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Inaugural Conference

Per tutti | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 3 h

10 novembre 2022 h 16:00 19:00

Aula Magna of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari,  Via Marengo, 2, Cagliari

Anna Grassellino, director of the Supercondicting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, Fermilab, Chicago – “From accelerators to quantum devices, at the frontier of science and technology”;
(in video link)
Ezio Previtali, Director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratories – “INFN. Fundamental research and advanced technology to design the future”.

The two scientists will illustrate how knowledge changes between science and technology and what scientific horizons are opening up with the new quantum devices.

They are coordinated by Alberto Masoni, University of Cagliari, INFN research manager and Paolo Magliocco, scientific journalist.

Inaugural conference
Target: everyone

For a handful of books… scientific

Per studenti scuola secondaria di II grado | Gruppi di max 100 persone | Durata singola attività: 2h 30 minuti

10 novembre 2022 h 9:00 11:30

Fondazione di Sardegna,  Conference room, Cagliari

Viviana Fanti and Corrado Cicalò, University of Cagliari, INFN.

Two teams of students compete in quizzes and games based on a popular science book, along the lines of the RAI program “Per un pugno di libri”.
Regional final of the game which is part of a project that sees the participation of other INFN structures.

Target: secondary school students

Where is physics going?

Per studenti scuola secondaria di II grado | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

10 novembre 2022 h 12:00 13:00

Fondazione di Sardegna,  Conference room, Cagliari

Matteo Serra, physicist and science journalist, author of the book Where is physics going? Eleven dialogues on the present and future of research, Codice Edizioni 2022.

Matteo Serra met eleven brilliant researchers, who try to imagine what could happen in the future starting from their work in the present. All enriched by personal stories and profound reflections on the very meaning of being researchers in physics today.

Target: everyone

Brief history of pseudosciences

Per tutti | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 30 minuti

10 novembre 2022 h 10:00 11:00

Fondazione di Sardegna,  Conference room, Cagliari

Marco Ciardi, University of Florence. Author of the book Brief history of pseudosciences, Hoepli 2021, finalist for the Asimov prize 2022.

Coordinated by Paolo Magliocco, scientific journalist.

The volume is divided into a chronological journey, reconstructing the relationship between science and pseudoscience, from alchemy to lost continents, from creationism to ancient astronauts, showing how this relationship is only understandable through its historical development.

Target: everyone

Live conference. Reservation is required to receive the active participation link.

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Student awards

Per tutti | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

11 novembre 2022 h 15:00 16:00

EXMA,  Conference room, Cagliari

Awarding of students participating in the Art & Science Competition and winners of national and international competitions in scientific disciplines.

Goodbye Majorana

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 85 persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

Physics

11 novembre 2022 h 16:00 17:00

EXMA,  Conference room, Cagliari

Antonino (Nino) Martino, physicist, writer. Author of the book Goodbye Majorana, WATSON publisher 2021.
Coordinator Benedetta Pintus, Gi.U.Li.A. Sardinian journalists.

The story of its possible end, in Santa Marina, on the island of Salina, Aeolian.
The reasons for a choice, which will present a painful but necessary detachment.

Target: everyone

Naturally digital. The mathematics of remote communication.

Per studenti scuola secondaria di II grado | Gruppi di max 80 persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

Mathematics

11 novembre 2022 h 17:30 18:30

EXMA,  Conference room, Cagliari

Lucio Cadeddu, University of Cagliari.

All remote communication media exploit complex mathematical algorithms, born around the 1940s and subsequently perfected, with which communication is transformed from “analog” into “digital”, or rather into a sequence of codified numbers.
Mathematics reveals the mystery!

Target: secondary school students

Why does it go up? Why does it go down?

Per tutti | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

Physics

12 novembre 2022 h 12:00 13:00

EXMA,  Conference room, Cagliari

Giorgio Häusermann, physicist and science communicator, member of the Board of Directors of AIF (Locarno-CH))
and Marco Calò, physicist and science communicator (Chiasso -CH)

Experiences concerning rising and falling, and more generally the increase and decrease of physical quantities, will be presented, with the aim of teaching students to reason on the why of a given behavior and what are the causes, main or secondary, which they determine.

Target: everyone

Mathematical bestiary

Per tutti | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

Mathematics

12 novembre 2022 h 16:00 17:00

EXMA,  Conference room, Cagliari

Paolo Alessandrini, mathematician and science popularizer, author of the book Mathematical bestiary, Hoepli 2021, finalist for the ASIMOV 2022 award.

Mathematics is not always a predictable discipline, but it is full of unsettling, shocking and monstrous concepts. The performance recounts the centuries-old challenge of the “mathewizards” who have always tried to capture and tame these creatures.

Target: everyone

Augusto Bissiri, inventor. Science from Seui to Los Angeles.

Per tutti | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

Physics

12 novembre 2022 h 17:30 18:30

EXMA,  Conference room, Cagliari

Andrea Mameli, actor, science journalist, physicist and Valentina Sulas, actress, author and director.

The performance will stage the story of Augusto Bissiri, inventor and writer of Seui (Cagliari, 1879 – Los Angeles, 1968).
A compelling story, made up of travels and patents, international recognitions and missed successes.

Target: starting from lower secondary school

Science & Technology. Works of dissemination of scientific culture.

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 80 persone | Durata singola attività: 3 ore

13 novembre 2022 h 10:00 13:00

EXMA,  Conference room, Cagliari

The round table to reflect on the works dedicated to science which aim to disseminate the results of scientific research and its many applications among a vast public.

Coordinates Giovanni Spataro, head of service of Le Scienze

Speakers:
Marta Burgay, astrophysicist and INAF-OAC researcher
Luciano Colombo, pro-rector for research, University of Cagliari
Alberto Pettinau, scientific director of Sotacarbo – Sustainable Energy Research Centre
Angela Serpe, University of Cagliari
Matteo Serra, author of the book Where is physics going? Eleven dialogues on the present and future of research, Codice Edizioni 2022
Silvano Tagliagambe, University of Cagliari

Target: everyone

Woman of Science Award – IV edition

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 80 persone | Durata singola attività: 3 h

13 novembre 2022 h 16:00 19:00

EXMA,  Conference room, Cagliari

AWARDS CEREMONY
Woman of Science Award – IV edition

Coordinated by Carla Romagnino, honorary president of the ScienzaSocietàScienza Association and president of the Prize Jury.
Participants:
Maria Maddalena Becchere, president of the ScienceSocietyScience Association
The winners of the competition, the institutional and academic representatives, who contribute to the organization of the prize, and Silvia Rosa Brusin, journalist, with the conference on the theme:

30 years of science on TV

At the end of December 1992, the first number of “Leonardo” was broadcast on Raitre: live science news in ten minutes. No one had ever attempted the daily information in this field.
How the challenge of that time has changed, the relationship with the viewers, the work of today.

Target: everyone

The role of mathematical machines over the centuries

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 25 persone | Durata singola attività: 60 minuti

Mathematics

10, 11 e 12 novembre 2022 h 9:00 13:00

Biblioteca Universitaria,  Via Università, 32, Cagliari

Interactive laboratory by Martino Marangon, director of the university library, Giorgio Erby, Pacinotti high school in Cagliari and Maria M. Becchere, president of ScienzaSocietàScienza.

It will be possible to interact with ancient (reconstructed) mathematical machines dating back to the 1600s, accompanied by original books from private ownership and from the university library. The selected volumes will be available for consultation under the supervision of an expert.

Target: everyone
Groups of up to 25 people
Duration of single activity: 60 minutes

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Geometric shapes: mathematical objects that become material realities

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 25 persone | Durata singola attività: 20 minuti

Mathematics

10 novembre 2022 h 9:00 - 13:00
11, 12 e 13 novembre 2022 h 9:00-13:00 - h 15:00-19:00

EXMA,  Sala delle Volte, Cagliari

Edited by Carlo De Rubeis, scholar of the history of scientific instrumentation.

The exhibition displays geometric solids built with technical skill and artistic vision. Platonic solids and starry polyhedrons are an example of geometric shapes that refer to history and other sciences. In the interactive laboratory it is possible to manipulate flat and solid figures.

Target: everyone

Energy: transformations and transfers

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 25 persone | Durata singola attività: 20 minuti

Physics

10 novembre 2022 h 9:00 - 13:00
11, 12 e 13 novembre 2022 h 9:00-13:00 - h 15:00-19:00

EXMA,  Sala delle Volte, Cagliari

Edited by Ugo Galassi, A.I.F. and the teachers M. Giovanna Nurra, Silvia Loggia and the students of the Liceo Pacinotti of Cagliari.

The students will introduce visitors to the concept of energy, using experiments built with simple materials and some toys…

Target: everyone

Where to find the essential elements for technology: minerals

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 25 persone | Durata singola attività: 20 minuti

Geology

10 novembre 2022 h 9:00 - 13:00
11, 12 e 13 novembre 2022 h 9:00-13:00 - h 15:00-19:00

EXMA,  Sala delle Volte, Cagliari

Curated by Carla Buosi, Giovanni De Giudici, Giacomo Deiana, Maria Teresa Melis, Laura Pioli, Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences University of Cagliari, in collaboration with professors, researchers, technicians, doctoral students and students of the Degree Course in Geology.

Minerals are primary sources of elements, they contain rare metals useful for the production of materials and new technologies. After their formation they have complex histories, they can travel through water and atmosphere. How to recognize them, where to find them? Let’s study them and simulate their history together!

Target: everyone

Prehistoric craftsmen. Chipping techniques and obsidian tools.

Per alunni di Scuola Primaria | Gruppi di max 20 persone | Durata singola attività: 45 minuti

10 novembre 2022 h 9:00 - 13:00

EXMA,  Sala delle Volte, Cagliari

Curated by M. Cristina Ciccone and Giulia Balzano, Menabò Cultural Association, Obsidian Museum.

Experimental laboratory to learn about the black volcanic glass used by the communities of the Neolithic period to make tools for everyday life.
With analysis of the raw material, chipping techniques and experimentation activities.

Target: Primary School pupils
Groups of up to 20 people
Duration of single activity: 45 minutes

Women and Science. Deconstructing gender stereotypes in science.

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 25 persone | Durata singola attività: 20 minuti

History of science

11, 12 e 13 novembre 2022 h 9:00 - 13:00 e 15:00 - 19:00

EXMA,  Sala delle Volte, Cagliari

Edited by Isabella Pancaldi, Bernard Vannucci, Antoine Feracci, ARinascita, Corsica scientific trophies.

Six panels/portraits of Corsican women who have made careers in science to show that science careers are accessible to all. Board game about the inventors of history.
Tablet with tactile games that allow to deconstruct gender stereotypes in science.

Target: everyone

Scientific and technological progress to protect health

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 25 persone | Durata singola attività: 20 minuti

Natural Science

10 novembre 2022 h 9:00 - 13:00
11, 12 e 13 novembre 2022 h 9:00-13:00 - h 15:00-19:00

EXMA,  Sala delle Volte, Cagliari

By Licia Carbini, Battistina Carzedda, M. Antonietta Manca, Loredana Onidi, Elisabetta Piro, M. Grazia Rachele, Michela Stefani, M. Bonaria Zandara, ANISN, and the students of the Liceo E. d’Arborea, Cagliari, of the Liceo Classic B. R. Motzo, Quartu Sant’Elena, ITS Michele Giua, Assemini.

Basic scientific research carried out over time and supported by increasingly advanced technologies have made it possible to create effective tools available to man, which can also be used on a health level.

Target: everyone

Is it possible to do scientific research at school?

Per tutti | Gruppi di max 25 persone | Durata singola attività: 20 minuti

Biology

10 novembre 2022 h 9:00 - 13:00
11, 12 e 13 novembre 2022 h 9:00-13:00 - h 15:00-19:00

EXMA,  Sala delle Volte, Cagliari

Curated by Daniela Fadda, Emanuela Ferru and Laura Bifulco, professors at IIS De Sanctis Deledda, Cagliari.

The interactive laboratory of the IIS De Sanctis Deledda of Cagliari will present the results of the research activity conducted by the fourth grades of the Institute’s Health Biotechnology.

Target: everyone

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