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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.