Università degli
Studi di Udine
TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Frontiers of Fundamental Physics - FFP12
International Centre for
Theoretical Physics
Detailed Programme per day*
November, 21st 2011
PIAZZA LIBERTÀ - Sala Ajace
8.00 – 9.00 Registration: we’ll be available in the room close to Sala Ajace from 8.00 to 20.00
9.00 – 10.00 Opening ceremony Welcome from the Authorities and Udine University Representatives
10.00 – 11.00
SPECIAL LECTURE Douglas D Osheroff, Stanford University, USA, 1996 Nobel Laureate in Physics for the discovery of superfluidity in helium-3, How (Experimental) Advances In Science Are Made
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11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
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11.15 – 11.45
GENERAL TALKS Manuel Velarde, Two-dimensional anharmonic crystal lattices: solitons, solectrons and electric conduction (ID50)
11.45 – 12.15
Francesco Guerra, Facing complexity (ID136)
12.15 -12.45
Augusto Sagnotti, On Strings and Higher Spins (ID125)
12.45 - 13.15 Raffaele Resta, Axion electrodynamics in condensed matter: Magnetoelectric materials (ID139)
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13.15 – 14.30 Free time for lunch
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C1 Session - PALAZZO FLORIO - Room Colonne
14.30 – 15.00
INVITED TALKS Alessandro D.A.M. Spallicci di Filottrano, Motion of particles and self-force in general relativity (ID21)
15.00 - 15.30 Mariafelicia De Laurentis, The physical foundations for the geometric structure of relativistic theories of gravitation. From Einstein to EPS and alternative theories (ID97)
15.30 – 15.50
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Luca Lusanna, From clock synchronization to dark matter as a relativistic inertial effect (ID43)
15.50 - 16.10 Andrew Beckwith, Transition from pre octonionic deterministic embedding for octonionic gravity emerging at the start of inflation (ID1)
16.10 -16.30 Jonathan J Dickau, What can the Mandelbrot set teach us about cosmology? (ID17)
D1 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Lampadari
14.30 – 15.00
INVITED TALKS Alessandro Baraldi, Shedding light on graphene using x-rays (ID59)
15.00 – 15.30 Dean Cvetko, Pathways of Fast Charge Transfer across a Metal/Molecule Interface measured by Resonant Photoemission (ID120)
15.30 – 16.00 Vincenzo Fiorentini, A simple density-functional-based perspective on correlated materials (ID62)
H1 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Lampadari
16.00 – 16.30
INVITED TALK Andrea Magrin, Seismic hazard assessment: parametric studies on grid infrastructures (ID86)
I1 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Pianoforte
14.30 – 15.00
INVITED TALKS Cécile de Hosson, Designing learning scenarios for a 3D virtual environment: the case of special relativity (ID118)
15.00 - 15.30 Federico Corni, Stories in phyisics education (ID100)
15.30 - 15.50
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Rocco Servidio, Using a sociocultural approach in teaching Astronomy concepts with children of Primary School (ID49)
15.50 – 16.10 Enrico Giliberti, Dynamic modelling with “MLE-Energy dynamic” for primary school (ID87)
16.10 – 16.30 Cristina Mariani, The story format and the cycle of meaning construction for physics education in primary schools (ID84)
K1 Session - PALAZZO FLORIO - Room Florio
15.30 – 16.00
INVITED TALKS Manuela Arata, Science in Society: from public awareness to social inclusion (ID152)
16.00 – 16.30 Vincenzo Napolano, To communicate the Invisible in the era of Images (ID166)
F1 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Tiepolo
14.30 - 15.00
INVITED TALK G. Sidharth Burra, Behaviour at Ultra High Energies (ID132)
15.00 – 15.20
ORAL PRESENTATION Martin O'Loughlin, Can string theory resolve spacetime singularities (ID121)
E1 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Tiepolo
15.30 – 15.50
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Toru Ohira, Pursuit and Evasion with Temporal Non-locality and Stochasticity (ID25)
15.50 – 16.10 Takashi Shimada, Simple Graph Models of Ecosystem (ID92)
POSTER - PALAZZO CAISELLI – Veranda
14.30 – 14.35
POSTER PRESENTATION OF TOPIC H Yamid Enrique Núñez de la Rosa, Use a witness automotive digital as a probation tool in traffic accident (ID36)
14.35 – 14.40
POSTER PRESENTATION OF TOPIC K Levi Nwankwo, Physics and sustainable development: assessment of natural radioactivity in groundwater in Nigeria (ID57)
14.40 – 16.30 Free discussion
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PALAZZO ANTONINI – Room 4
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
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D2 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Lampadari
17.00 – 17.20
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Paola Alippi, Bound states of the Fe impurity in wurtzite GaN from hybrid density-functional calculations (ID81)
17.20 – 17.40 Mikhail Belogolovskii, Universality of Charge Transport across Disordered Nanometer-Think Oxide Films (ID7)
K2 Session - PALAZZO FLORIO - Room Florio
17.00 – 17.30
INVITED TALKS Angelo Tartaglia, Positioning and relativity: what has General Relativity to do with the search for a path on Earth or in space? (ID72)
17.30 – 18.00
Franco Romano, New aspects of Science Popularization: The citizen-science projects best practices (ID153)
18.00 -18.20
ORAL PRESENTATION Stanislav Zelenda, An invitation to physics not only for gifted pupils (ID65)
B1 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Tiepolo
17.00 – 17.30
INVITED TALK Antonio Sidoti, Results from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC (ID155)
17.30 – 17.50
ORAL PRESENTATION Srijt Bhattacharjee, Guage Invariant coupling of fields to torsion: a string inspired model (ID4)
POSTER - PALAZZO CAISELLI – Veranda
17.00 – 17.05
POSTER PRESENTATION OF TOPIC D Vincenzo Fiorentini, Doping routes to multiferroicity in a topological ferroelectric (ID78)
17.05 – 17.10 Vincenzo Fiorentini, Cuprate-like Fermi surface and metal-“insulator” transition in nichelate superlattices (ID79)
17.10 – 17.15 Vincenzo Fiorentini, Polaronic localization and the insulating character of doped Pr manganite (ID80)
17.15 – 17.20
POSTER PRESENTATION OF TOPIC F Philippe Journeau, Complexity halting as extended time (ID58)
17.20 – 17.25 Arminder Kounsil, Study of Stability Matter Problem in Micropolar Generalized Thermoelastic (ID131)
17.25 – 17.30 Dileep V. Sathe, Retrograde exoplanets: a challenge for fundamental physics (ID134)
17.30 – 18.45 Free discussion
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ANTONINI PALACE
19.00 Welcome party
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November, 22nd 2011
C2 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Tiepolo
9.00 – 9.30
INVITED TALKS Gonzalo J. Olmo, The Palatini Approach Beyond Einstein's Gravity (ID54)
9.30 – 10.00 Paolo Aschieri, Deformation quantization of differential geometry and gravity (ID55)
10.00 – 10.20
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Catalina Curceanu, Experimental tests of quantum mechanics: Pauli Exclusion Principle and spontaneous collapse models (ID2)
10.20 – 10.40 Stepan Moskaliuk, Noncommutative Einstein Spaces and TQFT (ID6)
F2 Session - PALAZZO ANTONINI - Room Atti
9.00 - 9.30
INVITED TALKS Hans-Thomas Elze, Quantum-Classical Hybrid Dynamics (ID122)
9.30 – 10.00 Augusto Garuccio, Toward “ghost imaging” with cosmic ray muons (ID123)
10.00 – 10.20
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Sergey Mayurbov, Fuzzy space-time topology and gauge fields (ID28)
10.20 - 10.40 Tsutomu Kambe, On fluid Maxwell equations (ID30)
10.40 – 11.00 Renato Fedele, From geometric to wave electron optics: the quantumlike theory of coherent effects in charged-particle beam dynamics (ID98)
I2 Session - PALAZZO ANTONINI - Room Convegni
9.00 – 9.20
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Eloneid Felipe Nobre, Teaching Modern Physics for future Physics teachers (ID61)
9.20 – 9.40 Eugenio Bertozzi, An alternative approach to canonical quantization for introducing Quantum Field Theory: The double-slit experiment re-examined (ID64)
9.40 – 10.00 Alberto Stefanel, Basic concept of Superconductivity: a path for high school (ID141)
10.00 – 10.20 Alessandra Mossenta, An experimental approach of nodes towards the electric potential for students and teachers (ID150)
10.20 – 10.40 Olivia Levrini, From heuristics to humble theories in physics education: the case of modelling personal appropriation of thermodynamics in naturalistic settings (ID68)
10.40 – 11.00 Matteo Leone, Theory vs. Experiment: the Case of the Positron (ID161)
A1 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Lampadari
9.00 – 9.30
INVITED TALKS Houri Ziaeepour, Simulation of high energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (ID77)
9.30 – 10.00 Remo Garattini, Effects of Modified Dispersion Relations and Noncommutative Geometry on the Cosmological Constant Computation (ID22)
10.00 – 10.20
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Nijil Mankuzhiyil, MAGIC view of Active Galactic Nuclei (ID133)
10.20 – 10.40 Cosimo Bambi, Testing the nature of astrophysical black hole candidates (ID48)
10.40 – 11.00 Luigi Cossio, Measurement of electron-positron flux in cosmic rays with MAGIC telescope (ID76)
POSTER - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Pianoforte and Veranda
9.00 - 9.05
POSTER PRESENTATION OF TOPIC B Jonathan J. Dickau, Mysterious aspects of Quantum Mechanics require whole-brain thinking to understand (ID15)
9.05 – 9.10 Simone Federico Brazzale, SUSY results at the LHC with the ATLAS Detector (ID157)
9.10 – 9.15 Inna Serenkova, Top cross section measurement in the single lepton channel with the ATLAS detector (ID158)
9.15 – 9.20 Vincent Bouillot, Linear perturbations in coupled dark energy models (ID159)
9.20 – 11.15 Free discussion
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PALAZZO ANTONINI – Room 4
11.00 -11.15 Coffe break
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C3 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Tiepolo
11.15 – 11.45
INVITED TALKS Angelo Tartaglia, Gravitomagnetism and light: G-GranSasso, a proposed experiment to be performed locally on Earth (ID71)
11.45 – 12.15 Christian Corda, Black holes are not black bodies: a correction on Hawking’s evaporation theory (ID151)
12.15 - 12.35
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Màrius Josep Fullana i Alfonso, CMBR anisotropy computations using Hydra Code with baryons (ID69)
12.35 – 12.55 Md Farid Ahmed, To re-consider the one-way speed of light using Fizeau-type-coupled-slotted-
disks (ID70)
12.55 – 13.15 Frederic Lassiaille, Gravitational model of the three elements theory (ID112)
F3 Session - PALAZZO ANTONINI - Room Atti
11.15 – 11.45
INVITED TALK Harold Steinacker, The matrix model approach to gauge theory and gravity (ID108)
Dark energy session
11.45 – 12.15
INVITED TALKS G.Sidharth Burra, The Dark Energy Universe (ID170)
12.15 - 12.45 Christian Corda, An oscillating Universe from the linearized R 2 theory of gravity (ID171)
12.45 – 13.05
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Houri Ziaeepour, Dark energy condensate and vaccum energy (ID27)
I3 Session - PALAZZO ANTONINI - Room Convegni
11.15 - 11.35
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Sri Prasad Challapalli, Knowledge portals and e-learning in physics education (ID146)
11.35 – 11.55 Stefano Vercellati, An experimental approach of Knots towards the electromagnetism (ID140)
11.55 – 12.15 Emanuele Pugliese, Mass from classical to relativistic context: a proposal of conceptual unification experimented in the IDIFO3 summer school (ID142)
12.15 – 12.35 Marco Giliberti, Theories as crucial aspects in quantum physics education (ID160)
12.35 – 12.55 Manuela Farinosi, Facebook as a tool for innovative teaching and learning (ID162)
12.55 – 13.15 Marisa Michelini, Remote Control Laboratories in Physics Education (ID145)
A2 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Lampadari
11.15 – 11.35
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Stepan Moskaliuk, Propagation of the cosmic electromagnetic radiation in an anisotropic magnetized plasma: Nonlinear structures and polarization effects (ID60)
11.35 -11.55 Vincent Bouillot, Retrieving cosmological signal using velocity fields (ID67)
G1 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Lampadari
11.55 -12.15
ORAL PRESENTATION Suleyman Demir, The Hyperbolic Octonion Model for the Unification of Gravity and Electromagnetism (ID52)
PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Pianoforte and Veranda
11.15 – 11.20
POSTER PRESENTATION OF TOPIC I Floyd T. Holt, Why Learning Science is Important for Today's Young people (ID19)
11.20 – 11.25 Clemens Wagner, Modeling Concept Learning in Physics (ID53)
11.25 – 11.30 Vera Montalbano, Measures of radioactivity: a tool for understanding statistical data analysis (ID85)
11.30 – 11.35 Jerzy Jarosz, Lifelong Physics (ID88)
11.35 – 11.40 Vera Montalbano, Active and cooperative learning paths in the Pigelleto's Summer School of Physics (ID91)
11.40 – 11.45 Shahin Malek, Innovative Learning Space (ID116)
11.45 – 11.50 Giuseppe Fera, Learning knots on electrical conduction in metals (ID143)
11.50 – 11.55 Lorenzo Santi, The mathematics as a resource in understanding the peculiar characteristics of magnetic field (ID144)
11.55 – 12.00 Barbara Pecori, The challenge of contemporary society on science education (ID163)
12.00 - 12.05 Giacomo Bozzo, The analysis of energy transformation using low cost materials (ID165)
12.05 – 13.15 Free discussion
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13.15 – 14.30 Free time for lunch
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UDINE CASTLE
14.30 – 16.30 Visit to the Tiepolo Paintings exhibition and Castle museum in groups (4 groups of 30 participants each 30 minutes – the visit will last 60 minutes)
I4 Session - PALAZZO ANTONINI - Room Convegni
14.30 – 14.50
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Milena D'Angelo, An interference/diffraction experiment for undergraduates (ID33)
14.50 – 15.10 Vera Montalbano, Disciplinary knots and learning problems in waves physics (ID99)
15.10 – 15.30 Pasquale Onorato, Historical photos as a context for studying magnetic force: particle tracks in a
cloud and a streamer chambers (ID73)
15.30 – 15.50 Dina Izadi, Active Learning by Innovation in Teaching (ALIT) (ID126)
15.50 - 16.10 Assunta Bonanno, Capacitors, tanks, springs and the like: A multimedia tutorial (ID24)
16.10 – 16.30 Floyd T. Holt, Making Science Fun to Learn (ID18)
G2 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Lampadari
14.30 – 15.00
INVITED TALKS Luca Lusanna, Relativistic classical and quantum mechanics: clock synchronization and bound states, center of mass and particle worldliness, localization problems, entanglement (ID42)
15.00 – 15.30 Yaroslav Sergeyev, A new computational approach to infinity for modelling physical phenomena (ID66)
15.30 – 16.00 Ludwik Dabrowski, Quantum Isometries in the Standard Model (ID148)
16.00 – 16.30 Giovanni Landi, Gauge theories and noncommutative geometry (ID149)
POSTER - PALAZZO CAISELLI – Veranda
14.30 – 14.35
POSTER PRESENTATION OF TOPIC A Lee Wonjae, A Comparison of Three Methods for the Effective Observation of Messier Objects: Star Hopping, Geometric Method, and Right Angle Sweep (RAS) (ID56)
14.35 -14.40 Mauro Giaconi, New strength to Planck's length choice (ID102)
14.45 – 14.50 Michele Palatiello, MAGIC observations of 1ES 0033+595 (ID135)
14.50 – 16.05 Free discussion
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17.00 – 18.00 Transfer to Istituto Stringher by bus from Piazza Libertà Coffee break
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Auditorium of ISTITUTO STRINGHER
18.00 – 18.30
GENERAL TALKS Salvatore Capozziello, Generating the mass of particles from Extended Theories of Gravity (ID115)
18.30 – 19.00 Giorgio Bellettini, Highlights of the Tevatron program (ID154)
19.00 – 19.30 Nadia Robotti, Enrico Fermi and Ettore Majorana : so strong, so different (ID137)
19.30 – 20.00 M. Biscione, V. Gransinigh, Castle museum and Tiepolo in Udine
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20.30 Social dinner
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23.00 Transfer to city centre
November, 23rd 2011
F4 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Tiepolo
9.00 – 9.30
INVITED TALK Padma Kanth Shukla, Relativistic Nonlinear Quantum Plasmas at Nanoscales (ID168)
9.30 - 9.50
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Claudio Parmeggiani, General Relativistic Quantum Theories. Foundations, the Leptons Masses (ID82)
9.50 – 10.10 Donatello Dolce, Quantum relativistic mechanics from the intrinsically cyclic nature of elementary systems (ID109)
10.10 – 10.30 Tanjia Fatema Quantumlike aspects of the orbital angular momentum effects of a relativistic charged-particle beam in strongly magnetized overdense plasmas (ID119)
10.30 – 10.50 Renato Fedele, Numerical studies of the femtosecond laser pulse propagation in the PLASMON-X wakefield accelerator (ID129)
10.50 – 11.10 Joan Vaccaro, Direction of time from the violation of time reversal invariance (ID103)
C4 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Pianoforte
9.00 - 9.30
INVITED TALK John Stachel Quantum Gravity: A Heretical Vision (ID9)
9.30 – 9.50
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Ali Banijamali Energy Conditions in Modified Gauss-Bonnet Gravity with Non-minimal Coupling to Matter (ID114)
9.50 – 10.10 Behnaz Fazlpour Quintom Bounce with Tachyon and Non-minimal Derivative Coupling (ID113)
10.10 – 10.30 Kaca Bradonjic Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity (ID130)
I5 Session - PIAZZA LIBERTÀ - Sala Ajace
9.00 – 9.30
INVITED TALKS Jenaro Guisasola The contribution from Physics Education Research to designing teaching sequences (ID8)
9.30 - 10.00 Gesche Pospiech, Quantum theory in teacher education (ID3)
10.00 – 10.20
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Rosario Battaglia, The study of energy exchange by thermal radiation: hints and suggestions for an Inquiry Based lab approach (ID127)
10.20 – 10.40 Giovanni Tarantino, Investigating Teacher Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Scientific Inquiry (ID128)
K3 Session - PALAZZO CAISELLI - Room Lampadari
9.00 - 9.20
ORAL PRESENTATIONS Jonathan J Dickau, Do people in Physics have a responsibility to inform the public? (ID16)
9.20 – 9.50 Luciana De Rose, Archimedes and the Foundations of Physics (ID51)
9.50 – 10.10 Santo Reito, On INFN 2010 physics popularization school - Video report (ID63)
10.10 - 10.30 Beatrice Boccardi, Popularization of Physics in the Wild (ID74)
10.30 – 11.15 ROUND TABLE - Discussion on popularization of physics - Resp. Franco Fabbri, Marcella Lorenzi
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PIAZZA LIBERTÀ - Sala Ajace
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
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PIAZZA LIBERTÀ - Sala Ajace
11.15 – 11.45
GENERAL TALKS Stefano Dusini, Recent results from the Opera experiment (ID156)
11.45 - 12.15 Elena Sassi, Role of teacher's education in Physics Education Research (ID164)
12.15 – 13.15 Closing session
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13.15 Free time for lunch Departures
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15.00 A walk through Udine with the students of Stringher Institute and of Public Relations, starting from
Piazza Libertà
* For each contribution is reported here only the speaker: the complete list of authors is reported in the
abstract list.