CRISIS AND CHANGE IN CONFERENCE INTERPRETING • Seminar by Clare Donovan – Thursday, 11th April 2024

Date:  Thursday, 11th April 2024

Time:  6:00 PM

Place: Sala Conferenze, ex Ospedale Militare, via Fabio Severo 40

Language: English

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Clare Donovan, former Head of the Interpreting Division at OECD and Director of the Conference Interpreting Master programme at ESIT Paris, is teaching methodology of simultaneous at ISIT and she is a member of the African Interpretation Academy.

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING CRITICAL • Seminar by Matteo Marsili – Wednesday, 17th April 2024

Being critical, i.e. able to process and distill relevant information, is crucial for living systems. Learning distinguishes living from inanimate matter. Quantifying this distinction may provide a “life meter” that, for example, can allow us to detect alien life forms in astrobiology. Living systems also respond in an anomalous manner to perturbations, as compared to inanimate matter, unless the latter is poised at a critical state (in the statistical physics sense). I argue that these two notions of criticality are only apparently different, because a system that learns is inherently critical, also in the statistical physics sense.

Date:  Wednesday, 17th April 2024

Time:  6:30 – 8:30  PM

Place: Sala Conferenze, ex Ospedale Militare, via Fabio Severo 40

Language: English

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Matteo Marsili is a theoretical physicist, Senior Research Scientist at ICTP, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

THE PASSAGE FROM CLASSICAL TO QUANTUM PHYSICS • Short Course by Giorgio Pastore – Starting on Monday, 22nd April 2024

The so-called crisis of classical physics is often presented in textbooks and courses that are not specifically focused on the history of physics in an oversimplified form. This fact makes it challenging to understand which conceptual knots had to be overcome and how in the passage from classical to quantum physics. For example, the famous “ultraviolet catastrophe” of the blackbody theory, often stressed in textbooks, played no role in Planck’s revolutionary approach. The introduction of matrix mechanics by Heisenberg and Jordan in 1925 was also more a revolutionary evolution of the old quantum theory than a consequence of the Uncertainty Principle. Such a conceptual transition and the role of the Uncertainty Principle are also rarely described in a historically correct way.

This cycle of three seminars aims to present in a historically correct form the conceptual steps related to

  1. the elaboration of the Old Quantum Theory, stressing the main underlying ideas;
  2. the open problems and the conceptual approach that opened the way to the matrix representation of Quantum Mechanics;
  3. the alternative approach of the wave mechanics by Schrödinger up to the synthesis between Heisenberg and Schrödinger’s approaches and the birth of the modern formulation of Quantum Theory.

 

Dates:

Monday, 22nd April 2024

Monday, 6th May 2024

Monday, 13th May 2024

Time:  6:30 – 8:30  PM

Place: Sala Pietra, ex Ospedale Militare, via Fabio Severo 40

Language: Italian/English

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Giorgio Pastore is associate professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Trieste.

POWERING THE JUST TRANSITION • Lectio Magistralis by Daniel Kammen – Wednesday, 20th March 2024

The path to deeply decarbonized economies requires innovation and highly interdisciplinary work across diverse fields. The theory and practice of an urgently needed ‘climate-justice nexus‘ to protect our people and planet will be outlined by Daniel Kammen, one of the most recognized world experts. Examples, from the delivery of health care in under-resourced communities to aggressive cost-savings decarbonization, will be discussed as key leverage points for the Just Energy Transition.

Date: Wednesday, 20th March 2024

Time:  4:00 PM – 6:00  PM

Place: Università degli Studi di Trieste, Aula Magna (edificio A), Piazzale Europa 1

Language: English

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Daniel Kammen is the James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Professor of Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley, with appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Department of Nuclear Engineering.

 

The project “TriesteXcellence” is supported by “Fondazione CRTrieste”

Rassegna stampa dell’evento, curata da UniTS

 

LA MATEMATICA DEL CAMBIAMENTO • Short Course by Daniele Del Santo – Starting on Monday, 18th March 2024

In these lectures I will present, using examples and historical ideas, some basic concepts of mathematical analysis: derivatives, ordinary and partial differential equations, a mathematical model for fluids. The lessons are aimed at a public new to advanced mathematical studies, but I hope they will also be interesting for students closest to the discipline

Dates:

Monday, 18th March 2024

Monday, 25th March 2024

Monday, 8th April 2024

Monday, 15th April 2024

Time:  6:00 – 8:00  PM

Place: Sala Pietra, ex Ospedale Militare, via Fabio Severo 40

Language: Italian/English

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Daniele Del Santo is full professor in Mathematical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Geosciences of the University of Trieste.

BOLD MICE AND ANXIOUS SQUIRRELS • Seminar by Alessio Mortelliti – Monday, 11th March 2024

Within a species some individuals tend to be shier, some bolder and some more aggressive. This individuality in their behavior is known as ‘personality’ and is the result of natural selection, since it is partly written in an individuals’ genetic code and partly the result of early-life experiences. In this presentation I will discuss the results of 8 years of field research conducted with my students in Maine (USA), which allowed us to demonstrate that the personality of small mammals (mice, squirrels and voles) can have cascade consequences on the functioning of whole ecosystems.

Date:  Monday, 11th March 2024

Time:  6:30 – 8:30  PM

Place: Sala Conferenze, ex Ospedale Militare, via Fabio Severo 40

Language: English

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Alessio Mortelliti is associate professor in Ecology at the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Trieste.

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CRISIS AND CHANGE IN TRANSPORT • Seminar by Romeo Danielis – Monday, 4th March 2024

What can be done? What solutions are available from a technological, political, economic and cultural point of view? The seminar will try to give answers to these questions starting from the transformations taking place in the world of transport of people and goods.

Date:  Monday, 4th March 2024

Time:  6:30 – 8:30  PM

Place: Sala Conferenze, ex Ospedale Militare, via Fabio Severo 40

Language: Italian/English

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Romeo Danielis is full professor in the field of Applied Economics at the Department of Economic, Business, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences “Bruno de Finetti” (DEAMS) of the University of Trieste

THE BEGINNING OF THE ATOMIC AGE AND THE TORN SOUL OF PHYSICS • Seminar by Edoardo Milotti – Thursday 15th and Tuesday 20th February 2024

12During the first meeting, I shall present the necessary introductory material, and we shall see and comment together the movie “The Day After Trinity”, on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer. We will meet again to view and comment the movie “Trinity and Beyond: the Atomic Bomb Movie”, which collects declassified footage of the numerous atomic tests and several interviews to some of the scientists and engineers who developed atomic weapons during the difficult years of the Cold War.

Image: Early Radiation Laboratory staff framed by the magnet for the 60-inch cyclotron in 1938. Courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Photographer: Donald Cooksey)

 

Date:  Thursday, 15th February 2024  (Part I)

              Tuesday, 20th February 2024 (Part II)

 

Time:  6:00 PM

Place: Sala Cinema, ex Ospedale Militare, via Fabio Severo 40

Language: English

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Edoardo Milotti is full professor at the Physics Department of the University of Trieste and research associate of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (I.N.F.N.).

THE ENERGY TRANSITION • Short Course by Vanni Lughi – Starting on Monday, 8th January 2024

Dates:

Monday, 8th January 2024

Wednesday, 11th January 2024

Thursday, 12th January 2024

Time:  5:30 – 7:30  PM

Place: Sala Pietra, ex Ospedale Militare, via Fabio Severo 40

Language: English

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Vanni Lughi is associate professor in Science and Technology of Materials at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Trieste.

ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION FOR CARDIOVASCULAR FLOWS – Seminar by Gianluigi Rozza – Tuesday 12th December 2023

Date: Tuesday, 12th December 2023

Time:  6:30 PM

Place: Sala Cappella, ex Ospedale Militare, via Fabio Severo 40

Language: English

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Gianluigi Rozza is Full Professor in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing at SISSA mathLabMathematics AreaSISSA – International School for Advanced Studies, Head of SISSA Mathematics Area and SISSA mathLab Coordinator.