceremony; on February-March and April 2005 main side events like conferences, exhibitions and distinguished lectures. Guides: available upon reservation. Location: Campogalliano, Modena, Italy. Address: Museo della Bilancia, Via Garibaldi 34/A, I - 41011 Campogalliano, Modena. Contents writers: Marco Nicolini, Daniele Dell'Orco. Project by: Marco Nicolini, Daniele Dell'Orco. Resumées Marco Nicolini graduated in Mathematics and Physics at University of Modena, Italy, is a teacher of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy at Liceo Scientifico Statale "A.Tassoni" in Modena. ISU (International Space University, Strasbourg) Alumnus since 2003, works with ESA, European Space Agency, in projects for Space Science Education in the European High Schools. He is a scientific journalist and science writer and reporter for TV and exhibitions. Daniele Dell'Orco graduated in Physics at University of Parma, Italy. At the present he is attending his PhD at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in the Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics group. He is been involved in organizing events of scientific popularization mainly focused on physics and its interactions with life science. Contact: Marco Nicolini • Museo della Bilancia, Campogalliano (Modena) •
    Tel. (+39)-059-527133 • Email: nicolini@tsc4.co

  • LudotecaScientifica, sperimentando sotto la torre in Fisica e dintorni
    Interactive exibith in Pisa from April, 9th to May, 15th 2005.
    The "Ludoteca Scientifica, experimenting under the Tower in and around
    physics " is a collection of more than 40 games and scientific
    experiments presented by students and young researcher that introduce
    the visitors to the world of science and tecnology with a simple and
    enjoiable approach.
    see: www.ludotecascientifica.it

  • Exhibition: "Radioactivity, a FACET of nature" - to be held at,
    Palazzo Renata di Francia, Ferrara, from 26 April to 6 May 2005.
    The exhibition, one in a series promoted by European Union, is
    particular suitable for high school students. The present edition is
    being organized by Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di
    Ferrara,and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita' di Ferrara,
    More information is available at the web-site: www.fe.infn.it/mostra

  • The University of Rome "Tor Vergata" will organize four thematic Conferences, at the end of which four eminent scientists will be awarded Honorary Degrees in Physics. The first such Conference, "The Legacy of Supergravity", will be devoted to the remarkable supersymmetric generalization of Einstein's General Relativity, whose first instance was discovered in 1976 by Sergio Ferrara of CERN (then at LNF-Frascati), Daniel Freedman of MIT and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. The Conference will take place at Villa Mondragone, the conference venue of the University (www.villamondragone.it), on June 6-8 2005, and at the end prof. Sergio Ferrara of CERN will be awarded an Honorary Degree.

    The web page of the Conference can be reached from:
    the Phyisics Department webpage, www.fisica.uniroma2.it
    the INFN Roma 2 Section webpage, www.roma2.infn.it
    the String Theory Group webpage, http://people.roma2.infn.it/~stringhe

    An event to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the special relativity theory on the 28 September at Grosseto: Verso lo studio dell'universo quantistico
    Lucio Russo, Universita' di Roma: Alcune considerazioni sui lavori di Einstein nel 1905;
    Luigi Rolandi, CERN: Gli accelleratori del CERN alla caccia del Bosone di Higgs;
    Marcello Giorgi,Universita' di Pisa: Il puzzle della simmetria materia antimateria e l'esistenza di questo universo.


    Palazzo Comunale, Sala del Consiglio - Piazza Duomo, 1 Ore 17:00
    http://www.gol.grosseto.it/emc2/centenario.php


    In diretta streaming A/V su Internet a: HTTP://stream.comune.grosseto.it