Meanwhile, from 6 to 9 May, the capital of Bologna will host, at the Duse theater, the first scientific symposium organized by the CTA, which includes an evening (Monday 6 May) open to the public with two special guests: the Nobel Prize winners for physics Takaaki Kajita and Rainer Weiss, and the president of the region will also attend.
Another international project will soon find its home in Emilia-Romagna, which increasingly applies to be the nerve center of research.
The future direction and administrative headquarters of the CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array), the largest and most sensitive gamma ray observatory in the world, with a network of 118 telescopes to study the violent Universe, will be established by the end of 2020 in Bologna under form of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). A project of great scientific value, to which over 1,400 scientists and engineers from 31 countries of the world are working.
From May 6 to 9, in Bologna, the first scientific symposium organized by the CTA will be held at the Duse theater, an event destined primarily for the international scientific community, which will meet here with a specific objective: to share knowledge on the latest generations of instruments capable of revealing the secrets of the Universe and arouse synergies in the new astronomy called “multi-messenger”. Astronomy, that is, based on the observation and coordinated interpretation of different types of “messenger” signals, such as electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves, neutrinos and cosmic rays, which, being generated by different astrophysical processes, can reveal complementary information on the complex astronomical structures that generate the signals.
On this occasion, a large free event open to citizenship will also take place. Werner Hofmann, co-creator of the CTA project, and the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, Takaaki Kajita in 2015 and Rainer Weiss in 2017, will make the public travel in the Universe during a year entitled “Can you hear me?” 20.
A story of the evolution of our way of looking at the Universe, starting from Galileo, from whose first observation exactly 410 years have passed, up to the most recent study methodologies and the new technologies and discoveries that push our horizon of more and more knowledge.
To accompany the public on this journey, infinitely fascinating and moderated by Stefano Sandrelli, also the voices of the Social State and Kepler-452, which will join the sounds of the “cosmic messengers”.
