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5th Young Researcher Meeting (in Trieste 2014)
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 566 (2014) 011001
IOP Publishing
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/566/1/011001
Young Researcher Meeting, Trieste 2014
F Agostini, C Antolini, R Aversa, G Cattani, M Di Stefano, M Longobardi, M Martinelli, A Miceli, M
Migliaccio, F Paci, D Pietrobon, E Pusceddu, F Stellato
PREFACE
The Young Researcher Meeting (www.yrmr.it) has confirmed once again this year the enthusiasm and
determination of Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows and young researchers to play a major role in
the scientific progress. Since 2009, we regularly gather together to discuss the most recent
developments and achievements in Physics, firmly convinced that sharing our expertise and
experience is the foundation of research activity.
The format we chose is an informal meeting primarily aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral
researchers, who are encouraged to present their work in brief presentations that provide genuine
engagement of the audience and cross-pollination of ideas. One of the main purposes of the
conference is to create an international network of young researchers, both experimentalists and
theorists, and fruitful collaborations across the different branches of Physics.
After four editions that strengthened it, the Young Researcher Meeting 2014 was held at the
International School for Advanced Studies – SISSA, Trieste, for the second time. The fifth appointment
was a two-day conference on July 14th-15th 2014. It has been sponsored by a number of research
groups of SISSA, the University of Udine and the Solar Physics group of the University of Rome “Tor
Vergata”, thus gathering even broader support than previous editions. The success of this year event
is testified by an increased number of participants and institutions all around Europe. This resulted in
an extremely rich and interactive poster session that covered several areas of pure and applied
Physics.
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5th Young Researcher Meeting (in Trieste 2014)
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 566 (2014) 011001
IOP Publishing
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/566/1/011001
With the intent of broadening the conte nts and stimuli adopting multidisciplinary tools, the YRM 2014
hosted the workshop “Communicating Science” held in collaboration with SISSA Medialab. This choice
reflects the growing importance of the outreach activity performed by scientists, especially at the
earliest stages of their career, as a way of increasing their expertise and developing soft skills.
Engaging the public and finding unconventional ways to communicate results turn out to be real
assets in improving the quality of presentation of current research to peers, as well as to the general
public.
In this volume, we collect part of the contributions that have been presented at the conference. They
cover topics in astrophysics and cosmology, particle and theoretical physics, soft a nd condensed
matter, medical physics and applied physics. Given the recent experimental achievements in particle
physics and cosmology, several contributions were focused on the latest results obtained in these
fields, presenting the impact of experiments such as LHC and Planck to the community of young
researchers and forecasting the future goals in these areas of research. Particular interest was
aroused by the session fully dedicated to applied Physics and conservation of cultural assets. Besides
the intrinsic scientific value of the discussed topics, the increasing relative weight of the applied
Physics session is a demonstration of the benefits that fundamental science brings to the community.
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5th Young Researcher Meeting (in Trieste 2014)
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 566 (2014) 011001
IOP Publishing
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/566/1/011001
YRM Organising and Editorial Committee
Fabio Agostini
([email protected])
Telespazio A Finmeccanica Thales Company
Claudia Antolini
([email protected])
SISSA – Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi
Avanzati and Fudan University
Rossella Aversa
([email protected])
SISSA – Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi
Avanzati
Giordano Cattani
([email protected])
Marco Di Stefano
([email protected])
SISSA – Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi
Avanzati
Maria Longobardi
([email protected])
Department of Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Geneva
Matteo Martinelli
([email protected])
SISSA – Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi
Avanzati and Institut fur Theoretische Physik
Alice Miceli
([email protected])
Physics Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Marina Migliaccio
([email protected])
Institute of Astronomy and Kavli Institute for
Cosmology, University of Cambridge
Francesco Paci
([email protected])
SISSA – Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi
Avanzati
Davide Pietrobon
([email protected])
University of California at Berkeley
Emanuela Pusceddu
([email protected])
Institute of Biometeorology CNR
Francesco Stellato
([email protected])
INFN Roma Tor Vergata
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5th Young Researcher Meeting (in Trieste 2014)
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 566 (2014) 011001
IOP Publishing
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/566/1/011001
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The organisers of the 5th Young Researcher Meeting would like to thank all the scientists who
participated to the meeting. We furthermore thank all our sponsors that are listed below for
supporting the event. We are grateful to the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) for
hosting the conference for the second time, and to its director, Prof. Guido Martinelli, for his
support and advice. We owe gratitude to SISSA Medialab, for organising the public event on science
communication and providing technical support throughout the entire meeting. The publication of
the proceedings of the conference is partially supported by the Solar Physics group in Tor Vergata;
we also acknowledge support from the University of Udine.
The event was broadcast live by OggiScienza (http://oggiscienza.wordpress.com). The complete
videos of the meeting can be found at the YRM Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw3roeK9oC4NPc-sRQ2t0rg
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste
PRIN 2010-2011 (MIUR 2010YJ2NYW_001) - "Symmetries, Masses and
Mysteries: Electroweak symmetry breaking, flavor mixing and CP violation,
and Dark Matter in the LHC era" - SISSA, Trieste
Molecular and Statistical Biophysics Group - SISSA, Trieste
PRIN 2012 (2012CPPYP7_006) - "Theoretical Astroparticle Physics" - SISSA,
Trieste
PRIN 2010-2011 (MIUR 2010NHBSBE_008) - "L'Universo oscuro e l'evoluzione
cosmica dei barioni: dalle survey attuali a Euclid" - SISSA, Trieste
Department of Chemistry, Physics and Environment of the University of
Udine
Solar Physics Group - Department of Physics of the University of Rome “Tor
Vergata”
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