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Waiting for Euclid #3 The Dark Motion of the Universe
We will observe the dark Universe from an unusual perspective: music.

E-quality for science
When women began to inhabit research spaces, their presence created a disruptive effect, opening up new research directions.

Open Physics Hub newsletter n. 6
OPH promotes excellence and innovation in all Department activities: higher education teaching, frontier scientific research, technology transfer, science outreach, international academic relations.

Research areas
A journey through the areas, projects and research groups where new knowledge is born and developed. Discover the research and scientific innovation activities of the department’s researchers.
News

University
Doctoral degree conferment ceremony - 20 June
Are you PhD graduates of cycles XXXI, XXXII and XXXIII? Attend the ceremony and register by 9 June.

Awards and Recognitions
The physicist Federico Faggin will receive the University’s Sigillum Magnum - Sign up to participate
On 29 May, at 5 p.m., in the Aula Absidale of Santa Lucia, the University will present the scholar, researcher and entrepreneur with the highest honour. Faggin will also hold a lectio magistralis.

University
GenerAzioni: research and the city
Take part in the events in the Sala Borsa Library: PhD students will be tackling some of the most significant social, environmental and cultural challenges of our time.

University
5th Physical Sensing and Processing summer school
is open for applications: deadline 2 June 2023

Innovation and Research
2nd call for tutoring contracts for DIFA laboratory activities
AFORM "Science" Educational Services Sector - 2nd Call for tutoring contracts for laboratory activities Dip. DIFA (2nd cycle and extensive) A.Y. 2022/23

Innovation and Research
Sandra Sabattini Award
Assignment of two scholarships to female graduate students at the University of Bologna, in all its locations

Innovation and Research
FIRE is born: the innovative dosimeter for radiotherapy control
Scholars have developed a flexible and economical proton detector that will be able to maximize the effects of radiotherapy, precisely monitoring radiation doses released on tumor cells.

Innovation and Research
Climate change amplified the great drought of 2022
By comparing atmospheric observations in the period between 1836 and 2021, scholars have shown how global warming contributed to increasing the intensity of the phenomenon
Events
Seminars
From bits to qubits: quantum computing and quantum simulation
Institute of Advanced Studies - Sala Rossa, Palazzo Marchesini, Via Marsala, 26 - Bologna - In presence and online event
Conferences
3# Waiting for Euclid - The Dark Motion of the Universe
Aula della Specola, via Zamboni 33, Bologna
Seminars
E-quality for science
Viale Berti Pichat, 2/c Bologna - AULA BIOMEDICA 2nd floor
Training initiatives
ISAAP 2023: Neutrino Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Villa Monastero, Fermi Hall - Viale Giovanni Polvani, 4, 23829 Varenna LC