From the concert "Leonardo - Shaping the invisible" to the conference on Optimum Mathematics: these themes together with an explosion of events will inaugurate the Science Festival that after the inauguration of Monday 8 April, will end on Sunday 14 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The 14th edition of the National Geographic Festival will be titled "The Invention". Invention is a fundamental aspect of science, philosophy or art and constitutes one of the main drivers of the progress of knowledge.
They will be over 200 meetings in which innovators, researchers, scientists, historians, explorers, etc. they will explain the meaning of invention from their point of view. Expected more than 300 educational activities for schools during the week and families during the weekend e 8 exhibitions dedicated to Italian inventions and the relationship between science and comics and the Earth and the environment.
Also, this year they are recurring three important anniversaries: the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and the 150th anniversary of the invention of the Periodic Table of the Elements by Dmitrij Mendeleev. Also among the expected guests Nobel Prize winners in Physics Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland and Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond.
Below is a list, among the numerous events on the calendar, of those in our opinion the most interesting:
Tuesday 9 at 10:30 in Sala Sinopoli: conference "Optimal Mathematics" conducted by Alessio Figalli, winner of the 2018 Fields medal, the equivalent of the Nobel in mathematics (a category not included in the prestigious Swedish prize).
Tuesday 9 at 19 in Sala Petrassi: screening "Science fair preview". It tells the story of 9 teenagers from all over the world to participate in the International Science and Engineering Fair offering a glimpse into their dreams, motivations and victories.
Wednesday 10 to 21 in Sala Petrassi: conference-show "Physics, feminine plural". Urged by Serena Dandini, the three scientists (Elisabetta Baracchini, Viviana Fafone, Chiara Mariotti) will retrace the most fascinating ideas on the nature of our universe.
Thursday 11 at 21 in Sala Sinopoli: concert “Dna, Music for scientific conferences”. DNA is the new project of the AIRC Foundation for Cancer Research and the Deproducers. The public, thanks to the 4 musicians (Riccardo Sinigallia, Max Casacci, Gianni Maroccolo and Simone Filippi), will retrace the story that unites every man, from the formation of the first cells to the new conquests of genetics.
Friday 12 at 19:30 in Sala Petrassi: conference "Behind the moon landing", proving that 50 years after man's first landing on the moon, the Earth is a new world.
Friday 12 at 21 in Sala Sinopoli: conference-show "Spazio al tempo". It will be a dialogue between three masters of particle physics (Fernando Ferroni, Giuliana Fiorillo, Antonio Masiero) who will retrace a journey through time talking about everything we have never had the courage to ask about the universe. Neri Marcoré will lead the three-way conversation.
Friday 12 at 21 at the Teatro Studio Borgna: conference-show "The dance of the mind". It will be an unexpected meeting of the voice of Art and Poetry in the enclosure of Science.
Saturday 13th at 15pm in Sala Petrassi: conference "National crises analyzed in the light of personal crises" in honor of Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. Jared Diamond will examine recent national crises related to the looming global crisis.
Saturday 13 at 21 in Sala Sinopoli: concert “Frankenstein: Symphony by Mark Grey, a symphony in 4 movements”. Frankenstein interpreted and anticipated the transformations of science, for this very reason, the composer will stage the great hopes and great doubts of science.
Sunday 14 at 12 at the Teatro Studio Borgna: conference "Leonardo's sky". The Moon represents for Leonardo a privileged observatory from which the natural phenomena observed on Earth govern.
Sunday 14th at 19pm in Sala Petrassi: conference "Lasers and the future". The interaction between matter and high-intensity lasers, developed with Chirped Pulse Amplification technology, has led to the emergence of new laser processing techniques and offered the possibility of clarifying some unresolved questions of fundamental physics.
AuditoriumArt: exhibition "Inside invention, inside Italian creativity". It will present some of the excellences of Italian innovation that keep alive the attention to the engines of the innovative process that look both at the needs of health and survival, and at the pleasures of life.
Petrassi Foyer and Atrium Study Rooms: exhibition "Science in the clouds". This exhibition brings together boards, strips and stories signed by great Italian cartoonists who have made their creativity available to the most important Italian research institutions.
