XXXVI edition of the International School “Francesco Romano” on Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics 

We are pleased to announce the XXXVI edition of the International School “Francesco Romano” on Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics organized by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the Department of Physics “M. Merlin” of University and Polytechnic of Bari.

The school will be held from September 20 to 27, 2026 in Monopoli (Bari – Italy) and is open to graduate students, post-docs, and early-career researchers.

This edition will feature lectures on the following topics:

  • Unsolved Problems in Particle Physics (Michelangelo Mangano – CERN)
  • Experimental Perspective at High Luminosity LHC (Luca Malgeri – CERN)
  • The Cosmic Microwave Background (Martina Gerbino – INFN, Ferrara)
  • The Era of Gravitational Waves (Elisa Maggio – INFN, Roma1)
  • AI in Physics (Daniele Bonacorsi – University of Bologna)
  • New Technologies in Hadrontherapy (Marco Durante – GSI-Darmstadt)

The lecture series will be complemented by two shorter seminars:

  • Ethical Issues in Research
  • Tabletop Experiment in Physics

The School will include a session where participants may choose to give a short presentation of their work. A prize will be awarded for the best presentation.

Further details on the school organization can be found here: https://isfr.ba.infn.it/