2017 Programme
Event #11
Marco Malvaldi, Claudio Bartocci
The Web as a mathematical structure
The existence of the web raises important issues on the historic development of the very concept of connections. Any time we use a search engine, complex mathematical structures are what make our operations possible. At the same time, in order to understand the abstract concept of the web as a structure, it is possible to study the huge number of man-made and natural architectures which are not necessarily assigned to communications: from simple examples (the course of a river, the function of a soccer team), to currently untreatable cases (such as the neural connectome), their complexity emerges as a consequence of a few simple elements.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/was born in Pisa in 1974. He has a degree in chemistry but works as a writer. Besides his novels from the “BarLume” series, published by Sellerio, he has authored popular science essays such as L’infinito tra parentesi. Storia sentimentale della scienza da Omero a Borges (2016) and Le due teste del tiranno. Metodi matematici per la libertà (2017), published by Rizzoli.
teaches Physics, Geometry and History of Mathematics at the University of Genova. His most recent books include: Dimostrare l’impossibile. La scienza inventa il mondo (Cortina, 2014); Numeri (con L. Civalleri, Codice, 2014); Una piramide di problemi. Storie di geometria da Gauss a Hilbert (Cortina, 2012; English translation by Birkhäuser, in preparation). He edited the anthology Racconti matematici (Einaudi, 2006) and co-directed La matematica (Einaudi, 4 voll., 2007-2011) with P. Odifreddi.
Event #3
Sunday 3 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Seduction
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Event #5
Friday 1 September 2017, 09.15 pm
Marco Albino Ferrari
Enchantment. From Val Grande to the polar icecaps
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Event #6
Friday 1 September 2017, 11.00 pm
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of spies: doctor Sorge in Tokyo
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Event #8
Saturday 2 September 2017, 10.00 am
Elliot Ackerman, Imma Vitelli
Experiencing and relating war
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Event #9
Saturday 2 September 2017, 10.00 am
Franco Lorenzoni
Weaving relationships through silence and listening
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Event #10
Saturday 2 September 2017, 11.45 am
Axel Fiacco, Massimo Scaglioni
From networks to formats: creativity on television
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Event #11
Saturday 2 September 2017, 12.00 pm
Marco Malvaldi, Claudio Bartocci
The Web as a mathematical structure
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Event #13
Saturday 2 September 2017, 12.15 pm
Giorgio Manzi
In the web of deep history: Lucy, Neanderthals and other stories
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Event #14Approfonditamente
Saturday 2 September 2017, 02.45 pm
Matteo Cerri
Keeping cool: hibernation and the exotic network of its physiology
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Event #15
Saturday 2 September 2017, 03.00 pm
Nicola Gardini
The beauty of occurring. Ovid and the network of metamorphoses
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Event #21
Saturday 2 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Betrayal
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Event #24
Saturday 2 September 2017, 11.00 pm
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of partisans: the GAP groups in Rome and the attack in Via Rasella
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Event #26
Sunday 3 September 2017, 10.00 am
Emanuele Biggi
Spiders, silk and spider webs: wonders of the unloved
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Event #28
Sunday 3 September 2017, 12.00 pm
Aravind Adiga, Marcello Fois
In the web: narrating families
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Event #31Approfonditamente
Sunday 3 September 2017, 02.45 pm
B. Fantini, T. Pievani, S. Pimpinelli, F. Rufo
The code of life
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Event #32
Sunday 3 September 2017, 03.00 pm
Anna Salvo, Tiziana Iaquinta
Adolescents caught in the Web
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Event #33Approfonditamente
Sunday 3 September 2017, 03.00 pm
C. Borgomeo, U. Bressanello, G. De Michelis, G. Giunta, V. Linarello
From silent social work to community networks
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Event #36
Sunday 3 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Paolo Gavazzeni, Omer Meir Wellber
The conductor, the orchestra and the score
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Event #37
Sunday 3 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Reconquering
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Event #39
Sunday 3 September 2017, 09.00 pm
Centro Formazione Supereroi
Neverending stories. A challenge in literary improvisation
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Event #40
Sunday 3 September 2017, 09.00 pm
Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari
Aung San Suu Kyi’s life under arrest
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Event #41
Sunday 3 September 2017, 11.00 pm
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of terrorists: the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro
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Event #44Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_ 9.30 am_3.00 pm
Geena Forrest
Pencil-carrying naturalists
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Event #46Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_10.00 am_3.45 pm
Fabrizio Silei
Once upon a time there was a city
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Event #47Children / Kids
Saturday 2 _10.00 am_11.30 am/Sunday 3 September_11.30 am_4.30 pm
Raffaele Cesano, Print About Me
Coloring a hundred miles a minute
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Event #48Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_11.00 am_5.00 pm
Mook
The art of reclamation. DIY construction of a network of animals
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Event #49Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_ore 11.15 pm_4.45 pm
Cinzia Ghigliano
Pictures tell stories, so do we!
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Event #51Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September 2017, 03.30 pm
Franco Lorenzoni
How was music born into the world?
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Event #52Children / Kids
Saturday 2 _4.00 pm_5.15 pm/Sunday 3 September 10.30 am_3.30 pm
Anna Resmini, Virginia Zini
Shapes of sound. Stories of encounters between sound and color
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Event #53Children / Kids
Saturday 2 _ore 4.45 pm/Sunday 3 September ore 9.30 am
Marianna Merisi
Vagabonds on a voyage
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Event #54Children / Kids
Saturday 2_ore 17.30/Sunday 3 September_10.30 am
Noemi Bermani, Salvatore Panu
Suoni di c/arte
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Event #55Children / Kids
Saturday 2_6.00 pm/Sunday 3 September_10.00 am
Gian Marco Malagoli, Elisa Passerini
Numerincoding
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Event #56Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September 2017, 09.00 pm
The Teatro dell’Orsa Company, Michele Ferri
Strange stories
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Event #57Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_ 9.30 am_11.15 am
Students of the I.I.S. Capellini-Sauro school of La Spezia, ScienziataMente
Find the culprit… with math!
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Event #59Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_ 10.30 am_2.45 pm_5.30 pm
Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura, REMIDA
Irreverently entwined
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Event #60Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_2.45_4.30 pm
P4C – Research center on philosophical inquiry
Can thoughts be drawn?
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Event #61Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_4.00 pm_6.00
Else Edizioni
In your own words: from silent books to silk screen printing
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