Symposium to celebrate Ugo Amaldi’s 90th birthday

Friday 4 Apr 2025, 14:00 → 19:30 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

Luciano Maiani (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

_{Join us as we celebrate the achievements and the long career of Ugo Amaldi, from his early years at the Italian Istituto Superiore di Sanità (National Health Institute), to his contributions to particle physics while at CERN, the creation of the TERA Foundation in the early ‘90s to introduce hadron therapy in Italy, the design of novel particle accelerators for hadron therapy, and his role in setting up an international network for cancer treatment with proton and ion beams.}

 

1 Introduction

Speaker: Luciano Maiani (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

2 Welcome addresses

3 Quasi-free electron scattering on nuclei and atoms

Speaker: Gianni Stefani (University Roma3 and ISM-CNR)

4 Ugo and “Fisica delle radiazioni”

Speaker: Paola Scampoli (Università di Napoli Federico II)

5 Roman pots and the rise of the proton- proton cross section

Speaker: Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))

6 High-luminosity superconducting electron- positron colliders

Speaker: Valery Telnov (Budker INP and Novosibirsk State Univ.)

7 DELPHI Collaboration and the physics legacy of LEP

Speaker: Gerald Myatt (Nuclear Physics Laboratory)

15:30 Coffee break

8 Video testimonials

9 Communicating Science to a wider audience: Ugo’s contribution

Speaker: Paola Catapano (CERN)

10 Particle Physics Courses in Florence and Milan

Speaker: Saverio Braccini (Universitaet Bern (CH))

11 From TERA Foundation to the present status of hadron therapy

Speaker: Roberto Orecchia (CNAO)

12 Collaboration between CERN and TERA Foundation

Speaker: Giovanni Anelli (CERN)

13 Ugo’s contribution to ENLIGHT and recent developments

Speaker: Manjit Dosanjh (University of Oxford (GB))

14 CNAO: beginnings, status and upgrades

Speaker: Sandro Rossi (Fondazione CNAO)

15 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Luciano Maiani (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

16 Ugo's intervention

Speaker: Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT))

18:15 Reception