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24th AIV Conference

24° AIV Conference, May 7-10, 2019: A. Terrasi to co-chair

XXXIII Physics Olympiad

On February 21, 2019, the regional selection of the Physics Olympiad will take place at #DFA and LNS

Scholarships for non-EU students

Up to 3 scholarships for foreign (non-EU) students, resident abroad Italy, who would like to enroll in our MSc programme in Physics

Lucia Oliva wins a von Humboldt fellowship

Dr Lucia Oliva obtains the important scholarship with a project on quark-gluon plasma physics

DFA closed on February 4 and 5

On February 4 and 5, the #DFA will be closed

Piano Lauree Scientifiche - Fisica : 2019 activities

One year ahead of interactive science for high school students at #DFA

CSFNSM "A. Rubbino" Award for the best PhD thesis in experimental physics

The CSFNSM commemorates the 40th anniversary from its direction by Professor A. Rubbino with an award for the best PhD thesis in experimental physics

Renato Pucci has been nominated Emeritus Professor

By decree of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, Renato Pucci has been nominated Emeritus Professor.

Global warming and societal impact

Heat is not equal for all, as Simone Russo states on Nature Communications

Our Sun is not uniformly hot

Recent observations have evidenced "hotter" zones in our Sun's atmosphere. There, temperature can be as high as a million Kelvin, rather than 10,000 K, as would be normal on the average of the Sun's chromosphere. Such fluctuations are attributed to the local release  of energy, due to magnetic reconnection. Researches on the temperature distribution in the Sun's external atmosphere have originated with the launch of the IRIS satellite, which looks at the Sun through an ultraviolet "eye". Previous results have reported temperature fluctuations, but never that high.