Workshop on "Materiali Nanostrutturati", Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia.

April 20, 2012.

Pictures of the event available here: Pictures

Program and slides of the presentations available here: Slides

Maranello, Italy - April 5 2012

Wisepower srl, spin-off of the NiPS Laboratory met with the R&D Ferrari F1 team to present HAT (Hybrid Autonomous Transceiver).

Il 17 Febbraio, 2012, nell’ambito della manifestazione nazionale "M'illumino di Meno", promossa dal programma di RAI2 Caterpillar, Il NiPS Laboratory, in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Perugia e l'Assessorato alle politiche energetiche del Comune di Perugia, promuove un Flash Mob: "illumina la fontana".

Inoltre, alle 18:30 presso la Sala della Vaccara in Piazza IV Novembre a Perugia,

il Direttore del Perugia Science Festival,

Leonardo Alfonsi, mette a confronto l’assessore alle Politiche energetiche e ambientali del Comune di Perugia

Lorena Pesaresi

con,

Massimiliano

Rinaldo Barchi,

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e

Fausto Elisei

Preside della Facoltà di Scienze, Università di Perugia

sul tema:

Verso il 2019: Perugia capitale delle energie sostenibili.

Gli orizzonti della città e della scienza.

Introduce l’incontro il Direttore del NiPS Laboratory,

Luca Gammaitoni.

Delft, Feb. 8, 2012

Luca Gammaitoni and Helios Vocca from NiPS met with Herre Van der Zant and Warner Venstra from MED at TU Delft (http://home.tudelft.nl). The MED group studies the electronic properties of molecular and mechanical systems at the  nanoscale.

The meeting was devoted to explore further coorperation betwwen the two groups that are already partners in the LANDAUER proposal.

Feb. 7, 2012

Helios Vocca and Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS visited the Holst Centre/Imec in Eindhoven, Nederlands.

During the visit, Rudd Vullers presented the activity of the energy harvesting group at IMEC. Helios Vocca presented a seminar on Nonlinear Energy Harvesting.

Future collaborations between the two laboratories have been discussed.

Febrary 2, 2012

Program of the day

9.30  Introduzione (L. Gammaitoni)
10.00  MEMS piezo harvesters (H. Vocca)
10.30  Energy budget for aut. sensors (F. Orfei)
11.00  Autonomous sensor networks (I. Neri)
11.30  coffe break
11.50  Numerics for thermal rectification (L. Bosi)
12.20  Monolitic suspensions (F. Travasso)
12.40  Stochastic Resonance EH (R. Mincigrucci)
13.00  Pranzo
14.30  I progetti europei in corso:
- NANOPOWER, (S. Lombardi)
- ZEROPOWER (S. Lombardi)
14.45 ! I progetti sottomessi:
- Millicube (Wisepower, H. Vocca)
- LANDAUER (L. Gammaitoni)
15:15  Il nuovo microscopio SEM (A. Di Michele)
15:30  Un anno di outreach al NiPS (L. Alfonsi)
16.00  coffe break

16:30! FAME LAB al NiPS*

18:00! conclusioni**

* Competizione tra giovani ricercatori o aspiranti tali:
Comunicare un contenuto scientifico che fa parte del vostro campo di
ricerca, o semplicemente un tema che vi appassiona e vi interessa ad un
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immagini niente suoni né apparecchiature. Per aiutarvi solo qualche piccolo
oggetto, giusto quelli che potete portarvi in tasca. Premio al migliore !!!

Partecipazione su invito / invitation participation only

Cristina Castellano interviews Luca Gammaitoni, NiPS Director, during the TV Show "Speciale Università" on Jan 12 2012.

Video interview (in italian).

Prof. Francesco Profumo (middle), Italian Minister for Research and Education, listen to NiPS Director, Prof. Luca Gammaitoni (right), during the presentation of the NANOPOWER exhibit at the EC Innovation Convention in Brussels, on Dec 6th, 2011. Right in the picture, Dr. Leonardo Alfonsi, NiPS Media advisor.

Pictures available here

The NiPS laboratory team set up an interactive exhibit at the IC2011 Innovation Convention held in Brussels on Dec. 5-6 2011.

The exhibit is entitled "Toward Zero-power: recycling energies in the nano world.

Most of the innovative technological solutions on display at the Innovation Convention 2011 organised by the European Commission in Bruxelles on the 5^th and the 6^th of December are based on micro sensors that monitor physical parameters useful for human and animal health control that can be implanted or worn for health care, on powerful computer as small as shirt buttons used for ambient intelligence or sensors distributed in the natural environment to monitor its condition. At the moment all these ICT devices are powered with batteries but the research carried out by the Nanopower project on display at the Bruxelles  convention (booth 22) and directed by the NiPS Laboratory at the Physics Department of the University of Perugia – Italy,   shows a step forward. 

For more information please download our press release and visit our nanopower web site.

On Nov. 17, 2011, L. Gammaitoni (right) visited Prof Tim Lenton (in the back) at the Earth Systems Science Center and Prof. Tim Jupp at the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the University of Exeter, together with Dr. Valerie Livina (left) of the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

During the visit Prof. L. Gammaitoni presented a lecture entitled "Fluctuations Energy Harvesting: from Nano to Macro".

NiPS Laboratory will be present at the Innovation Convention in Brussels on Dec 5-6 2011.

The Innovation Convention is an essential part of the Innovation Union flagship initiative. 2011 edition is the first edition and will be led by the President of the European Commission, Mr. José Manuel Barroso and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation, and Science. It will be Europe's premier innovation event, with 1,200 or more selected participants.

The Innovation Convention exhibition will showcase exciting research and innovation results being developed under European funding programmes. Following a call for exhibitors open to projects supported by the EU's Framework Programme for Research and the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 45 projects have been selected over more than 450 proposals.

We are glad to anounce that NiPS proposal entitled "NANOPOWER, Toward ZEROPOWER - Recycling energy in the nanoworld" is one of the 45 selected projects.

See you in Brussels!

For info please check: http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/ic2011/index_en.cfm

The NANOPOWER project holds the first year review meeting in Cork (IR) on Oct 25th 2011.

The NANOPOWER project was conceived with the idea that a new generation of micro-to-nanoscale devices aimed at sensing, processing, actuating and communication will not be possible without solving the powering issue. Powering is relevant at least in two aspects: 1) too much power is currently dissipated into heat in the present generation of microelectronic devices. 2) Micro to nanoscale low-power autonomous devices of the next future will be powered by transforming energy available in the ambient. The scientific objective of this project is thus to study energy efficiency with the specific aim of identifying new directions for energy-harvesting technologies at the nanometre and molecular scale. Together with the scientific objective the project focuses also on an highly ambitious technological objective: to integrate such technologies into autonomous nanoscale systems to allow new, low-power ICT architectures to find their way into devices.

The NANOPOWER consortium has been very active in this first year devoting 103,6 person months  (103,6 over 301 in total) to project activities organized in 23 Tasks (23 active over 30 total) distributed in 7 work packages.

This work has generated a vast scientific activity that has involved universities, research centers, stockholders and the general public in more than one way with potential impact that will be evaluated in the years to come. The products of research generated in this year can be summarized in: 12 Deliverables (10 reports, 1 numerical code, 1 web site); 9 scientific articles on international ISI journals; 23 communications to international conferences; 2 Newsletter issues; 5 Board meetings; 4 Consortium meetings; 1 Summer School.

European Commission organized an Information Day for the FP7 ICT Calls 8 related to Future and Emerging Technologies (FET), that took place on 12 October 2011 in Brussels.

L. Gammaitoni from NiPS gave the keynote speah at the general sessio presenting the ZEROPOWER CA and a scientific talk (Beating the Landaur's limit) at the special session devoted to "Minimising Energy Consumption to the Limit".

FP7 CALL 8 was launched on 26 July 2011 and the deadline for submission of proposals is 17 January 2012.

More information, including registration and draft program of the event can be found at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/ie-oct11_en.html

The following FET themes have been addressed:
FP7-ICT-2011.9.6:
Unconventional Computation (UCOMP)
FP7-ICT-2011.9.7:
Dynamics of Multi-Level Complex Systems (DyM-CS)
 FP7-ICT-2011.9.8:
Minimising Energy Consumption of Computing to the Limit (MINECC)
 FP7-ICT-2011.9.12:
Coordinating Communities, Identifying new research topics for FET Proactive initiatives and Fostering Networking of National and Regional Research Programmes
 

L. Gammaitoni presented a talk entitled "Shape is Physical" during the Shape 1.0 workshop, held in Karlsruhe on Sept 27, 2011. The workshop is part of the international Conference CONTEXT 2011.

Here please find the slides: slides

Here please find a paper on the subject of the presentation: Energy dissipation in small-scale shape-change dynamics, arXiv:1109.3923 (2011).

Budapest 21-9-2011

F. Orfei, H. Vocca and L. Gammaitoni visited the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Technical Physics and Material science.

Sept. 9 2011, Paris

Helios Vocca from NiPS visited  ESIEE Paris Est to foster collaboration between our laboratory and Philippe Basset laboratory at ESIEE.

September 15-16, 2011, Helsinki, Finland

During ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2011 conference, Francis Balestra, Sinano Institute-Grenoble INP/CNRS, Adrian Ionescu, EPFL, organized the GUARDIAN ANGELS Workshop:“Guardian Angels for a Smarter Life: Science and Technology Beyond Fiction”-

The Workshop is supported by the Guardian Angels project funded by the European Commission for the 7th Framework Programme (www.ga-project.eu).

Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS Lab, presented a talk entitled: "Toward Zero-Power ICT: a European initiative for efficient powering of micro and nanoscale autonomous devices".

Slides available here: http://www.nipslab.org/files/Gammaitoni-Helsinki-GA-2011.pdf

August 1st, 2011

The second issue of NANOENERGY LETTERS has been published.

This is a newsletter created within the research project NANOPOWER (funded by European Commission, under the FET proactive initiative "Toward Zero-Power ICT" (2zeroP)) and within the coordination action project ZEROPOWER in order to help the circulation of news and thoughts about micro and nano energies.
The ambition is to make it a useful instrument to discuss about these energies, about their role and potential applications together with the physical foundations of this discipline.
Most importantly, NANOENERGY LETTERS is open to the contribution of all the interested readers and is specially aimed at reaching those readers involved in industry and innovative SMEs as an humble attempt to bridge the gap between Academia and Industry.

Please download the new issue here.

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Some of the topics in this issue

- Call 9.8 FET Proactive: "Minimising Energy Consumption of Computing to the Limit".

- ZEROPOWER Workshop: Join the community in Cork Oct. 25-27 2011.

- Hot quantum dots: The search for quantum energy harvesters. A new idea from University of Geneva.

- Automotive application: HAT (Hybrid Autonomous Transceiver) are now available for test by Wisepower srl.

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Previous issues available here.

The NiPS Summer School is currently in progress at the Colle della Trinità resort in Perugia, Italy.

More than 30 students coming from 9 different countries are attending a dense program of lectures (program) on Micro and nanoscale energy harvesting.

Please find pictures of the participants and  PDFs of the slides presented at the lectures here: www.nipslab.org/summerschool

The school is supported by EC Funded project NANOPOWER and Coordinated Action ZEROPOWER and by the Office of Naval research Europe.

NiPS Lab is fully represented at the next Euromech Colloquium at the University of Bristol (UK) devoted to Structural Control and Energy Harvesting.

Igor Neri from NiPS Lab presents a talk entitled "A real vibration database for kinetic energy harvesting applications" while Luca Gammaitoni is a keynote speaker with a talk on "Vibration energy harvesting with nonlinear oscillators".

Program of the conference available here: http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~cesan/Programme.html

L. Gammaitoni from NiPS Lab has been invited as a speaker at the Workshop on Energy Efficient Electronic Technologies and Systems (E3TS), held on July 18-19th, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.

This international workshop is co-organized and funded by the Guardian Angels for a Smarter Life Pilot FET Flagship and by the Swiss Nano-tera EASY project. The workshop targets the dissemination of main scientific concepts related to the zero power technology platform and the smart autonomous system applications in Guardian Angels Flagship as well as exchanging new ideas in corresponding field at European level.

L. Gammaitoni presented the activity under development in the ZEROPOWER Coordinated Action. Slides of the presentation available here: http://www.nipslab.org/files/Gammaitoni-Barcelona-2011.pdf

The  Italian Ministry of University and Research has issued the list of approved project for the PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale).

The project presented by University of Catania (S. Baglio coordinator), University of Perugia (NiPS Lab) and University of Brescia entitled Soluzioni innovative in microsistemi per il recupero di energia da vibrazioni ad ampio spettro ed in bassa frequenza (Innovative solutions in micro system for wide-band/low-frequency vibration energy harvesting) has been approved with the maximum score 60/60.

The project will run for two years and is funded with 172.855 €.

11-15 July 2011

Luca Gammaitoni invited speaker at the International Conference on Statistical Physics in Larnaka (Cyprus). 

July 7, 2011

Luca Gammaitoni speaks at the University of Bologna, Seconda Facoltà di Ingegneria — Sede di Cesena on Fluctuations Energy Harvesting with nonlinear oscillators.

Slides available here: Fluctuations-Energy-Harvesting.pdf

Luca Gammaitoni, form NiPS, is invited speaker at the Third NaNoNetworking Summit, in Barcelona on June 22-23 2011.

The N3Summit aims to become the main discussion forum for researchers of the different scientific areas related to nanoscale communication networks. With this objectives in mind, the N3Summit 2011 will bring together international researchers to exchange ideas and results related to the theoretical and practical aspects of nanodevices, communications among nanodevices, nano-computing and applications of nanonetworks.

9th June 2011

Luca Gammaitoni reviews a recent book on "wave watching" for Silvia Bencivelli, Radio Tre Scienza.

The Book, THE WAVEWATCHER'S COMPANION BY GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY (Bloomsbury £14.99), is a collection of thoughts about waves in all their manifestations from ocean tides to ground shaking earthquakes...

Download the podcast of the interview: http://www.nipslab.org/files/A17732695_cut.mp3

May 25, 2011 - Modena (Italy)

Luca Gammaitoni held a seminar on "Fluctuations energy harvesting with nonlinear oscillators".

Perugia, May 12, Piazza IV Novembre, h 17:30

NiPS Laboratory organized a panel discussion entitled "Possiamo fare a meno delle batterie ?" (Can we get rid of batteries?).

Introduction by Lorena Pesaresi, Assessore Politiche Energetiche e Ambientali, Comune di Perugia

Panelists:

Luca Gammaitoni, Direttore del NiPS Laboratory, Università di Perugia

Brunello Castellani, Amministratore CentralCom SpA

Helios Vocca, Amministratore Wisepower srl

Mauro Zenobi, Direttore ricerca e sviluppo Angelantoni SpA

Coordination by Leonardo Alfonsi, Direttore Perugia Science Festival

Photos of the event available here: link

Budapest, 6 May (Friday) 10:45 - 12:15.

The fet¹¹ conference programme will feature 30 scientific sessions of which six are dedicated to FET Flagship Pilots. From the more than 80 submitted proposals the programme committee has selected the most exciting. Among them the Scientific Session proposed by NiPS on

Sustainable ICT: Micro and Nanoscale Energy Management

Content: ICT energy isues form the basis of this session which brings together international experts interested in the realization of efficient low-power ICT devices. What are the basic mechanisms behind the heat production and how can we take advantage of the fluctuations instead of avoiding them? The aim is to understand the energy management physical mechanisms at nanoscale with a view to setting the bases for a new thermodynamics of ICT devices.

Agenda:

Session introduction (L. Gammaitoni)

Panel discussion coordinated by a scientific journalist (Leonardo Alfonsi, Vice President at EUSCEA - European Science Events Association)
- Adrian Ionescu (Ecole Politecnique Federale de Lausanne, CH)
- Fabio Marchesoni (Università di Camerino, IT)
- Bruno Michel (ETH Zurich/ IBM Research Zurich Research Laboratory, CH)
- Eric Pop (Univ Illinois, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Micro &  Nanotechnol Lab & Beckman Inst, Urbana, USA)
 
Proposals for ongoing/future activities
- ZEROPOWER Coordinated Action (Georgios Fagas, Tyndall Institute, IR) 5'
- FET initiatives: From 2ZEROP to MINECC: Minimising Energy Consumption of Computing to the Limit. (Ralph Stuebner, EC ICT-FET Proactive) 10'

conclusion (L. Gammaitoni)

More info available here: http://www.fet11.eu/programme-and-exhibition/sessions

On May 12, during the Perugia Green Days Festival, NiPS laboratory organizes a round table on the future of batteries (E’ POSSIBILE FARE A MENO DELLE BATTERIE? UN FUTURO DI ENERGIA SOSTENIBILE PER LE COMUNICAZIONI MOBILI)

Introduction:
Lorena Pesaresi, Assessore Politiche Energetiche e Ambientali, Comune di Perugia
Caterina Petrillo, Direttore del Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Perugia

Discussants:
Brunello Castellani, Amministratore CentralCom SpA
Helios Vocca, Amministratore Wisepower srl
Mauro Zenobi, direttore ricerca e sviluppo Angelantoni SpA
Luca Gammaitoni, Direttore del NiPS Laboratory, Università di Perugia

Coordination: Leonardo Alfonsi, Director Perugia Science Festival
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17.30, May 12, Piazza IV Novembre (Tensostruttura), Perugia - Italy

more information: http://perugiagreendays.wordpress.com/programma-2/
 

NiPS lab celebrates the 2011 Micro-Energy day in Perugia with a Battery-free party.

Join us in via Ratti at the "Auditorium Santa Cecilia". Music and aperitif goes along with the presentation of the book "Manuale di sopravvivenza energetica" by the author Andrea Mameli.

Bring your "battery-free" electronic device and get one of the prizes...

Download the Battery-free event poster here:

British journalist David Boothroyd writes on NEW ELECTRONICS about noise and the work developed at NiPS, with specific reference to NANOPOWER and SUBTLE, FET Proactive EC funded projects.

Please download the entire article here: 

Link to NEW ELECTRONICS magazine here: http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/Default.aspx

I. Neri, F. Travasso, H. Vocca, S. Lombardi, L. Alfonsi and L. Gammaitoni participate to the NANOPOWER Consortium and Board meeting on 28th February and 1st March in Barcelona at Casa de Convalescencia (in the picture).

Each partner in the project gives a brief technical presentation reporting their own period activities, following the meeting agenda.

L. Gammaitoni speaker at the Aghape workshop "Dall'acustica al suono" (From Acustics to sound) in Bologna, Feb. 24, 2011.

Francesco Cottone, NiPS Lab has been awarded an EC funded Marie Curie Fellowship at ESIEE Paris.

Dr. Cottone will start his work at ESIEE on April 1st 2011.

On Feb 15 L. Gammaitoni, H. Vocca (left in the picture) and F. Cottone (right in the picture) visited the laboratory of prof.  Philippe Basset at ESIEE to discuss future collaborations.

On Feb 18, the national energy saving awareness day promoted by RAI Radio2 Caterpillar radio show, NiPS organizes a public exhibition in Perugia.

Beginning at 15.00 in Piazza 4 Novembre, in the Perugia city center, there will be a NiPS stand where a "piezoelectric footbridge" will be installed. Every step from the public on the footbridge will be converted in an energy impulse that will turn-on a LED (small light) composing the number "150" on an 1x2 square meters Italian flag.

Please download the exhibit flyer here

Please find pictures os the event: here

A new Wisepower App for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad is now available on the iTunes App Store.

The App is a demonstrator of a new, revolutionary technology in vibration energy harvesting developed by Wisepower srl, a spin-off company of the NiPS laboratory at the University of Perugia.

What you can see here is how much energy your iphone could harvest from the ambient vibration if a WISEPOWER vibration harvester was installed on it.

 If you want to know more, please visit: http://www.wisepower.it/app

To download the App please go to: 

http://www.nanopwr.eu/sites/www.nanopwr.eu/files/NANOENERGY_Letters_1.pdf 

The ZEROPOWER consortium helds the first (kick-off) meeting in London on Jan 19 2011.

The ZEROPOWER project (Co-ordinating Research Efforts Towards Zero-Power ICT) is a Coordinated Action funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the ICT theme of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission.

The Consortium, led by NiPS, is composed by 4 laboratories:

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA UNIPG Italy
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK Tyndall-UCC Ireland
3 UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA UAB Spain
4 UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, UK

It meets in London for the first time since the official start of the project on Jan 1st 2011.

NiPS Lab organizes the Annual Meeting 2011 to discuss ongoing activities and to plan for the near future. The meeting takes place at the Borgobrufa SPA Resort in Torgiano (PG), Italy on January 13th.

Language: italian

Program:

9.30 Introduzione (L. Gammaitoni)

10.00 Analisi delle attività in corso

10.00 Thermal noise shaping (F. Travasso) 

10.20 Bistable piezo oscillators (F. Cottone)

10.40 MEMS piezo oscillators (H. Vocca)

11.00 HATs Hybrid Auton Transm (F. Orfei)

11.20 coffe break

11.40 Distributed computing (L. Bosi)

12.00 Pedana Piezoelettrica (F. Orfei)

12.20 Real Vibrations database (I. Neri)

13.00 Pranzo

14.00 I progetti europei:

- Progetti Europei in corso: NANOPOWER, ZEROPOWER (S. Lombardi)

- Le nuove call 2011 (L. Gammaitoni)

15.00 Outreach (L. Alfonsi)

16.00 Futuro:

- Attività per il breve termine (gennaio-giugno)

- Attività per il medio termine (luglio-dicembre)

- Attività per il lungo termine (2012-2013)

During the year 2010 the scientific papers published by NiPS lab have collected more than 670 citations. 

• Total Articles in Publication List: 157
• Articles With Citation Data: 149
• Sum of the Times Cited: 6016
• Average Citations per Article: 40.38

December 21, 2010.

Caterpillar, a national radio show, interviews  NiPS lab director Luca Gammaitoni, on the laboratory participation to the "mi illumino di meno" energy saving initiative.

Please find here the podcast of the interview (in italian): http://www.nipslab.org/files/A0078337.mp3

"Nonlinear Energy Harvesting" is the title of the seminar presented on Dec 10 at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa by L. Gammaitoni, Director of NiPS laboratory.

More information here: seminar

Potsdam, Dec 7, 2008.

L. Gammaitoni from NiPS visited the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces  in Potsdam (Ger).

During the visit L. Gammaitoni met with the Stochastic Processes in Complex and Biological Systems group lead by Dr. Angelo Valleriani.

Link to pictures: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2075047&id=1335139803&l=1c62e562cc

NiPS promotes the 2011 Micro-Energy day: April 14 2011.

The initiative is presented in www.microenergyday.eu and is part of the initiatives organized during the 2011 European Sustainable Energy Week.  

NiPS Laboratory participated to the NANOPOWER Consortium and Board meeting, held on 29th and 30th November in Wuerzburg (Ger) at the Mercure Hotel.

The NANOPOWER project (www.nanopwr.eu) project is coordinated by NiPS and sees the participationn of 6 laboratories across Europe. The project is funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the ICT theme of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission.

This is the first meeting of the firt period of the project, following the kick-off meeting held in Perugia last August. During this meeting each partner in the project will present a brief technical contribution reporting their own period activities, following the meeting agenda.

See pictures of the event: pictures

Luca Gammaitoni is one of the the key note speakers at the conference "LA FABBRICA DEI SAPERI. 150° anniversario dell’Unità d’Italia" organized by the Democratic Party of Umbria to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification.

The conference (in italian) is held on Tuesday Nov. 16, h 17.00, at the Sala della Vaccara in Perugia.

Program

Introduction:

Brunello Castellani, Coordinatore PD Umbria per le Iniziative dei 150 anni dell’Unità d’Italia

Wladimiro Boccali, Sindaco di Perugia

Renato Locchi, Capogruppo PD in Consiglio Regionale

Lamberto Bottini, Segretario regionale del Partito Democratico

Talks

 more information available here.

Francesco Orfei from NiPS Lab participates at the Wireless Congress 2010: Systems & Applications. November 10-11, 2010, Munich, Germany

Special interest for NiPS: session on Energy Harvesting / Power Management

more information here: http://www.wireless-congress.com

Luca Gammaitoni, NiPS Laboratory, speaks on "Noise driven ICT" at the Langevin Amphitheater, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle de Paris, during the Phonons and Fluctuations meeting on November 9th, 2010.

The meeting aims at bringing the "phonon and fluctuations" communities together seeking convergence of partners of different projects, networks, conference series, such as NANOICT, the CNRS network, NANO-TEC, NANOFUNCTION, NANOPOWER, ZEROPOWER, the school series Son et Lumiere, etc, in order to address topics of general concern, discuss the research trends and applications of, for example, thermal management on the nano scale, low energy ICT, nanophononics, the role of noise in ICT research and emerging design issues in future ICT.

The workshop will have a combined character of touching base on the state of the art and vision in these fields.

Program of the meeting.

 HARVESTING FLUCTUATIONS

Professor Luca Gammaitoni

NiPS Laboratory, Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Perugia

EULER LECTURE ROOM

THURSDAY OCTOBER 28 – 15.15 (coffee will be served from 14.45)

Kinetic energy harvesting has been the subject of a significant research effort in the last twenty years, mainly motivated by the increasing need of reliable, cheap, durable, efficient solutions for powering the new generations of microelectronic devices.

Unfortunately most of the energy available at the micro and nanoscales comes in the form of random vibrations with a wide spectrum of frequencies while standard harvesting methods are based on linear oscillators that are resonantly tuned in narrow frequency ranges.

In this talk prof. Gammaitoni briefly reviews the physics of fluctuations at micro and nanoscale and present a novel approach to energy harvesting based on the exploitation of random vibrations via nonlinear stochastic dynamics. Examples of piezoelectric energy conversion are discussed.

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PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM is arranged by Fysikcentrum Göteborg; Questions, comments and suggestions for speakers to apell@chalmers.se or 0702-666 407

NiPS Laboratory will be represented at the ESF-EPSD Workshop on HEAT CONTROL AND THERMOELECTRIC EFFICIENCY, to be held in Erice (IT) on Oct 23-28.

The workshop is directed by Giulio Casati (Università dell’Insubria, Como, ITALY), Heiner Linke (Lund University, Lund, SWEDEN) and Fabio Marchesoni (Università di Camerino, Partner of NANOPOWER - UNICAM) and sees the participation (among others) of NANOPOWER partners: L. Gammaitoni and H. Vocca (NiPS Lab - UNIPG), Rafael Sánchez (Université de Genève, UNIGE).

More info on the workshop available here 

NANPOWER, the EC funded project coordinated by NiPS lab and devoted to Nanoscale energy management for powering ICT devices has released the project web site.

The web site contains news and information related to the activity of the project and can be reached at the following address: www.nanopwr.eu 

The project NANOPOWER acknowledges the financial support of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the ICT theme of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission.

Pictures of the Networking session available via NiPS lab FB: PICTURES

The aim of the Networking Session entitled "Energy efficient ICT: toward zero-power devices for a greener planet" is to bring together European experts at the cutting-edge of developing efficient low-power ICT devices that harvest most of their energy from the environment with a positive impact on the ICT carbon footprint for a greener and healthier planet.

The Session will take place during the International Conference ICT2010 (Brussels 27-29 September, 2010)  on 28th September 2010 in Brussels at room T 010 from 14:00-15:30.

Participation: open to all

Session program

More information can be found HERE: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/ict2010/item-display.cfm?id=3440

This activity is developed within the EC (FET Proactive) Project NANOPOWER: Nanoscale energy management for powering ICT devices (FPVII, GA N. 256959) - www.nanopwr.eu

Tue, 2010-09-28 14:00 - 15:30 

Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS, invited speaker at the ICAND2010 conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics. 

On Sept. 23 he will present the most recent results on nonlinear energy harvesting developed at NiPS in the framework of the EC founded project NANOPOWER (www.nanopwr.eu).

Slides of this presentation available here.

NiPS lab and CEA LETI (http://www.instituts-carnot.eu/en/node/247) agreed to conduct a joint research on vibration energy harvesting at MEMS scale.

The LETI is a research CEA laboratory based in Grenoble, focused on technologies for miniaturization and their applications, operating most of its research projects in cooperation with companies;

LETI is one of Europe leading centres for applied electronics research.

The weekly science and technology magazine Nòva 24 talk about NiPS Lab (p. 15) in an article entitled "Energia sonora" (sound energy) signed by journalist Agnese Codignola.

Download the article (in italian) here:

The Noise in Physical System Laboratory organized the 2010 NiPS Summer School devoted to Energy Harvesting at micro and nanoscale.

The school, supported by the EC Fet Proactive project NANOPOWER, the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) and wisepower srl, has seen the participation of 35 graduate students, post-docs, young researchers, all scientists interested in the physical foundations of energy harvesting at micro and nanoscale, coming from 12 different countries and 12 international teachers.

Attached to the school there was a two days workshop where the students and external participants presented the result of their research. The workshop covered a wider range of subjects under the title of “Noise in dynamical systems at the micro and nanoscale”. 

More information on the NiPS Summer school are available at: www.nipslab.org/summerschool

An agreement for hosting researchers sponsored by INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) has been signed between INFN National President Prof. Roberto Petronzio and the CEO of Wisepower srl Prof. Luca Gammaitoni.
The agreement is now in place and the first researcher, Dr.PhD Flavio Travasso has joined Wisepower srl to work on our laboratories.
We welcome Dr. Travasso and this new promising agreement between a large National Research Institute and our company. 

www.wisepower.it

Perugia 7 July 2010.

A press conference at the presence of the Governor of Umbria, Mrs Catiuscia Marini, has been held in Perugia at the Palazzo della Regione on July 7 2010, at 10.00 to present the two companies from the UMBRIA region that have been selected to represent Italy as an example of innovation at the expo shanghai 2010 world exhibition.

Wisepower srl is aimed at the design and prototyping of a new class of energy generators for mobile devices. This mission originates from the discovery, made in the university laboratory, of a new technology that significantly improves the performances of a wide class of electric power generators. Based on this new technology and on the long-standing experience of the inventors in research activities, they decided to give birth to a company aimed at applying this technology to designing micro energy generators for mobile devices.

The press conference has been introduced by Leonardo Alfonsi (from NiPS lab and Perugia Science Festival). Contributions from the following speakers:

- Catiuscia Marini - Presidente Regione Umbria

- Aurelio Forcignanò - Direttore Confidustria Perugia

- Caterina Petrillo - Direttore Dipartimento di Fisica Università degli Studi di Perugia

- Federica Angelantoni - Managing Director Archimede Solar Energy - Angelantoni Group

- Luca Gammaitoni - Wisepower CEO and NiPS lab Director

 Pictures of the press conference are available at: http://www.nipslab.org/image/tid/26

Informations on the list of selected companies is available at the italian ministry web site: http://www.innovazionepa.gov.it/lazione-del-ministro/eventi-e-progetti/s...

The competition web site where all the innovative companies are listed is managed by the high tech review WIRED at: www.italianvalley.it.

If you want to support our company please go to: http://www.italianvalley.it/ProjectDetail/200/2/Generatori-multitask-per-gli-ambienti-urbani-.aspx and vote with 5 stars! 

Helios Vocca of Nipslab & Wisepower srl is one of the speakers at the Research Reception Cocktail the 5th of July 2010 in Turin during the ESOF 2010 - European Research & Business Speed Dating

Luca Tremolada and Luca Dello Iacovo interview Luca Gammaitoni, CEO of Wisepower srl (a spin-off company of NiPS lab) in the framework of NovaLab 24.

Listen to the radio interview (in italian): www.nipslab.org/files/file/nova-lab-full.mp3

L. Gammaitoni and H. Vocca visited the LMA laboratoire in Lyon on June 23 2010.

The Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA) is an USR (Unité de Service et de Recherche n°3264) from CNRS and is directed by Raffaele Flaminio (in the pictures).

The visit was finalized to discuss a collaboration on the study of dissipative mechanisms (thermal noise) in thin optical coating layers.

More pictures are available at the FB page

Luca Gammaitoni, NiPS lab, is a plenary speaker at the XXII SITGES Conference on Statistical Mechanics devoted to "Energy transformation: from nanomachines to renewable sources".

The Conference is held in Sitges (SP) from June 7 to 11, 2010.

Program of the Conference available here: program

Luca Gammaitoni will present a talk entitled: "Noise harvesting with nonlinear oscillators"

Download the presentation here!

Luca Gammaitoni, director of NiPS, is a keynote speaker at the ICREA workshop on Phonon Engineering 2010, in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Girona (SP).

According to the workshop website this workshop is an opportunity to share the knowledge in the area of nm-scale thermal management, energy transport and information processing devices. Its key target is to gather specialists from the international phonons community to debrief the main fields in phonons-related areas expected to have strong technological and scientific impacts in the near and long-term future.                   

TOPICS involved:

    * Energy Conversion

    * Micro to Nanoscale thermal management

    * Phononic crystals

    * Photon-phonon interactions

    * Electron-phonon interactions in low dimensions

    * Phonons in Metrology and in Biology

    * Coherent acoustic phonons and Phonon sources

    * Phonon-polaritons transport

Prof. Gammaitoni is presenting a talk on wednesday 26 entitled "Non-equilibrium thermal noise: putting thermal fluctuations at work"

Download the presentation given by Prof. Gammaitoni here:

Helios Vocca, NiPS lab, has been awarded with the national prize for "science communication" by APRE.

We will celebrate this prize with a public event, to be held at the Caffè di Perugia (Corso Vannucci, Perugia, Italy) on Saturday May 22 at 18.00.

Below please find the invitation

Wisepower srl (www.wisepower.it) a spin-off company of NiPS Laboratory at the University of Perugia has been selected among the italian companies to represent Italy as an example of innovation at the expo shanghai 2010 world exhibition.

Wisepower srl is aimed at the design and prototyping of a new class of energy generators for mobile devices. This mission originates from the discovery, made in the university laboratory, of a new technology that significantly improves the performances of a wide class of electric power generators. Based on this new technology and on the long-standing experience of the inventors in research activities, they decided to give birth to a company aimed at applying this technology to designing micro energy generators for mobile devices.

Informations on the list of selected companies is available at the italian ministry web site: http://www.innovazionepa.gov.it/lazione-del-ministro/eventi-e-progetti/shanghai-2010/italia-degli-innovatori-la-selezione.aspx

The competition web site where all the innovative companies are listed is managed by the high tech review WIRED at: www.italianvalley.it.

If you want to support our company please go to: http://www.italianvalley.it/ProjectDetail/200/2/Generatori-multitask-per-gli-ambienti-urbani-.aspx and vote with 5 stars!

The italian daily news service "Il Sussidiario.net" interviews Luca Gammaitoni on the activities of NiPS.

Link to the interview (in italian): http://www.ilsussidiario.net/articolo.aspx?articolo=82866

NiPS lab, together with other three laboratories has submitted a proposal for a Coordinated Action activity under FPVII of the European Commission. The proposal, entitled ZEROPOWER (Co-ordinating Research Efforts Towards Zero-Power ICT) is aimed at networking research activities in the field of energy efficient ICT, as reported in the proposal abstract:

The goal of this proposal is to create a coordination activity among consortia involved in “Toward Zero-Power ICT” funded projects and communities of scientists interested in low power, energy efficient ICT, aimed at assessing the impact of our research efforts and proposing measures to increase the visibility of ICT-Energy related initiatives to the scientific community, targeted industries and to the public at large through exchange of information, dedicated networking events and media campaigns. The ZEROPOWER activities will inspire more research projects in this emerging area by generating broader acceptance for the developed technology and the benefits of its applications. ZEROPOWER will facilitate broader interaction and feedback among the “Toward Zero-Power ICT” consortia members and stakeholders, thereby, consolidating progress in the field. Positive benefits to the European Community are foreseen in all great challenges of energy, security, environment and health by developing a strategic research agenda in low power, energy efficient ICT and making it happen.

The proposal has been submitted under the FET Proactive ICT Call 6 (FP7-ICT-2009-6) and the groups participating are: 

• Università di Perugia, UNIPG (IT) (Coordinator)
• University College Cork, National University of Ireland, TNI-UCC (IR)
• Universitat Autònoma de Barcellona, UAB (SP)
• University of Glasgow, UGLA (UK)

New video available form NiPS. Check it out here: http://www.nipslab.org/node/205

The FET Proactive EC funded project NANOPOWER starts officially on Aug 1, 2010.

The NANPOWER project sees the participation of 6 research teams form 5 different countries:

• Università di Perugia UNIPG (IT) Coordinator
• Julius-Maximilians Universitaet Wuerzburg UWUERZ (DE)
• Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus VTT (FI)
• Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology ICN (ES)
• Universite de Geneve   UNIGE (CH)
• Università di Camerino   UNICAM (IT)

The goal of NANOPOWER is the design and realization of energy efficient new concept ICT devices as stated in the Proposal abstract:

Nanoscale energy management is a new, exciting field that is gaining increasing importance with the realization that a new generation of micro-to-nanoscale devices aimed at sensing, processing, actuating and communication will not be possible without solving the powering issue. The scientific objective of this project is thus to study energy efficiency with the specific aim of identifying new directions for energy-harvesting technologies at the nanometre and molecular scale. The technological objective of the project is to integrate such technologies into autonomous nanoscale systems to allow new, low-power ICT architectures to find their way into devices. In a joint effort, the NANOPOWER consortium composed by word leading experts in the fabrication of Si and III-V semiconductor nanodevices, fundamental and applied modelling as well as design and integration of ICT architectures will fabricate, test and evaluate new challenging prototype devices: “nanomechanical nonlinear oscillators”, “phonon rectifiers” and “quantum harvesters”, addressing applied prototypes and non-equilibrium processes down to the quantum level.

The project has a duration of three years (2010-2013) and a total budget of over 3 M€

The popular Italian weekly magazine Anna (RCS Group) talks about NiPS activity in a brief interview realized by journalist Erika Riggi with NiPS Director Luca Gammaitoni.

This week in the newspaper stands.

The NiPS laboratory presented the research ideas and perspective about energy harvesting during the workshops organized last Tuesday, march the 30^th, by Finmeccanica Corporate in Rome.

The workshop focused on energy harvesting  and scavenging for portable devices and the possible collaboration between the research word and industries and private entrepreneurs. Helios Vocca of the NiPS Lab described the great capabilities of the nonlinear devices to convert noise into electric power. 

Maurizio Melis, scientific journalist, interviews Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS on Radio 24.

(in italian) clic here to listen (mp3)

NiPS with the Department of Physics of the University of Perugia, promote the first Micro-Energy day.

An entire day of events addressed to the experts and the general public aimed at exploring the energy processes at micro and nano scale.Discovering the physics of the so called middle world leads to some unexpected and surprising processes that can become a source of energy for nano-machines and zero-power devices.

The Brownian motions of molecules are an example of these processes together with all the imperceptible and chaotic vibrations of the bodies all around us. All this movement can become a source of energy for micro sensors or nano robot, devices that in the future could be used to monitor the environment parameters or to diagnose human health conditions.

How to use the middle world energy? What economical and social impact should we expect from these new kinds of sustainable energy?

These questions will be addressed through science communication events organised during the day.

A lunch seminar within the programme “A pranzo con la fisica”talks,  will be organised at the Department of Physics in Perugia to talk about the efficiency in thermoelectric processes.  

A science cafè will be held in the afternoon (17.30) at the Caffè di Perugia, in the city centre (Corso Vannucci) to engage general public with the energy in nano-sciences. A science communicator (Leonardo Alfonsi) will dialogue with the public and three scientists: a physicist (Luca Gammaitoni) a chemist (Antonio Sgamellotti) and an engineer (Franco Cotana). 

During the day science communication gadgets will be distributed in different points of the city to reach and disseminate   the idea of zero-power devices among a wide audience. 

Dr. Joseph Kovalik from JPL Pasadena and Wisepower Corporation, USA, visited our laboratory on Feb. 16 to discuss future scientific collaboration.

In this picture Helios Vocca from NiPS presents recent developments in our high sensitivity displacement facility, for measuring thermal noise - mechanical losses in the optics of the Virgo gravitational wave interferometer.

More pictures available at our Facebook web site.

Our paper 

Universal and reconfigurable logic gates in a compact three-terminal resonant tunneling diode
L. Worschech, F. Hartmann, T. Y. Kim, S. Höfling, M. Kamp, A. Forchel, J. Ahopelto, I. Neri, A. Dari, and L. Gammaitoni
Applied Physics Letters   96, 042112 (2010) (3 pages) 

(Download the paper here: http://www.nipslab.org/files/ApplPhysLett_96_042112.pdf)

has been selected for the February 15, 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology: scitation.aip.org/nano/#MAJOR1

Luca Gammaitoni, director of NiPS will participate to the "Disruptive Solutions for Energy Efficient ICT" consultation workshop organized by the European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate Unit F1 - Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) - Proactive.

The meeting takes place in Brussels, February 8th and 9th, 2010.

More information on FET Proactive available here: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/home_en.html

NiPS Laboratory in collaboration with Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology and Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT presents a proposal for FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE CANDIDATE entitled:

Harnessing Fluctuations: phononics and thermal energy management at the nanoscale for emerging ICT

FET Flagship Initiatives are proposed to be visionary, science and goal-driven large-scale European ICT research initiatives nucleated from FET but cascading into various scientific and technological areas of different maturity, from long term to more technology driven research. Built on established strengths of European research, FET Flagships are envisioned as long term initiatives, each on a budget of around 100 M€ Euros per year. 

More information available at: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/flagshipconsult2009_en.html

On Jan. 4, 2010, Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS has visited Prof. Gabriel Abadal Berini laboratory at the Dept. d’Enginyeria Electrònica, Escola d'Enginyeria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Bellaterra (Spain).

Prof. Abadal Berini laboratory is involved in studying mems (micro electro mechanical systems) and nems (nano ...) with specific attention to the energy transformation processes.

Prof. Berini has granted his participation as one of the teachers at the 2010 NiPS Summer School devoted to  "Energy Harvesting at micro and nanoscale", to be held in Umbria (Italy) on Aug 1-8 2010.

NiPS Lab hits the local headlines with a journalist report (in Italian) on the recent patent deposited in collaboration with the University of Wurzburg in the framework of the E.C. funded project SUBTLE.

Settegiorni Umbria, http://www.umbriasettegiorni.it/

(Lukas Worschech, Wurzburg University, Coordinator of the SUBTLE project)

Luca Gammaitoni has represented NiPS lab at the SUBTLE final review meeting, held in Brussels on Dec. 1st, 2009.

The six SUBTLE partners have presented to the EC and to the referees the major achievements of the third period of activity and of the project as a whole.
Great satisfaction among all the partners for the very positive reaction of the EC officers and of the referees appointed by EC. Congratulations have been expressed to Lukas Worschech for the excellent coordination and to all the partners for the outstanding results achieved.

more on: http://subtle.fisica.unipg.it/final-review-meeting-in-brussels-1st-december-2009

The final review meeting of the three years EC founded project SUBTLE will be held in Brussels on Dec. 1st, 2009.

The project has seen NiPS laboratory to cooperate with 7 european partners for the design and realization of SUB KT TRANSISTORS AND SENSORS.

On Dec. 1st the final review of the project ended on Sept. 30 2009, will have the follwowing agenda:

10:00-10.20: Introduction by coordinator: overview and general aspects
10.20 -12.00: Technical presentation: 15 min for each WP + 5 min discussion given by WP leaders
                   WP1: Theory of electrical switching and sensing
                   WP2: Technologies for subthermal switching devices
                   WP3: EC feedback and single SR devices
                   WP4: Multiterminal nodes
                   WP5: Sensors & noise enhanced switching
13.00-13.20: summary by coordinator
13.20-13.40: management + financial status
13.40-15:00: general discussion + reviewer consulting
 

Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS Laboratory will report on progresses on WP5: Sensors & noise enhanced switching

More details on the project are available at the project website: http://subtle.fisica.unipg.it/
 

More than one hundred people attended the conference on the energy harvesting  paradigm and technical innovations, held last Saturday, November the 14th, in the Carnaiola Castle by Doctor Helios Vocca of the NiPS Laboratory. The talk delivered by Vocca invited the audience to explore the concept of energy harvesting through a wide range of examples and applications in the field of wireless sensors networks.
The conference was presented within the cultural events programme linked to the exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci machines collection: “Leonardo da Vinci,Uomo-Genio-Inventore” open in Carnaiola from the 31st of October to the 22nd of November.
 

   presentation

On December 1, 2009 the Final Review meeting of the EC founded project SUBTLE will be held in Brussels.

The 6 groups that have contributed to this 3 years program are:

- Microstructure Laboratory at Würzburg University, Germany
- VTT Micro and Nanoelectronics of the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Nanometer Structure Consortium (nmC) at Lund University, Sweden
- University of Geneva, Mesoscopic physics group, Switzerland
- Noise in Physical Systems (NiPS) Laboratory at the Physics Department of University of Perugia, Italy
- XENOS Semiconductor Technologies GmbH, Germany
 

More details on the project web site: http://subtle.fisica.unipg.it/

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AGENDA FOR FINAL SUBTLE REVIEW
      10:00-10.20: Introduction by coordinator: overview and general aspects
      10.20 -12.00: Technical presentation: 15 min for each WP + 5 min discussion given by WP leaders
                   WP1: Theory of electrical switching and sensing
                   WP2: Technologies for subthermal switching devices
                   WP3: EC feedback and single SR devices
                   WP4: Multiterminal nodes
                   WP5: Sensors & noise enhanced switching
13.00-13.20: summary by coordinator
13.20-13.40: management + financial status
13.40-15:00: general discussion + reviewer consulting

Just ended the scientific exhibition “In praise of noise” organized by NiPS laboratory, Università di Perugia, at the Genova Science Festival 2009. The exhibition present the role of noise in our ordinary life and shows those sides of noise that are less known to the large public. Unconventional phenomena like Stochastic Resonance and Noise Activated Nonlinear Sensors are discussed within an “educational” framework with the help of posters, audiovisual installations and exhibits. 

Pictures available at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2028103

Akaroa (NZ), 25 Oct, 2009

Luca Gammaitoni form NiPS met Adi Bulsara (SPAWAR San Diego) and Salvo Baglio (Università di Catania) to discuss future collaboration plans on the subject of nonlinear energy harvesting.

images available at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2027091&id=1335139803&l=307a113e18

NiPS participates to the 8th Annual IEEE Conference on Sensors, IEEE SENSORS 2009

25-28 October 2009
Christchurch Convention Centre

Christchurch, New Zealand

On sunday Oct 25, L. Gammaitoni has presented a tutorial talk entitled: Noise Harvesting for Powering Autonomous Micro/Nano Sensors.

Details on the presentation are available here: http://www.ieee-sensors2009.org/tutorials/noise.html

On October 22 2009, NiPS visited the Optics and Photonic center of ASTRI (Hong Kong Applised Science and Technology Research Institute). During the visit L. Gammaitoni presented the activity of NiPS in the field of nonlinear energy harvesting. Dr. Ivan Sham Man Lungh introduced his group and the research on vibration energy harvesting in view of potential collaboration between the two groups.

Pictures of the meeting are available at:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2026700&id=1335139803&l=48ad84b3b5

16 October 2009, Bruxell

At the Sheraton airport hotel, NiPS has organized the first meeting of the NANOPOWER Consortium.

At the meeting were present C. Sotomayor Torres, J. Ahopelto, L. Worschech (in the picture), L. Gammaitoni and, remotely connected, M. Buttiker and F. Marchesoni.

The meeting has been devoted to a wide and profitable dicussion on the next-to-be-submitted proposal on Nanoscale energy management for powering ICT devices (NANOPOWER).

The last SUBTLE meeting has been held in Würzburg at the "Mercure Hotel" on September 21-22 2009.

SUBTLE (Sub KT Transistors nad Sensors) is an EC VI FP project. For more info see the SUBTLE web site: http://subtle.fisica.unipg.it/

NiPS Laboratory presented to the Physics Department the proposal for the participation to the funding call of Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia.

Here please find the slides:

Luca Salvioli (Il Sole 24 ore) writes about the role of noises in human life. NiPS lab Director Luca Gammaitoni is interviewed (in Italian). Download the pdf file.

See also: http://www.ilsole24ore.com/dossier/Tempo%20libero%20e%20Cultura/IL/

Nips laboratory has organized a session entitled: Electromagnetic Noise Exploitation: from Stochastic Resonance to Energy Harvesting at the Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium in Moscow, Russia, from the 18th to the 21st of August, 2009.

Pictures of the moscow conference available at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2021487&id=1335139803&l=757d03773fwww.facebook.com/album.php

Helios Vocca, from NiPS, has led a team of scientists that has announced that a complete payload equipped with a Fused Silica VIRGO mirror has been successfully suspended in the new clean room at the 1500 West building in Cascina, Italy.
The suspension is a complete final Virgo+ configuration.

The proposal received also the interest of a US based research group at the University of Arizona, led by prof. W. Ditto. 

Info available on www.wisepower.it

Luca Gammaitoni and Helios Vocca met in Catania with S. Baglio and his research group at the University in order to discuss further developments of the PRIN2007 research project "Innovative microsystems based on nonlinear dynamics for improved energy harvesting from ambient vibrations". At the meeting was also present A. R. Bulsara from SPAWAR San Diego (USA).

The PRIN2007 project is approaching its first year term in a two years total duration.

In the picture (from left): H. Vocca, A. Bulsara, L. Gammaitoni

John Robinson (FOA, SV), L. Gammaitoni (NiPS, IT), A. Bulsara (SPAWAR, USA)

Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS lab will be among the speakers at the Workshop on "Towards Zero-Power ICT" (2zeroP) co-organized in Brussels by the FP7 NANO-ICT coordination Action and the FET Proactive unit.

In preparation of the upcoming call 5, the aim of the workshop is to stimulate the scientific community to broaden and deepen its understanding of the objective "Towards Zero-Power ICT" (2zeroP), by elaborating the specific research challenges and their possible solutions in an interactive workshop.

The aim of the workshop is to elaborate a shared understanding of visions and opportunities related to the 2zeroP objective and to provide a background document giving inspiration to researchers interested in engaging in this new FET research area. For this purpose speakers will be invited to present their own ideas on the research challenges, solutions and opportunities related to this area. The meeting will be open for anybody interested and ample time for discussion will be provided.

More info available here!

NiPS Lab presents a talk entitled "Noise Harvesting" at the international conference ICNF2009 (http://www.icnf2009.org/) on Noise and Fluctuations.

Download the conference proceedings here!

On tuesday June 9, Luca Gammaitoni presented a talk entitled "Elogio del rumore: dalla risonanza stocastica al energy harvesting".

Here please find the presentation slide collection.

On tuesday June 9, Luca Gammaitoni will present a talk entitled "Elogio del rumore: dalla risonanza stocastica al energy harvesting".

From 16:00 to 18:00
at Dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi ( Aula Conversi ), Università la Sapienza, Roma

Download the presentation! (Elogio-del-rumore-energy-harvesting-Roma.pdf)

Dal Corriere dell'Umbria del 19-5-2009.

Daniela Querci racconta dell'ultimo incontro del terzo ciclo di "A pranzo con la Fisica".

Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS Lab is the masterclass teacher at the Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe 2009 conference. 2-5 June 2009, Cambridge (UK)

NiPS Laboratory and Perugia Science Festival are glad to invite you to "aperitivo con la scienza":

Giacinto Scoles (SISSA Trieste e Princeton University) will talk on "Nanotecnologie e Medicina".

Introduction by L. Gammaitoni (NiPS Lab, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia).

Perugia, Rocca Paolina, Sala Cannoniera. Sunday May 10, 17:30.
 

Maurizio Melis at Radio24 (http://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/) interviews L. Gammaitoni and L. Alfonsi on the NiPS laboratory activities.

On air: Saturday May 9 at 20.00 and Sunday May 10 at 23.00 (CET) - Listen Now (in italian)

The next SUBTLE meeting will be held in Perugia from 11th to 12th of May 2009.

The meeting of the project will be held at the Hotel Giò.

For information please check the project website: http://subtle.fisica.unipg.it/

Il Noise in Physical System Laboratory del Dipartimento di Fisica è lieto di invitarvi a
pranzo con la Fisica.
Durante il pasto frugale a base di panini, pizza e bevande analcoliche, gentilmente offerte
dal laboratorio NiPS, si potrà seguire un interessante seminario scientifico sui temi più
attuali della FISICA CONTEMPORANEA.

Il quinto appuntamento del 2009 è per Mercoledì 22 aprile, 2009 dalle ore 13.15 alle ore 14.30
Presso l’aula A del Dipartimento di Fisica, in via Elce di Sotto, a Perugia.

Il Prof. Piergiorgio Cerello della sezione INFN di Torino presenta il seminario dal titolo:

In cerca di strutture nel mondo delle immagini

Le tecnologie di imaging in medicina, sia morfologiche che funzionali, producono immagini sempre più accurate e utili alla formulazione di una diagnosi. Le immagini digitali rendono inoltre possibile lo sviluppo di algoritmi che, tramite un'analisi automatizzata, formulino una ipotesi diagnostica, individuando anomalie da sottoporre all'attenzione del radiologo. I modelli basati su colonie di formiche virtuali, che consentono di segmentare oggetti di forma ignota ed irregolare, sono stati applicati all'analisi di tomografie del polmone e forniscono prestazioni interessanti nella identificazione di noduli di interesse radiologico. Inoltre, si prospettano come uno strumento potenzialmente utile nell'analisi di strutture cerebrali a partire da immagini MRI e - in futuro - PET/MRI.
 

NiPS Lab is on today edition of Corriere dell'Umbria at p.23 thanks to an interesting reportage by italian journalist Daniela Querci (www.scienzeinumbria.blogspot.com).

Read the article: http://www.nipslab.org/files/CORR_PG_023.pdf

New pictures of the NiPS members are available here, from the NiPS Facebook site.

Complexity Digest 2009.06

NiPS Laboratory recent publication of a Physical Review Letters paper (http://www.nipslab.org/files/PhysRevLett_102_080601.pdf) has found a significant echo on the international newslines...

See e.g.:

Physics World: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/38102

Corriere della Sera: http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=55866843558&h=Sf2Y2&u=CNJKV&re...

Vietnam: http://thuvienvatly.com/home/content/view/1953/242/

Corea: http://www.yeskisti.net/yesKISTI/Briefing/Trends/View.jsp?cn=GTB20090302...

American Physical Society: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v2/23

Linee di Scienza: http://lineediscienza.linxedizioni.it/2009/02/26/la-risonanza-stocastica...

Cervello e modelli frattali sono i protagonisti del secondo appuntamento del ciclo "A pranzo con la fisica". Mercoledì prossimo alle 13.15 presso l'aula A del Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Perugia il Prof. Giuseppe Vitiello fisico dell'Università di Salerno presenta i risultati di studi recenti sull'applicazione di modelli frattali alla dinamica neuronale. Per conoscere in maggior dettaglio i contenuti dell'intervento del Prof. Vitiello è possibile consultare la pagina dedicata all'iniziativa "A pranzo con la fisica".

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Mercoledì 11 marzo, alle ore 13.15, riprende l'iniziativa "A pranzo con la Fisica" ormai giunta alla terza edizione.

Nel primo appuntamento  Silvia Bencivelli medico di formazione e giornalista scientifica della redazione di Radio3Scienza, terrà un seminario sul tema:

" Parlami di Scienza Mariù"

Perché Mariù, o chiunque altro, dovrebbe parlare di scienza? Chi è che la dovrebbe ascoltare? Un tempo
si  diceva  che  la  scienza  è  bella  e  solo  per  questo  merita  di  essere  conosciuta.  E  poi,  si  pensava,  chi  la conosce  sa  apprezzarne  sforzi  e  risultati  e  capisce  la  necessità  di  sostenerla.  Per  cui  si  individuava  una figura professionale e la si incaricava di rendere il volgo un po’ meno volgo, con “somministrazioni” mirate di  concetti  scientifici  semplificati.    Oggi  le  cose  non  funzionano  più  così  e  il  ruolo  di  comunicare  tocca sempre  più  anche  l’esperienza  professionale  di  un  futuro  ricercatore.  Come  affrontare  questo  nuovo scenario?
Questo  incontro  permetterà  a  studenti  e  docenti  di  confrontarsi  su  questo  tema  e  ascoltare  alcuni  casi esemplari di rapporto fra mondo della ricerca e della comunicazione.

PHYSICS WORLD speaks about wisepower: the innovative energy harvesting technology developed at NiPS Laboratory.

Read the article by James Dacey: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/38102

Is it possible to efficiently harvest ambient vibrational energy in order to power new conception electronic micro and nanodevices?

According to a research just published in Physical Review Letters (Nonlinear Energy Harvesting, F. Cottone; H. Vocca; L. Gammaitoni, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 080601 (2009)) a new technique based on the exploitation of nonlinear oscillators opens up a new scenario in energy harvesting.

Ambient energy harvesting has been in recent years the recurring object of a number of research efforts aimed at providing an autonomous solution to the powering of small-scale electronic mobile devices. Among the different solutions, vibration energy harvesting has played a major role due to the almost universal presence of mechanical vibrations.
In a recent research conducted at the Noise in Physical Systems (N.i.P.S) Laboratory at the Physics Department of the University of Perugia (Italy) L. Gammaitoni and his co-workers developed a new method based on the exploitation of the dynamical features of stochastic nonlinear oscillators. They have shown that such a method can outperform standard linear oscillators and overcomes some of the most severe limitations of existing approaches.

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The Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium will be held in Moscow, Russia, from the 18th to the 21st of August, 2009.
Professor Luca Gammaitoni (NiPS laboratory) is organizing a special session of the conference entitled: Electromagnetic Noise Exploitation: from Stochastic Resonance to Energy Harvesting.
In the recent years it has been observed a growing interest in the potential exploitation of e.m. noise. From nanoscale systems operation to energy harvesting for powering autonomous electronic micro devices, noise is gaining new attention for its potentially beneficial role. This PIERS session is the place where different competences coming from different fields can meet in a high quality scientific environment. Interested contributors are invited to submit their abstract. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 20 February, 2009.

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NiPS laboratory will participate to the next SUBTLE meeting in Malta from Thursday 5th to Friday 6th of February. The meeting of the project is the first of the third year period and will be held at the Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Hotel Group in Malta.

SUBTLE is the acronym for SUB kT Low Energy transistors and sensors, a project that aims at introducing a completely new class of electronic devices characterized by two strategic features: nano-scale physical dimensions combined with nonlinear dynamics characteristics providing noise enhanced functioning.
The physics of nano-scale electronic devices is a very active and competitive field internationally. The project partners, among which the NiPS lab, believe that the innovative approach based on the tailored combination of noise and nonlinearity will result in a strong impact for the entire field.
Next Friday, the 12th of December, a meeting of the international SUBTLE research team will be held in Brussels to analyse the state of the art of the project and to discuss the future development of this field. A representative from the NiPS lab will be in Brussels to present the research developed and the results reached at the Physic Department of the Perugia University.
 

La ricerca del NiPS lab in onda su Radio3 Scienza. Pietro Greco intervista Luca Gammaitoni nella puntata del 5 dicembre in diretta dalle 10.50 alle 11.30 su RAI Radio 3.
Alla scoperta di come è possibile trasformare il rumore in energia scoprendo uno dei molti lati positivi di vibrazioni e ronzii.

È possibile porre domande su questo tema e sul rumore in generale, inviando un sms al numero 335 5634296 o un messaggio all’indirizzo di posta elettronica radio3scienza@rai.

L'intervista di Pietro Greco a Luca Gammaitoni

The noise contest is now open.

What does noise suggest to you? An image, an acoustic experience? The Nipslab is creating an archive with different examples of noises in terms of images and sounds. You can take a picture, collect an image, record a sound track and submit it to our lab. The noisy committee composed by members of Nipslab will choose the best ideas that will be published on the website. 

Visit the Noise Contest section of our webpage and add your contribution. The published proposals will be awarded with a T-shirt "La scienza fa rumore".

Si è svolto oggi l'ultimo appuntamento della serie autunnale di A pranzo con la fisica. Nell'incontro dal titolo Il calore nella finanza Il Prof. Franco Moriconi della Facoltà di Economia di Perugia ha illustrato la teoria diffusiva del calore applicata ai mercati finanziari. L'incontro è stato un'occasione per scoprire i collegamenti fra modelli fisici e finanza ed esplorare possibili sbocchi professionali per laureati in fisica.

Il calore nella finanza

Quarto appuntamento di A pranzo con la fisica. Dopo il consueto buffet che precede i seminari organizzati dal laboratorio NiPS, è Alessandro Farini  dell’ Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata del C.N.R. a dialogare con studenti, professori e pubblico su Luce, colore e visione. Un tema che da sempre affascina scienziati esperti in vari campi, dalla fisica alle neuroscienze. Tanto interessanti per quanto complessi i meccanismi che regolano la visione umana sono al centro delle ricerche di base e  delle applicazioni tecnologiche illustrate nell’incontro in programma il 5 novembre a partire dalle 13.15 presso l’aula A del Dipartimento di Fisica.

Luce, colore e visione

Il laboratorio NiPS incontra il mondo dell’impresa in occasione di Technodays 2008.
La ricerca e l'innovazione tecnologica saranno al centro di workshop, seminari, tavole rotonde ed esposizioni il 30 e il 31 ottobre durante la manifestazione Tecnodays 2008 - Ricerca & Innovazione. Un appuntamento con le imprese, il sistema della ricerca e gli attori locali nel campo dell’innovazione tecnologica, organizzato da Umbria Innovazione, Universita' degli Studi di Perugia e il Club per la Ricerca di Confindustria Umbria. La manifestazione - giunta ormai alla sesta edizione  si svolgera' presso il Centro Linguistico di Ateneo in Via Enrico Dal Pozzo. 

Invito
 

Proseguono gli appuntamenti divulgativi organizzati dal laboratorio NiPS. Il terzo incontro della serie A pranzo con la  fisica prevede l’intervento della dott.ssa Francesca Marcucci del Centro Nazionale Meteorologia e Climatologia Aeronautica di Roma. Nel corso del seminario che si tiene il 29 ottobre presso l’aula A del Dipartimento di Fisica a partire dalle 13.00, vengono illustrate le metodologie più recenti nel campo delle previsioni del tempo. Nell’incontro si ricostruisce il passaggio dai metodi deterministici agli approcci probabilistici e si presenta una panoramica dei sistemi di analisi dati che servono a elaborare previsioni meteorologiche.

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Presentazione

Noisy Science. Questo è il titolo delle attività che Il 24 e 25 ottobre il laboratorio NiPS presenta al Festival della Scienza di Genova in collaborazione con Perugia Science Fest. Per due giornate, nel cuore di Genova a Palazzo Ducale, istallazioni e dimostrazioni consentiranno al pubblico del festival di esplorare la scienza del rumore. Dal rumore acustico a quello termico il NiPS lab presenta una zona interattiva per scoprire un inatteso zoo di rumori. Le due giornate s’inseriscono nella sezione W/E/S 2008  - Wonders Euscea Science Festival, un appuntamento europeo che da tre anni presenta le migliori pratiche nel panorama europeo delle manifestazioni dedicate alla cultura scientifica e che nel maggio 2009 si svolgerà a Perugia.

Programma delle giornate

È in corso la seconda edizione di A pranzo con la fisica.
Il ciclo di seminari divulgativi, organizzato con successo lo scorso anno dal laboratorio NiPS, ritorna ogni mercoledì per quattro settimane consecutive a partire dal 15 ottobre. Alcuni dei temi più attuali della ricerca in campo fisico sono presentati  in un’atmosfera resa conviviale dal buffet che precede ogni appuntamento. Un modo per stimolare il confronto su temi di cultura scientifica fra studenti, curiosi e ricercatori, in un contesto informale.
Oltre  che un appuntamento divulgativo A pranzo con la fisica è un’occasione per  favorire il dialogo fra esperti in diversi campi della ricerca scientifica. 
Il prossimo appuntamento, previsto per mercoledì 22 ottobre alle 13.00 presso l’aula A del dipartimento di Fisica,  sarà dedicato alla computazione quantistica realizzata attraverso l’uso di fotoni e di tecniche di ottica lineare. A parlarne sarà il Prof. Paolo Mataloni del Dipartimento di Fisica dell’ Università La Sapienza di Roma.

Programma

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"Computazione quantistica con i fotoni" - Mataloni (PDF)

Meno dodici. Mancano poco meno di due settimane all’inaugurazione delle mostre inserite nel programma culturale del congresso Stochastic Resonance 2008. La mostra scientifico didattica Elogio del rumore e l’esposizione fotografica L’arte del rumore saranno inaugurate durante il vernissage del 20 agosto alle 19.00 presso l’Abbazia di San Pietro a Perugia. Inserite nel programma della sesta edizione del Perugia Science Fest sarà possibile visitarle fino al 14 settembre.
Istallazioni interattive che costituiscono un ponte tra laboratorio ed esperienza quotidiana sono le protagoniste della mostra Elogio del Rumore mentre scatti in bianco e nero dell’artista Frank Dituri creano una galleria di immagini e suggestioni che uniscono scienza e arte ispirate dal rumore.

Elogio del rumore

L'arte del rumore

Il laboratorio NiPS presenta oggi alle ore 11.00 presso la Sala Rossa del Palazzo dei Priori a Perugia il programma della conferenza internazionale Stochastic Resonance 2008.
Il Prof. Gammaitoni illustra ai giornalisti i temi dei seminari che dal 17 al 21 agosto verranno approfonditi nel corso del congresso, dalla risonanza stocastica nei cambiamenti climatici locali e globali agli studi in campo biomedico. Il meeting organizzato dal laboratorio NiPS si preannuncia come una ricca rassegna di risultati degli ultimi dieci anni di attività e delinea un panorama denso di nuove linee di ricerca.

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Giovedì 10 aprile, 2008 alle ore 12.00
Presso l’aula riunioni del Dipartimento di Fisica
In via Elce di Sotto, a Perugia.

La Dottoressa Els Heinsalu
del National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics University of Tartu, Institute of Physics, Estonia.

terrà un seminario sul tema:

Anomalously slow diffusion in force fields

Nel corso di un incontro promosso dalla Commissione Europea il 30 gennaio a Bruxelles il Prof. Luca Gammaitoni ha presentato le sfide e le potenzialità offerte dallo sviluppo di nano-apparecchiature alimentate grazie all'uso del rumore.
Un'occasione che proietta l'attività di ricerca e sviluppo del NiPS Laboratory nel panorama europeo delle nanotecnologie e della ricerca di base.

L'iniziativa è inserita nel programma FET - Future and Emerging Technologies, per lo sviluppo delle tecnologie nel campo dell'informazione e della comunicazione. Un programma che attraverso l'iniziativa FET proactive intende stimolare approcci nuovi, non convenzionali e ricerche di base in campi legati ai bisogni sociali e industriali emergenti.

L'intervento del Prof. Gammaitoni è disponibile in formato ppt.

Si è conclusa il 6 febbraio la serie di appuntamenti dal titolo A pranzo con la Fisica organizzati dal Noise in Physical Systems Laboratory. Il Prof. Vincenzo Carbone del Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università della Calabria ha tenuto il seminario conclusivo ripercorrendo le tappe fondamentali della ricerca nel campo delle turnolenze nei fluidi a terra e nei plasmi spaziali. Dalle domande geniali di Leonardo da Vinci sui gorghi nei corsi d'acqua, alle teorie di Kolmogorov il seminario ha illustrato i problemi risolti e le molte questioni ancora aperte, alcune delle quali legate alla possibilità di realizzare processi di fusione nucleare.

La presentazione completa del Prof.Carbone è disponibile in fomato pdf

GWDAW 12 (Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop) MIT Boston - 2007 Dec 13-16

Leone Bosi presents a talk entitled "Status of Virgo"

Talk available in pdf and ppt format.

Il quarto appuntamento della serie "A pranzo con la Fisica" è fissato per domani, mercoledì 19 dicembre 2007, ore 13.15-14.30, aula A del Dipartimento di Fisica.
Il seminario, aperto a tutti gli afferenti interessati ed anche agli studenti di Fisica, sarà svolto dal Prof. Carlo Presilla del Dipartimento di Fisica dell' Università di Roma "La Sapienza", sul tema:

"Probabilistic representation of quantum systems, and not only"

Il Noise in Physical System Laboratory del nostro Dipartimento di Fisica è lieto di invitarvi a pranzo con la Fisica.
Mercoledì 5 dicembre, 2007 dalle ore 13.15 alle ore 14.30
Presso l’aula A del Dipartimento di Fisica
In via Elce di Sotto, a Perugia.

Il Prof. Luca Gammaitoni del Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Perugia, terrà un seminario sul tema:

" Elogio del disordine"

Il Noise in Physical System Laboratory del nostro Dipartimento di Fisica è lieto di invitarvi a pranzo con la Fisica.
Mercoledì 21 novembre, 2007 dalle ore 13.15 alle ore 14.30
Presso l’aula A del Dipartimento di Fisica
In via Elce di Sotto, a Perugia.

Il Prof. Giovanni Carlotti del Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Perugia, terrà un seminario sul tema:

" L'Hard Disk ha vinto il Nobel !?"

Stochastic Resonance 2008 (1998SR2008), Perugia, Italy, Aug. 17 - 21, 2008

ORGANIZED BY
N.i.P.S Laboratory
Dipartimento di Fisica – Università di Perugia.

for information: www.stochastic-resonance.org

In preparazione al meeting di Review annuale del progetto SUBTLE, Anna Dari terrà un seminario introduttivo sulla tematica delle eterostrutture dal titolo: Caratterizzazione delle strutture "Y-branch" in vista di possibili applicazioni alla sensoristica

Il seminario si terrà giovedì 8/11 alle ore 10.00 in sala riunioni.

Disponibili le slide in formato .ppt e .pdf

Il Noise in Physical System Laboratory del nostro Dipartimento di Fisica è lieto di invitarvi a pranzo con la Fisica.
Durante il pasto (frugalmente concepito a base di panini, pizza e bevande analcoliche gentilmente offerte da noi) avrete la possibilità di seguire un interessante seminario scientifico sui temi di maggiore interesse della FISICA CONTEMPORANEA. 

Il primo appuntamento di una serie di cinque seminari è per

Mercoledì 7 novembre, 2007 dalle ore 13.30 alle ore 14.30
Presso l’aula A del Dipartimento di Fisica
In via Elce di Sotto, a Perugia.

Il Dr. Ciro Cattuto del ISI (Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation) di Torino, terrà un seminario sul tema:

"Social information processing on the web"

La fisica non-lineare e la teoria del caos spiegata ai profani

Dipartimento di Chimica, Aula E, ore 16.00 - October 19, 2007.
Link all'iniziativa "I Venerdi' della Scienza"
In italian

Poipu Beach, Koloa (Kauai), Hawaii, (USA) September 24-27 2007

International Conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics - ICAND2007.

Invited speaker (L. Gammaitoni) on Wednesday Sept. 26 presents a talk entitled Magnetic Field Nonlinear Nano-detectors

Informations available at: http://www.icand2007.org

Today L. Bosi announced the release of the Virgo book keeping and metadata DataBase.
The Virgo Database Web User interface is now available: http://virgo.pg.infn.it/VDB
With this new application it is possible to interface and handle the VIRGO Bookkeeping and Segments/Events DATA BASE system.

Helios Vocca at MIT Boston for Workshop on Charging Issues in Experimental Gravity
26-27 July 2007 presents a talk entitled "LISA Charging Research in Perugia and Plans for Virgo"

Talk available in PDF and PPT format.

Invited speaker (L. Gammaitoni) on July 3 will present a talk entitled Noise Limited computational speed

Informations available at: http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~pofffe07/

On May 16, 2007, L. Gammaitoni will briefly present the work done in the NiPS Laboratory for the Virgo experiment and the LISA R&D activity.

Informations available at: INFN Perugia

On May 28, 2007, L. Gammaitoni will present a talk at the "PAW2007. Proteins At Work" international Conference on "Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics as a modeling tool for proteins evolution"
Abstract:
Nonlinear stochastic dynamics basic tools are presented and applied to noise activated complex dynamics of prototype toy-models. Connections to proteins evolution in a fluctuation dominated environment are discussed with a top-down (energy landscape based) approach.

Talk available at: http://www.fisica.unipg.it/nipslab/Gammaitoni-Paw2007.pdf
Informations available at: http://paw2007.fisica.unipg.it

Helios Vocca talks about the new phase (scientific data acquisition) of the Virgo experiment.

Informations on Virgo available at: http://www.virgo.infn.it

The next collaboration meeting of the SUBTLE project will be held in Perugia, Italy on 22 March, 2007.
The meeting will be hosted at the Hotel Gio' in Perugia, Italy.

Informations available at: http://subtle.fisica.unipg.it/SUBTLE/documents/agenda-perugia/

On March 19 at 16:30, L. Gammaitoni will speak at the "Settimana della Scienza" festival on "Perché è difficile predire il futuro? La fisica non-lineare e la teoria del caos spiegata ai profani."

Informations available at: http://www.unipg.it/culturascientifica/

On March 14 at 14.00, L. Gammaitoni is at the Congresso di Diaprtimento of the University of Milano "Bicocca", presenting a talk on "Rumore e dinamica non-lineare: Risonanza Stocastica e altri fenomeni "sorprendenti".

Download the PDF of the presentation.

Starting Friday March 9 we will held a Group Workkshop finalized to present the various research activities in the N.i.P.S Laboratory. The workshop will be hosted at the beautifull medieval Castello di Monterone, in Perugia (see www.castellomonterone.it).
Here please find the agenda of the meeting. All the interested people is welcome to join the meeting.

È possibile trasformare il rumore in energia? Scopriamo insieme uno dei risvolti positivi del rumore con Helios Vocca intervistato sul progetto wisepower nel programma Caterpillar di Radio 2.

Ascolta l'intervista