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Rome, 11-15 April 2016 The Future Circular Collider Study (FCC) explores different designs of circular colliders for the post-LHC era. Reaching higher energies and unprecedented luminosities would allow us to explore the fundamental laws of nature and probe yet unexplained observations.

Six third year students of the BSc programme in physics at the University of Insubria (Varese-Como) spent five days at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of the Frascati National Laboratories to study the behaviour of a calorimeter.

Di che cosa parliamo quando parliamo di onde gravitazionali: il racconto di una scoperta. 18 febbraio 2016 ore 21 Auditorium Parco della Musica, Roma Conferenza pubblica organizzata da INFN e Fondazione Musica per Roma in occasione dell’annnuncio sulla scoperta delle onde gravitazionali

Thanks to the measurement made with the twin LIGO interferometers, the LIGO and VIRGO scientific cooperation opens up a new window on the universe, directly detecting the gravitational waves produced by the collision of two blacks holes.

A 100 anni dalla previsione di Einstein dell’esistenza delle onde gravitazionali, l’Osservatorio Gravitazionale Europeo (EGO) e la collaborazione VIRGO invitano la comunità scientifica al sito EGO di Cascina, presso Pisa, per un aggiornamento sugli sforzi volti a rilevare queste onde.

!CHAOS (*) is an open-source project, available therefore for free, created in the Frascati National Laboratories and developed in various INFN locations.

Riparte, dal 15 al 19 Febbraio 2016, l’INternational School on modern PhYsics and REsearch – INSPYRE

Our colleague Sergio Ferrara, for many years at LNF, on conclusion of the seventh round table organised in Dubna by the Italian Embassy to the Russian Federation, was awarded the prestigious JINR Medal of Honour for his Supergravity Theory.

The INFN recently approved an experiment concerning the search for a new fundamental interaction connecting our world to the dark matter. The latter is one of the main components of our Universe, still, we know nothing about its nature.

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Takaaki Kajita from Japan and Arthur B. McDonald from Canada, for their key contributions to the SuperKamiokande experiment in Japan and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) in Canada, which demonstrated that neutrinos oscillate.