We are pleased to announce the launch of QuantERA Call 2025 on the QuantERA website: https://quantera.eu/call-2025/, and Funding & Tenders Portal: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/myarea/projects/cascade-funding-details/details/11501/43108390/101212998.
Organisations from 29 countries have joined the Call with a budget of ca. EUR 53 M (including EC’s contribution of EUR 12.5 M).
Proposers Day will be held on 8 October as an on-line webinar for applicants.
The tenth edition of the Nanoinnovation Conference will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025, in the historic San Gallo cloister, at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the Sapienza University of Rome (Via Eudossiana 18). The event represents a well-established national meeting point for the wide and multidisciplinary community involved in the development of nanotechnology and its integration with other key enabling technologies (KETs), in all fields of application. This year, topics underlying Innovation, Nanomedicine, Nanomaterials, Energy, and related ecosystems will receive special attention, with the aim of enhancing the technological and social return on investment in research and higher education.
More information at https://www.nanoinnovation2025.eu/home/index.php
The Italian Chemical Society in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Italfarmaco awarded Dr Jana Aupič from CNR-Institute Officina dei Materiali (IOM) in Trieste the prestigious Biological Systems Chemistry Division @ItalianChemicalSociety – Italfarmaco “Gastone De Santis” Award 2025 for her work on synthetic ribozymes and on the role of sugar conformation in enzymatic activity.
Her study opens new perspectives for understanding molecular mechanisms and for the development of synthetic enzymes.
Since 2024, Dr Aupič has been a researcher at IOM institute, with research activities focused on exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying RNA maturation and modifications through computational methods.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a total of 478 Grants, among which, the project “HeRiDe: Advancing HERItage Science procedures for DEpth-resolved risk condition assessment of wall paintings”, coordinated by Dr Antonina Chaban, researcher at CNR-INO.
The project aims at revolutionizing the study and conservation of frescoes by addressing one of the main challenges in their preservation: invisible damage hidden beneath the painted surface, often detectable only when it becomes severe and difficult to repair.
HeRiDe brings together conservation science and computer science expertise from CNR-INO in Florence and Pozzuoli, alongside restorers and art historians from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.
In occasione dell’evento annuale, promosso per il 26 settembre p.v., è importante dare risalto alle iniziative CNR, a partire dalla realizzazione di uno Speciale sul portale www.cnr.it, sulla falsariga di quelli realizzati negli anni precedenti.
E’ possibile pubblicare gli eventi organizzati sul sito del CNR (www.cnr.it), mediante il form disponibile nella pagina ‘eventi’, alla voce ‘Richiedi inserimento eventi’ che porta al link https://www.cnr.it/it/richiedi-inserimento-eventi. Il sistema è accessibile solo dal personale CNR con le credenziali Siper.
Nel modulo è possibile descrivere la manifestazione, flaggare la tipologia di evento e la voce ‘Notte europea dei ricercatori 2025’ nel riquadro ‘Speciale di interesse’; infine, cliccare il bottone ‘Salva come definitiva e trasmetti alla redazione’.
Per ciascun progetto andrà indicato il nome di un referente, un recapito telefonico pubblicabile, una mail e il link al programma.
Le richieste di pubblicazione dovranno pervenire entro venerdì 20 settembre.
Per chiarimenti: sandra.fiore@cnr.it, francesca.gorini@cnr.it
Guido Caldarelli, Director of the Institute of Complex Systems of the CNR and full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems (DSMN) of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, has been awarded the Senior Scientific Award 2025 by the Complex Systems Society (CSS). The prize, one of the most prestigious worldwide in the field of complexity science, is granted annually to a senior scientist who has made fundamental and lasting contributions to the discipline.
The CSS has honored Prof. Caldarelli for his pioneering contributions to the theory of complex networks. In particular, his seminal works on the formation of networks from disordered systems, on network growth models, and on the applications of network theories to economics and finance were highlighted, establishing the foundations of the field of financial networks.
The KDT 2023 Information Day in Rome is the continuation of the successful series of ECSEL Italy Days, and aims to be the reference forum for Italian companies and academia interested in participating to the calls of the KDT Joint Technology Initiative and to other H2020 funding programs. The event will take place at the historical seat of CNR, in Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 in Rome.
More information about the event and registration, are available at the ECSEL link: https://www.aeit.it/ecsel
EUREKA! TT s.r.l., the investment company of “Eureka! Fund I – Technology Transfer” that finances Proof-of-Concept (POC) projects of Italian universities and research centers, has chosen to fund through an innovation contract the CNR – Microelectronics and Microsystems Institute.
The Proof of Concept project named PerovSKY, targets the development of solar cells based on new Perovskite-based materials. The proposing team, leaded by the Senior IMM Researcher Alessandra Alberti, in tandem with the company KENOSISTEC srl (a leading company in the vacuum production process sector), using innovative techniques of deposition and treatment of materials, intends to overcome the current limits of stability and the cost of photovoltaic cells based on Perovskite.
The innovative deposition technique, already protected by an international patent allows the dimensional scalability and the conformability of the deposit on any kind of substrate. The tangible breakthrough is opening the possibility to cover large areas that enables new applications such as in wearable electronics and in the architectural field to power household utilities.
Actuation at micro– and nanoscale often requires large displacements and applied forces. The high work energy density that lies inside many phase transitions is an appealing feature for developing new actuating schemes, especially if the transition is reversible and scalable into small actuating domains. We have shown the fabrication of a planar nanomechanical actuator having chevron–type geometry and based on the phase transition of VO2. This device is thermally activated through heating just above room temperature to trigger the VO2 crystalline symmetry change associated with the metal–insulator transition. The large lattice expansion of VO2 phase transition, compared to standard materials, is further amplified by the chevron–type geometry. DC and AC operation of the device are discussed.
Contact person: Nicola Manca, SPIN Genova
In order to achieve a selective removal of specific pesticides from water, we synthesized, through the sol–gel technique, molecularly imprinted TiO2 photocatalysts with the only use of the standard reactants of the TiO2 solgel synthesis together with the pesticide molecules, without any addition of further reactants supports or matrices. It is a new, easy, smart and scalable method that avoid the multistep and solvent–consuming procedures, typical of the molecular imprinting. Two widely–used pesticides, i.e. the herbicide 2,4D, and the insecticide imidacloprid, were chosen as template for the molecular imprinting and as contaminants target for the photocatalytic tests. A remarkable enhancement of the photocatalytic activity was verified with the TiO2 imprinted with the corresponding pesticide-target. The selectivity of the photodegradation process was verified thanks to the comparison with the degradation of pesticides not–used as template. Furthermore, the eventual toxic effects of the molecularly imprinted materials were evaluated by biological tests.
Contact person: Roberto Fiorenza, IMM c/o Università di Catania
Thermionic energy converters are heat engines based on the direct emission of electrons from a hot cathode toward a colder anode. Because the thermionic emission is unavoidably accompanied by photonic emission, radiative energy transfer is a significant source of losses in these devices. We have provided the experimental demonstration of a hybrid thermionic–photovoltaic device that is able to produce electricity not only from the electrons but also from the photons that are emitted by the cathode. Thermionic electrons are injected in the valence band of a gallium arsenide semiconducting anode, then pumped to the conduction band by the photovoltaic effect, and finally extracted from the conduction band to produce useful energy before they are reinjected in the cathode. We have shown that such a hybrid device produces a voltage boost of about 1 V with
respect to a reference thermionic device made of the same materials and operating under the same conditions. This proof of concept paves the way to the development of efficient thermionic and photovoltaic devices for the direct conversion of heat into electricity.
Contact person: Daniele Trucchi, ISM Roma Tor Vergata
Topological physics relies on the structure of the eigenstates of the Hamiltonians. The geometry of the eigenstates is encoded in the quantum geometric tensor – comprising the Berry curvature (crucial for topological matter) and the quantum metric, which defines the distance between the eigenstates. Knowledge of the quantum metric is essential for understanding many phenomena, such as superfluidity in flat bands, orbital magnetic susceptibility, the exciton Lamb shift and the non-adiabatic anomalous Hall effect. However, the quantum geometry of energy bands has not been measured. Here we report the direct measurement of both the Berry curvature and the quantum metric in a two-dimensional continuous medium – a high–finesse planar microcavity – together with the related anomalous Hall drift. The microcavity hosts strongly coupled exciton–photon modes (exciton polaritons) that are subject to photonic spin–orbit coupling from which Dirac cones emerge, and to exciton Zeeman splitting, breaking time-reversal symmetry. The monopolar and half–skyrmion pseudospin textures are measured using polarization- resolved photoluminescence. The associated quantum geometry of the bands is extracted, enabling prediction of the anomalous Hall drift, which we measure independently using high-resolution spatially resolved epifluorescence. Our results unveil the intrinsic chirality of photonic modes, the cornerstone of topological photonics. These results also experimentally validate the semiclassical description of wavepacket motion in geometrically non–trivial bands. The use of exciton polaritons (interacting photons) opens up possibilities for future studies of quantum fluid physics in topological systems.
Contact person: Daniele Sanvitto, NANOTEC Lecce
L’11 Marzo 2021 si terrà il webinar, organizzato dal Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e dall’Unione Italiana delle Camere di commercio, industria, artigianato e agricoltura (Unioncamere), con l’obiettivo di presentare il sito web del progetto Promo-TT Instrument, con il Database (DB) sulle tecnologie del CNR più utili per l’innovazione nelle imprese industriali e nelle PMI.
Maggiori informazioni ed il programma dell’evento sono disponibili sul sito web di PROMO-TT https://promott.cnr.it/it
La partecipazione è gratuita, previa registrazione alla piattaforma GoToWebinar al seguente link https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4825997739916779021
The report on PUBLIC POLICIES IN QT developed by QuantERA I Partners is available at: https://www.quantera.eu/114-quantum-technologies-public-policies-in-europe.
L’evento, che si terrà lunedì 30 novembre dalle ore 14:30 alle 16:45, in modalità telematica, tratterà alcuni temi di rilevanza strategica per il sistema della ricerca in Europa e in Italia, con un’enfasi sul contributo e l’impatto dello European Research Council. Interverranno relatori provenienti da ambiti diversi della ricerca, che ricoprono ruoli strategici nel panorama europeo e italiano.
Per poter partecipare all’evento, occorre registrarsi al link: http://events.dfa.unipd.it/erc2020.
Per qualsiasi ulteriore informazione contattare la Segreteria Organizzativa: erc2020@dfa.unipd.it.
Edison S.p.A. e la Fondazione “Alessandro Volta” indicono il concorso Borsa Edison 2020, con lo scopo di premiare e incoraggiare gli studi di Fisica in Italia.
La borsa è destinata a un giovane ricercatore per un periodo di tirocinio presso una università straniera, allo scopo di condurre ricerca nel campo della fisica, con particolare riguardo ai temi dell’energia.
La domanda e i titoli presentati dai singoli concorrenti, unitamente alla proposta di utilizzo della borsa, dovranno pervenire entro il 30 aprile 2020.
Ulteriori informazioni su: http://fondazionealessandrovolta.it/borsaedison2020.
The SILS Annual Meeting in Bologna has been postponed to June 2021. The exact dates will be announced as soon as possible.
The first Workshop on Progress In Nonlinear Photonics and Applications (PNPA 2020) is being organized in conjunction with ICTON2020 at the Polytechnic University of Bari on 19-23 July 2020. The workshop will be dedicated to nonlinear photonics and its applications with regard to both the fundamental aspects and the devices’ design and implementation. Further information is available at PNPA2020
The 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON 2020 will take place in Bari on July 19-23, 2020. The scope of the Conference and related events is focused on the applications of transparent and all-optical technologies in telecommunications, computing, sensing, and novel fields. March 31, 2020 is the deadline to submit abstracts. Detailed information about programme and accommodation is available on the Conference web site: icton2020
The biannual International Conference series LACONA is focused on advances in photonic techniques for diagnostics and conservation-restoration of cultural heritage which will be held in Florence on September 14-18, 2020, with the aim of strengthening and enriching the tradition of the Conference by encouraging the submission of contributions on the most advanced photonic tools and methods, their rigorous validation, and exemplary applications in safeguarding cultural heritage. Programme and useful information are available at the conference link lacona13
The XXXIV edition of the EUROSENSORS Conference will be organized on September 6-9, 2020 in Lecce. Scientists from academic institutions and industry will meet to present results related to both theoretical and applied research in the field of Sensors, Micro-Nanosystems. Abstract deadline is on March 31st , 2020.
For more information: eurosensors2020
Giovedì 23 settembre 2020 si terrà nell’Aula Convegni del CNR il Workshop RICERCA PUBBLICA, IMPRESE E FINANZA: QUALI FORMULE PER L’INNOVAZIONE?
L’incontro è rivolto alle Imprese, alle associazioni delle imprese industriali e delle piccole e medie imprese, ai broker e ai centri di servizi tecnologici, alle banche, alle Fondazioni bancarie e agli investitori privati, ai responsabili e agli esponenti della ricerca pubblica, al personale CNR interessato alla valorizzazione dei propri risultati della ricerca, agli amministratori e ai rappresentanti delle Camere di commercio, ai Digital Innovation Hub.
Maggiori informazioni, programma dell’evento e modalità di iscrizioni (sia in presenza che in collegamento streaming) sono disponibili sulla seguente pagina web: https://dsb.cnr.it/publicevents/promott/ptt_event
La partecipazione è gratuita ma è necessario iscriversi compilando il form di registrazione cliccando sull’apposita icona riportata nella pagina web, in seguito al rinvio dell’evento non è ancora disponibile il termine per le iscrizioni.
The End-User Industrial Photonics4Automotive dedicated to photonics technologies for the Automotive Value Chain will be hosted at Politecnico di Torino – Lingotto building , via Nizza 230 on July 3rd 2019, from 9 am to 2 pm.
The workshop is co-located with the conference Automotive 2019 . Photonics4Automotive is organised by CORIFI-AEIT and CNR and supported by the Horizon2020 project NextPho21 and by the Photonics Public Private Partnership Photonics21, with the support of Politecnico di Torino, University of Parma and the industrial clusters Torino Wireless, MESAP and Polo ICT.
Attendance to the workshop is free upon registration. The official language is Italian, the simultaneous English translation will be available upon request. For all information and registration, refer to the Automotive 2019 webpage: https://convegni.aeit.it/automotive/
The SISN congress will take place in Rome on June 24-26 2019 at the Department of Architecture of University Roma 3. The aim of the event is to gather the Italian community using neutron infrastructures to discuss different applications and results. The programme includes scientific seminars and open discussions. A lectio magistralis to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table will be given by Prof. Luigi Dei, Dean of Florence University. For more information: http://www.sisn.it/congresso/
Deadline: 27 June 2019 16:00 Hamburg/Schenefeld time – CEST
The European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL, https://www.xfel.eu) encourages the scientific community worldwide to submit proposals for Early User Experiments via the User Portal to the European XFEL (UPEX) until Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:00 (local Hamburg/Schenefeld time – CEST)
Beamtime will be allocated to successful proposals from January to June 2020.
Please refer to the announcement and the full text of the call on our homepage for details.
General queries can be directed to the European XFEL User Office:
Email: useroffice@xfel.eu
Phone: +49 (0)40 8998-6937 or -6767
The 46th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS 2019) will be held at the University of Milano-Bicocca, on July 8-12, 2019. This year it will be jointly organized by the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) and the Institute for Plasma Physics of CNR, the University of Milano – Bicocca and the International Center “Piero Caldirola”. The programme will cover the wide field of plasma physics ranging from nuclear fusion to low temperature, astrophysical and laser plasmas. Further information can be found on the web site www.epsplasma2019.eu
The 105th edition of the SIF National Congress will be hosted at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, from 23 to 27 September 2019. Abstracts can be submitted online till 8 May 2019.
More information on the Conference web site https://en.sif.it/activities/congress/105
Florence will host the 13th European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons on April 8th -12th , 2019.
The Conference venue will be Fortezza da Basso in the very heart of the renaissance town. The triennial ECAMP conference series is the major conference of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division (AMOPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS). The Scientific Programme will cover the most recent developments in the broader field of Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics. The abstract submission deadline is March, the 4th 2019
The Conference programme together with detailed information about important dates are on the web site www.ecamp13.org
The 14th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry” will be held in Lecce, Italy on June 2-6, 2019. The symposium will provide a forum to discuss all aspects of macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry, and also topics on materials and nanoscience.
The abstract submission deadline is February, the 28th 2019. Further information is available at the web-site https://ismsc2019.eu/.
The 4th International Conference on Terahertz Emission, Metamaterials and Nanophotonics will be held in Lecce (Italy) on 27th-31st May, 2019. The abstract submission deadline is February, the 15th 2019.
TERAMETANANO is an annual conference that gather physicists studying a wide variety of phenomena in the areas of nano-structures, nano-photonics and meta-materials, with special attention to the coupling between light and matter and in a broad range of wavelengths, going from the visible up to the terahertz. Further important information can be found on the conference web-site https://events.mifp.eu/terametanano-2019
2019 has been proclaimed as the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019).
The official launch event will take place at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on January the 29th.
More information at the links: https://fr.unesco.org/feedback/rsvp-290119 and https://www.iypt2019.org
Aspen Institute Italia invites entries for the fourth “Award for scientific research and collaboration between Italy and the United States”, to be adjudicated in 2019.
Entries must be submitted via email by the deadline of 18:00 CET (Central European Time) on January 16, 2019, to: Aspen Institute Italia Award – 2019
e-mail: Award2019@aspeninstitute.it . The Award committee will decide the winner of the Award by March 15, 2019.
Further information can be found on the web page: Aspen Institute award
The 4th edition of the Italian National Conference on the Physics of Matter will be held from September 30 to October 4, 2019 at the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana” of the University of Catania. The conference, jointly organized by CNISM, CNR and the University of Catania, represents a great opportunity for the large community of scientists involved in condensed matter physics and related fields working at universities, research institutions and large scale facilities.
More information concerning deadlines, registration and abstract submission is available in the attached flyer and on the website of the conference:
È previsto il finanziamento di due Laboratori Congiunti da istituirsi tra ricercatori del Cnr (Principal Investigator della proposta di Laboratorio Congiunto) e di Istituzioni di ricerca di paesi esteri nelle aree tematiche: ottica, fotonica e tecnologie quantistiche. Le domande dovranno essere compilate ed inoltrate esclusivamente a mezzo dell’apposita procedura, pena l’esclusione della proposta, disponibile nella Intranet del Cnr, entro e non oltre le ore 12.00 (CET) del 18 dicembre 2018. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili al link https://www.cnr.it/it/bando-laboratori-congiunti
The European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility encourages the scientific community worldwide to submit proposals for Early User Experiments via the User Portal to the European XFEL (UPEX) until Monday 17 December 2018 14:00 (local Hamburg / Schenefeld time – UTC +1). Beamtime will be allocated to successful proposals from July 2019 to November 2019 in 12-hour shifts. More information can be found at the link: https://www.xfel.eu/call_for_proposals/index_eng.html
Collective behavior in biological systems presents theoretical challenges beyond the borders of classical statistical physics. The lack of concepts such as scaling and renormalization is particularly problematic, as it forces us to negotiate details whose relevance is often hard to assess. In an attempt to improve this situation, we have presented experimental evidence of the emergence of dynamic scaling laws in natural swarms of midges. We found that spatio–temporal correlation functions in different swarms can be rescaled by using a single characteristic time, which grows with the correlation length with a dynamical critical exponent z ≈ 1, a value not found in any other standard statistical model. To check whether out–of–equilibrium effects may be responsible for this anomalous exponent, we run simulations of the simplest model of self–propelled particles and find z ≈ 2, suggesting that natural swarms belong to a novel dynamic universality class. This conclusion is strengthened by experimental evidence of the presence of non–dissipative modes in the relaxation, indicating that previously overlooked inertial effects are needed to describe swarm dynamics. The absence of a purely dissipative regime suggests that natural swarms undergo a near–critical censorship of hydrodynamics.
Contact person: Andrea Cavagna, ISC Rome
JRC in collaboration with the National Research Council (CNR) is organising a workshop on Technology Transfer in Nanotechnology,which will take place in CNR Nanotec (Lecce, Italy) on 18 and 19 October. This workshop is organised in the framework of the TTO-CIRCLE initiatives with the aim to explore how technology transfer activities can be used as a mechanism to help EU industry, particularly Start-ups and SMEs, and Government in deploying and adopting Nano-technology.
More information at the link: european-tto-circle.
The CNR of Pisa and the Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra wish to present a proposal to create ad-hoc virtual laboratories dedicated to innovation with SMEs.
The event will take place on October 9th at the CNR in Pisa, via Moruzzi 1, at 4:30 pm.
The Italian Association for Industrial Research and the NanoItaly Association are organizing NanoInnovation 2018, the annual Conference and Exhibition event which will take place on September, 11th-14th 2018 in the traditional venue of the Renaissance Cloister by Sangallo at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of “Sapienza” University of Rome in Via Eudossiana 18. NanoInnovation is the national meeting place for the wide and multidisciplinary community dealing with the development of nanotechnologies and their integration with other key enabling technologies (KETs), in all application fields. More information is available at the conference web site: Nanoinnovation2018
The DSFTM has opened one position.
The deadline for presentation is 22 August 2018. Attached documentation is in Italian.
The DSFTM has opened one position.
The deadline for presentation is 14 June 2018. Attached documentation is in Italian.
The 2018 EPS Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize is awarded to Lucio Braicovich and Giacomo Ghiringhelli for the development and scientific exploration of high-resolution Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS). The discoveries made using RIXS have fundamentally changed the discourse on the electronic structure of the cuprates. Notably, Braicovich and Ghiringhelli and their collaborators showed that dispersive high-energy spin excitations persist well into the cuprates’ overdoped regime. The greatly enhanced sensitivity of the SAXES spectrometer was crucial in the discovery of a charge density wave (CDW) phase in moderately doped cuprates. More info at Europhysics-prize
On May the 16th, 2018 at 9:30, the Auditorium B. Touschek at INFN Laboratories in Frascati will host the second day of the European Project “Gender Equality NEtwork in the Research Area”, jointly organized by CNR and INFN.
Free registration at GENERA and more information about the project at the link http://www.genera-project.com/
16 April 16 – 22, Rome Auditorium Parco della Musica
In this 13th edition of the National Geographic Sciences Festival, held in association with National Geographic, MIUR-Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, ASI-Italian Space Agency and INFN-National Institute of Nuclear Physics, the theme of causes will be examined in its various multidisciplinary dimensions. For more information and to register to the different events, please visit the web page National_Geographic
Materials.it 2018 is one of the main Italian National Conferences on Materials Science and Technology. It will be held from October 22nd to 26th, 2018 in Bologna at the CNR Research Area. Materials.it 2018 represents a great opportunity to gather the large community of scientists involved in materials science and related applications, working at Universities and Research Institutions. This second edition is promoted by the Physics and Chemistry Departments of the National Research Council of Italy, with the support of the CNISM and INSTM consortia. Abstract submission is open. More information on the conference web site Materials.it 2018
SEPTEMBER 2 – 29, 2018
The ILL/ESRF International Student Summer Programme on X-Ray and Neutron Science, aimed at undergraduate students, will be organised at the European Photon & Neutron Science Campus, in Grenoble on September, 2 -29 2018. It consists of a 4-week experimental project in a research group of ESRF or ILL, together with a series of introductory lectures on the principles and applications of X-ray and neutron science (magnetism, materials science, soft matter, structural biology, imaging, etc.). Application deadline: April 23, 2018. Information and registration at Summerschool-2018_ESRF/ILL
The INO-Pisa Unit “Adriano Gozzini” is pleased to host the 6th edition of the “INO Annual Symposium 2018”.
The event will take place at the Pisa CNR Research Campus (Area della Ricerca di Pisa), and fosters participation of collaborating academic and research institutions, including the Physics Department of the University of Pisa, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), the NEST Laboratory of Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) and Medical Physics and Radioprotection Unit of the S.Chiara Hospital in Pisa and many more.
The Symposium brings together researchers from Istituto Nazionale di Ottica and collaborating research and academic communities, presenting and discussing their most recent scientific results in a lively two-day meeting with the enlightening participation of distinguished international guests giving keynote lectures.
On February the 9th, at 11:00, the Accademia dei Lincei will host Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN, who will give a talk about the leading role that this research infrastructure has world-wide in particle physics.
Scope of the workshop, organized by the Nanoscience Institute in Modena from July 10th to 13th 2018, is to bring together the community of scientists using focused electron beams as a tool for direct nanofabrication, through gas-assisted deposition and etching. The scientific program will focus on the recent advances and applications of the technique, along with the fundamental aspects of electron-molecule interaction process and precursor design. Further information is available at FEBIP2018
This event, which will take place in Copenhagen on 26-28 February 2018, represents the first one-stop-shop for European companies and other stakeholders to learn about Europe’s Big Science organisations’ future investments and procurements. The Forum will address 16 topics, organised in extensive parallel sessions, of Big Science as a business area. Further information about the event and the registration procedure can be found at https://bsbf2018.org/
The event, promoted by the ILO Network Italia, will be hosted in Rome at the Sala degli Atti parlamentari, Biblioteca del Senato “Giovanni Spadolini”, Piazza della Minerva, 38 on January the 12th at 4 p.m.
The meeting will focus on main results and future opportunities for private companies in preparation of the next Big Science Business Forum Europeo which will take place in Copenhagen on February 26-28, 2018.
In the Academic Year 2017-18, the lectures “Enrico Fermi” will be given by Prof. Francesco Sette, Director General of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble. The 15 lectures will take place in Aula Conversi at Sapienza University in Rome. Time schedule is available at the link Cattedra Fermi
The ICTP is organizing a Summer School on Dynamics in Trieste from 16 till 27 July, 2018 consisting on introductory and more advanced courses on the current directions of research in the field. Online application by April, 2 2018 at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8325/. Further information is available at the aforementioned website or via smr3226@ictp.it
On March 19-23, 2018 will take place in Trieste, the School on Electron-Phonon Physics First Principles, organized by ICTP. The School addresses senior PhD students and experienced researchers with prior working knowledge of DFT.
Online application is open and deadlines are:
Further information on the ICTP web site.
The annual meeting, which will take place in Rome on November 17th, 2017, is one of the national meeting with reference to Patent Information. The 2017 edition, organized in collaboration with CNR, is focused on a transversal theme which crosses different industrial sectors: Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT). The meeting aims at fostering the connection between the Patent Information and the Technology Transfer as essential tools for the technological development of Italian companies.
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The ISC meeting will take place on October the 16th– 17th, 2017 in Aula Bisogno, CNR Headquarters, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 Rome. For further information please visit the web site:
7th – 8th November 2017, Villa Wolkonsky and Centro Fermi – Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi
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Neutrons Matter, the seventh edition of the International Workshop on Electron-volt Neutron Spectroscopy, celebrates the 85th anniversary of the discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick, and the 80th anniversary of the patent issued by the Ministero delle Corporazioni on 27th October 1937 to Enrico Fermi for the use of neutrons to enhance artificial radioactivity. The last discovery took place at the Istituto di Fisica di Via Panisperna at the very heart of Rome. Following a successful sixth edition of this workshop series in the United Kingdom in 2014, we aim to bring to the fore and highlight the most recent (and quite exciting) advances in the field, with an emphasis on the use of the technique across condensed matter research, as well as the concurrent use of contemporary computational materials modelling. The workshop will be held in Rome, in the beautiful setting of Villa Wolkonsky and at the Centro Fermi – Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi.
MaX – Materials at the Exascale is a European Centre of Excellence launched by the European Union to
enable advancements in materials research via high-performance and high-throughput computing towards
the exascale. Its activities are largely centred on frontier developments and applications of four MaX flagship
codes, Quantum ESPRESSO, SIESTA, Fleur, Yambo, and a workflow manager, Aiida. Further information about
MaX, its partner teams, and its activities is available at www.max-centre.eu
With this call, MaX establishes a prize to recognize frontier research, performed anywhere in the world, that
is enabled by Quantum ESPRESSO, SIESTA, Fleur, Yambo, Aiida, and/or contributes to their advancement:
MaX prize for frontier HPC applications in materials research – 2017
For further details see the full press release and the submission template.
Towards oxide-based Electronics
The meeting aims to network researchers working in the field of the science and technology of transition-metal oxides and will help them to share their expertise, define future strategies, and cluster for future funding opportunities. Participation at the event is free of charge and is open to scientists, both from the public research sector and from the private sector, with or without oral or poster contribution. Support for travel and subsistence will be offered to a limited numbers of participants. Requests for support should be made before the deadline, together with the abstract submission (deadline for submission is July the 16th).
For more information, please visit the Conference: web site
03/09/2017, 09.00am – 04/09/2017 5.00pm
Bussola Hotel – Lungomare dei Cavalieri, 16 – 84011 Amalfi SA
9th Mediterranean Conference on Nano-Photonics
The Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (Cnr-Isasi) is hosting the 9th Mediterranean Conference on Nano-Photonics (MediNano-9) on 3-4 of September 2017, in Amalfi, Italy.
Nano-photonics is one of the most appealing fields having large variety of academic as well industrial applications. MediNano is an international gathering inviting participants from research institutes and industries in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea to present their most recent results as well as review of concepts in various topics related to nano-photonics.
Following the successful gathering of MediNano-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 which were organized in Istanbul (Turkey) in 2008, Athens (Greece) in 2009, in Belgrade (Serbia) in 2010, Rome (Italy) in 2011, Barcelona (Spain) in 2012, Lyon (France) in 2013, Tel Aviv (Israel) in 2015, Athens (Greece) in 2016 and now in Amalfi (Italy) in 2017.
The previous meetings had more than 100 participants on average from more than 25 countries (mostly but not only Mediterranean) presented the highlights of their recent achievements in the field of nano-photonics.
More information on the conference website: http://medinano9.isasi.cnr.it
Organizing institution:
Istituto di scienze applicate e sistemi intelligenti “E. Caianiello”
References:
Antigone Marino
via Campi Flegrei 34, Pozzuoli 80078 (Na)
a.marino@isasi.cnr.it
See also:
05/09/2017, 09.00am – 08/09/2017, 6.00pm
Bussola Hotel – Lungomare dei Cavalieri, 16 – 84011 Amalfi SA
1st International School on Computational Microscopy 2017
The international school on computational microscopy (Iscm) is organized by the Institute of applied sciences and intelligent systems (Isasi-Cnr). Its first edition, Iscm2017, will be focused on ‘Label free and quantitative phase imaging techniques’. The school will be held at Hotel La Bussola in Amalfi (Italy), from the 5th to the 8th of September 2017.
Computational microscopy is an emerging technology which extends the capabilities of the classical optical microscopy with the help of computation. In particular, the complexity of imaging systems moves from the optical arrangements to the computational part, which mainly consists into the smart data manipulation to achieve high-quality imaging capabilities.
The International school on computational microscopy school (Iscm) aims to provide the basic information about these unconventional imaging systems and relative advanced computational methods. Each edition of the school will be focused on one main topic in the field of computation microscopy.
The 4-day program is supposed to host more than 8 top-level international speakers, and 50 young researchers participating.
Check info on the school website: http://iscm2017.isasi.cnr.it/
Organizing institution:
Istituto di scienze applicate e sistemi intelligenti “E. Caianiello”
References:
Antigone Marino, e-mail a.marino@isasi.cnr.it
via Campi Flegrei 34, Pozzuoli 80078 (Na)
Melania Paturzo Isasi Cnr, e-mail m.paturzo@isasi.cnr.it
See also:
A new edition of the International Scientific Symposium “Passion for Physics” will be organised on Saturday, 24 June 2017 in Varenna, Lake Como, by the Italian Physical Society (SIF). Further details on the web site: https://www.sif.it/attivita/passionforphysics2
The DSFTM has opened three positions in Italy under the Nanoscience Foundry and Fine Analysis – NFFA programme and one position in Didtcot (UK) under the European Spallation Source project.
The deadline for presentation is 8 June 2017. Attached documentation is in Italian.
AR DSFTM 001 2017
AR DSFTM 002 2017
AR DSFTM 003 2017
AR DSFTM 004 2017
The Department of Physical Sciences and Technologies of Matter will organize a day focused on the Italian activities in the field of quantum technologies based on single photon generation and detection. The aim is to promote the development of National technological platforms in view of the future European Flagship. The event will take place on April the 21st in Rome, CNR Aula Marconi.
Please register before April the 19th, sending an email to segreteria.dsftm@cnr.it
The SIF National Congress will take place in Trento on September 11 – 15. Abstracts can be submitted before May the 1st.
The best speakers will be awarded a prize and their contribution will be published on Il Nuovo Cimento.
Sections include:
Section 1: Nuclear and sub-nuclear physics
Section 2: Solid state physics
Section 3: Astrophysics
Section 4: Geophysics and physics of the environment
Section 5: Biophysics and medical physics
Section 6: Applied physics, accelerators and physics applied to cultural heritage (archaeometry)
Section 7: Physics education and history of physics
Further information at web page.
Esce il 15 aprile 2016 il film- documentario “Nessuno mi troverà – Majorana Memorandum”, dedicato al fisico Ettore Majorana e al mistero che lo avvolge. Il ricercatore scomparve infatti il 26 marzo del 1938, all’età di 31 anni, senza lasciare traccia alcuna traccia di sé. Sulla sua sparizione sono state fatte diverse ipotesi (tra cui suicidio, rapimento, fuga volontaria), ma ancora oggi, a distanza di quasi ottant’anni, nessuna ha trovato riscontro.
L’enigma si è infittito ed è diventato un paradigma di questioni scientifiche, politiche e morali (come la responsabilità degli scienziati rispetto all’atomica). Questi temi vengono trattati nel film attraverso documenti, immagini d’archivio, animazioni da graphic novel, testimonianze e ipotesi investigative che diventerà anche un cofanetto dvd + libro.
Il CNR collaborerà con l’Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, accompagnando con i propri ricercatori alcune proiezioni del film in diverse sale cinematografiche italiane, scuole ed istituti universitari ed il 13 maggio a Torino, in concomitanza con il Salone del Libro, alla presenza del Presidente del CNR, Massimo Inguscio.
Corrado Spinella, Direttore del Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Tecnologie della Materia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, prenderà parte alla conferenza stampa e proiezione del docufilm, martedì 12 aprile alle 10.00 presso la Casa del Cinema a Roma.
“Nell’immaginario collettivo la figura di Ettore Majorana si identifica con lo stereotipo dello scienziato eccentrico, geniale, molto riservato e distaccato dalla realtà. Eppure gli anni vissuti da Majorana sono stati, per la Fisica e per la Scienza in generale, anni di svolta nella comprensione dei meccanismi che regolano il comportamento della materia nella sua struttura più intima”, commenta Spinella. “Insieme a Fermi, Majorana diede un contributo rilevante alle applicazioni della Fisica quantistica nella descrizione della struttura della materia e della fisica delle particelle. In linea con l’eccentricità del suo personaggio, alcune sue idee portarono alla conclusione dell’esistenza di particelle elementare, i fermioni di Majorana, alle quali si continua a dare la caccia (come è stato per il bosone di Higgs). Soltanto recentemente, nel 2001, grazie a ulteriori sviluppi teorici delle idee di Majorana, si è ipotizzato che le sue ‘strane particelle’ potessero essere scovate cercando in forme speciali della materia, quelle che danno origine al fenomeno della superconduttività (la proprietà grazie alla quale un materiale può condurre corrente elettrica senza resistenza, senza dissipare energia). E a circa 80 anni dall’ipotesi dell’esistenza dei fermioni di Majorana abbiamo le prime evidenze della loro esistenza. Insomma, Majorana ci ha messo davanti a tanti misteri e sfide complesse”.
Il calendario delle proiezioni del film:
Organizzato da:
Istituto Luce
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Tecnologie della Materia – CNR e Ufficio stampa CNR
On June the 15th, the 16th edition of the International Superconductive Electronics Conference (ISEC 2017), held in Sorrento (Napoli), will host the satellite event “Superconducting Electronics for Quantum Flagship: Beyond the Potential”, dedicated to the role of superconducting electronics in the field of quantum technologies and with respect to their industrialization process. One of the aims of the workshop will be to stimulate and boost the interaction between the world of Quantum Technologies and industries which are active in the area of superconducting technologies (mostly electronics).
To participate, please register with the Quantum Event day pass available at the conference registration page: http://www.isec17fee.promoest.com/
Phosphorene and 2D Companions Flyer
The workshop, jointly organized by the DSFTM and DSCTM, will be held on May 8th 2017 at the Sala Marconi of the CNR Headquarter, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7, Rome. The program foresees plenaries, as well as oral contributions, with the aim of networking on phosphorene and functional 2D materials. Slots for oral communication are available.
Deadline for abstract submission has been postponed and is now April 7th, 2017.
Further information can be found at http://phosphoreneand2dcompanions.nano.cnr.it/
Registration will be opened at the website http://phosphoreneand2dcompanions.nano.cnr.it/
Matter is it made of atoms. The atom is the smallest portion of matter that retains all the characteristics of a single element. Every atom is composed of a core and one or more electrons arranged on circular orbits. The core that is made from high-density positively charged particles, protons, and particles with charge neutral calls precisely neutrons. The atom is not a discovery of modern science.
The ability to magnify objects, atoms and matter, to grasp the details of their intimate structure is a need felt since the birth of modern science. In fact this need was at first directed to observations of distant objects, like the heavenly bodies, which appear small in their own right away. The physicists “see” by using various forms of radiation produced by, or interacting with, the bodies to be observed.
Technologies to closely observe the atom and matter are many. The spectroscopy (atoms and molecules in motion), and the synchrotron light and pulsed electromagnetic radiation such as that produced in a free electron laser, allow to observe transient phenomena that take place inside of the molecules. These are phenomena which occur in very small time intervals, of the order of a millionth of a billionth of a second (femtosecond).
Our ability to “look closely” the atoms, molecules, matter, gives us leisure to study their structures and be able to manipulate matter at the atomic scale; this in order to achieve artificial forms of aggregation of the matter itself, not existing in nature, thus generating structures with unique properties, fundamental for the realization, for example, of devices which today cohabit daily with each of us, and then of miniaturized devices and apparatuses …
30-31 March 2017 – Pozzuoli
Download the flyer
The scope of Nano-Tooling School is to provide a two-day full-immersion training on 6 advanced technologies:
The school is directed by ISASl-CNR Team Leaders that are responsible for the facilities and for the related research topics. Lectures by worldwide prominent scientists will be given in streaming on each one of the above Nano-Tools.
Further information at School-on-nano-tooling
Registration at http://nanotoolingschool.isasi.cnr.it/
This symposium which will take place in Thessaloniki on September 17-22, 2017, intends to bridge the gap between the available modern X-ray synchrotron radiation techniques and innovative materials research. It aims at fostering the dialog between materials scientists and experts in X-ray methods.
Further information at Euromat2017
The 2017 E-MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit will be held in the Convention Centre of Strasbourg (France), from May 22 to 26, 2017. The conference will consist of 26 parallel symposia with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations and a plenary session to provide an international forum for discussing recent advances in the field of materials science.
Further information at EMRS_Spring2017
The 2017 MRS Spring Meeting will be held in Phenix, Arizona, from April 17-21 and will cover advances in devices for optical and electronic applications, as well as in material science. It will bring together the technological and scientific communities, being of interest to electronics and process engineers, physicists, chemist and materials scientists working on emerging electronics, including novel nanoscale integration with 2D materials and also nanophotonics and plasmonics.
Further information at MRS.Spring2017
FisMat 2017, the Italian national conference on condensed matter physics and related fields will be hosted by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics and SISSA in Trieste from 2 to 6 October 2017.
Abstract submission is now open.
Further information at FisMat2017
FOTONICA 2017 is the Forum of the National photonics community where the most advanced and recent results in all photonics sectors are presented with a particular attention to their broad applications.
Further information at CALL FOTONICA 2017
ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE, ERICE (IT)
MASTER CLASS ON “NEUTRON PRECESSION TECHNIQUES”
Course directors: Peter Falus (ILL, Grenoble) and Klaus Habicht (HZB, Berlin)
1st – 8th of July 2017
IVth course of the Erice School “NEUTRON SCIENCE AND INSTRUMENTATION”
1st – 8th of July 2017
The IVth Course is primarily aimed at young researchers, instrument and development scientists at international and national neutron facilities who have a basic understanding of neutron scattering but have less background in polarized neutron instrumentation. Graduate students or postdocs at universities with an interest in neutron instrumentation projects are also highly welcome.
Erice School “NEUTRON SCIENCE AND INSTRUMENTATION” (Directors: Carla Andreani, Roberto Caciuffo and Robert McGreevy)
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN via the form at the link below and closes on 10th May 2017
(Please note, that you will receive an automated confirmation e-mail, if you do not, please contact one of the organisers listed below.)
The Course on “Neutron Precession Techniques” aims to provide students with the fundamental concepts and the theoretical framework of neutron precession methods. It is organized as a master class and offers both, a coherent set of introductory lectures for PhD students or young researchers at the postdoctoral level as well as expert discussions led by senior scientists with the aim to exchange experience and develop novel instrumentation ideas. The specialized topic focusses on neutron instrumentation techniques which are based on the Larmor precession of the neutron magnetic moment in dedicated magnetic field arrangements. a It comprises neutron spin-echo techniques as well as novel Larmor labelling methods such as SESANS, SEMSANS and MIEZE.
Selection criteria for applications to the course
The number of applications usually exceeds the number of places available on the course, thus there is a selection procedure for allocating the places. To apply send a ‘personal statement’ and a ‘statement from your supervisor’. The criteria used in making the selection are as follows:
We encourage applicants to submit a strong ‘personal statement’ emphasising the significance of neutron scattering and especially precession techniques in their research.
The course includes accommodation at the Ettore Majorana Foundation (EMFCSC). Click here to download the neutron course flyer in PDF format. For further details please visit the course website or contact the organisers:
Course Directors
Peter Falus, Klaus Habicht
School Secretariat
SoNS@Erice
Low cost and large available biogenic silica from diatoms and diatomaceous earths represents an innovative material for successful development of next generation healthcare devices, overcoming the limitation of synthetic inorganic and polymeric materials production. This is demonstrated by Luca De Stefano and co-workers in article 1601125. The cover picture shows some examples of bioengineered nature-derived silica nanodevices with biomedical functionalities for biosensing and subcellular drug delivery applications.
