SPEAKERS

The opening and closing days of the Summer School will feature lectures in the Aula Magna of the building in via Irnerio 46 of the Department of Physics and Astronomy with presentations from prominent scientists and professors from various Italian and international universities and research centers.

The lectures and workshops during the week will take place in room BP-2B of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, located at Berti Pichat 6/2. More details about the program can be found at the following link.

Main lectures

Fabio Monforti (Joint Research Centre - European Commission) - From Science to Policy. Some experiences from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre

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

Martina Zanetti (Department of  Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Instrumental Monitoring for Natural Hazards: Landslides and Tsunamis

Cesare Angeli (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - Instrumental Monitoring for Natural Hazards: Landslides and Tsunamis

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

Tommaso Giacometti (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - LLM - Large LUNGage Model

Niccolò Barbieri (Department of Physics and Astronomy - UNIBO) - LLM - Large LUNGage Model

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