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

Lapo Boschi (Department of Geosciences, University of Padova) - Numerical models of 3D wave propagation through cetacean anatomy, and implications for biosonar

Francesco Avolio (Hera Bologna s.r.l., Wastewater Technological Innovation) – New approaches to detecting anomalous sewer discharges and testing innovative technologies for wastewater purification

Adrien Hallou (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford) - TBD

Fabio Monforti (Joint Research Centre - European Commission) - Good science for a better continent. The experience of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre

Filippo Pirani (Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna) - The Physics of Trauma: when science becomes evidence

Davide Micheli (TIM, Wireless Access Engineering Department) - Use of MDT (Minimization of Drive Test) data for electromagnetic propagation analysis in TIM's mobile radio access network

Seminars

Camilla Marella (Medical Physics Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia) - Feature Extraction from Histopathology Images for AI-Based Prediction Models

Francesco Casadei (IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna) - Towards Better Decoding: Reading DNA Through Physics

Giulio Colombini (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna) - Distributed-delay epidemiological models and how to inform them with open data

Stefano Polizzi (IRCCS - Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna) - Hazard Analysis: How to survive a coin flip?

Daniele Dall'Olio (IRCCS - Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital) - From Models to Medicine: When Advanced Methods Meet Clinical Reality

Maddalena Cavallo (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna) - Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Advanced methods for exploring brain structure through water motion

Camilla Scapicchio (National Institute for Nuclear Physics, INFN Pisa, Italy) - From Radiobiology to Biophysical Models in Advanced Radiotherapy: Data Platform and AI-Based Analysis

Matteo Berni (Medical Technology Laboratory, IRCCS – Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli) - Synchrotron imaging and mechanical testing for the study of articular cartilage viscoelastic properties

Hands-on / Laboratory sessions

Tommaso Giacometti (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna) - TBD

Francesco Casadei (IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna) - Hands-On Bioinformatics for Sequencing Data

Lorenzo Dall'Olio (IRCCS - Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna) - Hazard Analysis: How to survive a coin flip?

Daniele Dall'Olio (IRCCS - Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital) - From Models to Medicine: When Advanced Methods Meet Clinical Reality

Simone Fantoni (Medical Technology Laboratory, IRCCS – Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli) - Analysis of synchrotron images of articular cartilage

Giulia Napolitano (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna) - Innovative Materials for Real-Time Dosimetry in Radiation Therapy