Dear Colleagues, the INFN national theory group is launching a

Dear Colleagues,
the INFN national theory group is launching a series of graduate courses which will be given
starting from 2014 at the Galieo Galilei Institute in Florence,
http://www.ggi.fi.infn.it//index.php?p=schools.in .
As you can see from the website and the list of the board of directors, the GGI is a very
prestigious institution, located in what used to be the Physics Department in Florence, where
Enrico Fermi taught and carried on his researches during the early years of his career.
Moreover, Galileo spent the last years of his life in a villa nearby.
The GGI Institute so far has been mostly devoted to topics related to Particle Physics, but the
INFN theory group has taken a strong commitment to widen its areas of interest. In particular,
one of the new series of lectures will focus on "Frontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics". It
can be considered as the follower of a pilot school held last spring at GGI as well as the
evolution of two previous schools regularly held in Italy in the past years: the Scuola di Fisica
Nucleare Raimondo Anni, organized by Giampaolo Cò at Otranto since 2005 and the Scuole
Internazionali on “Quark Gluon Plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions: past, present and future”
organized since 2003 at Villa Gualino, Torino and most recently in Siena, by Wanda Alberico,
Francesco Becattini, Marzia Nardi et al..
The school “Frontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics", will be held in the period February 24th
to March 6th 2014. Its aim is to train Italian PhD students, primarily theoreticians but also
interested experimentalists. Moreover it will have a fully international character, being open to
students from foreign institutions as well.
The program of the 2014 courses focuses on the following topics. More details will soon be
available at the webpage: http://www.ggi.fi.infn.it/index.php?p=schools.inc&id=137
The deadline for application is February 10th 2014.
List of lecture topics and lecturers:
- Michele Viviani (Pisa), Luigi Coraggio, (Napoli): From nucleon-nucleon to nucleon-nucleus
interactions: from light to heavy nuclei.
- Dario Vretenar (Zagreb): Many-body methods: from normal to exotic nuclei.
- Francesca Gulminelli (Caen): Thermal properties of nuclear systems.
- Carlos Bertulani (Texas, Commerce): Nuclear structure information from peripheral reactions.
- Fridolin Weber (S. Diego) Physics of Neutron Stars.
You are kindly invited to share this information with your colleagues and students, whom we
hope to welcome in Florence.
Best wishes,
Francesco Becattini, Ignazio Bombaci, Angela Bonaccorso, Giampaolo Cò, Maria Colonna,
Giovanni Salmè, Elena Santopinto, Enrico Vigezzi.