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Mini-EUSO is leaving for Russia – for the final verification tests – and later for the Baikonur base (Kazakistan). It is an instrument aimed at studying and monitoring ultraviolet (UV) nocturnal emissions of terrestrial, atmospheric and cosmic origin, observing transient atmospheric phenomena, meteors and signals of matter made of strange quarks (Strange Quark Matter), and tracking space debris in orbit.

October 9-11, Frascati National Laboratories Appointment on the 9th of October for the 19th edition of Incontri di Fisica, the educational and training course in Modern Physics organized by LNF and addressed to high school teachers from all over Italy.

A Qubit net, the core of quantum computers, could be the technology that makes it possible to unravel the mystery of dark matter in our Universe.

Today, 1st of July 2019, the new President of INFN, prof. Antonio Zoccoli, takes office, succeeding his predecessor prof. Nando Ferroni, who guided the Institution for the last 8 years.

The beam-test facility (BTF), a research infrastructure able to provide electron and positron beams from the LNF LINAC, after having been in operation for more than 15 years, enters a new phase.

The INFN Frascati National Laboratories participate to the STRONG-2020 project, a new European Integrating Activity for Advanced Community within the European Horizon-2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme.

SAVE THE DATE: 28th of May 2019 h 10:00 – Aula Salvini Industrial seminar “Magnets and vacuum: Accelerator technologies for an open laboratory” The Frascati National Laboratories (LNF) of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) carry out an intense activity of technological research whose products offer applications in different areas of both social and industrial interest, as well as in fundamental research.

As part of his tour around Italian universities and research institutes, on the 9th of May the Director-General of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, William D. Magwood IV, visited Frascati National Laboratories.

On the 6th of May the Honorable Prof. Lorenzo Fioramonti, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), visited Frascati National Laboratories, particularly the Experimental Hall of DAFNE accelerator and its Control Room, and experienced the Visitor Centre dissemination tour.

The 2019 edition of the Giro d’Italia brings with it a plenty of initiatives in the spirit of Science and Technology. Frascati National Laboratories participates with a special open-day and a rich program of guided tours. Appointment on Friday 12th of April 2019 from 2.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the framework of the event “Scienza In Giro”.