NEWSLETTER 114 | Febraury 2024

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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
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INTERVIEW

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TEN YEARS OF TIFPA

Interview with Francesco Pederiva, professor at the University of Trento and INFN researcher, director of TIFPA

2014-2024: TIFPA, the Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, one of three INFN National Centres, is celebrating its first ten years of work on 28 February. Established by four partners, INFN, the University of Trento, the Bruno Kessler Foundation, and the Provincial Company for Health Services (APSS) of Trento, TIFPA has become one of the main research centers in the area establishing fruitful collaborations with local scientific institutions and entities. From fundamental research to applications of physics technologies, TIFPA is strongly engaged in many of today’s leading sectors and is collaborating on INFN's main international projects. From the space sector to quantum technologies, to gravitational waves, from silicon sensors to proton therapy: talking with its director, Francesco Pederiva, we traced the history of TIFPA, considering its main lines of scientific research and activities, and also its future.

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THE AGILE MISSION HAS ENDED AFTER 17 YEARS’ SUCCESS
Last 14 February, after 17 years’ activity, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) scientific satellite AGILE (Astrorivelatore Gamma a Immagini Leggero) re-entered the atmosphere, thus ending its intense hunt for cosmic sources, that are among the most energetic in the universe, emitting gamma and X-rays. AGILE represented a unique, enormously successful space programme in the landscape of Italian space activities. AGILE was built by ASI in collaboration with INFN, INAF (the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics), Italian universities and industries, OHB Italia, Thales Alenia Space, Rheinmetall, and Telespazio. In more than 87,200 orbits around Earth, AGILE has monitored the sky at high energies, observing a vast variety of galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources, highlighting their very fast changes, frequent X- and gamma-ray emission episodes coming from neutron stars, remnants of supernovae explosions and black holes. The observations acquired from the satellite were received on Earth by the ASI Luigi Broglio Space Center station in Malindi, Kenya. The data were then retransmitted to the Telespazio control centre, before reaching the ASI Space Science Data Center (SSDC) in Rome, head of all data management, analysis, archiving, and distribution operations and those relating to catalogues accessible to the international scientific community....

 

 

TAKE PART IN

IN TRENTO TIFPA CELEBRATES ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY AND THE EXHIBITION QUANTO IS GOING ONLINE WITH THE SERIES QUANTO NE SAI?

QUANTO ne sai? Five insights into quantum mechanics

From 26 February to 28 March, every week from 17:00 to 18:00, the INFN is offering five live YouTube broadcasts to discover quantum mechanics, dedicated to high school teachers and students and those who are curious. During the live broadcasts, in addition to interviews with researchers, there will be a link with MUSE in Trento from the exhibition Quantum. The revolution in one leap to visit the exhibition and experience some interactive installations illustrating the key concepts of quantum mechanics.

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Cover image:  TIFPA's 10-year anniversary celebration credits INFN

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INFORMATION AND CONTACT

INFN - COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
comunicazione@presid.infn.it
+39 06 6868162

EDITORIAL BOARD

Coordination:
Antonella Varaschin
Project and contents:
Cecilia Collà Ruvolo, Francesca Mazzotta, Antonella Varaschin

Design and mailing Coordinator:
Francesca Cuicchio

Graphic layout:
Gaia Stirpe

Translation
ALLtrad

ICT service:
Servizio Infrastrutture e Servizi Informatici Nazionali INFN