Manifesto

UniVersum is a novel series of cosmology meetings whose main goal is to gather on a regular basis members of the active Italian cosmology community. Besides discussing our many scientific activities, the aim of this series of encounters is also to foster collaborations amongst us and to discuss crucial topics and strategical choices that involve the community at large. Examples of regular informal workshops of this type are common in other European Countries, i.e. IberiCós in Spain and Portugal, or UKcosmo in Great Britain. We feel that also our community could strongly benefit from having a set of meetings with this format.

Here is how the idea of UniVersum saw the light of day! What we have in mind is a one-and-a-half day meeting, taking place every year in a different university or research centre all around Italy, featuring short talks from PhD students and post-docs, and extended discussion sessions led by reference senior scientists in various fields of cosmological research. As said, we envisage both usual, scientific debate sessions, as, more importantly, forums where we can discuss crucial questions related to cosmology in Italy.

Programme

UniVersum aims at becoming an annual encounter, easy and feasible for cosmologists from all over Italy. For this reason, the envisaged format is a one-and-a-half day meeting, starting mid-morning and finishing mid-afternoon the day after, so that most of the participants can easily do it with only one night out.

The first edition will be held on 3rd-4th April 2017. The updated programme can be found here.

Location

The first encounter of the UniVersum series will take place in Torino, between the Aula Magna and the Sala Principi d'Acaja of the beautiful Palazzo del Rettorato, entrance from Via Verdi, 8 and Via Po, 17. Here you can find the location on Google maps.

Many lodging facilities are available whithin walking distance, from hotels to B&Bs, hostels and airbnb's, and please also consider that Turin has excellent public transports. The participants should contact directly their hotel to arrange for the reservation. Although it will not be Easter time yet, when Turin is usually busy with tourists, we recommend the participants to book their accommodation as soon as possible to avoid any inconvenience.

Participants

Steering Committee:
Stefano Camera (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Marco Baldi (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
Carmelita Carbone (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)
Michele Liguori (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Participants:
Ummi Abbas
Simone Ammazzalorso
Marco Baldi
Mario Ballardini
Nicola Bartolo
Giampaolo Benevento
Stefano Borgani
Lorenzo Bordin
Enzo Branchini
Alessandro Buzzelli
Giovanni Cabass
Stefano Camera
Marta Campigotto
Carmelita Carbone
Vincenzo Cardone
Marco Celoria
Manuel Colavincenzo
Iary Davidzon
Alessandro Davoli
Antonaldo Diaferio
Serafina Di Gioia
Alexandru Dima
Stefano Ettori
Giuseppe Fanizza
Fabio Finelli
Antonella Garzilli
Carlo Giocoli
Luigi Guzzo
Mahmoud Hashim
Adam Hawken
Sandeep Haridasu
Dionysis Karagiannis
Arpine Kozmanyan
Massimiliano Lattanzi
Andrei Lazanu
Michele Liguori
Vladimir Lukovic
Manuela Magliocchetti
Matteo Martinelli
Sabino Matarrese
Nicoletta Mauri
Ben Metcalf*
Michele Moresco
Riccardo Murgia
Giorgio Orlando
Filippo Oppizzi
Luisa Ostorero
Eugenio Noda
Massimo Pietroni
Andrea Ravenni
Marco Regis
Alessandro Renzi
Massimiliano Rinaldi
Fulvio Scaccabarozzi
Emiliano Sefusatti
Sperello di Serego Alighieri*
Angelo Tartaglia
Alessio Tronconi
Eleonora Villa
Matteo Zennaro
*To be confirmed.

Elements

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