Science Festival 2011 Programme

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Festival della Scienza Genoa, 21th october_ 2nd november 2011 www.festivalscienza.eu

150 and beyond

Under the patronageof the President of the Italian Republic

USA – Guest Country

The United States of America, Guest Country in 2011, celebrate with Italy the 150th anniversary of one of the most outstanding scientific and cultural institutions of America: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Genoa Science Festival presents two Round Tables, organized in partnership with the MIT, which is also involved in the L’Italia dov’è (Where’s Italy) Project, supported by the MIT SENSEable City Lab and its director, Carlo Ratti.

Many events see the presence of American speakers: the Festival opens in fact with William Colglazier, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State; Waleed Abdalati, Chief Scientist and Joe Parrish, Chief Technologist at NASA; Rafael Reif, provost at MIT; Clifford Saron, neuroscientist; Michael Chorost, information technology expert; Evgeny Morozov, essayist; Stephen Hsu, physician; Dean Falk, anthropologist; Donal Manahan, biologist; George Somero, marine biologist; Gordon Hurford and Gordon Emslie, space scientists. Children and families are most welcome and are invited to the Halloween Special Event Mima la scienza! (Mime Science!), an event organized in partnership with the San Francisco Science Festival under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy with the support of of IIT - Italian Institute of Technology.

Festivalscienzalive

The Telecom Italia’s multimedia project for the Genoa Science Festival.

As in 2010 festivalscienzalive.it will give webbers and internet surfers the opportunity to experience and interact with the Genoa Science Festival from live. A platform designed to make contents and information available to a large virtual community, not necessarily specialized, but actually including science amateurs, students and social networkers.

Awarded as Best Website Award, since its launch in 2010, Festivalscienzalive dramatically increased the Science Festival’s web visibility, registering up to 200,000 unique visitors.

150 anni di scienza

Since April 2011 the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and the Genoa Science Festival have been starting a journey along the country to celebrate 150 years of Science in Italy, going back to the roots of the Italian Science, Research and Technology to highlight excellences of our recent past, granting for an relevant contribution to the development of our culture since 1861. Seven ‘Cities of Knowledge’ to celebrate a new Unification in the name of Science: Milan, where the Festival presented Mindstake, a neuroscience lab (4th Brainforum, April); Pisa, capital of the Web 2.0. generation (Internet Festival, May, 5-8); Naples, celebrating Genetics foran entire week (La Ricerca Genetica a Napoli, May, 16-22), Florence and its long-lasting tradition in Optics (Sotto una nuova... Ottica - Uno sguardo sulle leggi dell’ottica, della percezione e dell’Universo, May, 24-29); Bari and Foggia, capitals of the Agro Food district (Made in Italy agroalimentare, September, 21-25) and, last but not least, Bologna, where the first Chair of Chemistry was established (Questione di... Chimica - a tu per tu con le meraviglie della chimica quotidiana, September 23-27). An ideal itinerary along science, technology, tradition and innovation, which concludesat the Festival with five interactive exhibitions hosted in some of the most fascinating venus of the City.

A scuola con Galileo

Over 30 multidisciplinary meetings inspired by the outstanding character of Galileo Galilei and entirely focusing on 150 students, selected among the last classes of High Schools all over the country. More than any other Italian scientist, Galilei gavea major contribution to the development of modern science: thanks to his unexhaustive curiosity and his extraordinary versatility he was astronomer, inventor, essayist, philosopher, mathematician and physician. A series of outstanding scientists and humanists met the students to help them detecting their personal wishes and aspirations to better identify their future professional careers.

www.galileo.festivalscienza.it

The project is supported and realized in partnership with the Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni del IV centenario dell’invenzione del cannocchiale di Galileo Galilei.

The Genoa Science Festival is held under the auspices of Ministero della Gioventù and ISTAT - National Institute for Statistics

> October 21 to November 2, 2011

Festival della Scienza150 and beyondIn the year of the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, the Genoa Science Festival presents a wide array of hints, experiences and excellences of the recent past able to project Knowledge into the future. The sense of a unique country develops much earlier than March 17, 1861, as 20 years before scientists from Pisa, Turin, Florence, Milan, Naples, Genoa, Venice and many other Italian cities had already gathered at the Congress of Scienziati Italiani. Since then, Italy has been expressing its scientific excellences giving a remarkable contribution to the development of Knowledge. Far from just celebrating the past, the Genoa Science Festival goes beyond and spots on today’s Italian Scientists who are fully committed in bringing our Country into new scenarios for a better Future. A mix of history, humanity, science, curiosity and fun to celebrate the International Year of Chemistry, the 100th Anniversary of Ernst Rutherford’s atomic model, the U.N. International Year of Forests and International Yearfor People of African Descent, as well as the 100th Amudsen and Scott’s Anniversary Race to the South Pole. No change in the Festival’s philosophy, definitely centering on its visitors, who are true protagonists of all events, picturing the past, the present and the future of Science.

This programme contains all the Science Festival’s events which can be enjoyed by english speakers. Laboratories, exhibitions, events contains the initiatives in which the public can take part at various times throughout the day, while Lectures, shows and meetings take place throughout the Science Festival, with events organized day by day and hour by hour.

In memory of Enrico BelloneBrilliant scientist and pioneer of science dissemination in Italy, deeply committed in a careful choice of wording to let readers clearly and immediately undestand his writings. A true fried of our Festival, always generous in providing new ideas and contributions. As his beloved Galileo, Enrico made all of us understand our unlimited capacity of increasing our knowledge and cultivate the intimate curiosity humankind is entrusted with. Thank you, Enrico. The Festival will remember you.

The Festival della Scienza supports the International Year of Chemistry (www.chemistry2011.org)and the International Year of Forests (www.un.org/en/events/iyof2011)proclaimed by the United Nations

Tickets and purchase

Daily ticketvalid till midnight on the day of issue Adults: 12 euro, Concessions: 10 euro Schools: 8 euro, Young persons (6 to 14): 8 euro, Children (0 to 5): free

Festival ticketentry for the duration of the Science Festival Adults: 20 euro, Concessions: 17 euro, Schools:14 euro, Young persons (6 to 14): 14 euro, Children (0 to 5): free

Premium ticketThe fidelity ticket is valid for the entireduration of the Festival with this ticket you can get limitless and free bookings: 30 euro

The following people are eligible for concessions: groups of over ten people; youths between the ages of 15 and 18; university students (upon presentation of a university card); senior citizens (over 65 years of age); and disabled people. All those who purchase on-line at www.festivalscienza.it will have a discount. For groups of over ten people: one free ticket for every twenty purchased. Teachers who accompany classes of children enter freeof charge, while parents accompanying schoolchildren will receive a concession

For the entire period of their validity, the tickets allow you to participate in all of the events of the Science Festival (except for those events indicated on the program), while places at events are available

Purchases can be made on-line at www.festivalscienza.it or at the ticket offices of the festival

Bookings

Individual visitorsBooking is recommended but not compulsory except where specified. Booking fee for a single event: 1 euro. The bookings can be made on-line or directly at the info point and at the ticket offices of the Festival

Important informationBooking expires 10 minutes before the booked event starts. Visitors are required to show up at least 10 minutes before the event startsin order to have their reservation guaranteed. As for the conferences, the entry is possible while seats last. There are two typesof entrances, one is reserved for visitors who made the booking: they are required to show up no later than 10 minutes before the conference starts

Infoline

from october 21 to november 1everyday from 8:30 am to 6:30 pmphone: +39 010 [email protected]

Festival on-line

www.festivalscienza.it www.mobile.festivalscienza.it

www.facebook.com/festivaldellascienza www.youtube.com/user/FestivalScienzatwitter.com/FDellaScienza

App Festival della Scienza 2011downloadable from AppStore

Ticket offices and Information point

You can buy the tickets and organize your visit with the staff’s help at every Ticket Office and Information point. Real time information service at the Infopoint

Infopoint - piazza De FerrariPalazzo della Regione Liguriaground floor, piazza De Ferrari 2r,from October 17 to October 20 from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm,from October 21 to November 2 Monday – Friday from 8:30 am to 6 pm, Saturdays, Sundays, public holidaysand october 31 from 9:30 am to 7 pm,open till 9:00 pm in case of evenings conferences or lectures. Cash cards and credit cards are accepted.

Ticket office – Biblioteca Universitariavia Balbi 40,Monday – Friday from 9 am to 5:30 pm, Saturdays, Sundays, public holidaysand october 31 from 10 am to 6:30 pm

Ticket office – Acquario di Genova(Important: no bookings or visit organizing in this ticket office),Ponte Ambrogio Spinola, at the groups ticket office of the Acquario di Genova Monday – Friday from 9 am to 6 pm, Saturdays, Sundays, public holidaysand october 31 from 10 am to 7 pm

E-commerce service to buy tickets and make bookings is available on the Festival website www.festivalscienza.it

Performances not included in the ticket carnet

Some events in the program are indicated as not included in ticket carnet: for this kind of performances, those who have the Festival ticket are entitled to a discount on the full price ticket. For all the details on the ticket prices and the booking terms, see below

Teatro della Tosse Information, bookings and purchase:Teatro della Tosse, piazza Renato Negri 4,ph. +39 010 2470793, www.teatrodellatosse.it, Tuesday – Saturday from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm and from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm, Sundays from 3 pm to 6 pm (only during performances days).For phone bookings: Tuesday – Saturday from 3 pm to 7 pm. Ticket prices: if you have the Festival daily ticket or season ticket 5 euro reduced price ticket, 10 euro full price ticket; if you do not have any other tickets 10 euro (for shows at 4:00 pm), 12 euro (for shows at 6:00 pm), 18 euro (for evening shows)

Discounts, special offers, and privileges

Family packetFor families with at least four paying visitors, one child ticket (available for children of up to 14 years of age) is free. If you book 7 events on the same day, you can get free booking on all the other events of the day (subject to availability)

Genoa Acquarium / Galata Sea Museum Galata Sea Museum + Submarine City of Children / Biosphere 3 euro discount if you show your Festival ticket

“Bigo” elevator1 euro discount if you show your Festival ticket

Costa Edutainment facilities(Genoa Acquarium, Galata Sea Museum, City of Children, “Bigo” elevator, Biosphere) 1 euro discount for student groups with the Festival ticket

MuseumsAll the museums that host events of the Science Festival offer reduced rates to visitors

Price agreementsReduced rates for visitors who show eithera Coop card, CartaPiù Feltrinelli card, a full price ticket of a museum or a museum card 24h/48h, an annual AMT season ticket, an Acquarium ticket or any other Costa Edutainment facility ticket

Homo sapiens La grande storia della diversità umanaDall’11 novembre al 12 febbraio 2012 presentando il biglietto del Festival della Scienza a Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma, biglietto ridotto della mostra Homo sapiens. La grande storia della diversità umana. Per informazioni www.palazzoesposizioni.it

The Festival Bookshop

In De Ferrari Square, for the entire duration of the Festival, from 10 am to 10 pm, you have the chance to buy the books written by the protagonists of the Festival as well as a selection of some of the most important popular scientific books. The Festival bookshop is organized and realized by the bookshops “ElleDI2010” and “L’Albero delle Lettere”

Releasing

When a photographer or videomaker commissioned by Science Festival is present at any of our events, we may use the resulting images on this website and in publicity materials. By buying a ticket and participating to one of our event you agree the permission of using any pictures or videos with you or under 18s people coming with you.

Affiliated bars and restaurants

For the duration of the Festival, the following bars and restaurants will offer discounts to clients with tickets to the 2011 Science Festival

Antica Cantina I Tre Merli Vico dietro il Coro della Maddalena 26r phone +39 010 2474095closed sundays and saturday at lunch

Cambi Café vico Falamonica 9r phone +39 010 9752674

Di Sopra Palazzo Ducale, mezzanine piazza Matteotti 5 phone +39 010 5959648

Eprie Rosse Via Ravecca 54 - 56r phone +39 010 2512591 closed sunday at lunch

HofBrauhouse Palazzo della Borsa via Boccardo 5r phone +39 010 542988 closed sunday

I Tre Merli Porto Antico Porto Antico, Palazzina Millo phone +39 010 2464416

La casa dei Capitani piazzalele Rusca 1 phone +39 010 3727185 closed monday

L’Osteria dei Bischeri via di Porta Soprana 31r phone +39 010 9751052 closed sunday

Mcafé Reale Palazzo Reale, via Balbi 8 phone +39 010 8608200 closed sunday afternoon

Mcafé Rosso Palazzo Rosso, via Garibaldi 18 phone +39 010 8697047

Mentelocale Palazzo Ducale, piazza Matteotti 5 phone +39 010 5959648

Ostricheria InDarsena OysterBar calata Dinegro 4 (nearby Galata Museum) phone +39 347 7139020 closed tuesday

Sopranis piazza Valoria 1r phone +39 010 2473030

Tiflis vico del Fico 35r phone +39 010 256479

Trattoria da Franca vico della Lepre 8r phone +39 010 2474473 closed monday

Trattoria della Raibetta vico Caprettari 10/12 phone +39 010 2468877 closed monday

Trattoria delle Erbe piazza delle Erbe 8r phone +39 347 0883294

Trattoria San Carlo Via David Chiossone 41r phone +39 010 2534294 closed sunday

Trattoria Tralalero via Arsenale di Terra 1 phone +39 010 2772827

Oltremodo Buffet Lounge Restaurantvia al mare Fabrizio De Andrè (next to the Biosfera), Area Porto Anticophone +39 010 2534032

Self Service Pizzeria VELEAtlantide passage, Area Porto Anticophone +39 010 2475278

Amici del Festival della Scienza

The Festival Friends share a true passion for Science and welcome the Genoa Festival as a unique opportunity to cultivate their interests and meet world-renowned experts. The yearly individual subscription costs 40 euros (25 euros for University students) and gives access to special events, scientific dinners or meetings with international scientists, conferences and workshops. The Premium Membership Card is valid for the whole Festival and includes free and remote booking service for all events. Schools can subscribe free of charge to qualify their focus on science innovation and keep informed on all activities tailored for students only. The Amici traditionally support the Festival by hosting scientists and speakers in their private houses, thus reviving the ancient tradition of the Genoese Rolli, when noble families were hosting in their dwellings the personalities travelling to Genoa. Info at www.festivalscienza.it /site/home/amici.html

Scientific explainers

A visit to the Science Festival stands for a chance to increase your knowledge: since its very first year, university students, graduates and young researchers explained the misteries of science to the public. This year too, a crew of 700 explainers has been recruited and duly trained by experts in science, communication and drama to support the Festival’s visitors. This is an unvaluable asset and a strategic resource for the Festival: thanks to the skills, the reliability and the professionality of its staff, the Festival can meet the public needs at best, by projecting and designing interactive activities which, year after year, deeply involve visitors of any age and really make the difference!

Access to the Festival for disabled people

For info on itineraries and infrastructures:Terre di Mare, Sportello informativodella Provincia di Genova, Palazzo Ducale,piazza Matteotti 72r, phone 010 542098,339 1309249, [email protected],www.terredimare.it

The Associazione ONLUS Oltre le Parole will translate the contents of some events in the language of signs (LIS). Info: Associazione Oltre le Parole, via Lomellini 4/2, Genoa, phone 010 691957, [email protected]

Exhibitions

Workshops

Conferences

Shows

Special events

Recommended age

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Every day, all day: workshops, exhibitions, events

What’s on today?: lectures, shows, meetings

October 21, Friday October 22, Saturday October 23, Sunday October 24, Monday October 25, Tuesday October 26, Wednesday October 27, Thursday October 28, Friday October 29, Saturday October 31, Monday

November 1, TuesdaySpeakers at the Festival

Festival’s locations

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October 22 to November 1

1 | 150 and more... a thousand actually (a landing)An account of research in Italy

Raise your antennae, turn the cogs of your brain, observe, discover, interact! This is what we ask of you in this enormous chamber of the marvels of science. Before you is a ship, loaded with neither men nor soldiers: disembarking here are the 1000 identity cards of Italian research. Namely? Photographs, illustrations, technological equipment, documents and books belonging to the last 150 years of the history of science in Italy. A bridge between past and present to which you too are asked to contribute, leaving your imprint. Because Italian research cannot live without everyone’s participation.

Galata Museo del Mare10 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By CNR-Istituto di ricerche sulla popolazione le politiche sociali, art direction and project arrangement by Fabio Fornasari.With the patronage of the Istituto Italianodi Cultura di Parigi


2 | 150 humanoid robots and more...Humanoids, human beings and the future of robotics

Other than man, there are robots. Human beings, humanoids and interfaces between man and machine are our companions in a journey at the edge of the unknown. It’s not science fiction, but our immediate future. We will explore the world of humanoid robots and the best examples of artificial intelligence, and then move on to study the human body, sensory perception and control of movement. Finally, we will project ourselves into landscapes where machines and people are easily connected: robots stop being the baddies from science fiction films, and become a helpful support in the fields of medicine and rehabilitation.

Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova (ex Hotel Colombia Excelsior)9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Dept. IIT


3 | 150 years of Italian genius Innovations that shape the world

The home, work, travel, health and borders – real or abstract – become the limits of a thematic route of objects, photographs, scenarios, fascination, which all describe the tale of Italian genius. From Marconi to Viterbi, Barsanti to Matteucci, from Giacosa, from Grassi to Rizzolatti... the representatives of Italian excellence in scientific discoveries. Excellence has produced results, methodological and organizational stimulus, schools of thought and ultimately, a better quality of life. A story that comes from people’s needs, reflected in society and the industrial world, and that sees them as protagonists and the engine of progress and affluence

Palazzo della Borsa9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York, Fondazione Rosselli. In collaboration with Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Enel, Telecom Italia, Farmindustria


4 | 150 years of mathematical models From the pseudosphere to competitive markets

Mathematical models are not only representations of objects, phenomena or theories: starting from an interpretation of what exists, they provide a description of the possible evolution of a particular system. In the last 150 years, central figures in Italian mathematics from Eugenio Beltrami and Federigo Enriques, to Giuseppe Peano and Vito Volterra have been involved in the development of mathematical models: following this history and doing hands-on experiments, by means of multimedia simulations of methods used and the results obtained, brings you into contact with a luxuriant passage of Italian and international science.

Galata Museo del Mare10 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Matematita Centro Interuniversitario per la Comunicazione e l’Apprendimento Informale della Matematica; Unità di Milano - Città Studi


5 | 30x5. Maths fun-fair

How can you celebrate together 150 years of the Italian Unity and the 5th edition of MateFitness? You take 30 new maths activities, designed by young planners and science animators, with the 5 years of experience of MateFitness, multiply these numbers and that’s it: 150 years to celebrate and a powerful exhibition, a fun-fair for maths, to discover through 4 coloured paths, which lead to 5 play areas. Mathematics activities on tables, freestyle exercises, blind calculations, special attractions… find the right maths for you. Be warned: one ride won’t be enough!

Palazzo Ducale, Munizioniere9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday, 10 am - 9 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By CNR - Promozione Sviluppo Collaborazioni, Progetto MateFitness. In collaboration with Giuseppe Rosolini (Università degli Studi di Genova)


6 | A question of... chemistryFace to face with the marvels of everyday chemistry

7 billion people will inhabit our planet in 2012 and 9 billion in 2050. With these forecasts, it is essential to be prepared and plan strategies: new and less polluting energy sources, new, safe, ecological materials, new methods to conserve our past and our artistic heritage, drugs to face future bacteriological challenges and today’s and tomorrow’s diseases, systems to protect the environment and man. In this scenario, chemistry will be in the front line and our future will be A Question of...Chemistry!

Piazza delle Feste9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Associazione Festival della Scienza, CNR-Promozione Sviluppo Collaborazioni, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Area della Ricerca CNR-INAF di Bologna, Fondazione Marino Golinelli, ASTERBeghelli, SOL group, Di Giovanni Bologna, Progetto Env-Europe, Fondazione del Montedi Bologna e Ravenna


7 | Arduino SumoJewels of robotics challenge each other in the ring

Let’s build a robot and ...throw it into the ring! An authentic competition of Sumo, the ancient Japanese wrestling sport, that is also a teaching laboratory of robotics, programming and creativity. The heart of our robots is Arduino, the all-Italian open source hardware which, with its exceptional practicality and low cost, has revolutionised the world of robotics and didactics, giving even non-experts a chance to have a try at real works of engineering. What are you waiting for? Grab your screwdrivers and let the competition begin!

Palazzo Grimaldi della Meridiana9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st / booking is required for schools and groups

By DiScienza. In collaboration with CATTID, la Sapienza di Roma


8 | Astrophysics 2161: return to the future Contemporary research into the future

Astrophysics 2161 is a journey backwards in time. It starts from the future,150 years ahead: a path into a past that has not yet happened, yet we can get to know it better. 300 years of discoveries, intuitions and goals that have already been, and yet will be. Astrophysics 2161 is a multimedia exhibit, a maze of paths, a labyrinth with plenty of blind futures and where the only way out is the one indicated by science. From a plausible tomorrow, where man has colonized the Solar System and found new ways of moving in space, back to the past, to the dawn of Italian astrophysics.


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13 | How deep the sea isGeophysics in water

Hop on board and get ready for a trip under water! In the depths of our Mediterranean Sea we experiment geophysics, a science that has developed while Italy was taking its first steps,and has been accompanying it for 150 years now. Through interactive exhibits, panels and films, we discover the geodynamic processes that shake the depths of our seas: earthquakes, eruptions and seaquakes. Immerse yourself in the exhibition and experience the increasingly sophisticated technologies with which we observe and study the seabed. Because knowing the sea means planning a sustainable development for all the peoples who have always reflected themselves in its waters.

Palazzo Ducale, Loggia degli Abati9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st / booking is required for schools and groups

By INGV - Laboratorio Didattica e Divulgazione Scientifica


14 | Information chainsDNA detectives

Going through 150 years of scientific discoveries, we must stop to look at two very important contributions, worthy of the Nobel Prize: the double helix model of a DNA molecule, of James D. Watson and Francis Crick (Nobel prize for medicine in 1962), and the protocol named Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) of Kary B. Mullis, Nobel prize for chemistry in 1993. Phenotype, genotype, hunting viruses, analysing the crime scene: all activities for double helix detectives. Using a simple approach to these pillars of molecular biology, we can learn the basic concepts of biology, genetics, biotechnology and understand their impact on our lives.

Vico della Rosa, Quartiere Maddalena, (corner via Maddalena)9 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Eduardo Losada Cabruja.In collaboration with TIB Molbiol S.R.L.


15 | Internet FestivalThe Exhibition

What has most changed our lives in the last 150 years? This is a difficult question to answer. We can certainly mention the discovery of the electron and the electronic consequence, the computer, the start of the Internet and of mobile communication. Let’s try to take a closer look at the calculations made by a computer when we play, programme a robot or see a “remotely contolled” robot at work. Or we can visit a whole museum without moving from our living room, play with Hollywood style cinema special effects and ask ourselves what it means to work on the development of the Internet.

Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova(ex Hotel Colombia Excelsior)9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday, 10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By CNR-PSC, CNR - IIT, CNR- ISTI, CNR-IFC, Università di Pisa - Dipartimento di Informatica e Facoltà di Ingegneria, Laboratorio Centro “E. Piaggio”, Registro.it


16 | L’Italia dov’èThe Exhibition

Where is Italy? Beyond the border, at times. An evocative multimedia installation shows how Italian scientific and technological development reaches out and has effects which are far beyond its geographical boundaries. The voices of Italian scientists, researches and thinkers tell us how they live and work in laboratories inside and outside of the country. In which fields do our researchers work? If they’re working abroad, what led them to leave their home towns? And what could encourage them to return? Understanding the differences of being a scientist in Italy and abroad.

Palazzo della Borsa9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st

By Codice. Idee per la cultura, carlorattiassociati - walter nicolino & carlo ratti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology SENSEable City Lab. In collaboration with Luca De Biase


9 | Bee free!From pies to flying saucers, the physics of a frisbee

A century ago, in a school in Connecticut, an upside down tin pan of the Frisbie Baking Company pastry flew over the lawn of a quiet American high school. A curious boy realized that by throwing it upside down it flew very well: it had become a game for everyone. This is how the Frisbie-ing, or Frisbee, was born, a game that would become a real sport in the postwar period; a flick of the wrist that brings up Newton, Bernoulli, universal gravity, lift, fluid dynamics, friction, the gyroscopic effect. A tribute to the United States, host country of the festival, an explosion of colour profiles in the sky, the acrobatics of a disk that made the history of entertainment

Tensostruttura presso i Giardini E. Luzzati9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By ScienzAttiva, Federazione Italiana Flyng Disc, Associazione Ultimate Torino


10 | Chemistry and the Unification of Italy An exhibition on the history of chemistry

Do you think that everyday life would have been the same without chemistry? You’re totally wrong! Follow the history of the development of the atomic and molecular theory, the intuitions of Avogrado and the Italian contribution to the periodic table. Find out how the colour industry seconded the whims of Nineteenth-century fashion. Let us explain why the structure of a modern state is based also on chemistry. Finally, it meets Stanislao Cannizzaro, scientist and Sicilian patriot and a point of conjunction between chemistry and the Unification of Italy.

Piazza delle Feste9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Sezione Liguria della Società Chimica Italiana. In collaboration with Università di Genova-Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Torino -Dipartimenti Chimici. Thanks to Infineum Italia srl


11 | Forensic Police: a century on the crime scene History, Evolution and Future... from black and white to 3D

Instruments of the time and innovative technologies in a journey to discover the history of the Forensic Police. Do you think you can manage as an investigator on the crime scene? Challenge your detective instinct and plunge into one of the most controversial cases in the history of Italy: the Matteotti murder. In a virtual theatre, find out how investigators reacted at the time. Now try to solve the case with technologies that are available today to the Forensic Police. Would the outcome be different? If all this makes you think of fiction, watch out: it’s real!

Ex Chiesa di Sant’Agostino9 am - 1 pm, 2 pm - 6 pm Monday to Friday, 10 am - 1 pm, 2 pm - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Servizio Polizia Scientifica, Gabinetto Regionale Polizia Scientifica per la Liguria, Sede di Genova


12 | From a new ... perspective A glance at the laws of optics,of perception and of the Universe

The exhibition is an opportunity notto be missed for delving into a theme of national excellence such as optics, Inspired by the figure of Galileo, you can follow an interactive didactic itinerary to “throw light on light” and reveal some of the principal discoveries made in the field of astronomical optics and the science of vision.The visitor can discover how telescopes work, stating with the simplest ones developed by Galileo, up to the very last generation telescopes which enable us to discover ever more distant galaxies. An exciting gallery of optical illusions allows you to investigate the foundations of the science of perception and of sight.


By CNR-PSC, CNR-INO, LENS, Università degli Studi di Firenze, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, OpenLAB

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21 | NucleusAll in 100 years of the nucleus of the atom

1911. The great New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford discovers the nucleus of atoms. In those years nuclear physics and particle chemistry begin. Today, after a century of wandering between the infinitely small and the infinity of space, even the weirdest questions about the structure of atoms and molecules and also about the principles of radioactivity and of nuclear reactions, have found many answers. How big, or small, is a nucleus? Why does an old clock leave an impression on photographic film? Is it possible to line up atoms on a soap bubble? How do electrons move? Are you really ready to discover the secrets of matter?


By Enrico Maraffino e Maghimatici Laboratori Scientifici. In collaboration with Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Sezionedi Bologna), Museo di Fisica (Sistema Museale d’Ateneo e Dipartimento di Fisica - Bologna)

28 to 29 October

22 | Put the bomb in the bag

Bombproof textiles. This is the solution for air transport proposed by FLY-BAG, a European project coordinated by D’Appolonia and financed in the 7th Framework Programme. FLY-BAG’s objective was to develop a blastworthy textile-based luggage container to protect aircraft from explosions caused by bombs concealed inside the checked-in luggage. Despite the advances in scanning technologies and the efforts carried out by governments and international bodies, small-medium explosive devices may remain undetected. The FLY-BAG container is based on the use of innovative textiles and composite materials resulting in low weight and a high resistance to blasting events. A demonstration event will take place during the Festival della Scienza di Genova where a FLY-BAG prototype will be showcased and the main working principles explained.

Area Mandraccio 10 am and 4 pm / in case of rain the event will be cancelled

By D’Appolonia


23 | Quantum RaceRunning wild, riding waves

Quantum Race is a role game where you experience first-hand some of the principles that rule quantum mechanics and its functioning. It’s almost unbelievable, you’re having great fun and competition is challenging: in the middle of the collapse of a wave function and a teleport, the hardest thing is to believe what’s happening. The game, designed by Fabio Chiarello, CNR researcher, is full-size but can be replicated as a board game.

Complesso di Santa Maria di Castello9 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By CNR-Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologia. In collaboration with CNR - Promozione e Sviluppo Collaborazioni


24 | Race. Conquering the South Pole

One hundred years ago in the world’s coldest continent with an average temperature of -49°C, two teams fought one another in what was an epic race. The amazing interactive exhibition re-enacts the exciting race for the conquest of the South Pole. The aim is to understand the meaning of the race and to discover Antarctica as it is today: a proper open-air research laboratory for international cooperation.

Palazzo Ducale, Sottoporticato9 am - 7 pm, October 31st 9 am - 9 pm / booking is required for schools and groups

The exhibition Race to the End of the Earth is organized by American Museum of Natural History, New York, In collaboration with Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Supported by Eileen P. Bernard Exhibition Fund, Marshall P. and Rachael Levine, Drs. Harlan B. and Natasha Levine, Government of the United Kingdom, National Science Foundation (Grant No. ANT 0636639). The italian version Race. Alla conquista del Polo Sud is produced by Codice. Idee per la Cultura, with Genova Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura, Acquario di Genova, Costa Edutainment, Associzione Festival della Scienza and In collaboration with Università di Genova, Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide, CNR


17 | Love a ForestTo make a tree you need...

Dendrology? Dendrochronology? What are we talking about? We’re talking about botanics, trees and forests. The UN’s General Assembly declared the year 2011 the International Year of Forests, with the aim to raise awareness on conservation and respect of our Planet’s green lungs. Forests are an ecosystem that lives in an intense balance between trees and animals and is also a tool to understand climate, predict the hydro-geological behaviour of the ground and prevent landslides and floods. If you know it, you can’t help loving it!

Museo di Storia Naturale “G. Doria”10 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By ADM Associazione Didattica Museale Genova, Museo civico di Storia Naturale “G. Doria”


18 | Made in Italy, agriculture and food

Agricultural and food innovation explored in an organized, interactive itinerary : the future and Italian tradition interweave showing us a snapshot of a flourishing sector of Italian research. The Mediterranean diet, typically regional sectors, know-how from the agricultural and food industry and again, the evolution and innovation of processes of change in the rural and farming environment. The exhibition provides an opportunity to better understand the nature and origins of our diet and to follow the food chain from the producer to our tables.

Magazzini del Cotone, modulo 1 9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups / the exhibition is part of the project CNR per lo sviluppo del Mezzogiorno Conoscenze Integrate per Sostenibilità e Innovazione del Made in Italy Agroalimentare

by Associazione Festival della Scienza, CNR-PSC, CNR-ILO, CNR-ISPA, CNR-IAMC, CRA, D.A.Re. s.c.r.l, Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza di Bari, IAMB-CIHEAM, Confindustria Bari, BAT. In collaboration with Regione Puglia, ARTI, Unioncamere, GTS Trasporti, GIEF Bayer


19 | Mathematical bathroomThe life on the surface

Which is the shortest routebetween two points? A straight line, it’s obvious. In the same way it is natural for objects to have a front and a back and that our planet is spherical. But this is not always the case. Change your viewpoint, spend a day on the top of a washbasin or a night in the depths of a toilet: everything will be different! In our “mathematical bathroom” you can use a Moebius design bath towel, with only one side, demonstrate Pythagoras’ theorem using the washing machine, apply the tiles using Penrose plugs and find the solution to the labyrinth that we call Euler diagrams.

Palazzo Ducale, Munizioniere9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Belgrade Science Festival


20 | National Geographic Channel – This is who we are

The National Geographic returns to Genoa, in piazza Matteotti, offering the public a very special interactive experience concerning sensorial perception: an apparently dismantled installation takes shape. The participants are photographed and the images are uploaded in real time onto the web, to be shared with friends, relatives and acquaintances. People can immediately view themselves inside the wi-fi lounge area, where touch screens enable them to experiment in person with the contents proposed, join in the workshops and attend the performances of guests invited for the occasion.

Piazza Matteotti9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st

By National Geographic Channel

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29 | The essential is invisible to the eye Traces of the Universe in the city

The conquests of research in fundamental physics are about to bring about an amazing revolution in the way we see reality today. New representations of time and space accompany technological innovations which have extraordinary applications in our lives. These images become dynamic, interactive metaphors, installations distributed throughout the urban fabric of our city, places to explore and recompose, to plunge into and participate in the adventurous challenge of discovery.

Various venues9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st

Edited by INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare


30 | The Mathematics of the MindWhen the brain is deceived

Little super-computers are incessantly at work inside our heads. They help us to distinguish shapes, associate them with objects and understand how they behave in reality. They elaborate everything in real time, without our having to worry at all. But these internal calculators can be deceived... and this is where the fun starts. Join us for some interactive experiments and discover how these near-perfect machines work. What happens when the brain, asking them for advice, receives the wrong answer?

Palazzo Ducale, Munizioniere9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Queen Mary University of London


31 | The physics of music The secrets of violins and pianos

To build a musical instrument is to create a work of art. People who give shape to instruments though, are not only artisans, but also scientists. Many are the physical laws to be taken into account to make perfect pianos and violins. How does sound form? And how does it carry? Learn to know the science that lies behind one of the most important phenomenons of our culture: music. A series of experiments of the physics of sound take you through a world where notes and staves reign. Have you entered a sound laboratory or rather a workshop where musical instruments are made?

Palazzo del Principe9 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups / October 22 and 29 the exhibition will open at 1 pm

By Laura Bonino. In collaboration with Strinasacchi snc Verona Rappresentante Generale in Italia di Steinway and Sons, La Liuteria di Danilo Gosti Liutaio in Genova


32 | The red blouse and turquoise trousers A laboratory of light and colour, the colours of the Unification of Italy

What colour is Garibaldi’s red shirt? Red of course! But what does science think of it? Will Garibaldi’s shirt be red in the dark? And if we illuminated the shirt with coloured lights? And still, Garibaldi’s white horse... has it really always been white? Wearing a red shirt, children become colour investigators, dealing with Garibaldi’s story and anecdotes concerning his life. With games and scientific experiments they create their own favourite flag, but they still take home a brilliant tricolour.


By Associazione Culturale GOOGOL


25 | Science zip Laboratories and demonstrations that take inspiration from the invention and functioning of zips

You say zip and you think of an invention: problems and solutions for every-day life, technology at the service of people. Starting form the story of the most famous zip in the world, the audience is shown an unusual journey in copyright culture.Curious facts and anecdotes help illustrate the various steps that led to a simply ‘ingenious’ discovery. Speaking of science with a zip in your hands is a bizarre idea, but less unlikely than one might expect. With a zip you can discover geometrical properties, explore the world of DNA, study the forces that regulate the functioning of a number of common objects. You only need a zip to unleash the creativity and imagination of a scientist!

Biblioteca Internazionale per Ragazzi Edmondo De Amicis 9 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday, 10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st

By Psiquadro. Thanks to Eurochocolate and Eugenio Guarducci


26 | Smart grids, smart city

One of the most innovative projects in the energy field: the electricity network of the future made up of electronics, computers and communication, told through a contemporary artwork. The Spanish artist and designer Jaimie Hayon interprets the complex technology that lies behind smart grids. The intelligent networks that in a not too distant future, as the Internet has been for information, will allow everyone to interact and exchange energy, increasing efficiency and encouraging the spread of renewable sources. A first important step to transform our cities into smart cities and promote sustainable development.

Loggia della Mercanzia9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st

By Enel


27 | Sound and harmony in science and art The contribution of science to the understanding and development of music in the last 150 years

Science and feelings: let’s give them room with music. In a setting made with the contribution of the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin, we can test our hearing by exploring the nature of sound and the physical characteristics that belong to it: frequency, amplitude, shape. On the basis of these principles, it is easy to construct small musical instruments, by deepening the concept of timbre, and then go on to explore modern instruments, where sound and electromagnetic waves interchange and transform into one another. So where is the pleasure of listening? In our brains of course, in its way of perceiving things, elaborating them and activating itself. In one word, by listening.

Palazzo del Principe9 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Ottobre Scienza. In collaboration with Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino

22 to 31 October

28 | Stem cells The frontier between present and future

Biomedical sciences are constantly moving on the frontier between research, in the present and their application, in the near future. For this reason, they have to make important ethical considerations, on the basis of which it is possible to decide in which direction to exploit new knowledge and which we alltake part in defining, as members of society. What is the real function of stem cells ? What instruments do researchers use to recognise their nature and potential? An outline of the current state of research and a panorama of a fascinating, turbulent and above all fundamental area of research for the future of medicine

Palazzo Grimaldi della Meridiana 9,30 am - 5,30 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 9 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st

By European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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37 | Water From the Sea of Galilee to our taps

The water situation in Israel is truly unique: scarsity of resources, a constantly increasing population, citizens’ higher and higher living standards (and consumption). Therefore continuous innovation of the water supply, purification and recycling systems is needed. This is an opportunity to try out for yourself the purification techniques using sand and activated carbon, microfibres for filters, reverse osmosis equipment, water hardness tests. And to meet the Daphnia, the tiny planktonic crustacean that helps us understand how good the quality of our water is. Special attention is given to how we consume water and to the responsible use of water resources.

Palazzo del Principe9 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday, 10 am - 7 pm Saturday / booking is required

By Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem


38 | Web-PlayLearning with New Technologies

Have you ever wondered how technology can help resolve conflicts, take collective decisions or manage a business? The answer may come from experiences that we propose in this exhibition where, by interacting and communicating with virtual worlds, you can draw your relationship profile, recognize your ability to react to emergency situations or try to be a good leader. Come face to face with “smart” technology, which allows us to have new experiences, helps us grow, makes us question how we use it every day.


By CNR-Advanced Learning Technology dell’Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Università di Napoli Federico II - Natural and Artificial Cognition Lab.In collaboration with CodiCS - Comunicazione Scientifica


39 | Young naturalists around the worldA journey following Darwin’s steps to discover the evolution of species

Just as if you were little Darwins, leap into a tour with five stops to follow the tracks of the great English nature scientist, tracing his journeys and studies. On board the royal brigantine Beagle, finish a virtual expedition in time and space to discover the theory of evolution: simulate the effect of natural selection, observe the species that live in different habitats and build a tree of evolution. This is an adventure that will make you think about observational science, studying and opening new horizons. Ready to sail? Heading for the Galapagos islands!

Galata Museo del Mare9 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups /

By Fondazione Umberto Veronesi per il Progresso delle Scienze.In collaboration with Pikaia il portale dell’evoluzione (www.pikaia.eu)


33 | The science of cartoonsHow to become a successful film director

Welcome to the cinema! For once, you won’t have to sit among the public... but you’ll take part in a real production. We need only a set, creativity, a few notions of physics and physiology and many characters to animate with the stop-motion technique. With “frame by frame” , ordinary objects and real people can be filmed frame by frame, thus making a sequence of static images to be mounted so as to create a short animation. Animation techniques are based on both physical and physiological science: - connected to the perception of movement and to phenomena linked with the persistence of images on the retina - they are the secret ingredient for a successful cartoon!

Coop di Sestri Ponente9 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 6 pm Saturday, closed on Sunday and November 1st / booking required

By Matteo and Attilio Valenti, Associazione Festival della Scienza, CNR-Promozione Sviluppo Collaborazioni


34 | The 6-legged dog: a symbol between memory and future

The itinerant exhibition Il cane a sei zampe. Un simbolo tra memoria e futuro, curated by the historical archives of ENI, traces the history of the company from 1953 to the present day, through the transformations of its logo. Original documents, memorabilia, movies, cartoons, lead the visitor, allowing him to retrace the history of this company. In the background, the 4 changes in the label always with the distinctive six-legged dog, designed in 1952 by the sculptor Luigi Broggini. The poster and graphic design of the exhibition are signed by Agostino Iacurci , author of the latest revision of the logo; part of the exhibition is dedicated to the new talents, who have inaugurated ENI’s new communication season. Almost sixty years of history, deep roots that support a company present in 77 countries, and that makes a point of being a historical name in relation to its identity and culture

Palazzo Grimaldi della Meridiana9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday, 10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am - 9 pm October 31st


35 | The thread of lifeFrom RNA to biotechnologies

Naples and Campania had a prominent role in the history of genetics in Italy: here the first human gene was discovered and the first Italian oncogene; here a contribution was made to sequencing the human genome, to identifying the causes of many hereditary diseases, and the mechanisms of DNA modification were discovered here. The exhibition shows you the initiatives that made Naples a protagonist. A story that starts with the researchers’ imagination and genius and becomes more and more substantial, sharing together the fascination of past discoveries and the exciting prospects opening up before us.

Commenda di Prè9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By CNR-IGB, CNR-PSC, Fondazione IDIS-Città della Scienza. In collaboration with Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dhorn”, CNR-IBP, CNR-IEOS, Università Federico II, Seconda Università di Napoli, Tigem, CEINGE - Biotecnologie Avanzate


36 | Unit of measurement and the measure of Unity Making Italy means measuring it: happy birthday, metre!

In July 1861, Italy adopted the metre as a unit of measurement. A choice which immediately made it possible to develop the geological mapping of Italy, an instrument of physical as well as political identity. The exhibition therefore moves from the territory, looking in particular at Italy’s formation, through the evolution of standards of measurement, to the observation of the growth of connectivity, in terms of rail transport, which in the last 150 years has obviously increased in importance and complexity. To celebrate the metre, the international Globo-Local project for the liberation of world maps has been invited: to understand time zones and also to think again about our own position on the globe..

Commenda di Prè9 am - 6 pm Monday to Friday,10 am - 7 pm Saturday, Sunday, October 31st, November 1st / booking is required for schools and groups

By Università Roma Tre - Laboratorio www.formulas.it. In collaboration with Università Roma Tre - Dipartimento di Matematica; Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche e Facoltà di Architettura, Servizio di Polizia provinciale e Protezione civile della Provincia di Roma, Progetto Internazionale Globo Local

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What’s on today?Lectures, shows meetings

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> October 22, Saturday> October 21, Friday

> October 22, Saturday

4:30 pm

40 | The role of science and technology in a globalized worldLectio Magistralis with E. William Colglazier.Introducer Kyle Scott

In this era of globalization, competition comes from smart people everywhere. Nearly every country now recognizes that innovation through science and technology is one of the most important engines of economic growth. Global scientific engagement is essential for any country to stay at the forefront and cutting edge in science and technology. Finding solutions to the many global challenges facing the world will also require countries to work together employing knowledge gained through science and technology.

Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Maggior Consigliofree entry

6:30 pm

41 | tanGO Touching Music Performing workshop for four dancers and a singerWith Giovanni Di Cicco (Dergah Danza Teatro) and Roberto Tiranti. Music by Astor Piazzolla and Marco Canepa

Tango: a sensual, emotional, intimate dance. Music able to attact bodies, move and possess them. Capable of evoking gestures that speak, without words, of passion, desire, melancholy. Scientific research under the European project SIEMPRE (7FP ICT FET 2010-2013) dedicated to real time systems of analysis of expressiveness and empathy coordinated by Casa Paganini – Infomus, inquires into the moving mystery of tango. It reverses play, creating a show in which the dancers’ bodies - with the new choreography by Giovanni Di Cicco – conduct the musical interpretation of the thousand voices of Roberto Tiranti. Listen to the movement like a sound. Empathy and emotions detected by technology are found to be visible, tangible on the stage. Like a tango step.

Casa Paganinifree entry while seats last

By Casa Paganini - InfoMus

9:00 pm

42 | Atlantic crossingBeppe Gambetta, Mike Marshall

In their “Atlantic Crossing” the guitarist, singer and composer, Beppe Gambetta and Mike Marshall, one of the most famous ‘virtuoso’ instrument players on the new American scene follow the relations between Italy and the United States of America in their music along the line that links their cultures of origin. The concert is an acoustic journey which also follows the theme of Garibaldi’s north-south journey and celebrates the return home of the only existing film, dated 1928, of the legendary Genoese guitarist Pasquale Taraffo, playing his ‘mythical’ harp guitar. Genoese excellence is also celebrated by the Metropolitan Museum in the exhibition Guitar Heroes. Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York, that has just ended in New York .

Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Maggior Consigliofree entry

10:00 am

43 | A new economic situation for Genoa’s docksThe 21st century port city International dialogue with Hercules Haralambides, Jean Pierre Lecomte, Marc Levinson,

Genoa is the largest industrial and commercial port in Italy and among the most important in Europe, thanks to its strategic location. What’s the impact that such ports have on society in a city and in a state? During this meeting we’ll be answering these and other questions, with the participation of Marc Levinson, who has described how a box (the container) changed the world in his book The Box (Egea, 2007). The economist’s survey looks at port cities, an extraordinary example for the analysis and research of the relations that lie between economic performance and social progress.

Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Minor ConsiglioBooking advised

By CISCO, Università di Genova - Dipartimento di Economia e Metodi Quantitativi, Genoa Port Center

11:00 am

44 | Air bubbles Flying sausages, floating bubbles, laughing witches

The most surprising things can come from the simplest ideas. With an element as simple as air, extraordinary games can be created (for adults and children). Using our enormous ventilators, you can close the most impalpable of the elements inside many shapes and appreciate its softness and solidity. Here’s the flying sausage, which challenges you to catch it by the tail, and here’s a transparent bubble that you can live inside and use to move around in. A riot of shapes, movements and colours where the public participates and enjoys being creative.

Fairplay Village, Piazza della Vittoria In case of rain the event will be cancelled

By Ruinart - artisti associati

3:00 pm

45 | Knowledge-based economies and instututions MIT a case studyInternational dialogue with Roberto Cingolani, Mario Rasetti, Rafael Reif, Susan Whitehead.Chair Tomaso Poggio

A panel discussion to think about how large institutions, such as the MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, contribute to the welfare of a society. The discussion, with the introduction and moderation of Rafael Reif, provost of the MIT, will look at the role of academic institutions where knowledge is created, preserved and used, analyzing the connection between their costs and the investment on the future. This is also a way of celebrating with Italy the 150 years of MIT, an initiative within this year’s guest country, the United States.

Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Minor ConsiglioBooking advised

Organized b Massachusetts Institute of Technology in collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

3:30 pm

46 | At the edge of physicsMessages from the frontiers of cosmologyLectio Magistralis by Anil Ananthaswamy

Cosmologists are waiting for answers to profound questions: what is the nature of dark matter,dark energy, and what is the origin of mass? Ideas abound in a sea of speculation, while physicists await the experimental data. Anil Ananthaswamy went in search of the most avant-garde experiments of the planet: from Minnesota to the Atacama Desert, Lake Baikal to the South Pole. Here is the story of some of his journeys, in an attempt to understand how these experiments may provide answers to some of the most important questions that physicists ever asked themselves.

Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Maggior Consigliobooking advised

6:30 pm





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> October 25, Tuesday

> October 23, Sunday

3:00 pm

52 | The role of science and technology in Space explorationCompared experiences Dialogue with Waleed Abdalati, Manuela Arata, Roberto Battiston, Giovanni Bignami, Reno Mandolesi, Joe Parrish

Science and technology conquer space, through the voices of the top experts in space exploration. A meeting up in the stars, with the President of the National Institute of Astrophysics Giovanni Bignami, the President of the Scientific Committee dedicated to the physics of astroparticles Roberto Battiston, who is also a member of the Technical and Scientific Council of The European Space Agency, and the Director of the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics of the INAF, Reno Mandolesi. They compare their experience with that of the NASA, the ultra-famous National Aeronautics and Space Administration, thanks to the presence of the Acting Chief Technologist, Joe Parrish, and of Chief Scientist, Waleed Abdalati.


6:30 pm

53 | From paper to the NetNew experimental formsof communication on the NetLectio Magistralis by Derrick De Kerckhove

“Psycho-technologies”: maybe the most famous term coined by the Belgian sociologist Derrick De Kerckhove. He believes that thanks to new technologies now available on the Net, we are able to exert some influence. “The outside world moves from paper to screen. The resulting expressions are based on languages which are an extension of our mind”. So when we imagine computers and how they developed into a medium, then we suddenly realize that we’re not alone and that this form of communication has features no other media has.


6:30 pm





6:30 pm

55 | Upwind and leeward. Arctic and Antarctic stories A walk through the icy continentLectio Magistralis by Liv Arnesen

In the winter of 2000-2001 two women embarked on a historical journey. The would have been the first explorers to cross Antarctica on foot, without dogs and with only the help of skis towed by sails. Ann and Liv walk on the ice for three months, at temperatures down to -37 °C, with the nightmare of not being able to reach the destination before the dark polar winter. Thanks to the Internet, the trip of Ann and Liv has been shared around the world. The love these women felt for Antarctica has inspired children and adults to pursue their dreams tenaciously.


In collaboration with Reale Ambasciata di Norvegia

6:30 pm

48 | Uniting forces and ideasThe incredible simplicity of natureLectio Magistralis by Stephen Hsu. Introducer Giovanni Amelino Camelia

Our world is extraordinarily complex, abundant and complicated. It’s fascinating when you discover that physical laws unveil the simple and elegant truths of nature, providing a unified description of natural phenomena. From nature we go on to talk about the idea of “synthesis”: compact algorithms which generate more complex phenomena. This is true for the world we live in but also for our thoughts and the latest studies on artificial intelligence.


2:30 pm

49 | Air bubbles Flying sausages, floating bubbles, laughing witches

The most surprising things can come from the simplest ideas. With an element as simple as air, extraordinary games can be created (for adults and children). Using our enormous ventilators, you can close the most impalpable of the elements inside many shapes and appreciate its softness and solidity. Here’s the flying sausage, which challenges you to catch it by the tail, and here’s a transparent bubble that you can live inside and use to move around in. A riot of shapes, movements and colours where the public participates and enjoys being creative.

Piazza della Vittoria presso Fairplay VillageIn case of rain the event will be cancelled

By Ruinart - artisti associati

3:00 pm

50 | Science and intelligence engineeringThe MIT presents the future of intelligent machinesInternational dialogue with Emilio Bizzi, Roberto Cingolani, Anya Hurlbert, Nikos Logothetis, Kobi Richter, Matt Ridley, Amnon Shashua, Alessandro Verri. Chair Tomaso Poggio

The board of experts focuses on recent successes of artificial intelligence research, and also looks at new challenges. Fifty years on, we’ve developed remarkable applications like Deep Blue, Google search, Kinect, Shazam, Watson e MobilEye: systems that are cleverer than us in one specific field, but none can be said to be intelligent. Will there ever be space for artificial intelligence? We shall explore here the present and near future of cutting-edge research, searching for an intelligent machine that will allow us to understand ourselves better.


Organized by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

3:30 pm

51 | The crisis in the social and economic systemsIndividual and mass behaviourInternational dialogue with Alan Kirman e Matteo Marsili. Chair Luca Beltrametti

A new approach is opening its way among the economic theories: a method that uses the concepts and models of a “theory of economic complexity”. The idea is that of dealing with an economic system as a complex system, in order to try to predict the effects of an economic crisis that have escaped the understanding of the economic theory. Differences, interaction and adaptation are the pillars of this perspective, which is characterised at the same time by the innovative view of researchers, who are curious to explore new tools to study the difficult economic context that lies ahead of us.

Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Minor Consigliobooking advised


> October 24, Monday

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> October 26, Wednesday

> October 28, Friday> October 27, Thursday

3:00 pm

60 | Cells as therapeutic instruments Cell therapies and their potentialInternational dialogue with Ester Badami, Bruno Gridelli, Alan Russell

How are a person’s cells treated and used in order to find and introduce innnovative therapies for ourselves and for others? Which are the consolidated therapies, what are the sources of cells (stem or adult), the results achieved and the new frontiers of research? Experts in tissue engineering and immunology illustrate how, as well as lesions in tissues and organs, chronic infections can also be treated with cell therapies, by manipulating cells from the immune system. The meeting also proposes an excursus into possible career developments for researchers in Italy, in view of the national and international demand.


Thanks for collaboration to UPMC Italy

6:00 pm

61 | A practice for the mind that opens the heart: deep meditation Effects on emotions, concentration ability and well-beingLectio Magistralis by Clifford Saron. Introducer Pierluigi Luisi

A group of 40 researchers together with Alan Wallace, expert in Buddhism, studied how emotional and psychological processes get modified during quiescent meditation. Detailed analysis, according to neuroscience paradigms, highlighted many improvements happening during meditation. Psychological aspects and the ability to concentrate, a modification of the biological answer to the suffering related to stress. Within a multidisciplinary perspective, the discussion runs through the main discoveries and highlights critical areas, brought up by the science of meditation.


3:00 pm

62 | The Antarctic and its history First episode International dialogue with Roberto Azzolini, Enrico Brugnoli, Andrew Clarke, Piero Luporini, Donal Manahan. Chair Guido Di Prisco

For centuries, or rather millennia, the Antarctic was a mythical place. Even after the first explorations it remained mysterious. It was menacing too: the first explorers described sudden storms, intense cold and ice everywhere and shipwrecks. In 1911 the South Pole was reached for the first time by the Norwegian Amundsen, and shortly after by the British explorer Scott, whose odyssey ended in a tragedy. Scientific data were collected and that year heralded a new approach. The Antarctic is uninhabited, but is perhaps one of the best known areas in the world thanks to research conducted by scholars from various countries. We now know that it isa huge fresh water reserve and that it controls the Earth’s climate. What dominates, on land and sea, is ice. To adapt to the cold and the alternating seasons of light and dark, life has had to pass very harsh tests.


In collaboration with Programma Nazionaledi Ricerca in Antartide (PNRA) and CNR

6:00 pm

63 | Meat with six legsIn future will we eat insects?In-depth meeting with Marcel Dicke

Meat is an important source of animal proteins in our diet. However, the production of beef and pork requires large amounts of natural resources and contributes to global warming. Yet, insects constitute an excellent alternative meat source that can solve the problems connected with the production of regular meat. Insects are eaten as a delicacy around the globe, except for Europe and North America. The interest in insect meat is rising now that the limits of beef production are near. Why would we not include the shrimp of the land, or the ‘fruits de terre’ in our diet?


By Associazione Festival della Scienza.In collaboration with Wageningen University - NL - Laboratory of Entomology, Marcel Dicke

6:30 pm





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57 | There is no risk in learningHow risks are changing and how we can feel safe againInternational dialogue with Erik Hollnagel. Chair Alberto Greco

The concepts of risk and preventing accidents are essential for safety in transport, hospitals and everyday life between home and work. Since prehistoric times, daily existence for man has always been threatened by the most diverse dangers, with a parallel evolution between the nature of risks, linked to technological progress, and and the tools to confront them. Cognitive sciences in particular offer innovative tools to understand these risks and prevent them. Explaining mistakes and accidents in the world around us (and enjoying life in complete safety) means abandoning the classic idea of cause and effect and referring to more complex models.


6:00 pm

58 | A computer to win deafness How I became a cyborgLectio Magistralis by Michael Chorost

A man recovers his hearing thanks to a microchip installed inside his ear. This not a science fiction story, but the real life of Michael Chorost, IT programmer and researcher in New Jersey. He grew up with both the passion for theatre and computers, he’s a modern classical scholar who’s managed to successfully grasp the real, living side of machines. In Italy at last, to present his book Rebuilt, this visionary man of science brings his evidence for the first time to our country.


In collaboration with Gaffi editore

6:30 pm





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68 | Chasing solar flares around Europe and the U.S. Blackouts, satellites and X-raysInternational dialogue with A Gordon Emslie, Gordon Hurford, Anna Maria Massone. Chair Michele Piana

On 28 October 2003, after a dramatic solar explosion, the Earth was hit by a very intense magnetic storm. The effects were astonishing: blackouts, transatlantic flights being hijacked, and above all, our modern hi-tech societies realised that they were vulnerable. A new project connects American and European research with the aim of explaining the physical origin of solar explosions and their consequences on the solar system. The protagonists of this Euro-American adventure explain the satellite technology involved in the research. Europe and the US work together to study the whims of our Star.


3:30 pm

69 | Optical metamaterials: perfect lenses and screensLast generation discoveries that play with lightLectio Magistralis by John Pendry. Introducer Mario Rocca

To be invisible is somehow magical. The possibility has been dreamt of for centuries but only with the advent of transformation optics and metamaterials has the dream approached reality. Full exploitation of metamaterials’ potential requires a sophisticated design tool. Conventional optics simply redirects light at a series of interfaces between homogeneous materials within which rays travel in straight lines. Metamaterials have the potential for more sophisticated control and can force light to travel along a curved path opening the possibility of devices such as cloaks of invisibility. Transformation optics is the theoretical tool that tells us what kind of metamaterial will bend light along a given path.


6:30 pm

70 | The naivety of the WEBWhy Twitter won’t trigger a revolutionLectio Magistralis by Evgeny Morozov. Introducer Luca De Biase

The Twitter revolution. In 2009 it was Iran that stimulated this discussion, then China and now Egypt: the great protagonist seemed to be the WEB, further more visible than people’s anger. But is it correct to think that digital technologies are the right instrument for the rise and development of democracy? The researcher, blogger and non-mainstream, Evgeny Morozov, shows how in actual fact undemocratic governments are using digital platforms, bending them for their own purposes. This way we discover that the Internet isn’t the absolute good & right and that revolution would have happened anyway, with our without Twitter.


In collaboration with Codice Edizioni

9:00 pm

71 | BereshitThe most beautiful story in the Cosmos! Created and interpreted by Pep Bou and Jorge Wagensberg, lights by Jep Verges and Pep Bou, theatre assistants Jordina Font and Mon Feijoo

Genesis is the first word of the first paragraph of the first book of the Bible. It means ‘In the beginning’. We open our eyes and look around and are immediately struck by the question: how did all this start? How did we get to this? What was there before anything started? There are many different ways of asking oneself these questions, and most of all, there are many different ways of answering them. Bereshit is a show that tries to tell the story of the origins through one of the most beautiful, symmetrical, ephemeral and delicate objects of the Cosmos: a bubble. With bubbles, bubble magician Pep Bou and professor Wagensberg depict the most beautiful story of the Universe.

Teatro della Tosse, Sala Trionfoevent not included in ticket carnet / booking is required for schools and groups

By Companyia Pep Bou.In collaboration with Institut Catalàde les Indústries Cultural (ICIC)

6:30 pm

64 | Looking for our languageMothers & children and the origins of languageLectio Magistralis by Dean Falk. Introducer Telmo Pievani

In far-off times, during prehistory, from seven to five million years ago, something happened that was to affect evolution in an unimaginable way: our ancestry gained anupright position. According to the paleoanthropologist Dean Falk, this was the condition for another explosive change: the development of language. Together with the author of this research, we discover how speech might have been the result of a necessity: for mothers to keep in contact with their children who were left on the ground while they picked berries, roots and herbs needed for survival. Music and language have their origin in the mists of time, when taking care of a child meant keeping within hearing distance.


In collaboration with Bollati Boringhieri editore

11:00 am

65 | The history of AntarcticaSecond editionInternational dialogue with Paolo Ascenzi, Carlo Barbante, Hans-Otto Poertner, George Somero, Cinzia Verde. Chair Guido Di Prisco

In the late Precambrian period, 590 years ago, Antarctica experienced in succession a temperate climate followed by subtropical conditions. It was when continents separated from one another, 65 million years ago, that Antarctica moved to its current geographical position; however icecaps formed only 15 million years ago. Cooling continued until today’s conditions were reached. Antarctica is a freezing and arid desert, isolated after the opening of the Drake Passage. The Polar Front has a great impact on marine life. Studies on adaptation, evolution and climate change are achieving great results, triggered by concerns about global warming.


In collaboration with Programma Nazionale di Ricerca in Antartide (PNRA) and CNR

3:00 pm

66 | How many friends do we need?Evolutionist frivolities and curiosities Lectio Magistralis by Robin Dunbar. Introducer Silvano Zipoli

Owing to limits imposed by our genes, it isn’t humanly possible to have more than 150 friends. What should we think of those Facebook fans who boast that they have thousands of friends? For similar reasons, monogamy is a real drain on our brains, while it’s not necessarily true that being tall is always an advantage. With state-of- the-art experiments that have brought about a revolution in evolutionist biology, Robin Dunbar shows us that the distant past accompanies our every-day lives. Evolutionist frivolities and curiosities help us to understand why people act as they do and what it means to be “human”.


In collaboration with Raffaello Cortina editore

6:30 pm

67 | From the Big Bang to eternityTime cycles shape the universe Lectio Magistralis by Roger Penrose

According to the standard cosmological model, the universe, the result of the Big Bang, is destined to expand eternally, getting progressively rarefied and reducing to an enormous sterile ocean of homogeneous undifferentiated radiation. This inglorious end induced a group of cosmologists to speculate on mechanisms that would allow the universe to cyclically come back to life. So who’s right? Is our universe destined to expand eternally or will there be a contraction, the prelude to a new Big Bang? Or will there be many Big Bangs generated by black holes? Roger Penrose tries to overcome these inconsistencies by showing that eternal expansion and the Big Bang may coincide.


In collaboration with Rizzoli

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Speakers at the Festival

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Abdalati Waleed > 52Amelino Camelia Giovanni > 48Ananthaswamy Anil > 46Arata Manuela > 52Arnesen Liv > 55Ascenzi Paolo > 65Azzolini Roberto > 62Badami Ester > 60Barbante Carlo > 65Battiston Roberto > 52Beltrametti Luca > 51Bignami Giovanni > 52Bizzi Emilio > 50Brugnoli Enrico > 62Chorost Michael > 58Cingolani Roberto > 45, 50Clarke Andrew > 62Colglazier E. Williams > 40De Biase Luca > 70De Kerckhove Derrick > 53Di Prisco Guido > 62, 65Dicke Marcel > 63Dunbar Robin > 66Emslie Gordon A > 68Falk Dean > 64Greco Alberto > 57Gridelli Bruno > 60Haralambides Hercules > 43Hollnagel Erik > 57Hsu Stephen > 48Hurford Gordon > 68Hurlbert Anya > 50

Kirman Alan > 51Lecomte Jean Pierre > 43Levinson Marc > Logothetis Nikos > 50Luisi Pierluigi > 61Luporini Piero > 62Manahan Donald > 62Mandolesi Reno > 52Marsili Matteo > 51Massone Anna Maria > 68Morozov Evgeny > 70Parish Joe > 52Pendry John > 69Penrose Roger > 67Piana Michele > 68Pievani Telmo > 64Poertner Hans-Otto > 65Poggio Tomaso > 45, 50Rasetti Mario > 45Reif Rafael > 45Richter Kobi > 50Ridley Matt > 50Rocca Mario > 69Russell Alan > 60Saron Clifford > 61Scott Kyle > 40Shashua Amnon > 50Somero George > 65Verde Cinzia > 65Verri Alessandro > 50Whitehead Susan > 45Zipoli SIlvano > 66

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1 Acquario di Genova Porto Antico Ponte Ambrogio Spinola

2 Area Mandraccio Porto Antico

3 Biblioteca Internazionale per Ragazzi Edmondo De Amicis Magazzini del Cotone, modulo 1, 2nd floor

4 Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova (ex Hotel Colombia Excelsior) via Balbi 40

5 Casa Paganini piazza Santa Maria in Passione 34

6 Commenda di Prè piazza della Commenda 1

7 Complesso di Santa Maria di Castello salita S. Maria di Castello

8 Coop di Sestri Ponente via Merano 20

9 Ex Chiesa di Sant’Agostino piazza Renato Negri

10 Fairplay Village piazza della Vittoria

11 Galata Museo del Mare calata De Mari 1

12 Infopoint piazza de Ferrari, 2r (Palazzo della Regione Liguria, ground floor)

13 Loggia della Mercanzia piazza Banchi 1

14 Magazzini del Cotone, modulo 1 via Magazzini del Cotone Porto Antico

15 Museo di Storia Naturale “G. Doria” via Brigata Liguria 9

16 Palazzo del Principe piazza del Principe 4

17 Palazzo della Borsa via XX Settembre 44

18 Palazzo Ducale piazza Matteotti 9

19 Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Maggior Consiglio piazza Matteotti 9

20 Palazzo Ducale Sala del Minor Consiglio piazza Matteotti 9

21 Palazzo Grimaldi della Meridiana Salita di San Francesco 4 (Piazza della Meridiana)

22 Piazza delle Feste Porto Antico

23 Piazza Matteotti

24 Vico della Rosa, Quartiere Maddalena, vico della Rosa (corner via Maddalena)

25 Teatro della Tosse piazza Renato Negri 4

26 Tensostruttura at Giardini E. Luzzati giardini E. Luzzati 1

Ticket offices

1 Acquario di Genova at groups ticket counter of the Acquario di Genova Ponte Ambrogio Spinola

4 Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova (ex Hotel Colombia Excelsior) via Balbi 40

12 Infopoint piazza de Ferrari, 2r (Palazzo della Regione Liguria, ground floor)

Associazione Festival della ScienzaASI - Agenzia Spaziale ItalianaCamera di Commercio, Industriae Artigianato di GenovaCNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RicercheCodice. Idee per la culturaComune di GenovaConfindustria GenovaCosta EdutainmentDixet - Distretto di Elettronica e TecnologieAvanzate - Club d’ImpreseFiera di GenovaINAF - Istituto Nazionale di AstrofisicaINFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareProvincia di GenovaRegione LiguriaSviluppo GenovaUniversità degli Studi di Genova

Direction and OrganizationAssociazione Festival della ScienzaCNR-PSC, SPIN e IBFCodice. Idee per la cultura

Scientific CouncilCatia BastioliLorenzo BattistonLeopoldo BenacchioFabio BenfenatiGiovanni Amelino CameliaCinzia CaporaleIlaria CapuaElena CattaneoMaria Grazia DondiRoberto FieschiFranco GambaleMichele LanzingerLucio LuzzattoMario MarchiMaurizio Martelli (President)Jacopo MeldolesiFederica MigliardoElisa MolinariOrietta PedemonteTelmo PievaniGiuseppe RosoliniSaverio RussoGiovanna TinettiAndrei VarlamovNicla VassalloAlessandro VerriElisabetta VisalberghiClaudio Zannoni

Board of DirectorsManuela Arata (President)Giancarlo AlbertelliSara ArmellaVittorio BoCarlo CastellanoGiuseppe CostaAnna Maria DagninoLuva FontanaGiuseppe malagutiPiera PontaPier Giulio PorazzaAndrea RanieriSandro SquarciaRoberto G. Timossi

AuditorsRoberto Benedetti (President)Alessandro PintoClaudio Sartore

PresidentManuela Arata

DirectorVittorio Bo

Executive DirectorFulvia Mangili

TreasurerAlberto Ghio

Institutional AffairsIvana BertolottoCinzia Paglia

Presidency officeFrancesca Lupi

Direction CoordinationManuela Mondino

Scientific coordination of conferences and lecturesTelmo Pievani

Conferences and lecturesBenedetto Bo, Eva Filoramo

Scientific exhibitions and workshopsFrancesca Messina with Emanuele Bargelli, Chiara Badia, Daniela Gaggero, Giovanni Filocamo, Filippo Sozzi, Chiara Quartero, Cecilia Tria

Events of the “150 anni di Scienza” projectMila D’Angelantonio (Bologna)Francesca De Leo (Bari)Alessandro Farini (Firenze)Valeria Ursini (Napoli) Anna Vaccarelli (Pisa)

Art & Science exhibitionLuigina Tozzato with Claudia Gandolfi

ShowsClaudia Ribet

Scientific explanationRaffaella Denegri, Andrea Sessarego

CommunicationsElena Testa

MarketingAndrea Carlini

Digital MediaAndrea Toso

Partnership and sponsorsFederica Gilardi, Massimo Morasso with Valentina De Farolfi

Locations, Logistics and PreparationPaola Astrici, Ilaria Borciani

Organization of lectures and receptionLisetta Farinetti with Diletta Miceli, Claudia Valentini

Relations with schoolsAngelica Canevari, Giuliana Mandirola

Ticketing and information servicesMatteo Trevisani

The Festival in LiguriaFrancesca Siffredi

Galileo ProjectDavide Coero Borga

Techincal ServicesPatrizia Cecchetto

IT servicesMarco Campani with Josè Manganaro, Marco Millio, Alix Di Maio, Marco Raimondo

SafetyMilena Toselli (responsible), Eleonora Ragno

Administrative officePatrizia Barraco, Patrizia Pagano

Coordinated imageGaetano Cassini, Annalisa Gatto / studiofluo

Programma draftingLuca Caridà with Giovanni Blandini

Translation servicesBarbara Whitehouse / Assointerpreti

Press OfficeCarmen Novella, Cristiana Pepe, Elisa Carlone / Ex Libris

Amici del Festival della ScienzaGiancarlo Andrioli (President), Caterina Fasolini Di Martino, Luciana Del Giudice, Francesca Gorini

Contributors to the Science FestivalMarco Apostoli, Alberto Arnone, Luca Balletti, Serena Borgiani, Paolo Ciocia, Bruno Cottalasso, Chantal Dalla Valle, Pietro Furlanetto, Daiana Galigani, Manuele Gargano, Giuseppe Genovese, Giorgio Gianotto, Luciano Marigo, Filippo Novara, Federica Patera, Alberto Ravazzolo, Jacopo Romoli, Maria Sellito, Chiara Stangalino, Sonia Tavarone, Silvia Trucco

Graphic design studiofluophoto Olga Cirone and Matteo Musi

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