the first European festival on creativity

2017 Programme

Event #35

Lucia Votano

The dark web of the universe

The grand scale structure of the universe is similar to a giant web, connecting clusters of galaxies through string-like structures formed mostly of dark matter. It’s the cosmic web. Much like the deep web – which search engines cannot access – contains the greatest part of the information circulating online, similarly dark matter, invisible and still unknown in nature, is five times more abundant than known matter. Its existence is like an open crack in the Standard Model of elementary particles, which still has triumphed with the discovery of the Higgs boson. Uncovering the nature of dark matter is one of modern physics’ most exciting goals and the hunt is taking place in underground laboratories like Gran Sasso and CERN, with great telescopes and in space.28

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Lucia Votano

, a physicist and associate research director at INFN, has conducted research at CERN and DESY-Hamburg and was director of the Underground lab at Gran Sasso, where experiments of global importance are conducted on neutrinos and dark matter. Here she was among the key figures in the discovery of neutrino oscillation with the Opera experiment, which used a neutrino beam fired from CERN in Geneva to Gran Sasso. She is currently taking part in the Juno experiment, an enormous underground apparatus undergoing construction in southern China. She has received a number of prizes and was honored as knight commander by the Italian president of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano for her work in the field of science.

In 2012 her book Il fantasma dell’universo. Che cos’è il neutrino was published by Carocci.

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Clandestine networks. A network of spies: doctor Sorge in Tokyo

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Experiencing and relating war

Weaving relationships through silence and listening

From networks to formats: creativity on television

The Web as a mathematical structure

Conversations

In the web of deep history: Lucy, Neanderthals and other stories

Keeping cool: hibernation and the exotic network of its physiology

The beauty of occurring. Ovid and the network of metamorphoses

Thinking in networks

Knots

The networks of the Arab world

Death of taboos?

Rizomi

The net of Eros. Betrayal

Gorla fermata Gorla

The son’s secret

Clandestine networks. A network of partisans: the GAP groups in Rome and the attack in Via Rasella

Faithfulness/Unfaithfulness.

Spiders, silk and spider webs: wonders of the unloved

The light on the wall

In the web: narrating families

Neurodiversity and dyslexia

In search of the lost net

The code of life

Adolescents caught in the Web

From silent social work to community networks

The silk road

The dark web of the universe

The conductor, the orchestra and the score

The net of Eros. Reconquering

Concert for piano and violin

Neverending stories. A challenge in literary improvisation

Aung San Suu Kyi’s life under arrest

Clandestine networks. A network of terrorists: the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro

Networking

Heroes of our times

Pencil-carrying naturalists

Paper circuits

Once upon a time there was a city

Coloring a hundred miles a minute

The art of reclamation. DIY construction of a network of animals

Pictures tell stories, so do we!

To be or not to be myself

How was music born into the world?

Shapes of sound. Stories of encounters between sound and color

Vagabonds on a voyage

Suoni di c/arte

Numerincoding

Strange stories

Find the culprit… with math!

Irreverently entwined

Can thoughts be drawn?

In your own words: from silent books to silk screen printing

Afraid of what?

Musica bambina!