Program

8:45 - 9:00

Welcome and Introduction (Direttore di Dipartimento: Prof. G. Onida) 

Session 1 - Chair: Paolo Piseri 

9:00-9:30

Paolo Milani
"Building reliable devices with unreliable components: a multidisciplinary point of view"

9:30-9:45

Tommaso Santaniello
"Combining additive manufacturing technologies and novel functional materials 

for the production of haptic organ models for surgical training and pre-planning"

9:45-10:00

Lorenzo Migliorini
"Functional (nano)composite materials for soft robotics and electronics"

10:00-10:15

Andrea Falqui
"Thermal and electrical behavior of nanostructured Au films 

investigated by in situ transmission electron microscopy"

10:15-10:30

Francesca Borghi
"Random-assembled neuromorphic devices for in-materia computing"

10:30-10:45

Marcel Di Vece
"Nanoscale Physics for Sustainability"

10:45-11:15

BREAK

Session 2 - Chair: Roberto Guerra 

11:15 - 11:45

Giovanni Onida

"The matter you can't compute, you can't understand"

(Variation from Lord Kelvin's statement "What you can't measure, you can't know")

11:45 - 12:00

Guido Fratesi

"Two-Dimensional Silicene–Stanene Heterostructures by Epitaxy"

12:00 - 12:15

Simona Achilli
"Point defects for quantum technologies"

12:15 - 12:30

Elena Molteni
"Ab initio studies of hybrid organic–antiferromagnetic interfaces:
Tuning the electronic and magnetic properties of magnetic oxides by adsorption of organic molecules"

12:30 - 14:00

LUNCH

Session 3 - Chair: Francesca Baletto 

14:00 - 14:30

Marco Potenza
"Light scattering from nano- and micron-sized objects at the Instrumental Optics Laboratory"

14:30 - 14:45

Mirko Siano
"Analogical optical modeling of X-ray wavefronts in synchrotron light sources"

14:45 -15:00

Bruno Paroli

"Phase distorted and random wavefronts: Diagnostics and Applications"

15:00 - 15:15

Alessandro Podestà 

"Nanoscale investigation of systems and interfaces by atomic force microscopy"

15:15 -15:30

Matteo Chighizola
"Atomic Force Microscopy detects changes of the nuclear rigidity 

related to DNA decondensation in single cells prior to migration"

15:30 -15:45

Andrea Giugni
"Optical spectroscopy with sub-picosecond resolution. A novel apparatus for pump-probe investigations

under ultra-high vacuum and low-temperature conditions"

15:45 - 16:00

Alessandro De Vita
"Properties of quantum materials: from topological states to time dynamics"

16:00 - 16:15

Paolo Arosio
"Study of the Magnetic Properties and the Spin Dynamics in Rare Earth - based Single Ion Magnets"

16:15-16:45

BREAK

Session 4 - Chair: Giorgio Rossi 

16:45 - 17:15
Nicola Manini

"Classical simulations of sliding interfaces: the interplay of structure and dynamics"

17:15 -17:30

Silvia Bonfanti

"Machine Learning of fracture in glasses"

17:30 -17:45
Guido Tiana

"Data-driven simlations of biomolecules"

17:45 - 18:00

Alberto Vailati

"Diffusion in Liquid Mixtures"

18:00 - 20:00

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