The Legacy of Bruno Pontecorvo: the Man and the Scientist

11 Sept 2013, 09:00 → 12 Sept 2013, 19:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Magna (University of Rome "La Sapienza")

Dionisi Carlo, Maiani Luciano

The year 2013 is the centennial of the birth of Bruno Pontecorvo, one of the great physicists of the past century and a pioneer of High Energy Physics.

To honor his memory as a man and scientist, the Physics Department of University of Rome "La Sapienza", is organizing an International Meeting on Sept. 11 and 12, 2013.
Bruno Pontecorvo's life has been characterized by the strength of his ground-breaking scientific ideas as well as by his ideological choices, sometimes dramatic, which have marked his destiny as man and scientist. The meeting is a right and proper homage to the memory of the youngest "ragazzo di Via Panisperna", a moment of encounter and thought on his ingenious scientific ideas and a token of his civil commitment.

Wednesday, 11 September

09:30 → 13:00 Session 1

Convener: Carlo Dionisi (ROMA1)

09:30 Welcom address

Speakers: C. Bernardini (Univ. Sapienza), C. Messa (Vice Presidente CNR), Fernando Ferroni (Presidente INFN), G. Piragino (Società Italiana di Fisica), L. Frati (Rettore La Sapienza), L. Maffei (Presidente dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei), V. Matveen (Director Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Sciences)

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Comments on some of the great heritage of one of the most imaginative physicists of the past century, and a friend

Speaker: Jack Steinberger

Slides A-Steiberger's_Contribution.pdf

11:30 Bruno Pontecorvo and his Inverse β Process to detect neutrinos, a page of history

Speaker: Giuseppe Fidecaro

Slides BB-Giuseppe.pdf bruno-32slides.pdf

12:00 Bruno Pontecorvo: pioneer of neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Samoil Mikhelevich Bilenky

Slides Bruno_100_cartoons.pdf C-Pontecorvo100_Rome.pdf

12:30 My debts to Bruno

Speaker: Ettore Fiorini

Slides D-Pontecorvo_Roma.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 19:00 Session 2

Convener: Umberto Dosselli (PD)

14:30 The birth of lepton universality and the second neutrino

Speaker: Luigi Di Lella

Slides A-Pontecorvo_Rome-Sept2013-dilella.pdf

15:00 The beginning of a great adventure: Bruno Pontecorvo in Rome and Paris

Speaker: Nadia Robotti

Slides B-PONTECORVO_Robotti.pdf

15:30 The early years of Bruno Maximovich Pontecorvo at Dubna

Speaker: Rino Castaldi

Slides C-Potecorvo_early_years_f-1.pdf

16:00 Bruno Pontecorvo, Edoardo Amaldi and the invisible light of the stars

Speaker: Eugenio Coccia

Slides D-CocciaBP-session-2.pdf

18:00 Giuseppe Mussardo presents: “Maksimovic. La storia di Bruno Pontecorvo”

Speaker: Giuseppe Mussardo

Thursday, 12 September

09:00 → 12:30 Session 3

Convener: Filippo Ceradini

09:00 Great events and minor episodes

Speaker: Ugo Amaldi

Slides D-Pontecorvo_-__Rome_-_U._Amaldi__12.9.13.pdf

09:30 Bruno Pontecorvo - A Life of Two Halves

Speaker: Frank Close

Slides A-130912ponteromefinal-close.pdf

10:00 Bruno Pontecorvo`s legacy: Radiochemical solar neutrino detection and neutrino oscillations

Speaker: Till Kirsten

Slides B-Kirsten_Pontec_Talk.pdf

10:30 Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations --- the legacy of Bruno Pontecorvo

Speaker: Yoichiro Suzuki

Slides C-130911-Pontecorvo-Rome.pdf

11:00 Summary Talk

Speaker: Luciano Maiani

15:00 → 19:30 Tribute to the Bruno Pontecorvo’s family (OPEN SESSION)

15:00 "Documentario e Teatro su Bruno", playact by Giulio Scarpati

16:00 Round Table

Participants: Samoil Bilenky Giulietto Chiesa Till Kirsten Giuseppe Longo Guido Piragino Antonio Pontecorvo Gil Pontecorvo Eugenio Tabet

Speaker: Eugenio Tabet