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I review progress towards understanding the time-scales of star and cluster formation and of the absolute ages of young stars. I focus in particular on the areas in which Francesco Palla made highly significant contributions -…
Modern cosmology poses deep and unavoidable questions for fundamental physics. In this plenary talk, delivered in slightly different forms at the {\it Particles and Nuclei International Conference} (PANIC05) in Santa Fe, in October 2005,…
The highlights of the conference: The Legacy of Bruno Pontecorvo: the Scientist and the Man, held in Roma, Universit\`a La Sapienza, 11-12 September, 2013, are summarised and illustrated.
Concluding remarks at the international workshop ``Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Galaxy Clusters", held at Sesto Pusteria, Italy, July 3-6, 2001.
A brief, personal, and very incomplete account of 50 years of pulsar astronomy presented at the Conference Dinner for "Physics of Neutron Stars - 2017 - 50 Years After", held in Saint Petersburg, July 2017.
Introductory lectures notes on cosmology, aimed at master students in physics and based on a course held at Milano University (in Italian).
We discuss the outstanding issues of the interstellar medium which will depend on the application of knowledge from plasma physics. We particularly advocate attention to recent developments in experimental plasma physics, and urge that the…
The conference Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, sponsored by the Vatican Observatory, was held in June 12-16, 2000 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome (Italy). The meeting hosted about 230 participants coming from 30 countries.…
This paper summarizes contributions and suggestions as presented at the Chandra Workshop Star Formation in the Era of Three Great Observatories conducted in July 2005. One of the declared goals of the workshop was to raise recognition…
Summary Talk: International Conference of Flavor Physics (ICFP 2001). Zhang-Jia-Jie. Hunan, China (May / June 2001)
This is an intrusion in the life and the mathematics of Norbert A'Campo, intended to be a tribute to him and an acknowledgement of his impact on those who know him and his work. The final version of this paper appears in the book ``Essays…
A brief recollection is made of the many scientific collaborations of Bologna with colleagues from Developing Countries. In particular are discussed in detail the collaborations in some recent Astroparticle Physics experiments.
Proceedings contribution to Symposium in Memory of Prof. E. Anastassakis, Publ. Center of Technical University of Athens (2002). (contains no abstract).
In this paper I discuss Enrico Fermi's view of identical particles, taking a lecture that he gave in 1933 as a starting point. Fermi used his lecture as a basis for a paper that was published in 1934: the paper is in italian and is not…
This document collects the proceedings of the PHOTON 2017 conference ("International Conference on the Structure and the Interactions of the Photon", including the 22th "International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions", and the…
This article is the written version of the closing talk presented at the conference `A Century of Cosmology' held at San Servolo, Italy, in August 2007. I focus on the prospects of constraining fundamental physics from cosmological…
In these shorts notes I want to remembermy relationship with GianCarlo Ghirardi, who was my supervisor in my Master Degree in Physics at the University of Trieste and then he became a very deep and close friend. I don't want to describe in…
We briefly comment (in italian) on present relations between the traditional philosophy and modern positive sciences, in particular exact sciences.
Lecture given at the International Meeting ``Boltzmann's Legacy - 150 Years after his Birth'', organized by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 25 - 28 May 1994, in Rome, to be published in: ``Atti dell"Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei'',…
The Leuven workshop on the `Quantum Structure of Space-time and the Geometrical Nature of the Fundamental Interactions' had a special session dedicated to the memory of Sonia Stanciu. This is the summary of a talk delivered by the author on…