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The Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics covered gamma-ray astronomy, air shower experiments and neutrino astronomy on three successive days. I organize my brief summary comments into four topics that cut across these…
Talk given at Orbis Scientiae Conference, Coral Gables, FLA, Dec. 16-19, 1999. Talk surveys some recent three-neutrino models of neutrino masses and mixings.
Three simple ideas about transverse spin observables are presented for the purpose of stimulating discussion. The manuscript is based on a presentation at the "Transversity 2014" workshop in Torre Chia, Sardinia, Italy on June 9-13, 2014…
A biographical profile of the theoretical physicist, Julian Schwinger, and a discussion of "The Memories of Julian" Centennial Celebration (held at Harvard University on February 12, 2018) is presented herein.
Summary talk at the Lepton-Photon Symposium, Cornell University, Aug. 10-15, 1993.
The XXXI European Symposium on Occultation Projects will be celebrated in ICRANet center of Pescara from 24 to 27 August 2012 (www.icranet.org/clavius2012). The occasion is the fourth centennial of the Jesuit astronomer Christopher Clavius…
Contributions of the IceCube Collaboration to the 3rd International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino detection Activities (ARENA 2008). The conference was held at Roma University "Sapienza," June 25-27, 2008, in Rome, Italy. This…
During the five days of this conference a very dense scientific program has enlighted our research fields, with the presentation of large number of interesting lectures. I will try to summarize the theoretical aspects of some of these new…
I summarize, at its 41st--and what would have been Bruno's 94th--birthday, the history of the discoveries of Supergravity and some of its structure and later developments.
Review/essay of Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann.
The status of and ongoing developments in the measurements and theoretical studies of the structure of the photon have been presented at the PHOTON 2001 conference in Ascona. The results presented in the structure function session are…
The quantitative description of the scientific conference MECO (Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics) based on bibliographic records is presented in the paper. Statistics of contributions and participants, co-authorship…
These are largely expanded notes from lectures on Higgs moduli and abelianisation given in Angers, France (2014) and Guaruja, Brazil (2015). Dedicated to Ugo Bruzzo on his 60-th birthday. Version 2: minor corrections.
This is the collection of Chapters on 'Continuum Science' presented at the Conference 'Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA' (AASKA14), held in Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9-13, 2014
We give some personal reflections on the person and scientist Lars Brink and on some of his scientific achievements. Our relations to Lars are briefly described in [1] and [2], while the sources relevant for this text are summarised in [3].
The growing interest of people in science events, the projects supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research to foster STEM teaching in different levels of the education system and the introduction of modern…
We investigate the question of how long top scientists retain their stardom. We observe the research performance of all Italian professors in the sciences over three consecutive four-year periods, between 2001 and 2012. The top scientists…
This is a Concluding Talk, not a Summary of the Conference. I will discuss some of the highlights that particularly impressed me (a subjective choice) and make some comments on the status and the prospects of neutrino mass and mixing.
This volume contains the papers presented at the 6th conference on Machines, Computations and Universality (MCU 2013). MCU 2013 was held in Zurich, Switzerland, September 9-11, 2013. The MCU series began in Paris in 1995 and has since been…