CAMOGLI (GE)
From September 11 to 14, at the Terrazza Miramare in Camogli (GE), the 12th edition of the Festival della Comunicazione di Camogli returns, with this year’s theme being “Inspiration”.
September 11, 9:30 PM, Terrazza di Miramare – Camogli
Public conference-show: The sea: a literary place and a source of scientific discoveries
With Alessandro Ferrero, UniGe. Moderated by Fabrizio Benente, professor at UniGe. Greetings by Federico Delfino, Rector of the University of Genoa, and Mauro Taiuti, Director of INFN Genoa.
September 11, 10:30 PM, Terrazza di Miramare – Camogli
Public conference-show: Studying space from the ocean depths
With Barbara Caiffi, INFN Genoa. Introduced by Alessio Caminata, INFN Genoa.
September 12, 6:00 PM, Terrazza di Miramare – Camogli
Public conference-show: Artificial intelligence and particle physics: a Nobel-worthy match!
With Andrea Coccaro, UniGe – INFN Genoa. Introduced by Alessio Caminata, INFN Genoa.
September 12, 7:00 PM, Terrazza di Miramare – Camogli
Public conference-show: Error through the eyes of science and science communicators
With Marco Galliani, Head of Press Office INAF, Marco Pallavicini, Vice President INFN and professor at UniGe, and Elisabetta Trovatore, Director General of Arpal. Introduced by Walter Riva, Director of Righi Astronomical Observatory and UniGe.
September 12, 9:30 PM, Terrazza di Miramare – Camogli
Public conference-show: From Sardinia to the discovery of the Cosmos: the Einstein Telescope project for the study of gravitational waves
With Marco Pallavicini, Vice President INFN and professor at UniGe. Introduced by Alessio Caminata, INFN Genoa.
September 13, 6:00 PM, Terrazza di Miramare – Camogli
Public conference-show: The European plan for the future of fundamental physics toward the next project at CERN
With Aleandro Nisati, INFN Rome and CERN, Enrico Robutti, INFN Genoa. Moderated by Andrea Coccaro, UniGe – INFN Genoa.
September 13, 7:00 PM, Terrazza di Miramare – Camogli
Public conference-show: Can we narrate the world of scientific research and science through innovative communication languages?
With Pierluigi Paolucci, INFN Naples. Introduced by Alessio Caminata, INFN Genoa.
September 14, 5:00 PM, Terrazza di Miramare – Camogli
Public conference-show: The BDX experiment: a luminous factory of dark matter
With Marco Battaglieri, INFN Genoa. Introduced by Andrea Coccaro, UniGe – INFN Genoa.
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MILAN
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the first report of gravitational waves by the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, an event retracing the key milestones that led to their discovery.
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 6:00 p.m., Auditorium U12, University of Milano-Bicocca
Public Lecture: The First Ten Years of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
with Emanuele Berti, Johns Hopkins University and President of ISGRG, Fulvio Ricci, Sapienza University of Rome and President of SIGRAV, and Marco Drago, Sapienza University of Rome.
Moderation by Silvia Bencivelli, science journalist.
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NAPLES
An exhibition dedicated to quantum mechanics: a theory full of apparent paradoxes that challenged the greatest minds of the last century, yet transformed our way of living and conceiving reality.
September 25, 26, 27, and 29, 2025 – Real Casa dell’Annunziata, Naples
Exhibition: The Cosmos in a Leap. Atoms, Quanta, and Quantum Revolutions.
A project by: INFN – National Institute for Nuclear Physics and the University of Naples Federico II
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TRIESTE
From September 26 to 28, 2025, Trieste Next returns, the festival dedicated to scientific research, innovation, and technology transfer, taking place in the heart of Trieste.
Saturday, September 27, 10:00 – 11:15 a.m., Area Talk 2, Piazza Unità d’Italia, Trieste
Public Lecture: The Future of Energy. Myths, Realities, and Perspectives
with Francesco Longo, University of Trieste and INFN Trieste, Eleonora Agus Poletti, Polytechnic University of Turin, Pierluigi Totaro, President of “Comitato Nucleare e Ragione” and Technical Institute “Alessandro Volta” Trieste.
Moderation by Catherine Cok, University of Trieste
Saturday, September 27, 10:00 – 11:15 a.m., Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Sala Predonzani, via dell’Orologio 1, Trieste
Public Lecture: Supercomputing for Research
with Silvia Calegari, INFN CNAF Bologna, Massimo Carboni, GARR – Research Network Expansion Management, Alessia D’Orazio, ICSC, and Elisa Zuccolo, OGS.
Moderator: Matteo Massicci, ICSC
Saturday, September 27, 4:30 – 5:45 p.m., Palazzo Biserini, LETS Museum, Piazza Attilio Hortis 4, Trieste
Public Lecture: Toward Quantum Computing. A New Paradigm of Calculation
with Angelo Bassi, University of Trieste, Concezio Bozzi, INFN Ferrara, and Elisa Ercolessi, University of Bologna and INFN Bologna.
Moderation by Francesco Longo, University of Trieste and INFN Trieste
Saturday, September 27, 6:00 – 7:15 p.m., Palazzo Biserini, LETS Museum, Piazza Attilio Hortis 4, Trieste
Public Lecture: Art Forgeries and Crime: The Answers of Science
with Vittoria Luda Di Cortemiglia, Unicollege Turin, Gianluca Quarta, University of Salento and INFN Lecce, and Franco Zanini, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Moderation by Marcello Turconi, CERIC-ERIC
Sunday, September 28, 3:00 – 4:15 p.m., Urban Center, Corso Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour 2/2, Trieste
The Dawn of the Universe. Discovering the Birth of Matter
with Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez, Sapienza University of Rome, INFN and CERN, Michela Chiosso, University of Turin, CERN, BNL and INFN Turin, and Alberto Mengoni, University of Bologna, CERN and INFN Bologna.
Moderator: Enrico Fragiacomo, INFN Trieste
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