L’AQUILA – «To be successful it is necessary to collaborate, coordinate and be inclusive. Today all scientific and technological challenges can be overcome with everyone’s contribution and the difference of individuals.”
He said it Marica Branchesi, Professor of Astrophysics of the GSSI during the lectio magistralis held this morning during the National Day of Made in Italy, held at the Gran Sasso Science Institute. Branchesi, in front of around one hundred high school students in L’Aquila and numerous institutions, recounted the incredible scientific discoveries of the last ten years: gravitational waves and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy, the new Einstein Telescope project and observation from space with the Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna. «These are not discoveries and ideas born from a solitary genius, but thanks to the collaboration of thousands of scientists», said Professor Branchesi.
The day, organized by the 2009 Earthquake Technical Mission Structure with the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy and the collaboration of the GSSI, began with greetings from the councilor of the Municipality of L’Aquila Ersilia Lancia which highlighted how the creation of the L’Aquilian higher education institute was among the foundations of the post-earthquake rebirth.
«The GSSI, with its interdisciplinarity and innovative projects, was an important and successful investment that contributed to the re-flowering of the city in such a dramatic moment», underlined the vice-rector Nicola Guglielmi.
Among the speeches, also that of the director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratories Ezio Previtali which illustrated the numbers and activities of the most important underground laboratory in the world: 22 experiments in the three rooms approximately one hundred meters long, and among these there is also DarkSide20k for the search for dark matter, which involves 1330 scientists, two thirds of whom are foreign. Roberto Aloisio, professor and director of the Physics Area at the GSSI, explained instead of Nuses, the space mission for the development of new observation technologies from space. A theme, that of the space economy, explored in depth by Leonardo Mazzini, Chief Technology Officer for Thales Alenia Space who underlined the importance of working as a system.
The councilor drew the conclusions of the day’s work Mario Fiorentino, coordinator of the Abruzzo 2009 Earthquake Structure. «Scientific and technological research is one of the assets of development policies within the reconstruction work of this territory and the 2009 Earthquake Structure has supported many of the activities organized in recent years by the GSSI – he said to the audience – to the many young people present here today I want to highlight the excellence, creativity and ingenuity that distinguish the ecosystem of education and research in L’Aquila, which is of inspiration and involvement for the new generations and their future professions ».
