Name: TECH-FPA PhD Retreat 2025
Start: 2025-02-17T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-02-21T14:45:00+01:00
Location: LNGS

TECH-FPA PhD Retreat 2025

from Monday, 17 February 2025 (14:00) to Friday, 21 February 2025 (14:45)

Monday, 17 February 2025
14:00
14:00 - 14:40
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

14:00 Greetings from INFN - Antonio Zoccoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Marco Pallavicini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:05 Introduction - Mose' Mariotti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:10 The PhD Program and the Retreat - Mauro Morandin (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:20 PhD students

14:30 Supervisors and Coordinators
14:40
14:40 - 15:40
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

14:40 Uncovering the fundamental constituents of everything - Fernando Ferroni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:10 The puzzles above our heads - Marcella Marconi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)
15:40
15:40 - 16:10
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

15:40 How to discover the secrets of nature down to the smallest scales - Pierluigi Campana (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
16:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:40
16:40
16:40 - 17:10
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

16:40 How to discover the secrets of nature up to the largest scales - Paolo D'Avanzo (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)
17:10
17:10 - 18:10
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

17:10 How INFN works (and how to get around inside it) - Ezio Previtali (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:40 How INAF works (and how to get around inside it) - Simone Zaggia (INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)
19:00 Welcome dinner
Welcome dinner
19:00 - 21:30
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
09:00
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

09:00 Welcome at LNGS - Ezio Previtali (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:10 LNGS: the largest underground laboratory in the world devoted to neutrino and astro-particle physics - Paolo Gorla (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
09:40
09:40 - 11:00
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

09:40 Superconductivity: from science to society - Marco Statera (INFN - LASA)

10:20 Adaptive Optics: large deformable mirrors - Roberto Biasi (Microgate)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:30
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

11:30 Mechanics - Marco Riva (INAF)

11:45 Detectors, Lasers and Optics - Matteo Munari (INAF) Salvatore My (Università degli Studi di Bari and INFN)

12:15 Computing - Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:30 Electrotechnics and Accelerators - Mauro Migliorati (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:45 Electronics - Angelo Rivetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
13:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Canteen
15:00
15:00 - 17:00
Room: Room "B. Rossi"
Contributions

15:00 HPC Status and Perspectives in Europe - Piero Vicini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:40 Real time, low latency, high throughput distributed ML inference on FPGA - Francesca Lo Cicero (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:20 A retrospective tour of AI in scientific discovery - Simone Scardapane (Sapienza Università di Roma)
15:00 - 17:00
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

15:00 Introduction - Matteo Munari (INAF) Salvatore My (Università degli Studi di Bari and INFN)

15:10 Future Perspectives on Gas Detectors and DRD1 R&D Program - Anna Colaleo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:00 Future Perspectives on Solid State Detectors and DRD3 R&D Program - Gregor Kramberger (Jozef Stefan Institute)
15:00 - 17:00
Room: Room "G. Occhialini"
Contributions

15:00 An introduction to FPGA and applications to high energy physics - Davide Falchieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
15:00 - 17:00
Room: Room "B. Pontecorvo"
Contributions

15:00 Introduction - Marco Riva (INAF)

15:10 Systematic approach to mechanical design in Fundamental Research in Physics and Astrophysics - Matteo Tintori (ADS)

15:55 System engineer for multidisciplinary engagment in Fundamental Research in Physics and Astrophysics - Marco Riva (INAF)

16:40 Short presentation from 39° cicle students
17:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Room "B. Rossi"
Contributions

17:30 Deep Learning and Monte Carlo simulations, opportunities and challenges - Carlo Mancini Terracciano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:10 Short presentations (5-10') from new students
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

17:30 Radiation Detectors Application in Medical Applications - Raffaella Radogna (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:15 Students Introduce Themselves
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Room "G. Occhialini"
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Room "B. Pontecorvo"
Contributions

17:30 Short presentation from 40° cicle students

18:30 Roundtable
19:00

19:00 - 20:30
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

09:00 Development and challenges in accelerators technologies - Luigi Faillace (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:30 Development and challenges in detector technologies

10:00 Development and challenges in Radio Antennas and Receivers - Jader Monari (INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia Bologna)

10:30 Development and challenges in Machine Learning for Astrophysics - Simone Riggi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:30
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

11:30 Mechanical services - Adriano Pepato (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:00 Electronics services - Angelo Rivetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:30 Computing services - Alessandro Brunengo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

13:00 Clean rooms and Advanced Technologies Services - Giovanni Francesco Ciani (Università di Bari)
13:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Canteen
15:00
15:00 - 19:00
Contributions

15:00 Visit to L'Aquila
20:00 Social dinner
Social dinner
20:00 - 22:30
Thursday, 20 February 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 First part - Barbara van Bakel
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Visit to the facilities at LNGS
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:30
Contributions

11:00 Second Part - Barbara van Bakel
11:00 - 13:30
Contributions

11:00 Visit to the underground lab
13:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Canteen
14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 First part - Barbara van Bakel
15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Visit to the facilities at LNGS
16:30

16:30 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:00
Contributions

17:00 Second Part - Barbara van Bakel
17:00 - 19:30
Contributions

17:00 Visit to the underground lab
Friday, 21 February 2025
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

09:00 Sustainable technologies - Roberto Losito

09:30 The innovation potential of scientific organizations - Valentina Morretta (Università di Milano)

10:00 Technology: from science to spin-off - TBD TBD

10:30 Creating a successful company - Gino Bucciol (Officina Stellare)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:45
Room: Room "E. Majorana"
Contributions

11:30 Future scientific enterprises in Europe: The Einstein Telescope project - part I: the experimental context - Jan Harms (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:00 Future scientific enterprises in Europe: The Einstein Telescope project - part II: the era of multimessenger science - Enzo Brocato (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

12:30 Feedback from the participants - discussion

13:30 Closeout
13:45 Lunch
Lunch
13:45 - 14:45
Room: Canteen

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