Monday 6 May returns for its twelfth edition the ”Lake Como School of Advanced Studies”, post-university higher education activity promoted by Volta Foundationunder the aegis of five Lombardy Universities i.e the Polytechnic of Milan, the University of Insubria, the University of Milan and of Milan Bicocca And the University of Pavia with the support of Cariplo Foundation.
Established in 2013 by Alessandro Volta Foundation to promote higher education, scientific research, culture and university, the Lake Como School carries out post-university training activities aimed above all at young researchers in the field of complex systems theories, but also meetings on scientific topics open to the public. It contributes to the qualitative growth of the university system and is today a place of comparison and exchange capable of creating development opportunities through advanced research activities. This is in the face of a growing need for excellence in university education.
«30 schools are planned for 2024: the current world is becoming increasingly complex in every aspect, from economic to social, from health to the environment, from nano technologies to artificial intelligence. – commented Giulio Casatidirector of the Lake Como School – To address these problems, the most diverse knowledge is required, not available in a single department or even in a single university. It is becoming increasingly crucial to bring together the best skills. This year the schools will deal with highly topical topics such as bio-nano materials, nano optics, deep learning, climate intelligence, artificial intelligence. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The new edition will start on May 6th with an activity coordinated jointly by three Lombard universities: la MouthfulsThe Politecnico di Milano and theMilan Bicocca University. The main theme will be “Sustainable entrepreneurship, innovation and entrepreneurial finance” and the lessons, conducted by international experts, will discuss sustainable entrepreneurship, providing an understanding of the impact of social and environmental concerns on the strategies of new businesses and their ability to attract external capital.
The next school, ”Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities”, will take place from 13 to the May 17th with the progress, challenges and opportunities in use of computational methods to study social phenomena. Harnessing the power of computation and data, computational social scientists aim to discover patterns and trends in complex social systems that may be difficult or impossible to discern through traditional research methods. Topics of interest include social networks, online communities, opinion dynamics and collective decision making. Computational social science has become increasingly important as the world becomes more digitalized, and its insights have significant implications for fields such as public policy, marketing, and sociology.
The last school of this year will be in October, from 14th to 18th and it will concern neurological health and diseases. It will be directed by a team of international experts, including the professor Michela Matteoliof the biomedical sciences department of Humanitas in Milan, and the professor Thierry Galli, of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurosciences in Paris. The professor will also be present among the teachers Pietro De Camilliprofessor of neuroscience and cell biology at Yale University, and professor Markus Wenk from the National University of Singapore. The school will offer an overview of fundamental advances in the field over the past few decades, including the role of the immune system in regulating the synapse and neuronal function.
“Human health and disease are the consequence of many critical biochemical reactions in the body that go far beyond what can be explained by genetic background and genetic variation. These biochemical components, nucleic acids (DNA, RNA), proteins, carbohydrates, metabolites and lipids, and their natural variations are often poorly characterized in human populations,” he said. Casati.
Still on the topic of health, in the previous one month of September, another school will discuss how populations of tumors, viruses and bacteria evolve over time, analyzing the computational aspects of different evolution models. It will also address how to analyze a pangenome to identify genetic variants associated with human diseases, distinguishing them from the plethora of neutral variants that emerge from “healthy” evolution.
«Organizing a model of higher education, in collaboration with Lombard universities, concretizes the role of the city of Como as a place of excellence for the promotion of the human sciences – commented Luca Levrini, president of the Alessandro Volta Foundation – The number of schools organised, the high profile of teachers and students expected from all over the world can only integrate perfectly in moments in which the concept of higher education is growth and above all creative development of culture. For 2025 we must have the ambition to grow, in the number of schools, in the use of new spaces and with the entry of new Lombard universities such as Brescia and Bergamo. A dutiful thank you to Professor Casati, to whom the Volta Foundation owes particular recognition and gratitude in this context, but also to Professor Enrico Lironi who has always encouraged and supported the concrete value and prestige of the initiative”.
There LCS has now established itself worldwide and has seen growing interest and participation from teachers from Lombardy universities. From 6 schools in 2013, we have reached 30 schools in 2023. The overall number of students who participated in the activities last year was over 1500, of which more than half came from 50 countries around the world In 2023 approximately 1200 scholars, half Italian and half from 45 countries around the world, arrived in Como to participate in the Lake Como School; a total of 26 schools. The topics covered current and future developments in different fields of knowledge. Mathematics, physics, economics, medicine, social sciences, including the effects that modern technologies – from nanotechnologies to artificial intelligence – have on our society.
«The Lake Como School is supported by the contribution of the Cariplo Foundation, the Milanese universities and makes use of the organizational support of the Volta Foundation. For the future it is necessary to proceed with an institutional consolidation of the school so that it can establish itself as a point of reference for higher education and for the international scientific comparison of the Lombard university system. A step forward was made last December, by the regional councilor Fermi, with the adhesion of the Lombardy Region to the Lake Como School. – he concluded Casati -It is now necessary for this first formal step to evolve into a concrete commitment by the Region support an initiative that qualifies the role and vocation of our city in the Lombard regional panorama”.
SCHOOLS 2024: THE PROGRAM
School# 200 SPCM Public space and the crisis of modernity. The art of silencing your opponent
22-24 January 2024
School# 201 SEIF Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Innovation And Entrepreneurial Finance
6-9 May 2024
School# 202 CSS Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities
13-17 May 2024
School# 203 NAMO Fifth Summer School Non Animal Models: complexity for interactions……connecting Science
15-16 May 2024
School# 204 NTMH Complex Networks: Theory, Methods, And Applications (8th Edition)
27-31 May 2024
School# 205 WDFS Wave Dynamics and Fluid-Structure Interactions
27-31 May 2024
School# 206 SBN24 2nd School of Supramolecular and Bio-Nanomaterials (SupraBioNano)
3-7 June 2004
School# 207 PLNO International School on Plasmonics and Nano-Optics
3-7 June 2024
School# 208 CTMA From cells to tissues: models, analysis and applications
10-14 June 2024
School# 209 SPDL2 Statistical Physics of Deep Learning II
10-14 June 2024
School# 210 CLINT Climate Intelligence Summer School
17-21 June 2024
School# 211 HRIS Life-chances in the Digitalized Society: structural transformations and socio-cultural adjustments
17-21 June 2024
School# 212 GEOVIBRS Vibrational Spectroscopy meets Geoscience (GeoVibrS)
24-28 June 2024
School# 213 EBMP2024 Third Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
24-28 June 2024
School# 214 ACSZ Advances in Complex Systems: addressing the zero-emission goal for urban well-being
1-5 July 2024
School# 215 STAR Mechanics of active soft materials: experiments, theory, numericals, and applications
1-5 July 2024
School# 216 ISOA Isogeometric Analysis: theory, applications, and new trends
8-12 July 2024
School# 217 BSS2024 Bocconi Summer School In Advanced Statistics And Probability 2024
8-18 July 2024
School# 218 SUFC Sustainability and the food chain: new stepping actors into the limelight
15-19 July 2024
School# 219 GPIP Starting a Grant proposal: from idea to practice – II edition
22-26 July 2024
School# 220 HANDS Deciphering chiral information at different length scales “HANDS”
29 July – 1 August 2024
School# 221 FEQS Rigorous Renormalization Group Analysis of Collective Phenomena in Fermionic Quantum Systems
26-30 August 2024
School# 222 ABS24 ABS24: Applied Bayesian Statistics summer school on “Bayesian phylogenetics and molecular epidemiology”
26-30 August 2024
School# 223 LAIS2 Logic for the AI Spring 2
2-6 September 2024
School# 224 MLPH2024 Machine Learning Photonics
2-6 September 2024
School# 225 COPA Evolution in Computational Pangenomics
8-12 September 2024
School# 226 TOEE2 Frontiers of Energy Econometrics – Second Edition
9-12 September 2024
School# 227 AI24 Advances In Artificial Intelligence
23-27 September 2024
School# 228 SMCE2024 3rd Training School on the Statistical Modeling of Compound Events
24-27 September/30 September 4 October 2024
School# 229 MTHD Membrane Trafficking in Health and Disease: Focus on Neurological Diseases
14-18 October 2024
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