INFIERI 2025

from Monday 1 September 2025 (09:00) to Saturday 13 September 2025 (20:00)
University of Pisa and INFN Sezione di Pisa

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Sept 2025
2 Sept 2025
3 Sept 2025
4 Sept 2025
5 Sept 2025
6 Sept 2025
7 Sept 2025
8 Sept 2025
9 Sept 2025
10 Sept 2025
11 Sept 2025
12 Sept 2025
13 Sept 2025
AM
09:00 OPENING DAY - Andrea Rizzi (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) (until 13:00)
08:30 INTRODUCTORY VISION ON THE 4 THEORETICAL PILARS of this SCHOOL PROGRAM (until 12:30)
08:30 INTRODUCTORY VISION to ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS & COSMOLOGY  
10:15 --- COFFEE/TEA BREAK ---
10:45 INTRODUCTORY VISION to PARTICLE PHYSICS - Riccardo RATTAZZI (tbc) (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, CH) Michelangelo MANGANO (TH Division, CERN, CH)  
08:30
FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH & ADVANCED HIGH TECH (until 13:00)
08:30 DESIGN and OPTIMIZATION OF ACCELERATOR MAGNETS - Stephan RUSSENSCHUK (TE Department, CERN, CH)  
09:25 QUANTUM SENSING TECH - Steven WORM (Honorarprofessor, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Department of Physics Head of Astroparticle Detector R&D @ DESY)  
10:20 --- COFFEE.TEA BREAK ---
10:40 TRACKING PARTICLES: BREAKING SPACExTIME LIMITS  
08:30
INTELLIGENCE on DETECTORS, THE HEP CASE: PREPARING THE HEP FUTURE (until 13:30)
08:30 OVERVIEW of the PROJECTS for THE FUTURE of HEP, WORLDWIDE - Frank ZIMMERMANN (Beams Department, Accelerators and Beam Physics group , Lepton Accelerators and Facilities section, BE-ABP-LAF, CERN, CH)  
09:15 MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING for the NEXT GENERATION of NORMAL and SUPERCONDUCTING ACCELERATOR MAGNETS - Stephan RUSSENSCHUCK (TE Department, CERN, CH)  
10:00 THE FCC PROJECT for FUTURE of HEP at CERN - Guy WILKINSON (tbc) (University of Oxford (GB))  
10:45 --- COFFEE/TEA BREAK ---
11:05 A 100 TeV HADRONIC COLLIDER: THE DETECTOR CHALLENGES TO FACE THE NEW PHYSICS REACHES - Werner RIEGLER (EP Department, CERN, CH)  
11:50 THE CePC/SppC for FUTURE of HEP in CHINA - Joao GUIMARAES da COSTA (IHEP and CAS, CHINA)  
12:35 A HIGH ENERGY, 3-10 TEV MUON COLLIDER - Isobel OJALVO (Princeton University, USA)  
08:30 THE APPLIED PHYSICS DAY: RENEWABLE ENERGIES, THE NUCLEAR ENERGY CASE - Cinzia DA VIA (Manchester University (UK) and SUNY-STONYBROOK, NY, USA) (until 13:30)
08:30 GLACIERS and CLIMATE CHANGE: THE LONG- and SHORT-TERM PERSPECTIVES - Matteo SPAGNOLO (University of Aberdeen)  
09:10 RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENTS ON NUCLEAR FISSION; ALTERNATIVES TOWARDS A NEW WAY TO USE NUCLEAR FISSION FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS - Hamid Ait ABDERRAHIM (General Manager of MYRRHA aisbl)  
10:00 RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENTS on NUCLEAR FUSION: MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT and LASER FUSION  
08:30 --- BUS TRANSPORTAION ---
09:00
INTELLIGENCE ON DETECTORS: THE ASTROPHYSICS CASE (until 17:30)
09:00 NEXT GENERATION OF GW EXPERIMENTS: part 1  
10:50 --- COFFEE/TEA BREAK ---
11:10 VISIT OF EGO LABORATORY  
12:30 --- LUNCH AT EGO LABORATORY ---
14:00 NEXT GENERATION OF GW EXPERIMENTS: part 2  
08:00
FREE DAY: VISITS of some key places in TUSCANY (until 20:00)
08:30
Hands-on Lab parallel session: (until 11:30)
11:30 --- WALKING FROM THE LABS TO THE LECTURE HALL + COFFEE BREAK ---
08:30
POST MOORE, POST EXASCALE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ERA (until 12:30)
08:30 CLOUD-HPC WOKFLOWS: FROM SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS TO AI AND BACK - Marco ALDINUCCI (TORINO UNIVERSITY, Computer Science Department)  
09:40 DISAGGREGATING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES (e.g. MEMORY SYSTEMS) FOR FUTURE HPC AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORKLOAD - Robert PATTI (CeO NHanced-Semiconductors, USA)  
10:30 --- COFFEE/TEA BREAK ---
11:00 INNOVATIVE SUPERCOMPUTING, by Integrations of Simulations/Data/Learning , ON LARGE-SCALE HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS - Kengo NAKAJIMA (Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, Japan RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Japan)  
08:00
THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DAY (until 12:30)
08:00 AI FAST EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY: WHERE DO WE STAND? MAIN CHALLENGES, LIMITS and PERSPECTIVES - TBA  
09:00 From Analog to Automation: Detectors Integrated with AI and beyond - Nhan TRAN (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (USA))  
10:20 --- COFFEE/TEA BREAK ---
10:40 AI FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH: THE HEP CASE - Maurizio PIERINI (EP Department, CERN, CH)  
11:35 AI EMBEDDED IN HARDWARE: from smart pixels to eFPGA and the multiple applications. - Maurizio PIERINI (CERN)  
08:30
THE QUANTUM DAY (until 12:30)
08:30 QUANTUM COMPUTING  
10:20 --- COFFEE OR TEA BREAK ---
10:50 QUANTUM COMMUNICATION:SECURITY APPLICATIONS and QUANTUM INTERNET - Luis TRIGO VIDARTE (IFCO, Barcelona, SP)  
08:30
NANO-TECHNOLOGY/-BIOLOGY/-MEDICINE (until 13:00)
08:30 INTRODUCTORY VISION TO NANOTECHNOLOGY - Fabio BELTRAM (SNS and NEST)  
10:00 ADVANCES IN COMPUTER MODELING AT THE NANO-SCALES: MATERIALS & NANO-BIOTECH - Valentina TOZZINI  
10:50 --- COFFEE/TEA BREAK ---
11:10 ADVANCES IN COMPUTER MODELING AT THE NANO-SCALES: MATERIALS & NANO-BIOTECH (cont'd) - Valentina TOZZINI (NEST-SNS-UNIPI)  
11:50 FLASH THERAPY: A GROUNDBREAKING TECHNOLOGY FOR CANCER TREATMENT - Fabio DI MARTINO (CISUP-Unit of Health Physics - University Hospital of Pisa)  
08:00
HIGH TECH and FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM: Part 1 on ENERGY & XXIst CENTURY (until 10:40)
08:00 ENERGY & THE XXI CENTURY: THE NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON NUCLEAR FISSION PLANTS  
08:40  ENERGY & THE XXI CENTURY: NUCLEAR ENERGIES, TOWARDS HARNESSING NUCLEAR FUSION POWER  
10:10 --- COFFEE/TEA BREAK ---
10:40
HIGH TECH and FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM: Part 2 on TOWARDS AN AI WORLD ? (until 12:40)
10:40 1.- A VIEWPOINT TOWARDS A JOINT INDUSTRIAL & ACADEMIA RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN USA - Nhan TRAN (FERMI NATIONAL LAB)  
11:10 2.- AI IN EUROPE, BOOST IT OR LOOSE IT - TBA  
11:40 3.- THE AI CHALLENGES FOR PROCESSORS BUILDERS: VIEWPOINT from A HIGH TECH INDUSTRY - NVIDIA or AMD representative  
PM
13:00
Lunch time (until 14:00)
14:00
INTRODUCTORY PLENARY SESSION (until 19:00)
12:30
Lunch time (until 14:00)
14:00
Parallel session on Hands-on Lab (until 17:00)
17:00
Coffee break (until 17:30)
17:30
KEYNOTE 1 (until 19:00)
13:00
Lunch time (until 14:00)
14:00
Parallel session on Hands-on Lab (until 17:00)
17:00
Coffee break (until 17:30)
17:30
KEYNOTE 2 (until 19:00)
17:30 QUANTUM OBSERVABLES in PARTICLE PHYSICS - Fabio MALTONI (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)  
18:15 QUANTUM HEP EXPERIMENTS - Steven WORM (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt Universität Berlin (DE))  
13:30
Lunch time (until 14:30)
14:30
Parallel session on Hands-on Lab (until 17:30)
17:30
Coffee break (until 18:00)
18:00
KEYNOTE 3 (until 19:30)
13:20
Lunch time (until 14:20)
14:20
Parallel session on Hands-on Lab (until 17:20)
17:20
Coffee break (until 17:50)
17:50
KEYNOTE 4 (until 19:20)
17:50 Lecture 1 - Milan MAKSIMOVTICH (Observatoire de Paris, PSL and LESIA Lab (PSL and CNRS), Paris, FR)  
18:35 Lecture 2 - Nour RAWAFI (John Hopkins University and NASA)  
17:30 --- COFFEE/TEA BREAK ---
18:00
KEYNOTE 5 (until 19:30)
18:00 SOLAR ORBITER (ESA) - Milan MAKSIMOVITCH (Observatoire de PARIS, FR)  
18:45 PARKER SOLAR PROBE (NASA) - Nour E. RAWAFI (NASA and J. Hopkins, USA)  
19:30 --- BUS TRANSPORTATION ---
12:15
ADVANCES in DATA TRANSFER TECHNOLOGIES (until 13:15)
12:15 CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS TO THE EVER INCREASING HIGH RATE/HIGH DATA TRANSMISSION IN RESEARCH (and daily life) - TBA  
13:15
Lunch time (until 14:30)
14:30
Parallel session on Hands-on Lab (until 17:30)
17:30
Coffee break (until 18:00)
18:00 KEYNOTE 6 (until 19:30)
12:30
Lunch time (until 14:00)
14:00
Parallel session on Hands-on Lab (until 17:00)
17:00
Coffee break (until 17:30)
17:30
KEYNOTE 7 (until 19:00)
12:30
Lunch time (until 14:00)
14:00
Parallel session on Hands-on Lab (until 17:00)
17:00
Coffee break (until 17:30)
17:30
KEYNOTE 8 (until 19:00)
12:30
Lunch time (until 14:00)
14:00
Parallel session on Hands-on Lab (until 17:00)
17:00
Coffee break (until 17:30)
17:30
KEYNOTE 9, "SPECIAL KEYNOTE" : MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO (until 19:30)
13:00
Lunch time (until 14:00)
14:00
Parallel session on Hands-on Lab (until 17:00)
17:00
Coffee break (until 17:30)
17:30
KEYNOTE 10 - Lorenzo GIUNTINI (INFN-Firenze, LABEC-INFN) Francesco TACCETTI (INFN-Firenze, LABEC-INFN) (until 19:00)
12:40
CONCLUDING TALK FOR INFIERI2025 SCHOOL IN PISA AND THE RELATED HIGH TECHXFUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM (until 13:30)
13:30
Lunch time (until 14:30)
14:30
POSTERS SESSION (until 19:00)