Inaugural Conference

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

November 10, 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

Science and technology: a virtuous but also complicated bond

Per secondary school students | Gruppi di max 85 persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

November 10, 2022 h 9:00 10:00

EXMA, Conference room, Cagliari

Carla Romagnino, Honorary President of the ScienceSocietyScience Association.
Coordinated by Paolo Magliocco, scientific journalist.

The theme will be developed by drawing on some important historical facts with particular reference to the invention of the telescope by Galileo (1609) and the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn, Fritz Streissmann and Lise Meitner (1938).

Target: secondary school students

Hunting for black holes with the Event Horizon Telescope. Is Einstein still right?

Per Everyone | Gruppi di max 85 persone | Durata singola attività: 45 minuti

Astrophysics

November 10, 2022 h 10:30 11:30

EXMA, Conference room, Cagliari

Ciriaco Goddi, astrophysicist at the University of Cagliari, INFN and INAF and Maria Felicia de Laurentis, astrophysicist at the University of Naples, INFN.

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration (the same one that published the “photo of the century” in 2019, the first image of a black hole) this year released another historic result: the first photo of the black hole at the center of our Galaxy. This new image will allow us to test beyond the limits explored so far the famous general theory of Relativity, formulated more than a century ago. Will it still be valid? Or will the data from black holes revolutionize the way we conceive the Universe?

Target: everyone

The science of smells and tastes

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

November 10, 2022 h 12:00 13:00

EXMA, Conference room, Cagliari

Silvano Fuso, chemist, writer and popularizer, author of the book Chemical senses, Carocci editore 2022

Smell and taste are the only two “chemical senses”, that is, deriving from an interaction between us and the molecules of what we smell and taste.
The conference takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the chemistry of our sensations and emotions.

Target: everyone

For a handful of books… scientific

Per secondary school students | Gruppi di max 100 persone | Durata singola attività: 2h 30 minuti

November 10, 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 secondary school students | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

November 10, 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 Everyone | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 30 minuti

November 10, 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

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The secret of things

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

November 11, 2022 h 9:00 10:00

EXMA, Conference room, Cagliari

Silvano Fuso, chemist, writer and disseminator. Author of the book The secret of things, Carocci publisher 2021.
Coordinator Benedetta Pintus, Gi.U.Li.A. Sardinian journalists.

The availability of new materials has always influenced societies. The author examines the various types of materials, illustrating their structure and properties, accompanying the public on a fascinating journey through the history of civilization with an eye to the future.

Target: everyone

Geniuses in the shadows

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

November 11, 2022 h 10:30 11:30

EXMA, Conference room, Cagliari

Debora Serra, writer, expert in scientific communication, author of the book Genes in the shadows – Stories of great minds whose idea was stolen, Edizioni Code 2021.
Coordinator Alessia Zurru, Science laboratory.

Eighteen fascinating narrations and as many protagonists in a journey to discover the life and works of great scientists who for historical reasons, personal events, gender issues and even a series of unfortunate events have been denied the merits.

Target: everyone

Physics H24

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

Physics

November 11, 2022 h 12:00 13:00

EXMA, Conference room, Cagliari

Alessio Perniola, physicist, president of Multiversi. Author of the book Physics H 24, Espress editions 2021.

Interactive presentation with live experiments of a book full of many questions and many answers, to discover the physics that accompanies us in every moment of the day and look at the world with curious and new eyes.

Target: everyone

Student awards

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

November 11, 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 Everyone | Gruppi di max 85 persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

Physics

November 11, 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 secondary school students | Gruppi di max 80 persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

Mathematics

November 11, 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

Micropolis. Not all microbes come to harm.

Per secondary school students | Gruppi di max 25 persone | Durata singola attività: 45 minuti

Medicine and biomedical sciences

November 11, 2022 h 9:00 13:00

Fondazione di Sardegna, Conference room, Cagliari

By Riccardo Di Deo, AIRC Foundation for cancer research.

We are not alone, we live with billions of microbes that have evolved with us over the millennia and have given rise to what can be considered a real ‘superorganism’. It is now clear that our health is deeply linked to these communities of microorganisms.

Target: secondary school students
Groups of up to 25 people
Duration of single activity: 45 minutes

Suspicious. Us and our doubts about science

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

Medicine

November 12, 2022 h 9:00 10:00

EXMA, Conference room, Cagliari

Silvia Bencivelli, scientific journalist and radio and television presenter, author of the book Suspicious us and our doubts about science, Einaudi 2019.
Coordinated by Paolo Magliocco, scientific journalist.

More and more people are relying on so-called alternative medicine, faux ancient remedies and new age practices, and trust Dr. Google’s answers more than those of science. How and why does this happen? Who are the “suspects”? Could it be that we are all a bit “suspicious”?

Target: everyone

The 10 cent disease

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

Biology

November 12, 2022 h 10:30 11:30

EXMA, Conference room, Cagliari

Agnese Collino, biologist and writer. Author of the book The 10 cents disease. History of Polio and how it has changed our society, Code of Editions 2021, winner of the Dosi 2021 award and ASIMOV award 2022.
Coordinator Benedetta Pintus, Gi.U.Li.A. Sardinian journalists.

Today we have forgotten it, but the fight against polio has shaped many aspects of our daily life, from philanthropy to media science, from the rights of the disabled to intensive care. In this meeting we will retrace it, discovering many ideas for interpreting the present.

Target: everyone

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

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

Physics

November 12, 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 Everyone | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

Mathematics

November 12, 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 Everyone | Gruppi di max persone | Durata singola attività: 1 ora

Physics

November 12, 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 Everyone | Gruppi di max 80 persone | Durata singola attività: 3 ore

November 13, 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

Cagliari FestivalScienza 2022

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Inaugural Conference

Science and technology: a virtuous but also complicated bond

Hunting for black holes with the Event Horizon Telescope. Is Einstein still right?

The science of smells and tastes

For a handful of books… scientific

Where is physics going?

Brief history of pseudosciences

The secret of things

Geniuses in the shadows

Physics H24

Student awards

Goodbye Majorana

Naturally digital. The mathematics of remote communication.

Micropolis. Not all microbes come to harm.

Suspicious. Us and our doubts about science

The 10 cent disease

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

Mathematical bestiary

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

Science & Technology. Works of dissemination of scientific culture.

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