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What is Physics?
Today's students will be tomorrow's innovators. *Live streaming on DIFA Youtube channel* (in Italian)

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.
Latest news
Monday 24 April 2023: the Administration will be closed (Reception: open)
On Friday 7 April 2023 the DIFA offices will close at 2 pm.

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

March 8th, International Women's Day
To the scientists who paved the way, to those who are walking it and to those who will show us new horizons. Thank you.

University
GenerAzioni: research and the city
From 2 March, in the Salaborsa Library, PhD students will be tackling some of the most significant social, environmental and cultural challenges of our time. Take part in the cycle of five events

University
The 2022-27 Strategic Plan website is now online
The place to go to understand the goals and share the progress of the Plan

University
Marjane Satrapi attends the inauguration of the University of Bologna’s 2022/2023 academic year
The Iranian artist and intellectual will be the guest of honour at the ceremony to be held on Monday, 20 February in the Santa Lucia Great Hall.

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
Conferences
What is physics?
Live streaming on the DIFA youtube channel
Seminars
Traveling in search of our cosmic origins and other 'habitable' planets
Aula della Specola, via Zamboni 33, Bologna
Seminars
The gender equality plan and the variables sex and gender in research. What is really applicable?
viale Berti Pichat, 6/2 Bologna (BO) - Aula Biomedica 2° piano
Exhibitions
THE OTHER RENAISSANCE
Palazzo Poggi Museum, Via Zamboni, 33, 40126 Bologna BO
Conferences
Primes
Institute of Advanced Studies - Sala Rossa, Palazzo Marchesini, Via Marsala, 26 - Bologna - In presence and online event
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
Training initiatives
ISAAP 2023: Neutrino Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Villa Monastero, Fermi Hall - Viale Giovanni Polvani, 4, 23829 Varenna LC