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SUMMARY:Professor Giorgio Margaritondo: "Two things... and three people"
DTSTART:20171214T171500
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Giorgio Margaritondo\nHow can one summarize forty-eight 
 years dedicated to the most powerful sources of light in the world? And to
  the transformation of bookish notions of quantum physics into tangible re
 alities? And to the participation in the wonderful adventure of building t
 he best young university in the world?\nI tried by using five arcane words
 \, the title of my lecture.\nWhat are the “two things”\, and who are t
 he “three people”? The mystery will be progressively unveiled\, while 
 at the same time navigating through the birth and establishment of the lar
 gest international scientific instrumentation network of all times\, and t
 hrough a number of results in a variety of disciplines\, from superconduct
 ivity to neurobiology and from relativity to ancient manuscripts.\nAfter f
 ully disclosing the mystery of the “two things” and “three people”
 \, the lecture will be concluded by a few personal remarks… and by a fin
 al surprise.\n\nProgram:\n17:15 Presentation\, M. Patrick Aebischer\, M. M
 artin Vetterli\n17:30 Giorgio Margaritondo\, "Two things... three people"\
 nApéritif\n\nRegistration\n\nBiographie\nBorn in Rome\, citizen of Switze
 rland and the United States\, Margaritondo devoted five decades of his aca
 demic life to the development of synchrotron radiation\, from the first st
 eps in Frascati and Wisconsin to the projects that led to Elettra in Tries
 te and to the Swiss Light Source. After joining the EPFL in 1990\, he part
 icipated to the fantastic adventure of building an innovative\, internatio
 nal and top-ranked university. He was head of the Institute of Applied Phy
 sics and of the Physics Department\, dean and founder of the School of Bas
 ic Sciences\, dean for Continuing Education and vice-president for Academi
 c Affairs. He contributed to fundamental reforms and projects like the ten
 ure track and the unifications processes of mathematics\, physics and chem
 istry in Lausanne. He also headed the Swiss committee for High-performance
  Computing and Networking\, chaired a series of European initiatives for t
 he transnational access to synchrotron facilities\, and was Editor-in-chie
 f of the Journal of Physics D. After his retirement from the EPFL in 2016\
 , he became vice-president of the Foundation of the Università della Sviz
 zera Italiana (USI)\; he also chairs strategic committees of the Italian I
 nstitute of Technology\, of the Politecnico di Torino\, and of the Scuola 
 Sant’Anna of Pisa. Since 1968\, he authored more than 700 refereed artic
 les\, 10 books and 27 chapters in different domains\, including solid-stat
 e physics\, biophysics\, relativity\, optics and the cultural heritage.
LOCATION:RLC E1 240 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240
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