La settimana prossima ci saranno una serie di incontri di fisica a Bari e il primo giorno, martedì 26 settembre, come si evince dal programma, si parlera’ dello scienziato molfettese Giuseppe Saverio Poli.
XXXVII SISFA National Congress – Bari 2017 Programme
26 September 2017 – Tuesday
15.00-18.35 – Palazzo Ateneo, Salone degli Affreschi – Bari, Piazza Umberto I
15.00 Registration
15.30 Opening remarks by institutional representatives Invited talks
16.00 Mauro Di Giandomenico
Fifty years of History of Science in Bari 16.45 Bruno Ghidini
The historical roots of the Department of Physics of Bari (provisional title)
17.30-17.50 Coffee break
17.50 – Salvatore Esposito
Darwin and the others: the reception of Poli’s Testacea outside
Italy and other recent discoveries about the Molfetta scientist
18.35 End of session
18.45 Special evening event: Guided visit in old Bari city
27 September 2017 – Wednesday
9.00-13.25 – Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica “Michelangelo Merlin”, Campus Universitario “Ernesto Quagliariello”
THEME: Physics and Astronomy in the 20th century Invited talks
9.00 Nadia Robotti
The Italian Physicists and the Great War
Communications
9.45 Stefano Bordoni
The historical roots of new debates on classical electrodynamics
10.05 Christian Bracco
Albert Einstein and the Marangoni family
10.25
10.45
Mario Calamia, Monica Gherardelli
Exact time: the first scientific application of remote communications
Fabrizio Bònoli, Valeria Picazzi
Is really the Guido Horn d’Arturo’s tessellated telescope the forefather of the modern large multi-mirror telescopes?
11.05-11.25 Coffee break
THEME: Physics between the 17th and 19th centuries
Communications
11.25 Flavia Marcacci
All the planets are related to the Sun. Riccioli and his spiralized
skies
Grazia Zini, Susanna Bertelli, Chiara Beatrice Vicentini, Paolo Lenisa
Pietro Torquato Tasso (1765-1842), l’inventore: storie di orologi e vari strumenti tra scienza e vita quotidiana
Rosanna Del Monte, Azzurra Auteri
The kaleidoscopes applied to figurative arts: the genius of Paolo Anania De Luca
11.45
12.05
12.25 Roberto Mantovani A physics outsider:
Spandri (1796-1859)
12.45 Lucia De Frenza Paolo Volpicelli: a
the case of the amateur scientist Gaetano
scientist’s career in papal Rome
13.05 Marco Taddia
On the supposed discovery of terrestrial helium by Luigi Palmieri
Titolo
13.25-14.40 Lunch break
14.40-18.30 – Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica “Michelangelo Merlin”, Campus Universitario “Ernesto Quagliariello”
THEME: Physics and other disciplines
Communications
14.40 Fausto Casi
Silent Cinema between emigration and return
15.00 Benedetta Campanile
Roberto Mario Fano: an Italian between architects of the
Information 15.20 Luca Guzzardi
Epistemic Constraints
15.40 Laura Franchini
The birth of the Nobel peace prize and the dispute about the use of
a scientific innovation
16.00 Giancarlo Albertini, Anna Sicolo
The perception of flowing time: metaphors and mental disorders
16.20-16.40 Coffee break
THEME: From antiquity to Galilei
Communications
16.40 G. Boscarino, P. Di Mauro, A. Pagano, E.V. Pagano
Elements of Geometrical Calculation in Archimede: The laws of statics
17.00 Renato Migliorato
On the origins of a scientific paradigm
17.20 Vincenzo Cioci
New insights about Galileo’s research on the fall of bodies. A
review
17.40 Annual SISFA General Assembly 20.30 Social Dinner
28 September 2017 – Thursday
9.00-13.30 – Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica “Michelangelo Merlin”, Campus Universitario “Ernesto Quagliariello”
THEME: Physics in the 20th century
Invited talks
9.00 Paolo Rossi
Physics in Pisa in the first half of the XX century: a reappraisal
Communications
9.45 Marcella Palese
Noether Theorems and conservation laws in field theory
10.05 Marco Di Mauro, Salvatore Esposito, Adele Naddeo
A less known Feynman: an interplay between physics and biology at
the Hughes Aircraft Company 10.25 Flavio Del Santo
Karl Popper’s engagement in quantum physics in the 1960s and his critique of the Logic of Quantum Mechanics
10.45 Antonino Drago
Strocchi’s formulation of Quantum Mechanics. Its improvement to an
alternative formulation to the dominant one
11.05-11.30 Coffee break
THEME: From the Middle Ages to the Modern era Communications
11.30 Maria Luisa Tuscano
King Ruggero II and the Reform of the Calendar 11.50 Ivana Gambaro
Jesuit science and epistemology in 17th century 12.10 Mauro Gargano
Della Porta, Colonna and Fontana: the first observers in Naples
THEME: Physics in the 19th century
12.30 Tullio Aebischer
Bicentenary birth A. Secchi 1818-2018: the geodetic activity
12.50 Pasquale Tucci
Angelo Secchi: “L’Unità delle Forze fisiche”
13.10 Danilo Capecchi
Christian epistemology of Gabrio Piola. The Lettere di Evasio a Uranio
13.30-14.40 Lunch break
14.40-18.50 – Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica “Michelangelo Merlin”, Campus Universitario “Ernesto Quagliariello”
Topical Session
Franco Selleri (1936-2013): His research and legacy on the foundations of quantum mechanics and relativity
Invited talks
14.40 Ludwik Kostro
Ʌ-Units and Ʌ-Mega Quantum of Action in their Historical Context
15.25 Gino Tarozzi
The reality of the wave function and of EPR’s predictable
properties in Franco Selleri’s interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
16.10 Francesco Guerra
Franco Selleri: the courage of ideas
16.30-16.50 Coffee break
Communications
16.50 Giancarlo Scalera
Can the history of the ether receive new boost from geosciences?
17.10 Luigi Romano
Franco Selleri and His Contribution to the Research of Foundations
of Relativity Theory 17.30 Angela Laurora
John Bell’s scientific correspondence in the early 1970s 17.50 Angelo Baracca, Flavio Del Santo
Franco Selleri and Karl Popper: fighting side by side for realism in physics
18.10 Alexander Afriat
The circularity of rotation
18.30 Gianluca Introzzi
Ninety Years of Uncertainty
18.50 End of sessions
529 September 2017 – Friday
9.00-13.10 – Palazzo Ateneo, Salone degli Affreschi – Bari, Piazza Umberto I
THEME: Didactics of Physics, Physics and society Communications
9.00 Matteo Leone
Physicists in the Senate of the Kingdom of
9.20 Elena Corradini
The Italian University Museums Network for
physics collections: development prospects 9.40 Gaetano Abate
The Science Museum of Irpinia in Avellino: record and didactics of physics
10.00 Daniele Buongiorno, Marisa Michelini
The conceptual contribution of the history case of optical spectroscopy
Italy:1848-1943
the promotion of the
recovery, restoration,
in learning physics: the
10.20 Pietro Cerreta
Historical experiences and fundamental concepts of electrostatics
10.40 Lucio Fregonese
Coulomb’s electrostatic law in Italian secondary-school textbooks.
A difficult situation and possible solutions
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
11.20 Panel discussion(coordinated by Augusto Garuccio):
The role of the history and didactics of physics and astronomy in the
training of future physics teachers
-Ileana Rabuffo (presidente Commissione Permanente per la Didattica della
SIF)
-Alberto Meroni (Associazione per l’Insegnamento della Fisica – AIF) -Maria Mellone (Unione Matematica Italiana – UMI)
-Ginevra Trinchieri (Società Astronomica Italiana – SAIt) -Francesca Monti (Rappresentante area fisica nel CUN)
13.20 Congress ending remarks
13.30-14.30 Lunch break
14.30 Special event: Cultural trip to Molfetta (Giuseppe Saverio Poli’s house-museum, Civica Siloteca “Raffaele Cormìo”) and Trani (Cathedral, Synagogue and Hebrew Museum, Typewriters Museum) [provisional programme]
