Passion for Physics 2023

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Passion for Physics is an International Symposium to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" of the Italian Physical Society. The School was founded by Giovanni Polvani who was also President of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) celebrating this year its 100th Anniversary.

The Symposium has received the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic

Organizers:
Angela Bracco - Università and INFN Milano, Italy
Luisa Cifarelli - Università and INFN Bologna, Italy
Massimo Inguscio - European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) and Università Campus Bio-Medico Roma, Italy

PROGRAMME

8:30 Registration

9:00 - Introduction from the local organizers
9:40 - Opening Panel Discussion
with representatives of the main Italian Research Institutions
CNR (Francesco Saverio Cataliotti)
INFN (Sandra Malvezzi)
INGV (Francesca Quareni)
INRiM (Diederik Sybolt Wiersma)

Chair: Sandro De Silvestri - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
10:45 - Serge Haroche - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel and Collège de France, Paris, France
Seventy years of breakthroughs in atomic physics reported at the Enrico Fermi School

11:15 - coffee break

Chair: Giuseppe Gorini - Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
11:45 - Massimo Inguscio - European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) and Università Campus Bio-Medico Roma, Italy
Ultracold quantum matter in Varenna: Counting on the future
12:15 - Costanza Miliani - Istituto del Patrimonio Culturale del CNR, Napoli, Italy
Unveiling the invisible: Applications of spectroscopic methods for studying the intangible value of cultural heritage materials

12:45 - Lunch

Chair: Silvia Penati - Università di Milano-Bicocca and INFN, Milano, Italy
14:15 - Marina Cobal - Università di Udine and INFN, Trieste, Italy
High energy physics between past and future
14:45 - Diederik Sybolt Wiersma - European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) & INRiM, Torino, Italy
Inspiration for students and teachers on photonic materials, atomic physics, energy, and metrology
15:15 - Francesco Vissani - INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, L'Aquila, Italy
Slow but sure. The pace of scientific progress in neutrino physics
15:45 - Fabiana Gramegna - INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy
70 years of Varenna International Schools: History and role of nuclear physics in modern knowledge

16:15 - coffee break

Chair: Nadia Cherubini, ENEA Roma
16:45 - Orazio Svelto - Politecnico di Milano and Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, Italy
The Laser: Past, Present and Future
17:15 - Guido Tiana - Università di Milano, Italy
Statistical physics of biopolymers throughout the Enrico Fermi Schools
17:45 - Cristiano Ciuti - Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Cité, France
Bridging condensed matter physics and quantum optics in Varenna
18:15 - Alberto Diaspro - Università di Genova and Nanoscopy IIT, Erzelli Labs, Genova, Italy
The Empire of Lights

19:00 GET TOGETHER REFRESHMENT

Booklet of abstracts
Press release