Genoa Science Festival: 14 appointments today
The nineteenth of the Genoa Science Festival continues on Sunday 31 October, with a hybrid format that is marking a return to being together and experiencing science firsthand, with an important program in presence and an online schedule edition. On the penultimate day of the Festival, thirteen conferences and a special event are scheduled: When scientific dissemination is an art (10 am), Ambienti in Ascolto (10.30 am), Mathematical Bestiary (10.30 am), Armed with science (3 pm), The journey of the cell on biomaterials (3 pm), Observing the Universe (3 pm), The Eschaton map (3.30 pm), G-ray buster: in search of the Hulk difference (5.30 pm), The nanoworld from viruses to transistor (5.30 pm), The Neolithic pioneers in Europe (6 pm), The maps of love in the brain (6 pm), Chemistry is served (7 pm), Life is simple (9 pm), From celestial miniatures to ‘Modern astronomy (9.30 pm). In addition to the face-to-face and online program of conferences and special events, the 17 exhibitions and 42 workshops are open, the times of which are available on www.festivalscienza.it.
The fourteen appointments on Sunday 31 October touch on different disciplines, including neuroscience, astronomy, nanotechnology, medicine, anthropology and much more. At 6 pm Ruth Feldman, professor of Social Neuroscience of Development at the Interdisciplinary Center, with Donatella Marazziti, considered by Class magazine among the 10 most important psychiatrists in Italy, in The maps of love in the brain in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of Palazzo Ducale (also in streaming), talk about emotions in a meeting that is part of the traveling Emotions project organized by Braincircle Italia. On the occasion of the seven hundred years since Dante’s death, at 9.30 pm in the Sala delle Grida of Palazzo della Borsa (also in streaming), with From Celestial Miniatures to Modern Astronomy we start an imaginative journey into the Divine Comedy, creator of a descendant of Dante , the astronomer Sperello di Serego Alighieri, and by Andrea Mazzucchi, professor of Dante Philology at the University of Naples Federico II.
Johnjoe McFadden, professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey and expert in tuberculosis and meningitis, is the protagonist at 6 pm of Life is simple in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of the Doge’s Palace (also in streaming). In the lectio magistralis at 5.30 pm at the University Library of Genoa (also in streaming), The nanomondo from viruses to transistors, the chemist Gianfranco Pacchioni presents his latest book on an invisible world, which however is revolutionizing technology, and also ours everyday life. With Albert Ammerman, professor of anthropology at Colgate University, Telmo Pievani, professor of the Department of Biology of the University of Padua, and Joao Zilhao, professor and researcher at the Universitat de Barcelona, we go to the discovery of the Neolithic pioneers, of their habits and customs and their navigation routes in the Mediterranean in the meeting The Neolithic pioneers in Europe at 6 pm in the Sala delle Grida of Palazzo della Borsa (also in streaming).
Telmo Pievani is also the protagonist, at 10 in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of Palazzo Ducale (also in streaming) with the naturalist and scientific journalist Francesca Buoninconti and the photographer Roberto Besana of When scientific dissemination is an art, conversation in memory of the journalist and scientific popularizer Pietro Greco. With life senator Elena Cattaneo, professor of Pharmacology and director of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Pharmacology of Neurodegenerative Diseases of the University of Milan, the ethical dimension of science is investigated in the meeting Armed di Scienza at 3 pm in the Sala del Maggior Council of the Doge’s Palace (also in streaming). Fun mathematics scheduled for Sunday 31 October at the Science Festival, with Nicola Ciccoli, professor of Geometry at the University of Perugia and an actress, Marinella Maricardi, who invites you to participate in Eschaton, a simulation game with rigorous mathematical rules, in the conference / show The map of Eschaton at 3.30 pm in the Sala delle Grida of Palazzo della Borsa (also in streaming).
With the author and mathematics teacher Paolo Alessandrini we go to the discovery of “monsters and strange creatures” in the realm of numbers in the mathematical bestiary show conference at 10.30, Sala del Minor Consiglio in Palazzo Ducale (also in streaming). In the International Year of Sound 2020-2021, Martino Mocchi, Matteo Piricò and Sillano Carlotta explore the potential of listening in soundmapping practices in the Ambienti in Ascolto meeting at 10.30 at the Historical Archives of Palazzo Ducale. The conference The journey of the cell on biomaterials at the University Library of Genoa (also in streaming), at 3 pm, will be attended by Giuseppe Guagliano, bioengineer of the Politecnico di Milano, Paola Petrini, professor of the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano , and Livia Visai, professor in Biochemistry of the Department of Molecular Medicine of the University of Pavia. In a dialogue between Marina Costa, owner of “Cassiopea Project”, and Walter Riva, director of the Righi Astronomical Observatory, the point is made on the evolution of the relationship between man and the sky in the meeting Observing the Universe of 3 pm at the Historical Archives of Palazzo Ducale.
At the Auditorium of the Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum at 5 pm with Martina Cardillo, researcher at the IAPS-INAF in Rome, we will discover the most energetic phenomena of the universe in the Auditorium of the Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum with G-ray buster : chasing the Hulk difference. At 7 pm in Piazza delle Feste (also in streaming) Kristian Radan, Matic Lozin and Mirela Dragomir explain how to draw from the abundant kitchen research cookbook in Chemistry is served. Tickets and reservations can be purchased online on the Festival website: www.festivalscienza.it and through the call center (tel. 010 8934340). A ticket office is active in the Cortile Maggiore of Palazzo Ducale, but the public is encouraged to privilege the use of online and telephone e-commerce services.
These ticket costs: full day 13 euros, reduced 11 euros, very low 9 euros, full standard subscription 21 euros, reduced 18 euros, very low 12 euros, premium (with free reservations for the season ticket holder) 30 euros; children up to 5 years do not pay. Standard subscriptions are valid for every day and all Festival events and also include the use of streaming events. For the online offer, a live streaming subscription is available at a cost of 10 euros. There are some free events in the program. The school ticket, reserved for students traveling to the school project (cost 9 euros), is equivalent to a standard subscription and therefore allows you to enjoy the entire Festival, both face-to-face and online. Booking (cost 0.50 euros) for face-to-face events is strongly recommended for the general public, while it is mandatory (and free) for classes.