SPEAKERS
CERN Professor Guido TONELLI Personal data Guido Tonelli, born 1950, is an Italian particle physicist. He is one of the main protagonists of the discovery of the Higgs Boson at the LHC. He is a professor of General Physics at the University of Pisa (Italy) and a CERN visiting scientist. Biography Since 1976 he works in the field of high energy physics, participating in CERN experiments NA1, NA7 and ALEPH. Among his contributions there are the first precision measurements of the lifetime of charmed mesons, precision tests of the Standard Model of the fundamental interactions, search for the Higgs boson, and for various signatures of Supersymmetry or new physics beyond the Standard Model. On December 13, 2011, together with Fabiola Gianotti, ATLAS Spokesperson, he presents in a special seminar at CERN the first evidence of the presence of the Higgs boson around a mass of 125 GeV/c. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Tonelli |
European ASTRONAUT Luca PARMITANO
Personal data Born in Paternò (although he considers Catania to be his hometown), Italy, on 27 September 1976 Luca Parmitano is married with two daughters. He enjoys scuba diving, snowboarding, skydiving, weight training and swimming. Other interests include reading and music. Biography Luca is a major in the Italian Air Force. He has logged more than 2000 hours flying time, is qualified on more than 20 types of military airplanes and helicopters, and has flown over 40 types of aircraft. Luca was selected as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. In February 2011, Luca was assigned as a flight engineer to Italian space agency ASI's first long-duration mission on the International Space Station VOLARE. He was launched on a Soyuz launcher from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on 28 May 2013. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Luca_Parmitano EMERITUS Professor Amalia ERCOLI FINZI Biography Professor Amalia Ercoli Finzi has been giving courses in the dynamics of spaceflight and orbital mechanics at the Aerospace Department of the Politecnico di Milan for almost fifty years. She has held leading positions in several ASI and ESA boards and committees, including the Mars Exploration Task Force (NASA-ASI), the Human Spaceflight Vision Group (ESA) and the Exploration Advisory Committee (ESA). She has been involved in several past missions of ASI and of ESA. Recently she became the Principal Investigator of the SD2 instrument of the Rosetta spacecraft designed to perforate the Martian soil and collect samples. The many conferences she spoke at have always received a very enthusiastic audience response thanks to her clear and easy way of explaining complex problems. http://www.iafastro.org/biographie/amelia-ercoli-finzi/ |