NEWSLETTER 122 | October 2024
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
INTERVIEW
COSMOLOGY WITH GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: GRAVITY SIRENS WINS AN ERC STARTING GRANT
Interview with Simone Mastrogiovanni, resercher at the INFN Roma Division, and member of the Virgo and Einstein Telescope collaborations
The European Research Council recently awarded a Starting Grant worth 1.5 million euros to the GravitySirens project, which aims to measure the expansion of the universe using gravitational wave signals produced by the coalescence of binary systems of black holes and neutron stars. Proposing the project was Simone Mastrogiovanni, a researcher at the INFN Rome division and a member of the Virgo and Einstein Telescope collaborations. GravitySirens is a project that lies between experimental and theoretical physics, and could have an important impact on our understanding of the universe. We asked Simone Mastrogiovanni to tell us about his goals and expectations for developing the project he has created.
Could you give us an overview of what GravitySirens is and what its premises are? In your opinion, why was the project selected by the ERC?
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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
UNDERGROUND SCIENCE: THE XII EDITION OF THE ERICE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM
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SEVENTY YEARS OF ITALY AT CERN
Trust, an all-human feeling that causes us to place expectations and hopes in ourselves, others and the future; a feeling so impetuous that it can give rise to a unique and unrepeatable scientific institution: CERN. That is how, in the early 1950s, the world's largest particle physics laboratory came into being, one act of trust at a time: trust that European countries, still torn apart by the recent world conflict, would find common ground in the immutable laws of the universe; trust that substantial investments in fundamental physics could contribute to Europe's economic and social renaissance; trust that by engaging in the breakdown of matter into its smallest elements, the particles, the European scientific community, largely still on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, could be rebuilt.menti più piccoli, le particelle, si arrivasse alla ricomposizione della comunità scientifica europea, in larga parte ancora oltreoceano. ...
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IN NOVEMBER, INFN MEET THE PUBLIC OF THE LUCCA COMICS&GAMES AND CAGLIARI SCIENCE FESTIVAL
LUCCA COMICS&GAMES 2024
October 30 – November 3, Lucca
In celebration of the new edition of Lucca Comics & Games, INFN Kids, in collaboration with Rome Technopole, will be present with a stand and two interactive workshop activities for young children:
October 30 – November 3, Junior Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio 13, Lucca
MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE: WE'RE TRAVELING THROUGH SPACE-TIME!
October 30 – November 3, Junior Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio 13, Lucca
IT'S NOT MAGIC... IT'S SCIENCE!
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