Passion for Physics 2018
Registration open until 8 July

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.
REGISTRATION FORM
Closing date for application: NEW DEADLINE 8 July 2018
No Participation fee is required
LODGING SUGGESTONS
GUIDED TOUR REGISTRATION
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, MI (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: Salvatore De Pasquale - Università di Salerno (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 & University of 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 - University of 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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