PEOPLE
BEYOND RESEARCH
Interview with Speranza Falciano, Vice President of INFN and Technology Transfer representative of the executive board of the Institution.
As a public research organization, INFN carries out its mandate by combining the transfer of knowledge and technologies useful to society with the basic research mission. This takes place in the direct form of communication and public engagement, as well as thanks to technology transfer initiatives, with the transmission of know-how acquired in basic research to the development of technologies of public utility.
How are the technology transfer activities structured in the institution?
The strategy implemented by INFN for technology transfer is mostly based on the exploitation of innovative ideas and techniques that arise in the context of basic research and, subsequently, trying to facilitate and speed up the processes that drive the exchange of knowledge between the research world and society, be it the world of business or any context that can be the recipient of applications, thus allowing new technologies to translate into goods and services usable by the community. To achieve this goal INFN, consisting of several facilities distributed around the country, has set up an organisation specifically covering aspects of an administrative-legal and scientific-technological nature, all coordinated by a steering committee, the National Committee for Technology Transfer (CNTT), whose connection with the central governing bodies is ensured by a member of the Executive Committee constantly attending the meetings. The Committee is supported operationally by the Technology Transfer Department (UTT) that takes care of administrative issues and those of operational support to researchers and is reinforced by qualified human resources with various profiles of expertise (legal/patents, economic, technological), typical of a sector with strong interdisciplinary characteristics.
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NEWS
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
INFN SIGNS AN AGREEMENT FOR A HADRONTHERAPY CENTRE IN THE US
One of the first US centres for cancer treatment with hadron therapy will be built in Dallas, Texas, with the scientific contribution of INFN. The decision came during the international conference on heavy ion therapy (International Symposium on Ion Therapy - ISIT), held at the beginning of November in Milan. The agreement with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical centre - UTSW was signed by the President of INFN, Fernando Ferroni, and by Hak Choy, head of the radio-oncology department of UTSW. ...
APPOINTMENTS
ANTONIO MASIERO ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF ApPEC
Antonio Masiero, Vice President of INFN, a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Padua, has been elected president of ApPEC (Astroparticle Physics European Consortium), the consortium formed by European agencies funding astroparticle physics in individual countries, ...
RESEARCH
COSMIC REPLAY UNDER THE LENS OF EINSTEIN
After seven billion years, the photons emitted by the galaxy "QSO B0218+357", which is home to a supermassive black hole, have reached the Earth. Observing the most distant source of gamma rays ever observed at high energy were the Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) space telescope ...
RESEARCH
LHCf EXPERIMENT RESTARTED AT CERN
Following successful completion, in the course of last week, of re-installation of the detector in the LHC tunnel, on 25 November the small LHCf detector started acquiring the data of the new proton-lead run, which got underway on 10 November in the LHC super-accelerator at CERN in Geneva. After a first phase of low intensity and low energy (2.5 TeV) collisions, ...
25TH ANNIVERSARY OF LUNA