100th NATIONAL CONGRESS

OF THE ITALIAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

General Assembly

Area Pontecorvo of the University

Aula Magna

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Luisa Cifarelli — Pisa, 23 September 2014

Back to Pisa after 7 years …

for the 7th time in 1 century

1915, 16th Meeting

1919, 18th Meeting

1939, 31st General Assembly

1955, 41st Congress

1981, 67th Congress

2007, 93rd Congress

2014, 100th Congress

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Scientific programme with

9 parallel sessions

13 plenary talks

1 joint workshop SIF-SISS

& parallel meetings/round

tables

177 invited talks

630 presentations

2014 CELEBRATIONS

• 50 years of CP violation

– PLENARY LECTURE

Monday 22 September (Subnuclear Physics)

• 100th anniversary of X-ray diffraction – IYCr 2014

– SPECIAL PLENARY LECTURE

Friday 26 September (History of Physics)

• 450th anniversary

of the birth

of Galileo Galilei

(Pisa 1564 – Arcetri 1642)

IO DICO L’UNIVERSO – LETTURE GALILEIANE

Teatro Verdi

Tuesday 23 September

SPECIAL EVENT

• 450th anniversary

of the birth of Galileo Galilei

(Pisa 1564 – Arcetri 1642)

JOINT WORKSHOP SIF-SISS

Galileo Galilei da più punti di vista

Aula Bianchi – Scuola Normale Superiore

Palazzo della Carovana

Friday 26 September

SPECIAL EVENT

• Meeting for Education & University matters

(reform, evaluation, etc.)

Thursday 25 September a.m.

CDP

• Meeting(s) for Physics teaching

Thursday 25 September p.m.

Presidents CCdS

• Meeting(s) for Publishing matters

La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, GdF, EPJ Plus

MEETINGS & EVENTS

• Lunedì 22 settembre ore 13:00Rinfresco di benvenuto

Università degli studi di Pisa, Area Pontecorvo

• Martedì 23 settembre, ore 15:30 – 18.30

Visita all’interferometro Virgo per la rivelazione delle onde

gravitazionali

• Martedì 23 settembre, ore 20:30

Spettacolo teatrale “Io dico l’Universo – Letture galileiane”Teatro Verdi

Interpretate da Giulio Scarpati

lllustrate da Alessandro Bettini

Musiche di Vincentio e Michelangelo Galilei

Eseguite dal duo “Dolce Suono” Paolo Tognon (dulciana soprano

e basso) e Pier Luigi Polato (liuto e arciliuto)

Regia di Lorenzo Mucci

Direzione della produzione di Carlo Dionisi

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

• Mercoledì 24 settembre, ore 14:30 – 18:30

Visita all’Istituto di Biorobotica e al Museo Piaggio

• Mercoledì 24 settembre, ore 20:30

Cena sociale

Chiostro della Chiesa di Santa Maria del Carmine

• Giovedì 25 settembre, ore 10:00 e 16:30

Visita al Laboratorio NEST

• Giovedì 25 settembre, ore 13:30 – 15:30

Giro delle mura urbane della città di Pisa

• Giovedì 25 settembre, ore 16:30 – 18:30

Visita all’Area di Ricerca di Pisa del CNR

• Venerdì 26 settembre, ore 9:00 - 11:00

Visita a Palazzo della Carovana e a Palazzo dell'Orologio

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

• Comparison 2012-2013

+ 19 % articles downloads

+ 21 % participants in Varenna

+ 13 % participants at Congress

SIF ... so small and so active

Vice PresidenteSegretario Cassiere

SIF 2014

SIF elections 2014-2016

• Declaration of intents by all candidates

http://www.sif.it/associazione/elezioni

Membership: attract young people

Visibility: take advantage of facebook,

web page, newsletter, etc.

Editorial initiatives: update (OA, etc.)

SIF 2014 Membership

SIF Members & SIF Invited Members

(Master Degree students)

steady overall increase thanks to our 2014

campaign via e-mails, letters, calendars, NS, etc.

+ 25% students since 2007

focus on Bachelor Degree students

via PLS, CDP, etc.

Prizes (130 applications)

Courses & Workshops at Varenna — NEW

30 June – 30 July 2014

≈ 300 participants from 42 different nations

Newsletter

Varenna 2014

Course 190 – FRONTIERS OF MODERN OPTICS

Directors: John Dudley: Institut FEMTO CNRS, Besançon

(France); Daniele Faccio: School of Engineering and

Physical Sciences Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK)

30 June – 5 July 2014

Course 191 – QUANTUM MATTER AT ULTRALOW

TEMPERATURES

Directors: Massimo Inguscio: LENS – Università di Firenze,

Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologia della Materia del

CNR, Firenze (Italy); Wolfgang Ketterle: MIT, Research

Laboratory for Electronics - Harvard Center for Ultracold

Atoms, Department of Physics, Cambridge, MA (USA);

Sandro Stringari: Università di Trento, INO-CNR, BEC

Center, Trento (Italy)

7 – 15 July 2014

Varenna 2014

JOINT EPS-SIF INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON ENERGY

Course 2 – Energy: basic concepts and forefront ideas

Directors: Luisa Cifarelli: Università di Bologna (Italy);

Friedrich Wagner: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik,

Greifswald (Germany)

17 – 23 July 2014

Workshop 192 – GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING

Directors: Federico Carminati: CERN, Geneva

(Switzerland); Latchezar Betev: CERN, Geneva

(Switzerland)

25 – 30 July 2014

European International Conference on

ENERGY (E2C)

Budapest, HU, 24 – 27 October 2013

(SIF support with studentships)

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Joint EPS-SIF International School on

ENERGY

Course 2 – "New strategies for energy

generation, conversion and storage”

17 – 23 July 2014

Directors: L. Cifarelli, F. Wagner

Varenna 2015

Course 193 – Soft Matter Self-Assembly

Directors: Christos Likos: University of Vienna, (Austria);

Francesco Sciortino: Sapienza Università di Roma

(Italy); Primoz Ziherl: University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

28 June – 7 July 2015

Workshop 194 – Future Facilities with Particle

Accelerators

Directors: Sergio Bertolucci: CERN, Geneva

(Switzerland); Luigi Palumbo: Università "La Sapienza",

Roma (Italy)

8 – 11 July 2015

Varenna 2015

Course 195 – Photonics

Directors: Federico Capasso: School of Engineering

and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge

(USA);

Diederik Wiersma: LENS, Firenze (Italy)

12 – 18 July 2015

Course 3 – JOINT EPS-SIF INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON ENERGY ???

Directors: Luisa Cifarelli : Università di Bologna (Italy);

Friedrich Wagner: Max-Planck-Institut für

Plasmaphysik, Greifswald (Germany)

22 – 28 July 2015

Planning for Varenna

3-years plan 2014-2016 funding agreement

with Camera di Commercio di Lecco

INGV agreement — NEW

INRIM agreement — NEW

Centro Fermi Studentships

ToR for Joint EPS-SIF International School on Energy 2015 — ???

EPS & APS

• New EPS Executive Committee as from April 2014

Angela Bracco (INFN & Centro Fermi)

Lucia Di Ciaccio (SIF)

Christophe Rossel from IBM, Zurich – President

Elect

• My mandate as APS CISA member expires on December 2014 (renewal ?)

• SESAME Travel Grants (as APS, EPS, IUPAP, IOP,

DPG)

EPS initiative for

International Year

of Light 2015

Approved by UNESCO Executive Board

(October 2012) with the support

of 33 countries including ITALY

Approved by UN General Assembly

(December 2013) again with the support of ITALY

Possible link with EXPO 2015

International Year of Light

and Light-Based Technologies

IYL 2015

SIF Golden Sponsor

of IYL2015

IYL2015

Accendi la luce !!

Book for children & teenagers

App for teenagers

Italian IYL2015 stamp

Il grande Enrico Fermi — Exhibition in Rome

Virtual visit

Catalogue

Collaboration with SAIt, SILS, SIOF, SISS …

and Centro Fermi …

Applications for MIUR funds

IYL2015 ITALY

Rome, Italy – 20 April 2012

EPS Historic Sites

2012 Rome (Italy), Chamonix (France) — 2

2013 Warsaw (Poland), Dubna (Russia), Arcetri (Italy), Sasso Marconi (Italy), Hven Island (Sweden), Orsay (France), Berlin (Germany), Kamien Pomorski(Poland), Debrecen (Hungary), Frascati (Italy), Copenhagen (Denmark) — 11

2014 Teddington (UK), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), Sofia (Bulgaria), CERN (Switzerland) — 5Belgrade (Serbia)

EPS Historic Sites

2015

Leiden (The Netherlands), Madrid (Spain), Prague(Czech Rep.), Brussels (Belgium), Coimbra (Portugal), Bern (Switzerland) …

Joint APS-EPS Historic Sites ?

Study for ItalyFOR THE FIRST TIME !

• Working Group coordinated by SIF, with the participation of:

– INFN– INAF– CNR– INRIM– Centro Fermi

• Deloitte

• Istat & Eurostat data

• Period 2008-2011

• Completed by the end of 2013 – Revised in January 2014

Full Report

Executive Summary

http://www.sif.it/attivita/physics_economy

(36 pages)

• Publications

– NC B EPJ Plus

(81 articles/month; accepted 25/month)

– Il Nuovo Cimento

– La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento

– Giornale di Fisica

IF = 1.475

IF = 3.364

– Il Nuovo Cimento

Dal 2015

Passi avanti

Publications:

- Proceedings

- Special volumes

Gozzini2 Pontecorvo NC

- Il Nuovo Saggiatore

Projects:

Scienza e impegno civile: I fisici senatori

Volume su E. Fermi (SIF-Centro Fermi)

ACTIVITIES

Permanent Education Commission

Commissione Didattica Permanente(CDP)

PLS, TFA, ANVUR, recruitment …

New President: I. Rabuffo

Vice President: A. Garuccio

New Entries: N. Vittorio (MIUR), W. Alberico (Con.Scienze),

G. Trincheri (SAIt)

HOPE Project on Education

Professional Roll & UNI regulation

WG with SIF, ANFeA, AIFM, AGI, Con.Scienze, …

WG President: G. Gialanella, Coordinator: F. Fidecaro

NEXT CONGRESS

Congress SIF 2015 in Rome

International Year of Light and Light-basedTechnologies – IYL2015

SIF Budget

Il Resoconto Annuale 2013 contiene il Bilancio

Consuntivo 2012

(approvato in aprile 2013 dal Consiglio e in

settembre 2013 dall’Assemblea di Trieste)

attivo (> 100 000 €)

Il Resoconto Annuale 2013 contiene anche

una previsione positiva per il Bilancio

Consuntivo 2013

SIF Budget

Bilancio Consuntivo 2013

(approvato in aprile 2014 dal Consiglio e

sottoposto ora, nel mese di settembre 2014,

all’Assemblea di Pisa)

attivo (> 200 000 €)

[campagna soci 2014, Rapporto Deloitte,

Spettacolo Galilei, IYL2015 …]

Previsione per la chiusura del Bilancio 2014

buona (non dovrebbero esserci sorprese)

Sp

on

sors

Many thanks !!

SIF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

President’s report

Thank you

for your attention