Physics for a Better Planet - II Edition

SUMMER SCHOOL on PHYSICAL SENSING & PROCESSING – VII EDITION

• Science and scientific progress can help us to create a better world

The summer school showed examples from cutting-edge physics research in material science, health, geophysics, society, and climate. The purpose was to show how different areas of physics can contribute to building a better planet. Hands-on workshops have helped students practice with the topics presented.
The school was aimed at master's degree and PhD students.

Organization

Organized by Department of Physics & Astronomy – University of Bologna & Open Physics Hub

Director: Daniel Remondini

Co-director: Nico Curti, Claudia Testa, Luca Pasquini, Filippo Zaniboni, Cristian Vignali

LOC: Mattia Ricchi, Riccardo Biondi, Alessandro Fuschi, Raffaello Mazzaro, Laura Basiricò, Andrea Ciavatti, Stefano Bastianini, Francesco Durazzi, Stefano Polizzi, Camilla Marella, Lorenzo Dall'Olio

PARTNERS

Joint Research Centre (European Commission)

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics (Oxford University)

Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra (Ferrara University)

IRCCS - Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna (Bologna)

Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia (Reggio Emilia)

Università degli Studi di Salerno (Salerno)

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Roma)

Main lectures

Fabio Monforti (Joint Research Centre - European Commission) - TBD

Irene Farabella (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT) - Decoding Genome Folding: Chromatin Tracing and 3D Modelling Approaches

James Grist (Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics - Oxford University) - Exploring advanced functional imaging

Donato Vincenzi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della terra - UNIFE) - Luminescent Downshifting (LDS) layers in photovoltaics

Stefano Bastianini (Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences & Director of First Cycle Degree in Nursing - UNIBO) - PRISM: Physiological Regulation In Sleeping Mice

Camilla Marella (Medical Physics Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia) - Physics applied to Medicine for Digital Pathology

Antonio Buonerba (Università degli Studi di Salerno - UNISA) - Lithiated gold nanoparticles as promising therapy for Alzheimer's disease

Roberto Piacentini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - UNICATT)  - Lithiated gold nanoparticles as promising therapy for Alzheimer's disease

Seminars

Alessandro Fuschi (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Exploring the DNA Micro-World: Data Science Tools for Public Health

Filippo Zaniboni (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Exploring the subsurface (without a shovel…): seismic refraction

Riccardo Biondi (IRCCS - Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna) - From Physics to Medical Image Segmentation: Is what we're doing random?

Raffaele Mazzaro (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Photoelectrochemical production of solar fuels by semiconductor photoelectrodes

Andrea Ciavatti (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Physical characterization of novel perovskite detectors

Hands-on / Laboratory sessions

Mattia Ricchi (Department of Informatics - University of Pisa) - MS lesions segmentation: a deep dive into tools, networks and sequences

Filippo Zaniboni (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Exploring the subsurface (without a shovel…): seismic refraction

Raffaele Mazzaro (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Semiconductor photoelectrodes: fabrication and optoelectronic characterization

Laura Basiricò (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Mobility extraction by time-of-flight technique

Francesco Durazzi (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Data Science for genomics: protein language models and virus evolution

Stefano Polizzi (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - A Not So Easy Ising Challenge 

 Lorenzo Dall'Olio (IRCCS - Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna) - Programming Logic: When Code Does What You Say, Not What You Mean