May 19 2013

Francesco Orfei, from NiPS Lab, participate at the ISCAS 2013 conference in Beijing, China.

The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) is the world's premier networking forum of leading researchers in the highly active fields of theory, design and implementation of circuits and systems.

Francesco Orfei will present the latest results from NiPS Lab on energy harvesting technology applied to power autonomous sensors.

Tues 26th and Weds 27th March 2013 at the EACO (Energy Aware COmputing) workshop series in Bristol, Prof. L. Gammaitoni presented a talk entitled: "Towards zero-power computing". Fundamental limits toward zero-power computing were briefly discussed together with the scientific perspective to bring together software and hardware energy-aware strategies for the future ICT.

The Energy Aware COmputing workshop series was initiated in February 2011 by Dr. Kerstin Eder & Prof. David May of the Microelectronics Research Group. It is supported by the University of Bristol Institute for Advanced Studies and industry sponsorship.Its aim is to bring together researchers and engineers with interests in energy-aware computing for discussions to identify intellectual challenges that can be developed into collaborative research projects. We strive to go significantly beyond the current state of the art.

29 Gennaio 2013

Program of the event

Review 2012: quello che abbiamo fatto
9:30  Introduzione (L. Gammaitoni)
10:00  Helios Vocca
10:15  Flavio Travasso
10:30  Marzia Colombini
10:45  Giulia Orecchini
11:00  Igor Neri
11:15 Coffee break
11:30  Francesco Orfei
11:45  Luca Gammaitoni
12:00  Il finanziamento della ricerca di NiPS (S. Lombardi)
12:15 Outreach (L. Alfonsi)
12:30 lo spin-off: Wisepower srl (V. Bacchettini)
13:00 Pranzo

2013: quello che vogliamo fare
15:00  Gli obiettivi (L. Gammaitoni)
15:30  1) Migliorare la produttività scientifica
16:00  2) Migliorare il rapporto verso gli studenti
16:30 Coffee break
17:00  3) Migliorare la comunicazione
17:30  4) Verso la creazione di un centro di ricerca
18:00  Conclusion

Two new positions available at the NiPS Laboratory, Physics Department of the University of Perugia.

These are "Ricercatore Universitario a Tempo Determinato" (RTD) positions for 3 years (extensible to 2 additional years).

Position 1. 02/B1 – Fisica Sperimentale della materia - PROFILO SSD FIS/03 – Fisica della materia – Progetto A

Research activity in the field of micro and nano experimental electromechanics (MEMS, NEMS). The research activity associated with this position is focussed on the dissipative properties of dynamical system at nanoscale. Dissipation and fluctuations affect the response of mechanical systems at thermal equilibrium. In this research activity it is intended the study of dynamical behaviours far from the thermal equilibrium for systems characterized by a limited number of degrees of freedom (beyond the statistical limits of the Avogadro number). The research covers both experimental and theoretical aspects.

Position 2. 02/B1 – Fisica Sperimentale della materia - PROFILO SSD FIS/01 – Fisica Sperimentale

Research activity in the field of experimental optics (optical interferometry for high sensitivity displacement measurements). The research activity associated with this position is focussed on the dissipative properties of dynamical system at nanoscale. Dissipation and fluctuations affect the response of mechanical systems at thermal equilibrium. In this research activity it is intended the study of dynamical behaviours far from the thermal equilibrium for systems characterized by a limited number of degrees of freedom (beyond the statistical limits of the Avogadro number). The research covers both experimental and theoretical aspects.

Teaching activity foreseen.

Deadline for submission: January 28th 2013

Information available at: http://accounts.unipg.it/~ugrl/wwwnew/concdoc/ricercatori_td.html

Rome, Dec 19-20 2012

The LANDAUER (www.landauer-project.eu) Consortium has held a collaboration meeting in Rome to discuss the project evolution.

Scientific talks on ICT-Energy related topics have been presented by members of the five groups composing the project partnership:

• Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. Coordinator. (NiPS, GHOST laboratories at the Physics Department)
• Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
• Physics of Information Group, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, Netherlands

LANDAUER "Operating ICT basic switches below the Landauer limit" is a EC funded project under the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the ICT theme of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission (Grant Agreement n. 318287).

NiPS 2013 Calendar is now out!

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Perugia 20 Nov. 2012

NiPS Lab organizes a new "A pranzo con la Fisica" special edition devoted to the Physics of Micro energies.

The scientific seminar will be held on Nov. 29 at 13:15 at the Physics Department of the University of Perugia, with the following agenda:

Introduction: La Fisica delle Microenergie (L. Gammaitoni) - slides

- Test del principio di Landauer: un esperimento già fatto (D. Chiucchiù) - slides
- Test del principio di Landauer con nanomagneti (G. Carlotti) - slides
- Microenergie e ICT: energy aware computation (I. Neri) - slides
- Noise harvesting: il vantaggio della dinamica non-lineare (H. Vocca)
- Microenergie e ICT: reti di sensori autonomi (F. Orfei) - slides
- Microenergie e sistemi biologici (D. Fioretto)

The talks will be presented in Italian.

Oct. 26, 2012.

Luca Gammaitoni participated to the Festival della Scienza di Genova, in Italy.

Silvia Bencivelli, science journalist, coordinated a a debate on "Future of Energy" with Kristian Fabbri and Luca Gammaitoni at "sala del Minor Consiglio" in Palazzo Ducale on Oct. 26.