The appointment is for Thursday at 10 in the Aula Magna of the University of Sassari. The new Academic Year of Research Doctorates will be inaugurated, an event that sums up the one just concluded and announces the forecasts for the new year.
The ceremony will open with greetings from the Magnificent Rector Gavino Mariotti. The parchments will be delivered to 40 PhDs and the prizes will be awarded to the authors of the best PhD theses of the 34th, 35th and 36th cycle: for the scientific area, they are Giuseppe Garroni of the Doctorate Course in Biomedical Sciences, and for the Cinzia Roggio’s humanistic area of the PhD course in Archaeology, History and Human Sciences.
This year the event will be enriched by the presence of Gian Francesco Giudice, director of the Department of Theoretical Physics at CERN in Geneva, who will hold a Lectio Magistralis entitled “The Quantum Universe”.
Giudice from Padua was Research Associate of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago, Research Fellow at the University of Texas in the group of Nobel Prize winner Prof. Steven Weinberg, worked at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and then moved in 1993 to CERN in Geneva. He was Jacques Solvay Chair at the Solvay Institute in Brussels, Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute in Canada, Chandrasekhar Lecturer at the Tata Institute in India, Sackler Distinguished Lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Schrödinger Guest Professor at the University of Vienna.
He has always been very active in scientific dissemination, while as regards research activities, he boasts over 200 scientific publications on the topic of the formulation of new theories of elementary particles and their applications to the history of the primordial universe. He has served on scientific committees on large particle colliders around the world and on planning for future accelerators.
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