Name: TECH-FPA PhD Retreat 2026
Start: 2026-02-16T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-19T17:00:00+01:00
Location: LNS

TECH-FPA PhD Retreat 2026

from Monday, 16 February 2026 (14:00) to Thursday, 19 February 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 16 February 2026
14:00 Introducing the PhD Retreat and the participants
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Sala E.Migneco
Contributions

14:00 Welcome and Introduction - The PhD Programme and the Retreat - Mosè Mariotti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:15 PhD students flash presentations

14:55 Supervisors and Coordinators
15:00 INAF's and INFN's scientific mission: key questions being addressed
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Sala E.Migneco
Contributions

15:00 Uncovering the fundamental constituents of everything - Vincenzo Greco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:30 The puzzles above our heads - Antonino Francesco Lanza
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Canteen
16:30 INAF's and INFN's experimental activities: ingenuity and passion at work
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Sala E.Migneco
Contributions

16:30 The tools and technologies to unravel nature's secrets down to the smallest scale: accelerators - David Mascali (LNS)

17:00 The tools and technologies to unravel nature's secrets down to the smallest scale: detectors - Nadia Pastrone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:30 How to discover the secrets of nature up to the largest scales - Giovanni Pareschi (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)
18:00 INFN and INAF: structure and operation
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Sala E.Migneco
Contributions

18:00 How INFN works (and how to get around inside it) - Alessia Rita Tricomi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:30 How INAF works (and how to get around inside it) - Maria Elisabetta Palumbo (INAF)
20:30 Welcome dinner
Welcome dinner
20:30 - 22:30
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
08:30 "Authentic Impact" course
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Round Table
Contributions

08:30 First part - Barbara van Bakel
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Canteen
11:00 "Authentic Impact" course
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Round Table
Contributions

11:00 Second Part - Barbara van Bakel
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Canteen
14:30 The curricula and course offerings for the academic year 2025-2026
14:30 - 15:45
Room: Sala E.Migneco
Contributions

14:30 Mechanics - Marco Riva (INAF)

14:45 Detectors, Lasers and Optics - Matteo Munari (INAF) Salvatore My (Università degli Studi di Bari and INFN)

15:00 Computing - Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:15 Electrotechnics and Accelerators - Antonio Palmieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Mauro Migliorati (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:30 Electronics - Angelo Rivetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Canteen
16:15 Cutting-edge technological developments in INFN and INAF
16:15 - 18:15
Room: Sala E.Migneco
Contributions

16:15 Technological Challenges and Cryogenic CMOS Electronics for Noble Liquid Detectors - Stefano Durando (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:55 Quantum Computing in Astrophysics - Farida Farsian

17:35 Free Space Communication - Stefano Bonora (CNR)
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
09:00 Introduction to the Laboratories
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Sala E. Migneco
Contributions

09:00 Welcome at LNS - Santo Gammino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:10 Introduction to the local facilities - Aurora Tumino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
09:40 Computing
09:40 - 11:10
Room: Aula Round Table
Contributions

09:40 Artificial Intelligence: The AI_INFN initiative - Lucio Anderlini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:25 Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing - Simone Bordoni (Sapienza universita di Roma)
Detectors, Lasers and Optics
09:40 - 11:10
Room: Sala E. Migneco
Contributions

09:40 RD for Future Detectors - Federica Maria Simone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:25 Techniques and technologies for radioastronomy - Francesco Cavallaro (INAF - OACT)
Electronics and Electrotechnics
09:40 - 11:10
Room: Aula Azzurra
Contributions

09:40 DONES: A European SRF high intensity Linac for fusion material test - Antonio Palmieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:10 Geopolitics of Microelectronics - Alessandro Paccagnella (PD)
Mechanics
09:40 - 11:10
Room: Auletta A
Contributions

09:40 Mechanical Engineering: From Principles to Integrated Science Systems - Carlo Zanoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:10 Additive Manufacturing technologies, applications and future perspectives - Antonio Grande (Politecnico di Milano)

10:40 Advanced Mechanical Metrology - Edoardo Redaelli
11:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:10 - 11:40
Room: Canteen
11:40 Computing
11:40 - 13:30
Room: Aula Round Table
Contributions

11:40 Students presentations and discussion
Detectors, Lasers and Optics
11:40 - 13:30
Room: Sala E. Migneco
Contributions

11:40 Students presentations and discussion
Electronics and Electrotechnics
11:40 - 13:30
Room: Aula Azzurra
Contributions

11:40 Students presentation and discussion
Mechanics
11:40 - 13:30
Room: Auletta A
Contributions

11:40 Students presentations and discussion
13:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Canteen

14:30 Visits

14:30 - 16:30

16:30 Coffee break and Poster Session event

16:30 - 18:00
Room: Canteen
18:00 Scientific seminars
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Sala E. Migneco
Contributions

18:00 Achieving Sub-3% Energy Resolution in JUNO-TAO. From Cryogenic Innovation to Systematic Noise Mitigation - Ammad Ul Islam (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:20 Data Bottlenecks in High-Rate Physics Experiments - Fatima Bzeih

18:40 Silicon pixel technologies for next generation experiments at colliders and beyond - Michele Verdoglia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
20:30 Social dinner
Social dinner
20:30 - 23:00
Thursday, 19 February 2026
09:00 Visits
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 Catania INAF Observatory
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Canteen
13:30 Technology, society, industry
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Sala E. Migneco
Contributions

13:30 From fundamental research at INFN to Technology Transfer in neuroscience field. The experience of Dorian Technologies - Paolo Bosco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:00 Technology transfer to medical applications at INFN - Giada Petringa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
14:30 Outlook and closout
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Sala E. Migneco
Contributions

14:30 A glimpse into the future of particle physics: the FCC-ee project - Patrizia Azzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:00 Feedback from the participants - discussion

15:45 Closeout

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