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Prof. Piero Rosati (Universita' di Ferrara)1/8/14, 3:30 PMabstract: Galaxy clusters are a powerful tools to test the Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter (LCDM) cosmological paradigm and the structure formation scenario. Their multi-wavelength study reveal key information on the dark sector of the Universe (DM and dark energy), as well as on the cosmic circulation of baryons in the cold and hot phase. I will briefly review the methodologies and recent results in...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andrea Roselli (Universita' di Milano)1/9/14, 2:30 PMAbstract: Einstein, come tutti i fisici prima di lui, era convinto che l'obiettivo della scienza fosse la descrizione di un mondo determinato, definito, indipendente dalla nostra conoscenza. Quando i fisici di Copenaghen cominciarono a parlare di indeterminismo e problema della misura, fu chiaro che la MQ - così com'era - non era compatibile con quella descrizione: si produsse uno iato tra...Go to contribution page
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Dr Miguel Quartin (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil)1/20/14, 2:00 PMAbstract: Soon the number of type Ia supernovae (SNe) measurements should surpass 10^5. Understanding weak lensing effects in these objects will then be more important than ever. Although SNe lensing is usually seen as a source of systematic noise in this talk I will show how this noise can be in fact turned into signal. I will thus first describe how we were able to accurately model the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Re'em SARI (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)1/27/14, 3:00 PMAbstract We discuss the physics of the breakout of relativistic and non relativistic shocks from the envelopes of stars. While most of the luminosity escapes from the diffusion/convection transition, the thermalization of the photons happens farther out. Special treatment of these different regimes is important in order to capture correctly both luminosity and color temperature of the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Maurice Van Putten (Università di Seul (Sud Korea))1/29/14, 3:00 PMAbstract: Electromagnetic priors can greatly aid searches for gravitational waves with the advanced detectors LIGO-Virgo and KAGRA. Of particular interest are GRBs and core-collapse SNe. We discuss some recent phenomenology that points to inner engines comprising black holes rather than (proto-)neutron stars. It points to a new class of long duration gravitational wave bursts from turbulent...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Alex Howard (ETH Zurich)2/13/14, 11:00 AMA future balloon borne spectrometer will be described. The goal of the experiment is to measure the cosmic ray positron and electron flux up to the TeV scale. In the quest for dark matter, the positron fraction in cosmic rays is a key observable as it might indicate the presence of decaying dark matter particles. A balloon spectrometer offers a cost effective method to measure the spectrum...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Mohamad Kalil (AstroParticle and Cosmology Laboratory (APC) in Paris)2/17/14, 3:00 PMAbstract: Single sided silicon strip detectors (SSD) and double sided silicon strip detectors (DSSD) are silicon based micro-strip detectors that are widely used in various physics experiments and medical applications. These detectors are currently commercially available with thicknesses and pitch sizes up to 2000 μm each, however most of the ones being used in experiments are rather thin...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Paolo Lenisa (Universita' di Ferrara)2/20/14, 2:30 PMAn electric dipole aligned along the spin axis of a fundamental particle, nucleus, or atomic system violates both parity conservation and time reversal invariance. The observation of such a phenomenon would, at present or proposed levels of experimental sensitivity, signal new physics beyond the Standard Model. The usual method for identifying an electric dipole moment (EDM) in such...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Pierre Desesquelles (Universita’ di Paris Sud ( Orsay))2/21/14, 10:15 AMMany physical systems evolve by brutal fragmentation or, on the contrary, by aggregation and coalescence. Unlike the processes of reactions at equilibrium (chemical reactions, nuclear fission, for example) that are well understood, the processes of fragmentation are often puzzling. In the nineties, great efforts have been invested in the frame of nuclear physics to describe and understand the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Giovanni Giunchi (Consulente Scienza dei Materiali)2/27/14, 3:00 PMAbstract La possibilità di produrre cilindri superconduttivi di MgB2 di dimensioni delle decine di centimetri, applicando la tecnologia dell’infiltrazione reattiva, apre le porte all’ utilizzo di schermi magnetici passivi in grado di operare fino a temperature di circa 30K. Vengono presentate le linee principali alla base dell’originale processo di infiltrazione reattiva per ottenere MgB2,...Go to contribution page
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Victor, A. Novikov (ITEP, Moscow)3/6/14, 3:00 PMWe demonstrate that CPT-violation due to the $e^+ e^-$ mass difference generates a photon mass. As a result a cosmological bound on the photon mass leads to the bound on $e^+ e^-$ mass difference that more than 10 orders of magnitude stronger than the direct experimental bound.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Fabio Mantovani (Universita' di Ferrara)3/10/14, 3:30 PMLow-energy neutrinos have very long mean free path and neutrinos emitted by astronomical bodies carry direct information on their internal composition and structure. Experimental detection of the solar neutrinos has already provided valuable information on radioactive processes inside the stars. Unlike the Sun, Earth emits mainly antineutrinos (called geoneutrinos) which are detected by...Go to contribution page
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Dr Domitilla De Martino (Osservatorio Astronomico Capodimonte dell'INAF di Napoli)3/11/14, 11:00 AMAbstract: The X-ray surveys conducted by Swift and Integral have revealed a non-neglible number of Cataclysmic Variables (CV) emitting above 20keV. I will present recent results from the ongoing programme with XMM-Newton on newly discovered sources aiming at identifying their true nature. I will show their temporal and spectral properties with emphasis on new aspects of the X-ray emission of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gioacchino Ranucci (INFN, Milano)3/13/14, 3:00 PML’elevato, ed in qualche modo inatteso, valore dell’angolo di mixing θ13 misurato recentemente da Day Bay, Reno e Double Chooz rende sperimentalmente accessibile il metodo proposto più di dieci anni fa da Petcov e Piai per la determinazione della gerarchia di massa dei neutrini tramite la misura dello spettro di antineutrini con un rivelatore a scintillatore liquido di grande massa situato...Go to contribution page
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Evgeniy Kravchenko Budker (INP Novosibirsk (Russia))3/19/14, 3:00 PMThe Super Charm-Tau Factory is under the development at the Budker INP in Novosibirsk. This will be the e+e collider with the luminosity up to 10^35 cm^-2s^-1 and the energy at the centre of mass from 2 to 5 GeV. The ‘golden’ process will be the search for the lepton flavor violation in tau decays: tau -> mu+gamma with the projected sensitivity Br<10^-9. One of the main background sources...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Pascal Chardonnet (Université de Savoie, Annecy (Francia))3/20/14, 3:00 PMThe first stars of the Universe, called Population III stars (Pop III), are rapidly becoming an important subject of investigation from the point of view of theory and observations. The formation of these stars hundreds of millions years after the Big-Bang marks the end of what it is called the ``Dark Age"". Today's telescopes cannot look far enough into the cosmic past, so we don't have...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Ferruccio Petrucci (Universita' di Ferrara & INFN)3/20/14, 5:00 PM
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Claudio Grillo3/24/14, 3:00 PMThe physics of gravitational light deflection, or gravitational lensing, offers a great variety of applications in several fields of astrophysics. In particular, in the strong lensing regime, the observations of multiple images of background sources created by intervening mass concentrations provide the opportunity of measuring very precisely the total mass of the lenses. The combination of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Luciano Burderi (Universita' di Cagliari)3/25/14, 11:00 AMI critically discuss the measure of very short time intervals. By means of a conceptual experiment, I describe an ideal clock based on the occurrence of completely random events. I show that the minimum time interval dt that this clock can measure scales as the inverse of its size dr. This implies an uncertainty relation between space and time: dr dt >= Gh/(2pi c^4) where G, h, and c are...Go to contribution page
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Paolo Natoli (Universita' di Ferrara)3/26/14, 4:00 PMI will discuss the recent BICEP2 paper where it is claimed a detection of inflationary gravitational waves in the CMB polarization patternGo to contribution page
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Prof. Vladimir G. Kurt (AstroSpace Center, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences)4/1/14, 11:00 AMAbstract: A review of the earliest observations of GRBs in Russia is discussed, starting from the earliest observations in hard X-rays onboard of the Russian satellites “Prognoz” and the interplanetary stations launched to Mars and Venus.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Vladimir G. Kurt (AstroSpace Center of the P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences of Moscow)4/4/14, 11:00 AMThe physical processes during the cosmological recombination epoch (900 < z < 7000) are well known now. The most important effect to be observed in future is unique deviations of the CMB spectrum from a blackbody caused by the photon release during the recombination. These photons are added to the thermal CMB spectrum forming the hydrogen and helium recombination spectrum. The dynamics of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Filippo chair Frontera (Universita' di Ferrara)4/10/14, 11:00 AM
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Prof. Filippo Frontera (Universita' di Ferrara)4/11/14, 9:00 AM
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Giulia Vecchi (University of Cambridge)4/15/14, 3:00 PMHow long can a man live? While constantly trying to increase the average lifespan, human attempts have always come to face newer natural obstacles, represented by the spreading of more complex and yet incurable types of diseases. In developed countries, one of the main obstacles now is represented by neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s...Go to contribution page
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Priyanka Joshi (University of Cambridge)4/15/14, 3:40 PMProteins are macromolecules that carry out most of the functions in a living cell. These functions are largely attributed to the structure they adopt natively in the cell. Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs), a unique and important extension of the protein kingdom, challenge the well-established concept of “one protein--one structure--one function” in structural biology. IDPs are highly...Go to contribution page
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E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D. (Dept. of Radiology, School of Medicine MR Research Facility at Harper University Hospital)5/8/14, 11:30 AMMRI is a reliable method for quantifying blood flow and visualizing head and neck vasculature in 3D. Using high resolution 3D vascular imaging and 2D cardiac gated flow quantification, we will show that multiple sclerosis patients reveal anomalous venous behavior compared to healthy controls (HC). Our goal is to determine the optimum flow thresholds to differentiate normal flow from abnormal...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Eleuterio Toro (Universita' di Trento)5/8/14, 12:10 PMBy means of a recently constructed global mathematical model for the entire human circulation we study the intra-cranial haemodynamical impact of extra-cranial CCSVI-like venous anomalies. Pressure and velocity fields in the full cardiovascular system are computed. Computational results are compared to MRI measurements. Our model predicts that extra-cranial venous strictures cause disturbed...Go to contribution page
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Dr A Dotti (SLAC)5/9/14, 11:00 AMGeant4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the interaction of particles with matter, developed by an international collaboration of physicists, engineers and computer scientists. Its application areas include high energy physics experiments, nuclear physics, astrophysics and astroparticle physics, space science, medical physics and medical imaging, radiation protection, and education....Go to contribution page
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Dr M. Asai (SLAC)5/9/14, 3:00 PMGeant4 is a general purpose Monte Carlo simulation tool for elementary particles passing through and interacting with matter. It finds quite a wide variety of user domains including high energy and nuclear physics, space engineering, medical applications, material science, radiation protection and security. Geant4 covers all relevant physics processes, electromagnetic, hadronic, decay,...Go to contribution page
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Raffaella Margutti (Harvard University)5/29/14, 4:00 PMABSTRACT: Observations are drawing a complex picture of the latest stages of massive stars evolution and their explosions. In this talk I concentrate on two among the least understood aspects, adopting an observational perspective: (i) How do massive stars lose a significant fraction of their mass in the years preceding the explosion? (ii) What is the role of central-engines in explosions...Go to contribution page
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Marco Casolino (INFN and RIKEN)6/3/14, 2:30 PMThe Pamela spectrometer was launched in 2006 from the cosmodrome of Baikonur, Kazakistan, on board the Russian satellite Resurs-DK1. Since then, it has been collecting cosmic rays from its 70 degrees inclination, 600 km altitude polar orbit. This orbit allows to sample particles of trapped, semi-trapped nature in the Earth geomagnetosphere, of solar origin (emitted in solar particle events),...Go to contribution page
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M. E. Monzani (SLAC)6/5/14, 2:30 PMThe existence of a source of gravitational effects beyond regular matter is well established, but its nature remains a deep mystery. In principle, Dark Matter particles could be detected either directly, via their interaction on target nuclei, or indirectly, by observing their annihilation in galaxy halos. Since 2007, tremendous progress has been achieved in both direct and indirect...Go to contribution page
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Dr Giuseppe Palma (CNR - IBB Napoli)6/10/14, 10:00 AMMagnetic Resonance Imaging provides some of the most powerful techniques to study in vivo the vascular tree and a large spectrum of phenomena related to blood flow. In this context, Phase Contrast pulse sequences play a central role in the flow quantification of arterial and venous vessels. After a brief introduction to NMR signal formation and its spatial reconstruction, the theory of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Antonio Masiero (INFN e Universita' di Padova)6/16/14, 2:30 PMVerranno discusse le prospettive che si aprono davanti a noi nella ricerca di segnali di nuova fisica alle alte energie, all'alta intensita' e nella fisica astroparticellare.Go to contribution page
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Alessandro Drago (Universita' di Ferrara)6/18/14, 3:00 PMAbstract: Over the last few years, a strong synergy has been developing among research areas apparently quite separated, offering the possibility to investigate several crucial questions in hadronic and nuclear physics, astrophysics, and gravitational physics from complementary viewpoints. The main goal of this research is to discover the composition of matter at supra-nuclear density, which,...Go to contribution page
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Edoardo Milotti (Universita' di Trieste e INFN)6/19/14, 3:00 PMAbstract: Photon-photon scattering is an elusive and yet extremely important process, which offers a unique glimpse into the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics. Here I discuss the experimental opportunities of a direct observation of this process, and their relevance to our understanding of quantum vacuum.Go to contribution page
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Massimiliano Lattanzi (Universita' di Ferrara)6/25/14, 3:00 PMThe nature of dark matter is one of the most puzzling open problems of cosmology and particle physics. Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), like the majoron, are plausible candidates for the role of dark matter. In my talk I will review the constraints that can be put on the properties of axions from the most recent observations of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic...Go to contribution page
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Stefania Pandolfi (Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)7/3/14, 2:30 PMBeyond the standard cosmological mode, in which the Dark Energy is provided by the Cosmological Constant, the late-time accelerated expansion of the Universe can be reproduced by the introduction of an additional dynamical scalar field. In this case, the field is expected to be naturally coupled to the rest of the theory's fields, unless a (still unknown) symmetry suppresses this coupling....Go to contribution page
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Claudia Antolini (SISSA, Trieste)9/18/14, 2:30 PMAfter multiple high precision detections (ACT, SPT, Planck) gravitational lensing has become a new source of relevant cosmological information: combining it with other probes (e.g. the large scale structure) can give significant insight on the evolution of the Dark Energy component. Developing new algorithms of estimate of this signal will allow the community to exploit this observable as...Go to contribution page
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Eva Rodríguez Vegas (Research Center for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain))9/29/14, 3:00 PMNatural (210Pbunsupported, 226Ra, 210Po and 7Be) and artificial (239,240Pu, 137Cs) radionuclides are largely used as tools for studying and quantifying soil erosion. The global fallout of artificial radionuclides derived from weapons testing that took place during the 1940’s and the 1960’s was rapidly and firmly fixed in the soil surface, allowing to calculate further soil erosion by comparing...Go to contribution page
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Bruna Bertucci (Universita' e INFN di Perugia)10/24/14, 9:30 AMThe Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a precision particle physics detector installed on the International Space Station since May 19, 2011. More than 40 billion of cosmic ray particles have been collected in its first 30 months of operations and nearly 11 million electron and positrons have been selected among them to accurately measure their fluxes in an extended energy range. Results on...Go to contribution page
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Berezhiani Zurab (Universita' dell'Aquila & INFN-LNGS)10/28/14, 3:00 PMI shall discuss a scenario which can explain the shape and flavor content of very high en ergy neutrinos observed recently by IceCube collaboration. It works as follows: dark matter decay produces very high energy sterile neutrinos, with energies order PeV, which then oscillate into active neutrinos with proper oscillation probabilities, producing VHE neutrinos with specific spectrum.Go to contribution page
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A.S. Sorin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna)10/31/14, 11:00 AMThe NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) Project is now under the active realization stage at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna). The main goal of the Project is an experimental study of hot and dense strongly interacting matter in heavy ion (up to Au) collisions at centre-of-mass energies √s_NN = 4 - 11 GeV (NN-equivalent) and the average luminosity 10E27 cm-2 s-1...Go to contribution page
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Giuseppe Lo Presti (CERN IT/Data and Storage Services)11/17/14, 4:30 PMAbstract: In questo seminario verra' discusso il modello computazionale e di movimentazione dati che si sta delineando per l'imminente ripartenza degli esperimenti presso l'LHC, il Large Hadron Collider del CERN di Ginevra. Inizialmente sara' presentato il Large Hadron Collider ed il lavoro svolto durante la lunga fase di stop degli acceleratori iniziata nel 2013, in preparazione della...Go to contribution page
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Gianluca Cavoto (Università Roma La Sapienza)12/2/14, 11:00 AM"A new generation of parasitic beam extraction of high energy particles from an accelerator is proposed in CRYSBEAM. CRYSBEAM received an ERC Consolidator Grant of the FP7-IDEAS European programme. Instead of massive magnetic kickers, bent thin crystals trapping particles within the crystal lattice planes are used. The first goal of the proposal is to demonstrate that bent crystals can...Go to contribution page
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Liliet Calero Diaz (INFN Frascati)12/12/14, 11:00 AMMeasurements of transverse polarization of lambda hyperons produced in high energy pp collisions may help to address several open issues about lambda production and polarization mechanisms, such as the origin of spontaneous lambda polarization. Its decay into a proton and a pion in a parity violating weak decay enables the determination of the Λ hyperon polarization by measuring the...Go to contribution page
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Dario Castagnolo (Telespazio (Napoli))12/17/14, 11:00 AMThe International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit from 350 up to 450 km. The orbital period is 90 minutes, the inclination to the equatorial plane is 51.6. The ISS is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998. The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which Crew members...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Ferruccio Petrucci (Universita' di Ferrara & INFN)
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