Detecting Signals into the Noise. In Memoriam: Franco Manfredi

Monday 5 Dec 2016, 10:45 → 23:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Volta (Università degli Studi di Pavia)

During his scientific career, Franco Manfredi oriented his research interests to radiation detectors, detector signal processing, noise limits in electron devices and front-end electronics for different detector applications. He led international projects in the area of low-noise front-end systems for the acquisition and processing of signals from radiation detectors in nuclear and elementary particle physics. His work was strongly inspired by his belief that front-end electronics developments are among the main forces responsible for the progress in physics. The invited presentations in this workshop will outline how Franco’s scientific work and ideas are still inspiring current research projects and activities in the field of detector front-end electronics, from mixed-signal CMOS rad-hard readout chips to very low-noise analog processing circuits for high-resolution silicon detectors.

10:45 → 11:05 Introduction

Convener: Lodovico Ratti (PV)

11:05 → 12:40 Morning Session

Convener: Lodovico Ratti (PV)

11:05 Franco Manfredi in the R&D and HEP Programs of INFN

Speaker: Valerio Italo Vercesi (PV)

Slides gentelman_science_vvercesi.pptx

11:30 Radiation-Tolerant Front-End Electronics: from the AToM Chip to 65 nm CMOS

Speaker: Valerio Re (PV)

Slides Re_workshop_Franco.pptx

12:05 Toward the Ultimate Low-Noise Front-End Electronics for X-γ Ray Detectors: the Heritage of Franco Manfredi in Current Research

Speaker: Giuseppe Bertuccio (MI)

Slides low-noise_fe_gbertuccio.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Afternoon Session

Convener: Francesco Forti (PI)

14:00 Low Noise Front-End for High Energy Physics Experiments: from the Brookhaven Years to the Road Ahead

Speaker: Sergio Rescia (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides low_noise_fe_srescia.pptx

14:35 Integrated Front-End Electronics for High Resolution Silicon Detectors

Speaker: Lothar Strueder (PNSensor GmbH)

Slides hires_det_lstrueder-glutz.pptx

15:10 Use of Semiconductor Detectors in Flavour Physics

Speaker: Marcello Giorgi (PI)

Slides flavor_physics_mgiorgi.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 17:25 Afternoon Session

Convener: Marco Sampietro (Politecnico di Milano)

16:15 Imaging and Imagination, the Scene of Nuclear and Particle Physics

Speaker: Erik Heijne (CERN)

Slides imaging_imagination_eheijne.pdf

16:50 Sensors and Energy Harvesting for Untethered Transducers

Speaker: Vittorio Ferrari (Università di Brescia)

Slides energy_harvesting_vferrari.pdf

17:25 → 17:40 Conclusion

Convener: Valerio Re (PV)

19:00 → 22:00 Social Dinner

Santa Maria Gualtieri, Piazza della Vittoria, Pavia