The Legacy of Bruno Pontecorvo: the Man and the Scientist

Europe/Rome
Aula Magna (University of Rome "La Sapienza")

Aula Magna

University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 Roma Italy
Dionisi Carlo, Maiani Luciano
Description
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.
Participants
  • Alfredo Sciortino
  • Andrea Vacchi
  • Anna Di Ciaccio
  • Antonio Masiero
  • Argia Rubeo
  • Beniamino Di Martino
  • Ceradini Filippo
  • Daniele Fargion
  • Danilo Domenici
  • De Pedis Daniele
  • DI LELLA Luigi
  • Elena Volterrani
  • Elisa Maggio
  • ennio gozzi
  • Enrico Junior Schioppa
  • ENRICO MAINARDI
  • Enzo De Sanctis
  • Enzo Valente
  • Ettore Fiorini
  • Eugenio Tabet
  • Fabio Miceli
  • Francesco Lacava
  • Franco Buccella
  • Giancarlo Bianchini
  • Giancarlo Gialanella
  • Giancarlo Piredda
  • Gianfranco Grossi
  • Giorgio Capon
  • Giorgio Dragoni
  • Giorgio P. Panini
  • giorgio parisi
  • Giovanni Batignani
  • Giovanni La Rana
  • Giuseppe Battistoni
  • Giuseppe Mossa
  • Giuseppe Nicotera
  • Ivan Girardi
  • Leonardo Martelli
  • Luca Martinelli
  • Luca Massarelli
  • Marco Maria Massai
  • Maria Paola Lombardo
  • maria teresa Giuli
  • Mario Greco
  • Maurizio Lusignoli
  • Mauro Mancini
  • Mehdi Rezaie
  • Mirella Matzeu
  • Noemi Rocco
  • OUSMAN DRAMMEH
  • Paolo Laurelli
  • Peter Nemethy
  • Riccardo de Sangro
  • Rino Castaldi
  • Sabina Guidotti
  • Sara Bonella
  • Sebastian White
  • Sergio Giudici
  • Silvia Biffi
  • silvia celli
  • simona gargiulo
  • Stefano Giagu
  • Till Kirsten
  • Valentina Gregori
  • Walter Longhi
  • Wednesday, September 11
    • 9:30 AM 1:00 PM
      Session 1
      Convener: Carlo Dionisi (ROMA1)
      • 9:30 AM
        Welcom address 1h
        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 AM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        Comments on some of the great heritage of one of the most imaginative physicists of the past century, and a friend 30m
        Speaker: Jack Steinberger
        Slides
      • 11:30 AM
        Bruno Pontecorvo and his Inverse β Process to detect neutrinos, a page of history 30m
        Speaker: Giuseppe Fidecaro
        Slides
      • 12:00 PM
        Bruno Pontecorvo: pioneer of neutrino oscillations 30m
        Speaker: Samoil Mikhelevich Bilenky
        Slides
      • 12:30 PM
        My debts to Bruno 30m
        Speaker: Ettore Fiorini
        Slides
    • 1:00 PM 2:30 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 2:30 PM 7:00 PM
      Session 2
      Convener: Umberto Dosselli (PD)
      • 2:30 PM
        The birth of lepton universality and the second neutrino 30m
        Speaker: Luigi Di Lella
        Slides
      • 3:00 PM
        The beginning of a great adventure: Bruno Pontecorvo in Rome and Paris 30m
        Speaker: Nadia Robotti
        Slides
      • 3:30 PM
        The early years of Bruno Maximovich Pontecorvo at Dubna 30m
        Speaker: Rino Castaldi
        Slides
      • 4:00 PM
        Bruno Pontecorvo, Edoardo Amaldi and the invisible light of the stars 30m
        Speaker: Eugenio Coccia
        Slides
      • 6:00 PM
        Giuseppe Mussardo presents: “Maksimovic. La storia di Bruno Pontecorvo” 1h
        Speaker: Giuseppe Mussardo
  • Thursday, September 12
    • 9:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Session 3
      Convener: Filippo Ceradini
      • 9:00 AM
        Great events and minor episodes 30m
        Speaker: Ugo Amaldi
        Slides
      • 9:30 AM
        Bruno Pontecorvo - A Life of Two Halves 30m
        Speaker: Frank Close
        Slides
      • 10:00 AM
        Bruno Pontecorvo`s legacy: Radiochemical solar neutrino detection and neutrino oscillations 30m
        Speaker: Till Kirsten
        Slides
      • 10:30 AM
        Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations --- the legacy of Bruno Pontecorvo 30m
        Speaker: Yoichiro Suzuki
        Slides
      • 11:00 AM
        Summary Talk 30m
        Speaker: Luciano Maiani
    • 3:00 PM 7:30 PM
      Tribute to the Bruno Pontecorvo’s family (OPEN SESSION)
      • 3:00 PM
        "Documentario e Teatro su Bruno", playact by Giulio Scarpati 1h
      • 4:00 PM
        Round Table 2h 30m
        Participants: Samoil Bilenky Giulietto Chiesa Till Kirsten Giuseppe Longo Guido Piragino Antonio Pontecorvo Gil Pontecorvo Eugenio Tabet
        Speaker: Eugenio Tabet