On Wednesday 12th February the KM3NeT Collaboration will present to the scientific community an exceptional measurement carried out with the ARCA detector in the depths of the Ionian Sea.
It will be an opportunity to recall the highlights and the main local contributions to the neutrino-astronomy initiatives in the Mediterranean Sea, in which the INFN Section of Bari has been engaged for more than 25 years.
The appointment is on February 12th in Aula Multimediale at 4 pm.
From 19 to 21 December, in room A (“Beppe Nardulli” room) of the Physics Department of the University of Bari will take place “SM&FT 2022“, the 19th edition of the traditional “SM&FT” workshop on “Statistical Mechanics and Non-Perturbative Field Theory”, whose first edition was in 1988.
Over the years, this workshop has had the original approach of offering a meeting place and exchange of ideas between researchers in various fields of Theoretical physics that make use of common computational methods.
In the last editions of the workshop, much space has been dedicated to the presentation of results and methods of theoretical computational physics at the frontier of HPC (High Performance Computing) and new quantum computing algorithms.
The current XIX edition will see the participation of about 80 researchers from national and foreign institutions. They will present about 40 articles in various fields: Lattice Field Theories, Statistical Mechanics, Complex Systems, Astroparticle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Condensed Matter.
This workshop is an important appointment, also in the light of the significant commitment of INFN and the entire scientific community within the Italian Center for Supercomputing (ICSC-PNRR).
Dayron Ramos Lopez, PhD student of the XXXV cycle of the Department of Physics and associate researcher of INFN Bari, was awarded the first prize for the best communication in section 6: Applied Physics, accelerators and cultural heritage at the 108th National Congress of the Italian Society of Physics (SIF), which took place in Milan from 12 to 16 September 2022.
The title of the winning communication is: “Monte Carlo study of 3D image reconstruction of boron dose distribution in BNCT with CZT-based Compton camera“.
In that work Dayron illustrated innovative techniques of simulation and reconstruction of three-dimensional images to study the level of exposure to ionizing radiation in tissues subjected to BNCT antitumor treatment.
BNCT (Boron Neutron Capture Therapy) is an experimental radiotherapy through which a localized physical reaction can be generated, triggered by irradiation with a low-energy neutron beam, capable of destroying tumor cells while sparing healthy tissue.
Dayron arrived from Havana to Bari in March 2020 by winning an industrial doctoral scholarship entitled “Development of RPC – Type Gas Detectors for Beam Monitoring in Medical Applications” and carries out his activity under the supervision of prof. Giuseppe Iaselli and Prof. Gabriella Pugliese of the Polytechnic and INFN of Bari.
The 21st International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques for Research in Physics (ACAT 2022) will take place from Monday 24 to Friday 28 October 2022 at Villa Romanazzi Carducci in Bari.
The 21st edition of ACAT will once again bring together computational experts from a wide range of disciplines, including particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics and accelerator physics, as well as high-performance computing.
The aim of the workshop is to explore the overlapping areas of these disciplines, favoring the exchange on the most advanced topics in the computer field, on data analysis and on the technologies used in the calculation of theoretical physics.
The theme of ACAT 2022 will reflect the growing adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques as standard tools in science and beyond. Successes and new challenges related to the use of these advanced computing technologies will be presented and discussed.
The organization of this event was possible thanks to a great commitment both internationally and locally, by a large team of people from the INFN Section of Bari, of the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” and of the Polytechnic of Bari.
David Britton (Glasgow University) chairs the International Committee and Axel Naumann (CERN) chairs the Scientific Program Committee. Lucia Silvestris (INFN-Bari) chairs the Local Organizing Committee.
The annual meeting of the INFN International Evaluation Committee (IEC) took place from 12 to 14 October in Bari, at the prestigious headquarters of the Swabian Castle.
The International Evaluation Committee has the task of assessing the overall scientific and technological results achieved by the institution and future development plans. It is appointed by the Board of Directors on the proposal of the Executive Board of the Institute and is made up of five foreign scientists and by two Italian experts representing the economic community and the productive world.
At the end of its work, the IEC draws up a Report which verifies the overall status of the Institute’s activities, with particular reference to the scientific program, and which takes into account the management of financial and human resources. The Report drawn up by the IEC will be sent in January 2023 to the MUR – Ministry of University and Research.
The CVI includes:
A. J. Stewart Smith, Princeton University, USA – Chair;
Martine Bosman, IFAE, Barcelona, Spain;
Andrea Brandolini, Banca d’Italia, Italy;
Iris Dillmann, TRIUMF, Canada;
Werner Hofmann, MPI Heidelberg, Germany;
Richard Keith Ellis, University of Durham, UK;
Luca D’agnese, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Italy;
From January 1, 2023:
Jorgen D’Hondt, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium (replaces the chair from January 1, 2023);
Maria Jose Garcia Borge, CSIC, Madrid, Spain (replaces Iris Dillmann from 1 January 2023);
From 18 to 24 September in the prestigious headquarters of the Palazzo delle Arti Beltrani in Trani the “Summer School on Quantum Optical Technologies” an initiative organized by the University of Bari Aldo Moro and the INFN Section of Bari in collaboration, among others, with Auriga SpA and INRIM, will take place.
The school, which runs in continuity with the Quantum Workshops organized in Turin every two years, is aimed at the international community of students and researchers in quantum physics and aims to illustrate the frontiers of quantum optical technologies, from quantum imaging to metrology and quantum communication technologies, computation and simulations, considering both theoretical and experimental aspects.
Participation is going to be large, with 140 students and about 20 lecturers from the most prestigious research institutions and universities worldwide.
The program also includes several outreach events in which we will talk about the so-called second quantum revolution.
Dr. Lucia Silvestris of the INFN Section of Bari was recently elected deputy-spokesperson of the CMS experiment at CERN. This prestigious assignment was awarded to her starting from 1st September for a duration of two years, as part of the ninth management team of the experiment, which includes, in addition to her, the spokesperson Patricia McBride of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago and a second deputy spokesperson, Wolfgang Adam of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
With more than 5000 participants including researchers, technologists, administrative and technical staff and students, CMS is one of the largest scientific collaborations in the world. The apparatus is installed at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, recently restarted after a period of modernization which lasted three years, known as Long Shutdown 2.
Further enhanced compared to the configuration that has already allowed very important discoveries in recent years, including that of the Boson of Higgs, whose 10-year anniversary occurs this year, CMS is preparing to push its research further by studying the collisions of particles at the highest energies ever reached of 13.6 TeV.
Lucia, who has been a member of CMS since 1995, has already held several important roles on behalf of the collaboration, including those of Offline Coordinator, Deputy Upgrade Coordinator and Run Coordinator, and that of Physics Performance & Dataset coordinator she held at the time of the discovery of the Higgs boson.
Since 2020 she is also the national representative for the INFN in CMS.
The Director, congratulating Lucia on his behalf and of the whole Section for this new prestigious assignment, emphasized that it is “a further recognition for the whole Section of the scientific and technological contribution of the highest level provided by our research groups, the result of the contribution and the dedication of our entire community made up of technicians, administrators, technologists and researchers”.
Fifty years; half a century; ten decades; five lustra; golden jubilee … Whatever unit of measurement you decide to use, it remains a notable anniversary; one of great importance in the life of an institution.
Our Bari Division of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) reaches this important anniversary this year and we would like to celebrate it not only by recalling our past activities but, above all, also by recounting future ones. Both reenactment and future vision cannot ignore the history of the people, the main characters of our activities, those who turned imagination into reality.
The strength of our Organization lies in the peculiar ability to combine on the one hand, craftsmanship with innovative technologies, and on the other, cutting-edge research and higher education.
The whole blended by the sharing of fundamental skills of the staff members, breaking down every kind of formal or role related barriers. All driven by the desire to break down geographical boundaries, collaborating worldwide with high-ranking international institutions.
All this can only be narrated through the history of people, the memory of those who have passionately dedicated themselves to our projects. It is difficult to do it without being trapped in a nostalgic mood, but we will do our best effort to avoid it. This recollection is essential to remind those who follow us that it is thanks to the work, competence and dedication of those preceding us that we became an excellence of Research in our country.
It is nice to think that every gesture we make is the result not only of our skills, but also of the teaching drawn from observing and listening to our colleagues. This either if he was a colleague of the division or a colleague met in all the places where the research made in the INFN Bari Division has brought us and will take us.
This is why we have are sharing a multimedia collection and an interactive album in which you can save the images of the moments most important to you.
This having in mind such a way it can serve as a reference for future colleagues; that can be used to imagine what lies behind each of our gestures in the laboratory or on a blackboard, the legacy of knowledge and common experiences that each of our choices, solutions and research objectives carries with them.
The scientific and technological adventure of ANTARES, the first submarine neutrino telescope ever built in the world, has recently come to an end after 16 years of activity.
Installed at a depth of 2500 meters, 40 km off the coast of Toulon in France, ANTARES has produced very important results and demonstrated the validity of the technological solutions, handling over to KM3NeT, the ambitious multisite research project under construction in the Mediterranean, the mission of studying the cosmos by detecting neutrinos.
Installation of the first detection line of ANTARES, the 14 February 2006
The deepest marine abysses do not only represent the last frontier in the exploration of our planet but also offer extraordinary opportunities for the study of the cosmos and its fundamental components. This is the scientific motivation of both ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss Environmental RESearch) and KM3NeT (KM3 Neutrino Telescope), two experimental initiatives carried out with the substantial participation of INFN within large international collaborations.
From its position in the Northern Hemisphere, ANTARES has for long years been the most sensitive detector in scanning the southern hemisphere sky, contributing significantly to the new field of investigation of multi-message astronomy and high-energy neutrino astrophysics.
Deep-sea inspection of an optical module of KM3NeT
Marco Circella, researcher at the INFN of Bari has been the technical coordinator of ANTARES for 6 years and the Technical Project Manager of KM3NeT for 4.
He comments: “The research group from Bari has made a formidable contribution to both ANTARES and KM3NeT. Let me just say that a third of the submarine electronic modules of ANTARES have been built in our laboratory. We could then add the long-term coordination of the calibration activities of the apparatus and the contributions to data analysis. The challenge for KM3NeT was even greater: to create solutions that allow this giant apparatus to be built in a reasonable time and with such reliability that it will not require maintenance on site.”
Irene Sgura, INFN technologist in Bari with responsibility for coordinating the integration activities of the base modules of the detection lines, explains: “Our group has always been characterized in KM3NeT for its reference role in the design and prototyping of crucial parts of the apparatus, such as the electro-optical interface modules at the bases of the detection lines and the anchoring and installation structures of the lines on the seabed. These developments were instrumental in starting the construction of the apparatus successfully.”
Cosimo Pastore, technologist of the INFN of Bari, is responsible for the construction of the new KM3NeT laboratory, equipped for the integration of the bas modules of the detection lines and for precision mechanical measurements, funded as part of the PACK project (Potenziamento Appulo -Campano of KM3NeT). He comments: “We aim to further extend the activities for KM3NeT in Bari and for this reason in the KM3NeT4RR project, proposed for funding under the PNRR (the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience), we have foreseen the implementation of a new laboratory equipped for the integration of detection lines, to be built in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Bari.”
To an experiment which ends its data taking, such as ANTARES, then correspond the high expectations of a starting experiment such as KM3NeT.
The Mediterranean will thus continue to be a frontier observatory to investigate the secrets of the cosmos.
The exhibition “Colori e immagini della Scienza” (“Colors and images of Science”) is now open in the Colonnato Hall of Bari Metropolitan City. It will be accessible until April 15th.
The exhibition has been organized in the context of the project “Art and Science across Italy“, lead by INFN and locally promoted by the Physics Department and School of Science and Technology of the Bari University, the Conservatory Niccolò Piccinni and the Art Academy, with the patronage of the Metropolitan City of Bari, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Polytechnic University of Bari.
The project involved 16 high schools around Bari and BAT, for a total of 700 students that realized the 150 artworks shown in the exhibition. The opening ceremony has been performed on March 31.
Useful information: The exhibition can be visited at the Colonnato Hall of the Metropolitan City of Bari, Lungomare Nazario Sauro, 29, Bari, from 1 to 15 April, • Tuesday – Saturday, 9.00-19.00 • Sunday and Monday, 9.00 – 13.00 • Free entrance, for groups and school groups (more than 10 people), reservations are recommended in order to be compliant with safety measures.
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