INFIERI 2025

1 Sept 2025, 09:00 → 13 Sept 2025, 20:00 Europe/Zurich

University of Pisa and INFN Sezione di Pisa

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Welcome to the 8th Edition of INFIERI:
INtelligent signal processing for FrontIEr Research and Industry

We are excited to announce that the 8th edition of the INFIERI Summer School will take place in Pisa, Italy, from September 1 to 13, 2025. Hosted by the University of Pisa and INFN Sezione di Pisa, with the collaboration of Scuola Normale Superiore, the European Gravitational Observatory, and the University of Siena, this edition promises to continue the legacy of excellence that has defined the INFIERI series.

The INFIERI Summer School offers a unique two-week program designed for M.Sc. students, Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, and early-career researchers. The 2025 edition will maintain the school's tradition of cross-disciplinarity, covering the full signal processing chain critical for developing cutting-edge instruments in areas such as particle physics, astrophysics, nanotechnology, and biomedical engineering.

The program includes expert lectures, keynote talks, and hands-on laboratory sessions, where participants will work closely with leading scientists and industry professionals. The in-person format fosters essential interactions and collaborations, ensuring a rich educational experience. Following the success of the 2023 edition, highly skilled undergraduate students will also be invited to participate based on their academic achievements.

Join us in Pisa for an unparalleled opportunity to advance your knowledge and skills in signal processing and instrumentation.

Lectures & Hands-on Labs on Cross-disciplinary, Cutting-edge Research Fields, and High Technologies Development:

• From Astrophysics (Gravitational Waves, HelioPhysics and Sun Exploration) and Particle Physics (Beyond Higgs/Future accelerators & Quantum Experiments) to new paradigms in Nuclear Fission and Fusion.
• From Advanced semiconductors to Quantum sensing, Nano-technologies,  Nano-Biology and Nano-Medicine.
• From Big Data Transfer, beyond-Moore’s-Law High Performance Computing to AI and Quantum Technologies in Science and Industry.

The Hands-on Lab BOOKLET is available on the file: here below as well as on the other related INDICO pages.

Target audience: M.Sc., Ph.D., postdoc-level physicists and engineers.

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INFIERI2025-LabsBooklet-20072025.pdf

INFIERI2025_Poster.pdf

INFIERI2025-ProgAtGlance4.pdf

PISA-INFIERI2025-Flyer.pdf

Monday 1 September

OPENING DAY

The Academia, Advanced Research Laboratories and Industrial Firms that will contribute to the school in the Pisa area, together with the Host Institutions: University of Pisa and INFN sezione di Pisa will be presented in this session,
The session will also include a brief presentation of the School series Objectives.

Convener: Andrea Rizzi (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

The contributing Academia, Advanced Research Laboratories and Industrial Firms that will contribute to the school in the Pisa area, together with the Host Institutions: University of Pisa and INFN sezione di Pisa will be presented in this session,
The session will also include a brief presentation of the School series Objectives.

Lunch time

INTRODUCTORY PLENARY SESSION: PRESENTATION of HANDS-ON LABs

This. plenary session will give a review of all the Hands-on Labs organised for this school edition; each Lab will be presented by one of the Lab organisers.

1 Introduction to the Hands on Lab

Speakers: Aurore Savoy Navarro (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Jacopo Pinzino (INFN-Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, IT)

2 Masterclass on HEP: Beyond and Behind the Standard Model

Introductory masterclass for non-experts

Speaker: Dario Buttazzo

3 UltraFast Si sensors characterization

Speaker: Richard Hall-Wilton et al. (FBK-SD, Trento, IT)

4 SemiConductor LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)

Speaker: Yoshinobu Unno (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))

5 Cerenkov crystal associated with Quantum-dot as wavelength shifter (WLS)

Speaker: Jean-Louis Daniel Faure (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

6 Drift Tube characterization

Speakers: Giovanni Gallucci, Marco Chiappini

7 Trigger with GPU

Speakers: Gianluca Lamanna (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)), jacopo pinzino

8 Single Photon Entanglement Lab

Speakers: Alessandro Tredicucci (UNIPI, DF Department, Pisa, IT), Donatella Ciampini (INFN-Pisa, IT), Oliver Morsch (INFN-Pisa, IT), Silvio Donato

9 High Tc Superconducting Quantum Interference Detector (SQUID)

Speakers: Andrea Tartari, Claudio Puglia, Federico Paolucci (NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Scuola Normale Superiore, 56127 Pisa, Italy)

10 Analytical and numerical design of normal and superconducting accelerator magnets

Speaker: Stephan Russenschuck (CERN)

11 Development Process of a High Temperature Supraconductor Magnet (HTS): Design, Fabrication & Testing

Speaker: Luis Garcia-Tabares (CIEMAT, Madrid, SP)

12 FUSION Tokamak Lab

Speaker: Jeronimo GARCIA OLAYA (tbc) (CEA-IRFM, Cadarache, FR)

13 FERMI-GLAST Telescope

Speakers: Carmelo Sgro', Luca Baldini (INFN-Pisa)

14 Remote Solar Observation with the GREGOR Solar Telescope in Tenerife

Speaker: Rolf Schlichenmaier (Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS), Freiburg, GE)

16:30 Coffee break

15 Observations and Data Analysis with the Canada France Hawai’i Telescope (CFHT)

Speaker: Jean Gabriel CUBY (Canada France Hawai’i Telescope (CFHT), USA)

16 HPC, Integration of Simulation/ Data/ Machine Learning on a Heterogeneous Supercomputer computer system

Speaker: Shinji Sumimoto (The University of Tokyo, JP)

17 Inferring Artificial Intelligence's Algorithm on AMD Xilinx FPGAs

Speaker: Davide Cieri (Max Planck Society (DE))

18 Tutorial on hls4ML and applications

Speaker: TBA

19 Quantum Communication Experience

Speaker: Rogerio Iope

20 Quantum Computing using AWS (Amazon)

Speaker: Julie T. Thiele (AMAZON (AWS))

21 A Portable PET, Geant 4 simulation basics

Speaker: Emanuele Antonecchia (BF Research, Department of Life Science and Technology, IT)

22 PET characterisation

Speakers: Giancarlo Sportelli, Matteo Morrocchi (University of Pisa / Infn Pisa)

23 Particle Therapy treatment planning

Speaker: Aafke Kraan

24 Discussion. session: Q/A between Students and Lab organisers.

Tuesday 2 September

INTRODUCTORY VISION ON THE THEORETICAL PILARS of this SCHOOL PROGRAM: INTRODUCTORY PLENARY SESSON TO THE THEORETICAL PILARS of THE SCHOOL PROGRAM

THE TOPICS COVERED IN THIS SCHOOL SERIES ARE BASED ON 4 THEORETICAL PILARS:
1) ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS & COSMOLOGY
2) PARTICLE PHYSICS
3) QUANTUM PHYSICS
4) PLASMA PHYSICS

THE THEORETICAL LECTURES ON EACH OF THESE 4 TOPICS ARE GIVEN BY EXPERTS IN THE FIELD. THEY WILL INTRODUCE THESE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS, CONCENTRATING ON THE MAIN ITEMS, THIS SCHOOL EDITION WILL COVERED.

The theoretical introductions are completed by dedicated masterclasses (i.e. Hands-on theoretical Labs) for the non-expert students in the domain covered by those introductory lectures.

Today the Lectures and Keynote will be dedicated to 3 pilars of this school program: Astrophysics/particle & Cosmology, Particle Physics and Quantum Physics. 

25 INTRODUCTORY VISION to ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS & COSMOLOGY

REFERRING TO GALILEO GALILEI, BUT ALSO TO TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TOPICS NOWADAYS IN THE ASTRO/COSMO FIELD, THIS INFIERI SCHOOL EDITION WILL CONCENTRATE ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND SOLAR PHYSICS (=> Dark matter, dark energy, black holes, gravitational waves, Gravity, Heliophysics..), with an introduction by two lecturers:

10:15 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

26 INTRODUCTORY VISION to PARTICLE PHYSICS

PARTICLE PHYSICS IS AT AN EXCITING TIME, ENTERING IN TERRA INCOGNITA:
- HIGGS, BEYOND or BEHIND & WHAT"s ELSE?
- WHAT FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS?
- WHAT's NEXT??
=> THE THEORETICIANS' POINTS of VIEW:
- MICHELANGELO MANGANO (TH Division, CERN, CH)
- RICCARDO RATTAZZI (EPFL, LAUSANNE, CH)

Speakers: Michelangelo MANGANO (TH Division, CERN, CH), Riccardo RATTAZZI (tbc) (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, CH)

Lunch time

Parallel session on Hands-on Lab

Coffee break

KEYNOTE 1: INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

27 THE CHALLENGES OF QUANTUM COMPUTING: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENERGETICS and ECONOMICS

Abstract: Olivier EZRATTY will present the state of the art of quantum computing across various qubit modalities and algorithms classes, and how the academic and industry vendor ecosystem is planning to build utility-grade fault-tolerant quantum computers in the next decades. He will frame the wealth and interactions between the various scientific, engineering, and economical challenges ahead to deliver on these promises. It relates to scaling qubit quantity and quality, improving manufacturing practices, developing efficient quantum error correction techniques, creating quantum computers interconnect solutions, optimizing energetic footprints, designing efficient algorithms and also making sure these systems become affordable for their users.

Speaker: Olivier EZRATTY is a freelance quantum engineer, author, trainer, teacher, and researcher, mostly known for “Understanding Quantum Technologies”, his comprehensive open-source book on quantum technologies (September 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, 1,554 pages). He is a teacher and lecturer on quantum and classical technologies at various top-level Engineering schools and Universities in France such as: EPITA, CentraleSupelec, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, and other Universities. He works for a diverse set of government institutions and industry organizations, as a referent expert for Bpifrance, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) (ANR), the European Commission and venture capital funds. He is also one of the cofounders of the Quantum Energy Initiative (QEI). He has an Msc in Computer Science from CentraleSupelec.(Text informed by Lecturer).

Speaker: Olivier EZRATTY (QEI-Cofounder and EPITA (FR))

Wednesday 3 September

FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH & ADVANCED HIGH TECH

THREE ADVANCED HIGH TECH TOPICS IMPACTING THE SIGNAL PROCESSING AT THE FRONT-END OF THE INSTRUMENTS ARE PRESENTED IN THOSE LECTURES:
1) INTRODUCTION TO SUPRACONDUCTIVITY AND ITS INCREASING ROLE AND APPLICATIONS
2) QUANTUM SENSING: WHICH ALLOWS FOR EXTREMELY PRECISE MEASUREMENTS. IT TRANSLATES INTO QUANTUM SENSING TECHNOLOGIES WHICH HAVE. A BROAD RANGE OF APPLICATIONS.
3) ADVANCES IN SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES AND VERY DEEP SUB-MICROELECTRONICS TO DETERMINE WITH THE HIGHEST PRECISION, SPACE POSITION AND TIME (4D SPACE) PLUS IN SOME CASES ENERGY (5D SPACE).

Convener: Joao Barreiro Guimaraes Da Costa (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

28 DESIGN and OPTIMIZATION OF ACCELERATOR MAGNETS

Abstract: For the LHC magnets, the coherence between beam-physics requirements, magnet design, and magnetic measurements has been well established. This is far less evident in future accelerator projects. Hysteresis and eddy currents in iron-dominated magnets affect accelerator performance during fast field ramps to gain circulating beam time or when suppressing demagnetization cycles to save energy.

We also review the challenges of the next generation of high-field superconducting magnets that will require coupled electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal, and electric simulations from the onset of the design process. We go through the different design steps and the required tools for numerical field computation and optimization. In simulating transient effects in quenching superconducting magnets, we are confronted with the coupling of physical subsystems and extreme nonlinearities and uncertainties in the material parameters.

Speaker: Stephan RUSSENSCHUCK received the Dipl.-Ing and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. In 2000, he was recognized as a University Lecturer (Habilitation) for Theory of Electromagnetic Fields at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria.

Stephan holds the position of Principal Applied Physicist in the Accelerator Technology (TE) Department of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. During the construction period of the LHC, Stephan was responsible for the electromagnetic design of the LHC main dipole magnets and later for the magnet polarities and the electrical quality assurance of the LHC machine.

Stephan’s research interests are mathematical optimization and field simulation supporting magnet design, magnetic measurements, and accelerator operation. Stephan is the author of the numerical field-computation program ROXIE and the author of the new book “Field simulation for accelerator magnets,” published 2025 at Wiley-VCH.(Text informed by Lecturer).

Speaker: Stephan RUSSENSCHUK (TE Department, CERN, CH)

29 QUANTUM SENSING TECH

Speaker: Steven WORM, Honorarprofessor, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Department of Physics and Head of Astroparticle Detector R&D @ DESY, Team Leader, Quantum Sensing at Center for Quantum Technology and Applications (CQTA) - Zeuthen, GE.

Speaker: Steven WORM (Honorarprofessor, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Department of Physics Head of Astroparticle Detector R&D @ DESY)

10:20 COFFEE.TEA BREAK

30 TRACKING PARTICLES: BREAKING SPACExTIME LIMITS

4D/5D Revolution in sensors and associated frontend electronics

Lunch time

Parallel session on Hands-on Lab

Coffee break

KEYNOTE 2: INTELLIGENCE ON DETECTORS: THE HEP QUANTUM EXPERIMENTS AS an EXAMPLE CASE.

This keynote will present the revolution of quantum technology on HEP experiments and how it introduces intelligence on the detectors in Particle Physics experiments with some show cases.

31 QUANTUM OBSERVABLES in PARTICLE PHYSICS

Speaker: Fabio MALTONI, full Professor at Università di Bologna since 2018, Prof. Maltoni leads a research activity in theoretical physics and phenomenology of the fundamental interactions. After being post-doctoral researcher at Università di Torino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin, at the Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi in Rome and at the CERN theory division, in 2005 he has joined Université catholique de Louvain as faculty. He has directed the Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology in 2015-2018. His main research interests focus on QCD, the theory of strong interactions, on the simulation and study of high-energy events at colliders, and on the search for physics beyond the Standard Model through precision measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson and the top quark. He is member of the Particle Data Group and of the MadGraph collaboration, and is involved in several national and international initiatives and project. He is also affiliated to the Center of Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) at the University Catholique de Louvain. (extract from https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabio.maltoni/en).

Speaker: Fabio MALTONI (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)

32 QUANTUM HEP EXPERIMENTS

Steven WORM, Honorarprofessor, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Department of Physics and Head of Astroparticle Detector R&D @ DESY, Team Leader, Quantum Sensing at Center for Quantum Technology and Applications (CQTA) - Zeuthen, GE.

Speaker: Steven WORM (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt Universität Berlin (DE))

Thursday 4 September

INTELLIGENCE on DETECTORS, THE HEP CASE: PREPARING THE HEP FUTURE

The YEAR 2025 IS A NEW IMPORTANT YEAR on the PATH TO FINAL DECISIONS ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATION HEP MACHINE(S) TO BE BUILT OVER THE WORLD.
THIS SESSION WILL REVIEW THE. PROJECTS, i.e. THE LEPTON HIGGS FACTORY(IES), A 100 TEV HADRON COLLIDER, A 3-10 TeV MUON COLLIDER, from the PHYSICS and DETECTORS VIEWPOINT & WITH A FOCUS ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT PROJECTS.

Convener: Prof. Donatella LUCCHESI (tbc) (University of Padova, IT)

33 OVERVIEW of the ACCELERATOR PROJECTS for THE FUTURE of HEP, IN THE WORLD.

Speaker: Frank ZIMMERMANN is a senior scientist with the CERN Beams Department and the deputy leader of the Future Circular Collider study. Starting with HERA and early LHC design, he worked on a large number of colliders, including SLC, NLC design, PEP-II, KEKB, Tevatron, and LHC commissioning. He co-proposed and co-designed various future colliders, including the LHC luminosity upgrade, the LHeC, SAPPHiRE, HE-LHC, LEP3, FCC-ee, and FCC-hh. While doing so, he made pioneering contributions on ion-driven beam instabilities and electron-cloud effects. Prior to CERN, he worked at SLAC (1993-98) and at DESY (1990-93). In 1997, he was awarded a SLAC “Panofsky fellowship.” In 2002, he received the biannual EPS-IGA prize for outstanding work in accelerator physics, in 2019, the USPAS Prize for achievement in accelerator physics and technology, and in 2023 the Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society. Since 2004, he is a Fellow of the APS and since 2015, a senior member of the IEEE. In 2022, he chaired the APS Division of Physics of Beams (APS-DPB). Bio from the Physical Review Accelerators and Beams with F. Zimmermann as chief editor (extract from https://journals.aps.org/prab/staff)

Speaker: Frank ZIMMERMANN (Beams Department, Accelerators and Beam Physics group , Lepton Accelerators and Facilities section, BE-ABP-LAF, CERN, CH)

34 MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING for the NEXT GENERATION of NORMAL and SUPERCONDUCTING ACCELERATOR MAGNETS

Speaker: Stephan RUSSENSCHUCK holds the role of principal apply physicist at the Technology Department TE at CERN (CH). He is the leader of the test and magnetic measurement section in the magnet group.

ABSTRACT: We present Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) as a methodology that enables data-driven modeling and traceable design workflows of magnets and field transducers.
The aim is to create models updated by magnetic measurements, which allow the extrapolation of performance parameters regarding different powering cycles, manufacturing defects, and varying material parameters. To enable MBSE processes, we must place six “columns” on a common foundation: the physical objects (magnets and field transducers), data layers (numerical models and measured data), and software tools for design and analysis.
Data-driven models (hybrid twins) contain the physical description of a nonlinear dynamical system, the simulated system's response and observation functions, and a disturbance model derived from measurements.

Speaker: Stephan RUSSENSCHUCK (TE Department, CERN, CH)

35 THE FCC PROJECT for FUTURE of HEP at CERN

Speaker: Gregorio BERNARDI is currently the Project leader for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) at IN2P3/CNRS in France.

Speaker: Gregorio BERNARDI (APC Paris Universite Paris-Cite and CNRS/IN2P3, FR)

10:45 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

36 A 100 TeV HADRONIC COLLIDER: THE DETECTOR CHALLENGES TO FACE THE NEW PHYSICS REACHES

Speaker: Werner RIEGLER: Doctoral Student in the ATLAS collaboration from 1994 to 1997. Development of the ATLAS muon spectrometer.
PostDoc at Harvard University from 1997-2000 in the ATLAS and CDF collaboration. Development of detector frontend electronics, detector development.
CERN Staff member in the LHCb collaboration from 2000-2004. Development of the LHCb Muon Trigger. General detector physics studies.
CERN staff member of the ALICE technical coordination team from 2004-present. ALICE Technical Coordinator from August 2009.
Taking part to the Detector design study for FCC.

Speaker: Werner RIEGLER (EP Department, CERN, CH)

37 THE CePC/SppC for FUTURE of HEP in CHINA

Speaker: Joao GUIMARAES da COSTA, Professor at The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (CN). Group Leader of the LHC-ATLAS IHEP team and Convenor of the Detector Group for the CEPC.

Speaker: Joao GUIMARAES da COSTA (IHEP and CAS, CHINA)

38 A HIGH ENERGY, 3-10 TEV, MUON COLLIDER

Speaker: Isobel OJALVO, PhD. at University of Wisconsin, Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton since 2016, and High Energy Particle Physicist on the CMS experiment at CERN. Currently co-coordinator of the LHC Physics Center (LPC) at FermiLab and co-chair of the LPC Management Board. Deputy for the US CMS Operations program. Co-awardee of the Simons. Foundation 2025 Grant for the Muon Collider Project with K. DiPetrillo (U. of Chicago ) and T. Holmes (U. of Tennessee).

Speaker: Isobel OJALVO (Princeton University, USA)

Lunch time

Parallel session on Hands-on Lab

Coffee break

KEYNOTE 3: TOWARDS THE FUTURE OF PARTICLE PHYSICS

Looking to the Future of HEP, as a unique test bench for fundamental research on elementary constituents of the matter and of the Universe and for the development of a large scope of cutting-edge technologies for fundamental and applied research as well as for the Society.

This keynote will extend the scope of the lectures given on the plenary morning session of September 4. It will include the participation of some authorities of the Particle Physics international community..
The keynote will be opened to a larger audience.

Convener: Prof. Daniela BORTOLETTO (University of Oxford (GB))

39 THE VIEWPOINT BY KEY REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE THREE GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS: ASIA, EUROPE. and USA

SPEAKERS:
- Hitoshi MURAYAMA, Professor at LBL (CA, USA), Former Director, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), University of Tokyo, currently Chair of the P5, Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (USA).
Hitoshi Murayama is a well-known theoretical particle physicist who works broadly, even on astrophysics, cosmology, and condensed matter physics. He has been a professor in the University of California, Berkeley, since 2000, and is also the founding director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) at the University of Tokyo, serving from 2007 to 2018. Born in Japan, lived in Germany for four years and in the US for 21 years, served on advisory committees around the world, he is a multicultural global denizen. In October 2014, he was invited to give a speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York about how science unites people and brings peace. He received the Yukawa Commemoration Prize in Theoretical Physics and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Roberto TENCHINI, INFN-Pisa and President of INFN Commissione Scientifica Nazionale 1, Fisica delle Particelle, INFN-CNS1
- Yifang WANG, Director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from 2011 to 2024. Wang has been elected member of the CAS, foreign member of the United States National Academy of Sciences，foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Developing Countries. He initiated and lead the CepC Project.

Speakers: Hitoshi MURAYAMA (LBL, Berkeley, CA, USA), Roberto Tenchini (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)), Yifang WANG (IHEP, Beijing, CN)

Friday 5 September

THE APPLIED PHYSICS DAY: RENEWABLE ENERGIES, THE NUCLEAR ENERGY CASE

This session will introduce this active research field and stress the main R&D developments on both the Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion applications on this field. It will also show how these research activities are benefitting from European and or international Research Laboratories such as MYRRHA and ITER.
It will briefly also introduce in those lectures the broad field of applications beyond the use as Energy source.

The industrial aspects will be developed in the Symposium on High Tech and Fundamental Science.
Several Hands on Lab are foreseen for this important overall topic.

Convener: Cinzia DA VIA (Manchester University (UK) and SUNY-STONYBROOK, NY, USA)

Nuclear Energies: Challenges, Main Projects, New Paradigm

Interplay with fundamental Science

40 GLACIERS and CLIMATE CHANGE: THE LONG- and SHORT-TERM PERSPECTIVES

Speaker: Prof. Matteo SPAGNOLO is a glaciologist at the University of Aberdeen and the director of the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES). He obtained a BSc in Natural Sciences at the University of Pisa (Italy), an MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing at the IAO in Firenze (Italy), a Geology PhD at the University of Genova (Italy), before moving to the UK in 2007. Matteo applies various field, Geographic Information System and remote sensing techniques to the study of glacial landforms and glacier response to climate and other forcing (e.g. volcanism). He has worked in alpine and subglacial environments, from the Andes to the Arctic, looking at land surface, subsurface and seabed evidence of past and present-day glacier dynamics. His current research includes the history of glaciations, the interaction between volcanoes and glaciers, the recent evolution of glaciers in the Himalayas in response to climate, and glaciers as water resources under current/future scenarios of global warming.(Text informed by Lecturer).

Abstract: Climate represents the main driver controlling the growth and demise of Earth’s ice masses, which in turn play a major role in many physical and biological processes, including sea level, ocean currents, ecosystems, and climate itself, not to mention human activities. Thus, it is no surprise that shrinking and disappearing glaciers are often referred to as amongst the most dramatic evidence of recent, increased warming. Climate, and hence glaciers, have changed often in historical and geological times. The past evolution of glaciers, and history of glaciations, can therefore be used as a way to decipher past climate changes, essential to contextualise current climatic trends and scenarios, and to refine future predictions. In this talk, Prof. Matteo Spagnolo will use evidence of past glaciations (landforms and sediments), ice cores and other geological climate proxies to present a fascinating “recent” (hundred years timescale) and geological (million years timescale) overview of what we know about the Earth’s climate history.

Speaker: Matteo SPAGNOLO (University of Torino, IT)

41 RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENTS ON NUCLEAR FISSION; ALTERNATIVES TOWARDS A NEW WAY TO USE NUCLEAR FISSION FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS

INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR FISSION ENERGY and MYRRHA A MULTIPURPOSE ACCELERATOR-DRIVEN SYSTEM FOR R&D PRE-DESIGN STUDY COMPLETION

MYRRHA is a project presently under development of a research reactor aiming to demonstrate the feasibility of the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) and the lead-cooled fast reactor concepts, with various research applications from spent-fuel irradiation to material irradiation testing. A linear accelerator is under development to provide a beam of fast proton that hits a spallation target, producing neutrons. These neutrons are necessary to keep the nuclear reactor running when operated in sub-critical mode, but to increase its versatility the reactor is also designed to operate in critical mode with fast neutron and thermal neutron zones.

MYRRHA is the world’s first large scale Accelerator Driven System project at power levels scalable to industrial systems. MYRRHA offers unparalleled research opportunities in spent nuclear fuel, nuclear medicine and fundamental and applied physics. The MYRRHA consortium welcomes international partners and investors.(https://myrrha.be).

SPEAKER: Hamid Air ABDERRAHIM is the General Manager of MYRRHA aisbl/ivzw. Professor at the mechanical engineering department of the "Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL)" -"Université Catholique de Louvain" (UCLouvain); Member of the Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy (SAGNE) for the Director General of the IAEA; Vice-Chair of the Nuclear Science CommiOee (NSC) of OECD/NEA.
Since 01 July 2022 Prof. Dr. Hamid Aït Abderrahim is the General Manager of MYRRHA aisbl/ivzw. He was Deputy Director-General of SCK CEN, the Belgian nuclear research center. He lectures reactor physics and nuclear engineering at the "Université Catholique de Louvain" (UCLouvain) at the mechanical engineering department of the "Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL)".
Since 1998, he is the director of the MYRRHA project, an accelerator driven system (ADS) coupling a sub-criYcal Pb-Bi cooled reactor and a high power proton linear accelerator through a spallaYon target.
He is or has been coordinator of various projects of the European Commission framework programme related to advanced nuclear systems and the advanced nuclear fuel cycle.
He is member of various scientific councils or research organisations or international institutes. (for complete information see attached file).

Speaker: Hamid Ait ABDERRAHIM (General Manager of MYRRHA aisbl)

CV_Hamid Aït Abderrahim_EN.pdf

MYRRHA: world's 1st large scale Accelerator Driven System

42 RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENTS on NUCLEAR FUSION: MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT and LASER FUSION

Lunch time

Parallel session on Hands-on Lab

Coffee break

KEYNOTE 4: EXPLORING THE SUN: SOLAR PHYSICS FROM GALILEO GALILEI TO XXI CENTURY'?

SPEAKERS:
- Milan MAKSIMOVITCH (Observatoire de Paris, PSL, and LESIA (PSL&CNRS), Paris, FR)
and
- Nour RAWAFI (John Hopkins University, and NASA, USA)

Solar Physics (Heliophysics) is the branch of astrophysics that specializes in the study of the Sun. It intersects with many disciplines of pure physics and astrophysics.
This keynote will be shared by two eminent Solar Physicists. They will give an introduction on this sector of Astrophysics and present the latest developments in this Field and the main challenges ahead.
This keynote will serve as an introduction to the one on Saturday where these two lecturers will present two main worldwide Sun exploration project they are leading.

43 Lecture 1

Dr. Milan MAKSIMOVITCH:
Main scientific interests lie in solar and heliospheric physics and in particular in :
- Models of Solar Wind formation and acceleration
- In-situ measurements in the Solar Wind
- Study and modelling of the radio emissions associated with the Coronal

Speaker: Milan MAKSIMOVTICH (Observatoire de Paris, PSL and LESIA Lab (PSL and CNRS), Paris, FR)

44 Lecture 2

Dr. Rawafi’s research encompasses a wide range of solar and heliospheric areas with an emphasis on the dynamic solar corona via the analysis of spectral and imaging observations, theory, and modeling. His primary contributions have been in the areas of solar magnetic fields, coronal spectropolarimetry, coronal plumes and jets, coronal mass ejections, coronal shockwaves, solar wind, solar energetic particles, and cometary physics.

Speaker: Nour RAWAFI (John Hopkins University and NASA)

Saturday 6 September

08:30 BUS TRANSPORTAION

INTELLIGENCE ON DETECTORS: THE ASTROPHYSICS CASE

N.B. The school is hosted on Saturday Sept 6, at the EUROPEAN GRAVITATIONAL OBSERVATORY, EGO. It will include a visit of this Laboratory.
The Saturday hands-on Lab is reported to a special hands-on Lab session on Monday September (see Monday Sept 8 schedule).

THE FIRST PART OF THE "JOURNEY OF THE SIGNAL" FROM THE FRONT END OF THE INSTRUMENTS TO THE. FAR END PROCESSORS, DEDICATED TO "INTELLIGENCE ON DETECTORS", ENDS ON THE SATURDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK, WITH THE ASTRO/COSMO CASE.

THE EXAMPLE-CASES WILL BE DEDICATED TO THE PROJECTS ON THE TWO TOPICS PRESENTED IN THIS SCHOOL EDITION, i.e. GW & THE SUN PHYSICS.

EGO

45 NEXT GENERATION OF GW EXPERIMENTS: part 1

10:50 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

46 VISIT OF EGO LABORATORY

12:30 LUNCH AT EGO LABORATORY

47 NEXT GENERATION OF GW EXPERIMENTS: part 2

17:30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

KEYNOTE 5: EXPLORATION OF THE SUN: THE NEW INSTRUMENTS AND EXPERIENCES

After an Introduction in HelioPhysics topics covered at the school in the previous keynote session (Friday September 5), Milan Maksimovic and Nour Rawafi will describe the experimental key features of each of the two instruments they led/are leading the design and construction and functioning.

48 SOLAR ORBITER (ESA)

Dr. Milan MAKSIMOVITCH (Director of Research at PSL-LESIA/CNRS)
The LESIA (Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics) is one of the 5 Scientific Departments of the Paris Observatory and also a CNRS Laboratory (mixed Research Unit of CNRS).
LESIA is associated with: Observatoire de Paris-PSL (home institution) ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Sorbonne University and Université Paris Cité.It is one of the largest French Labs of research in Astrophysics.
LESIA’s primary role:
- The design and implementation of scientific instrumentation in space and on the ground;
- Analysis and interpretation of scientific observations made by use of the produced instruments;
- Development of advanced techniques applied in ground-based instruments and in space instruments.

Milan Maskimovitch's current Experience in Space Instrumentation
- 03/2007-currently : PI of the Radio & Plasma Waves instrument on ESA’s Solar Orbiter, Co-I on the EPD, SWA and MAG instruments on this mission
- 09/2010-currently : Lead CoI for the FIELDS instrument on Parker Solar Probe
- 10/2006-currently : co-PI of the SWAVES instrument on STEREO

Speaker: Milan MAKSIMOVITCH (Observatoire de PARIS, FR)

49 PARKER SOLAR PROBE (NASA)

Dr. Nour Rawafi, is an astrophysicist and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission, launched in 2018. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Astronomical Society (AAS), and AAS Solar Physics Division.
Awards:
2019 NASA Silver Achievement Medal Award for Parker Solar Probe
2019 AAS Neil Armstrong Award for Parker Solar Probe
2016 APL Outstanding Special Publication Award for “The Solar Probe Plus Mission: Humanity’s First Visit to Our Star,” published in Space Science Reviews
2016 SES/SRP Merit Award for exceptional impact, expertise, and performance
2016 Parker Solar Probe Special Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the mission

Speaker: Nour E. RAWAFI (NASA and J. Hopkins, USA)

19:30 BUS TRANSPORTATION

Sunday 7 September

FREE DAY: VISITS of some key places in TUSCANY

THE WONDERFUL TUSCANY WHERE PISA IS LOCATED IS A RENOWN PLACE NOT ONLY IN ITALY BUT ALSO IN THE WORLD, FOR THE MARVELOUS LANDSCAPE, THE IMMENSE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND AT THE SAME TIME THE HIGHLY SKILLED EDUCATIONAL, INDUSTRIAL AND RESEARCH MANY FACETED ACTIVITIES.

NOTE: ALSO ORGANIZED BY FIRENZE-INFN A VISIT TO THE CULTURAL HERITAGE LABORATORIES

Monday 8 September

Hands-on Lab parallel session:

PLEASE NOTE: This is the 5th Hands-on Lab session. It replaces the one on Saturday afternoon which is thus moved to Monday morning.

11:30 WALKING FROM THE LABS TO THE LECTURE HALL + COFFEE BREAK

----------> FROM HANDS-ON LAB SESSION to LECTURE HALL <------------

INTERCONTINENTAL and INTERPLANETARY COMMUNICATION

THE SECOND WEEK IS DEDICATED TO THE "JOURNEY OF THE DATA" EXTRACTED FROM THE INSTRUMENTS TO THE FAR END DATA PROCESSING. IT WILL FOCUS ON SOME NEW WAYS iN DATA TRANSMISSION, AND ADVANCED SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING BASED ON IA & QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES AS WELL AS NANOTECHNOLOGIES.

This year edition the data transmission will address in the morning lectures two main topics:
- INTERCONTINENTAL DATA TRANSMISSION
- INTERPLANETARY INTERNET

50 SUBMARINE LINKS for HIGH RATE, HIGH SPEED DATA TRANSMISSION: The ELLA LINK as a BRIDGE BETWEEN EUROPE and LATIN AMERICA

Speaker: Rafael LOZANO (ELLA Link Country Manager)

ELLA-LINK

51 INTERPLANETARY INTERNET COMMUNICATION

Speaker: TBA

Lunch time

Parallel session on Hands-on Lab

Coffee break

KEYNOTE 6

52 FONDATION BRUNO KESSLER, FBK, A CENTER OF CUTTING EDGE HIGH TECH, INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE

SPEAKER: Richard HALL-WILTON (FBK-SD, Trento, Italy), Director at Center for Sensors & Devices – FBK.
Experimental high energy physicist with a multidisciplinary scientific profile. Leading next-generation technological projects including funding, planning, strategic direction and execution. Technology development from conceptualisation through development, construction, commissioning, and operation. Experience of building a green field facility. Group formation and management, including training and mentorshop of students and experts. (extract from https://magazine.fbk.eu/en/spotlight/richard-hall-wilton/)

Speaker: Richard HALL-WILTON (FBK-SD, Trento, IT)

Tuesday 9 September

POST MOORE, POST EXASCALE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ERA

AFTER DATA TRANSMISSION, THE NEXT CHALLENGING STEP IS ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HPC.

THIS SESSION TACKLES THE NOVEL DEVELOPMENTS/ADVANCES ON BOTH HARDWARE & SOFTWARE.

The cross-disciplinary and worldwide facets of this field will be highlighted by experts and key projects from Europe (EuroHPC-JU Enterprise), Asia (Tokyo University) and USA (Keynote talk). Some of them will also organized hands-on Labs (e.g. Tokyo University representatives).

53 CLOUD-HPC WOKFLOWS: FROM SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS TO AI AND BACK

ABSTRACT: Within the Italian National Center in HPC and Quantum Computing (ISCS) and a sequence of EuroHPC-funded projects, we developed two cloud-HPC development tools to exploit future-generation high-performance platforms, which can be optimised for scientific computing or AI and batch or interactive access. The first is StreamFlow, an implementation of the open standard CWL (Common Workflow Language) that makes it possible to design scientific workflows that can be seamlessly ported to different platforms. StreamFlow fosters declarative workflows that can be executed on HPC platforms (e.g., based on SLURM), cloud platforms (e.g., based on K8S, AWS), and hybrid platforms without code modification. The second tool is CAPIO (Cross-Application Programmable I/O), which transforms files exchanged between parallel applications into streams, introducing further parallelism and helping to avoid the I/O bottleneck. StreamFlow+CAPIO has many applications, from genomics pipelines to astrophysics and materials science workflows to AI for science pipelines.

SPEAKER: Marco ALDINUCCI is a full professor at the University of Turin and leads the Parallel Computing research group. He has published over 200 papers, received major awards (HPC Advisory Council, IBM Faculty), and led EU projects that secured €15M in funding for the University of Torino. He co-designed open-source frameworks like Fastflow and Streamflow and founded several national HPC labs, including HPC4AI and the CINI HPC and Software & Integration laboratories.(Text informed by Lecturer).

Speaker: Marco ALDINUCCI (TORINO UNIVERSITY, Computer Science Department)

54 DISAGGREGATING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES (e.g. MEMORY SYSTEMS) FOR FUTURE HPC AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORKLOAD

Robert PATTI, CeO of NHANCED-Semiconductors (USA): with staff experience averaging more than 20 years, our seasoned team of design engineers and manufacturing professionals have solid expertise in high-density, low-power products. They work in deep submicron nodes with a keen eye for cost-size-weight reduction and design sustainability. They have created sensors, FPGAs, SerDes, memory chips (DRAM, MRAM, and RRAM), ASICs, AI systems, and many other ingenious devices.

As pioneers in advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration, our team boasts an admirable record of creating successful state-of-the-art products (extract from https://nhanced-semi.com/about/)

Speaker: Robert PATTI (CeO NHanced-Semiconductors, USA)

10:30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

55 INNOVATIVE SUPERCOMPUTING, by Integrations of Simulations/Data/Learning , ON LARGE-SCALE HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS

ABSTRACT:
Recently, supercomputing has been changing dramatically. Integration/convergence of Simulation/Data/Learning (S+D+L) is important towards Society 5.0 proposed by Japanese Government, which enables integration of cyber space and physical space. In 2015, we started the BDEC project (Big Data & Extreme Computing) for development of supercomputers and software for integration of (S+D+L). In May 2021, we started operation of the Wisteria/BDEC-01. It is the first BDEC system, which consists of computing nodes for computational science and engineering with A64FX (Odyssey), and those for Data Analytics/AI with NVIDIA A100 GPU’s (Aquarius). We also develop a software platform “h3-Open-BDEC” for integration of (S+D+L) on the Wisteria/BDEC-01, which is designed for extracting the maximum performance of the supercomputers with minimum energy consumption focusing on (1) Innovative method for numerical analysis by adaptive precision, accuracy verification and automatic tuning, (2) Hierarchical Data Driven Approach based on machine learning, and (3) Software for heterogeneous systems. Integration of (S+D+L) by h3-Open-BDEC enables significant reduction of computations and power consumption, compared to those by conventional simulations. In January 2025, we started to operate the Miyabi system together with University of Tsukuba. Miyabi consists of GPU Cluster with 1,120 nodes of NVIDIA GH200 (Miyabi-G) and 380 sockets of Intel Max 9480 with HBM2e. In this talk, I will mainly introduce the results related to the integration of (S+D+L) using h3-Open-BDEC on Wisteria/BDEC-01, but will also provide an overview of new innovations using Miyabi.

N.B. A dedicated Hands-on Lab is organised on this advanced HPC topic in collaboration with the U. of Tokyo IT Center.

SPEAKER: Kengo NAKAJIMA, Professor in the Supercomputing Research Division of the Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo since 2008. Prior to joining the University of Tokyo in 2004, he spent 19 years in industry.
Also a deputy director of RIKEN R-CCS (Center for Computational Science) since 2018.
His research interest covers computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), numerical linear algebra, parallel iterative algorithms, parallel preconditioning methods, multigrid methods, parallel programming models, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), and parallel visualization.
He holds a B.Eng (1985, Aeronautics, University of Tokyo), an MS (1993, Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin), and a PhD (2003, Engineering Mechanics, University of Tokyo).(Text informed by Lecturer).

Speaker: Kengo NAKAJIMA (Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, Japan RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Japan)

Lunch time

Parallel session on Hands-on Lab

Coffee break

KEYNOTE 7

56 COMPUTING BEYOND MOORE'S LAW

SPEAKER: John SHALF ; CTO for the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center and Department Head for Computer Science and Data Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
Coauthor of over 60 publications in the field of parallel computing software and HPC technology, including three best papers and the widely cited report “The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley” (with David Patterson and others). He also coauthored “ExaScale Software Study: Software Challenges in Extreme Scale Systems,” which sets the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) information technology research investment strategy for the next decade. He was a member of the Berkeley Lab/NERSC team that won a 2002 R&D 100 Award for the RAGE robot.
Before joining Berkeley Lab in 2000, Shalf was a research programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois and a visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationphysick/Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany, where he co-developed the Cactus code framework for computational astrophysics.

Speaker: John SHALF (Computer and Data Sciences Department, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, USA)

Wednesday 10 September

THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DAY

AI IS INDEED PLAYING AN INCREASING KEY ROLE AT ALL STAGES OF THE SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING. IT PROVIDES POWERFUL TOOLS BOTH HARDWARE & SOFTWARE TO INCLUDE INTELLIGENCE AT ALL STAGES OF THE SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING.

THIS VAST TOPIC WILL BE COMPLEMENTED BY A DEDICATED SESSION AT THE SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH TECH x FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH and SEVERAL HANDS-ON LABS

57 AI FAST EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY: WHERE DO WE STAND? MAIN CHALLENGES, LIMITS and PERSPECTIVES

Speaker: Danilo JIMENEZ REZENDE is the Head of AI Research at the Elison Institute of technology in Oxford, EIT. In this role, he leads a multidisciplinary team focused on advancing AI for scientific discovery, developing foundation models, and leveraging machine learning to tackle challenges in materials science, biology, and healthcare.

Speaker: Danilo JIMENEZ REZENDE (tbc) (Elison Institute of Technology of Oxford, EIT, Oxford, UK)

58 From Analog to Automation: Detectors Integrated with AI and beyond

Speaker: Nhan TRAN, BA Physics at Princeton, PhD in Physics at the John Hopkins University, Research Associate, Wilson Fellow and Scientist at Fermi National Lab, FNAL, since 2022. He is Head, Artificial Intelligence Office, Computational Science and Artificial Intelligence Directorate at FNAL.

Speaker: Nhan TRAN (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (USA))

10:20 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

59 AI FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH: THE HEP CASE

Speaker: Maurizio PIERINI, Laura and PhD at the University, La Sapienza, Roma 1.INFN Associate Researcher at Babar experiment, pursuing as Postdoc at LAL-Orsay (now IJCLab)in France, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison(USA).Research Fellow and Physics Staff at CERN in the CMS experiment at CERN. Deeply involved in the use and many applications of IA in fundamental research.

Speaker: Maurizio PIERINI (EP Department, CERN, CH)

60 AI EMBEDDED IN HARDWARE: from smart pixels to eFPGA and the multiple applications.

Including ML-based qubit readout

Speaker: Maurizio PIERINI (CERN)

Lunch time

Parallel session on Hands-on Lab

Coffee break

KEYNOTE 8

61 GOVERNING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: BUILDING TRUST THROUGH ETHICS, LAW and TECHNOLOGY

ABSTRACT: Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Generative AI, presents both transformative opportunities and significant risks, ranging from bias and opacity to misuse and societal impact. This talk will explore how these risks can be addressed through a combination of technological safeguards, ethical frameworks, and regulatory measures. Focusing on the intersection of technology, law, and ethics, it will examine emerging governance models, such as the EU AI Act, and address the challenges involved in building trustworthy, human-centered AI systems.

SPEAKER: Francesco MARCELLONI (University of PISA), Professor of Data Processing Systems at the Department of Information; Vice Rector of UNIPI for international cooperation and relations, Head of the AI-DII (Artificial Intelligence Research & Development Group) at UNIPI.
Francesco Marcelloni is Full Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa (Italy). He serves as Director of the Knowledge Hub on AI of the European university alliance Circle U., and coordinates both the Good AI Lab and the IT2PAO Lab at the University of Pisa. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the University. His main research interests include federated learning, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), fake news detection, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and clustering algorithms. He has co-edited four volumes and four special issues in international journals, and is (co-)author of one book and more than 280 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings. In the last years, he has received the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award and the 2022 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (IEEE), Information Sciences (Elsevier), and Evolving Systems (Springer) journals. He has served as General Chair and Program Chair of international conferences and has been invited as a speaker at scientific and outreach events. He has coordinated several national and international research projects funded by both public institutions and private organizations.(Text informed by Lecturer).

Speaker: Francesco MARCELLONI (University of Pisa, Pisa, IT)

Thursday 11 September

THE QUANTUM DAY

THE EXPERIMENTAL OUTCOMES FROM QUANTUM PHENOMENA LEADING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES ARE PLAYING AN INCREASING KEY ROLE AT ALL STAGES OF THE SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING e.g. QUANTUM SENSING, QUANTUM COMPUTING AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATION.
Lectures in this school session have already introduced this overall topic with 1) QUANTUM PHYSICS PHENOMENA and QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES and 2) QUANTUM SENSING, plus 3) THE QUANTUM HEP EXPERIMENTS.

HERE THE SESSION WILL CONCENTRATE ON QUANTUM COMPUTING & QUANTUM COMMUNICATION which play or will play essential roles in the data transmission and data processing.

62 QUANTUM COMPUTING

10:20 COFFEE OR TEA BREAK

63 QUANTUM COMMUNICATION:SECURITY APPLICATIONS and QUANTUM INTERNET

ABSTRACT: Quantum communication is emerging as a transformative technology, offering unparalleled security and paving the way for the development of the quantum internet. We will explore the most relevant security applications enabled by quantum communication, including quantum key distribution (QKD), as well as other protocols offering security that is fundamentally based on quantum principles. We will discuss how quantum principles enhance secure data transmission and protect against evolving cybersecurity threats. Furthermore, we will examine ongoing efforts to build a global quantum internet, the challenges associated with quantum networking, and the potential for revolutionizing information exchange. By addressing both theoretical foundations and practical implementations, this session aims to provide insights into the future of quantum-secured communication.

SPEAKER: Luis TRIGO VIDARTE, obtained his PhD at Institut d’Optique/Sorbonne Université in Paris studying practical implementation aspects of CV-QKD technologies, including fiber, space and chips. He is currently, a postdoctoral researcher in the Optoelectronics group at the Institute of Photonics Sciences (Institut de Ciències Fotòniques) in Barcelona area. He focuses on experimental implementations of quantum-safe cryptography protocols, including quantum key distribution (QKD), post-quantum cryptography (PQC), and other quantum security protocols beyond QKD, like secure multiparty computation (SMPC). He is also exploring the potential of photonic implementations in computing and machine learning.(Text informed by Lecturer).

Speaker: Luis TRIGO VIDARTE (IFCO, Barcelona, SP)

Lunch time

Parallel session on Hands-on Lab

Coffee break

KEYNOTE 9, "SPECIAL KEYNOTE" : MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO

This special "keynote" indeed follow the traditional session on "Mens sans in corpora sano" which includes this year the choice between participating to either the RUN or the FOOTBALL session.

THEY ARE OPENED TO THE PARTICIPATION OF BOTH THE SCHOOL ATTENDANTS AND THE LECTURERS/LAB ORGANIZERS.
ALL ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE and AWARDS WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE WINNERS.

Friday 12 September

NANO-TECHNOLOGY/-BIOLOGY/-MEDICINE

NANOTECHNOLOGIES ARE PLAYING AN INCREASING IMPORTANT ROLE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE SIGNAL PROCESSING AS WELL AS IN SEVERAL STEPS OF THE DATA PROCESSING. HERE THE FOCUS IS THE MULTIFACETED APPLICATIONS IN SEVERAL FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED FIELDS, ESPECIALLY BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Convener: Giuseppina BISOGNI (tbc) (University of Pisa & INFN-Pisa, IT)

64 INTRODUCTORY VISION TO NANOTECHNOLOGY

SPEAKER: Fabio BELTRAM Degree in Electronic Engineering, University of Trieste. 1985. Degree in Physics, University of Bologna. 1988.
Since November 2000: Full professor of Condensed Matter Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
1995-2016, 2020-present: Director, NEST Laboratory, Scuola Normale Superiore.
2016-present: President, Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza and President, Comitato Scientifico, Fondazione per l’Innovazione e lo Sviluppo Imprenditoriale
2015-present: Co-ordinator, Centro di Competenza NEST per le Nanotecnologie
2006-present: Member, Comitato Scientifico, Fondazione S. Tronchetti Provera, Milano.
The research activities of Prof. Beltram and his team as well as the information here above are from [1].

Speaker: Fabio BELTRAM (SNS and NEST)

65 ADVANCES IN COMPUTER MODELING AT THE NANO-SCALES: MATERIALS & NANO-BIOTECH

ABSTRACT:
The nano-scale realm is located at a specific boundary of time/size and especially energy scales where the quantum effects cannot be neglected any longer, and at the same time determine the behavior of the system at macroscopic scales. This poses extremely hard challenges not only to experimentalists, but also to modelers, forced to adopt multi-scale approaches combining a large variety of methods and different resolution representation of the system under study. In the first part an overview of the techniques used will be given, focusing on the recent developments, where the deep neural networks and AI algorithm in general have taken fundamental roles, and giving perspectives towards the role of quantum computing. In the second part the focus will be moved to applications, illustrating specific examples both in the field of the materials science (design of intelligent materials) and in the nano-bio-tech materials (development of molecular constructs for theranostics).

SPEAKER: Valentina TOZZINI is Head of Research at the Istituto Nanoscienze (NANO) of the National Research Council, Unit of Lab NEST-SNS, Pisa. Graduated in Physics (UniPi and SNS), PhD in Physics of Matter (SNS) and Specialist in Medical Physics (UniPi), her expertise is on multi-scale computer modeling and simulations, continuously feeded through a wide network of international collaborations and research visits (e.g. UCSD, Nijmegen Univ). During the years, VT has developed and applied computational methods to studies equally distributed in the fields of advanced materials (e.g. graphene and other 2D materials, with recent applications in the field of green energy and in the neutrinos detection) and of nano-bio technologies (with recent applications to the development of viral or nucleic acids sensors), combining different methodologies (Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations with advanced statistical analysis and neural-network based algorithms) and supported by several EU and national grants. VT dedicates also to editorial activity (chief editor of the modeling section of FMB, and editorial board of the Analysis magazine of scientific culture and politics) and to didactict activity (courses of Introduction to molecular biophysics, Structure of Matter and Numerical Methods for Physics, at the Physics dept UniPi).(Text informed by Lecturer).

Speaker: Valentina TOZZINI

10:50 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

66 ADVANCES IN COMPUTER MODELING AT THE NANO-SCALES: MATERIALS & NANO-BIOTECH (cont'd)

Part 2.

Speaker: Valentina TOZZINI (NEST-SNS-UNIPI)

67 FLASH THERAPY: A GROUNDBREAKING TECHNOLOGY FOR CANCER TREATMENT

ABSTRACT:
The flash effect is a radiobiological effect, characterized by a sparing of radiation damage to healthy tissues, maintaining unchanged the therapeutic efficacy on the tumor; the effect has been demonstrated in vitro and in vivo on different organs and animal models, delivering the radiation beam in very short times and very high dose-rates. Although the experimental evidence of the effect has generated enormous expectations in the field of Radiotherapy and Oncology in general, its clinical implementation requires that numerous technological (realization of clinical Ultra-High-dose-Rate particle accelerators), dosimetric (realization of measurement instruments capable of measuring such intense beams), radiobiological (quantitative knowledge of the dependence of the entity of the effect on the variation of the irradiation parameters and knowledge of the underlying radiobiological mechanisms) and clinical (realization of clinical protocols) problems, be faced and overcome.
This lecture will cover these topics, from the state of the art to the most recent scientific and clinical news.

SPEAKER: Fabio DI MARTINO has been a medical physicist at Pisa University Hospital since 2002. Throughout his career, he has combined his professional practice with extensive research, focusing primarily on dosimetry in radiotherapy and nuclear medicine.
He is a co-founder and lead medical physicist at the Centro Pisano Flash Radiotherapy (CPFR), a multidisciplinary center comprising physicists, radiotherapists, and biologists. The center specializes in Flash Radiotherapy and is equipped with an UHDP electron accelerator and a dedicated radiobiology laboratory
Fabio Di Martino has authored numerous publications and is actively involved in various research projects, particularly on the Flash and Mini-Beam effects. He also serves as a coordinator for both the AIFM working group and the INFN MIRO project in these topics.(Text informed by Lecturer).

Speaker: Fabio DI MARTINO (CISUP-Unit of Health Physics - University Hospital of Pisa)

Lunch time

Parallel session on Hands-on Lab

Coffee break

KEYNOTE 10

This keynote will give an introduction to the Laboratory LABEC of INFN at INFN-Firenze, dedicated to the Nuclear Techniques applied to Environment and to the Cultural Heritage.
Here the focus is on the applications to the Cultural Heritage.

68 FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES & CULTURAL HERITAGE

LABEC, the Laboratorio di tecniche nucleari per l’Ambiente e i BEni Culturali (laboratory of nuclear techniques for the environment and the Cultural Heritage), is a high-qualified centre for the development of new technologies based on particle accelerators and ionizing radiations, and for their applications in environmental contexts and in heritage science. It is hosted at the Florence unit of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and it is jointly managed by researchers of INFN and of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence.

Speakers: Francesco TaCCETTi and Lorenzo GIUNTINI are key members of LABEC with instrumental impacts on the development of LABEC (see by clicking on their names).

Speakers: Francesco TACCETTI (INFN-Firenze, LABEC-INFN,Firenze, IT), Lorenzo GIUNTINI (INFN-Firenze, LABEC-INFN, Firenze, It)

LABEC-INFN Firenze

Saturday 13 September

HIGH TECH and FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM: Part 1 on ENERGY & XXIst CENTURY

THIS SESSION IS DEDICATED TO THE PRESENTATIONS BY HIGH TECH EXPERTS FROM THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD DESCRIBING THEIR INVOLVEMENT on THE ENERGY in the XXIst CENTURY

69 ENERGY & THE XXI CENTURY: THE NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON NUCLEAR FISSION PLANTS

70  ENERGY & THE XXI CENTURY: NUCLEAR ENERGIES, TOWARDS HARNESSING NUCLEAR FUSION POWER

10:10 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

HIGH TECH and FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM: Part 2 on TOWARDS AN AI WORLD ?

This second part will emphasize the key role of the industrial partners in collaboration with advanced research Labs and academia on the different AI aspects; from algorithms development to embedding AI in advanced microelectronics circuits to new processors, to the development of big data centres in association with power plants with low CO2.
The focus will be on the development of new highly performing processors but without forgetting all the others. A brief introduction will thus remind the main topics here above.

71 1. THE AI CHALLENGES FOR PROCESSORS BUILDERS: VIEWPOINT from HIGH TECH INDUSTRY

Speaker: Michaela BLOTT (tbc) (AMD Research and Advanced Development, Dublin, Ireland)

72 2.- AI IN EUROPE, BOOST IT OR LOOSE IT

Speaker: MISTRAL representative: TBA

73 3.- AI DEVELOPMENT in ASIA: HUAWEI EXPERIENCE

Speaker: HUAWEI representative (TBA)

CONCLUDING TALK FOR INFIERI2025 SCHOOL IN PISA AND THE RELATED HIGH TECHXFUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

SPEAKER: Amalia BALLARINO (TE DEPARTMENT, CERN, CH)

This talk will conclude both the 8th edition of the INFIERI School series and the 2nd related SYMPOSIUM on HIGH TECH x FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH.
Superconductivity, a continuously progressing research field (e.g. HTS), is one of the keywords of this cross-disciplinary school edition. It can be indeed seen as a kind of link between fundamental research topics, e.g. future accelerators, Heliophysics, and Nuclear Fusion, or entering the realm of nanotechnology and the qubit-world with superconducting quantum computers...

As of 2022: 5 Nobel Prizes in Physics for superconductivity related subjects:
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1913), "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".
- John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, and J. Robert Schrieffer (1972), "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory".
- Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, and Brian D. Josephson (1973), "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively" and "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects".
- Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller (1987), "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials".
- Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, and Anthony J. Leggett (2003), "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids". (courtesy from Wikipedia).

74 Superconductivity and its applications to society

Abstract: Superconductivity has been an enabling technology for particle accelerators over the past 40 years. Low-temperature superconducting (LTS) magnet technology, based on Nb–Ti, has made significant advances in high-energy physics possible, culminating in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Beyond fundamental research, superconductivity has also driven widespread medical applications, notably in MRI and NMR systems. In recent years, High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) have attracted growing interest. Their intrinsic characteristics — specifically their ability to carry high currents at higher temperatures and in stronger magnetic fields compared to conventional superconductors — hold the potential to revolutionize a wide range of technologies. Although their high cost has so far limited widespread adoption, large-scale procurements, particularly from the fusion research community, have helped drive costs down and accelerate commercialization. Recent developments encompass accelerator technology, fusion, electric drive systems, and electrical transmission, with applications spanning diverse fields such as aviation and maritime. This broad interest fosters a powerful synergy that supports wider adoption.
An overview of the HTS materials currently available or under development — such as REBCO, BSCCO, MgB₂, and iron-based superconductors — and their main properties will be provided. Ongoing efforts, key challenges, and recent outcomes of HTS-related activities will also be presented. The lecture will highlight the forefront of superconducting advances and their transformative potential, offering insights for future innovation.

Speaker: Dr Amalia BALLARINO (CERN)

Lunch time

POSTERS SESSION

THIS IS THE LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST SESSION OF THIS SCHOOL EDITION:

The school attendants will present their poster, i.e the summary of their ongoing research and/or technological activities to all their colleagues as well as a jury of experts.
The 3 elected as the best ones will get an award and visible recognition.

Note that:
1) the posters will be posted over the whole duration of the school in a dedicated place with visibility not only to the school attendants but also any other visitor in the place of exposition of the posters.
2) When registering to the school, the students will have to indicate the tittle of their poster and send as well a short abstract, as included in the registration form.