martedì 26 settembre 2017 - venerdì, 29 settembre 2017
XXXVII Convegno della Società Italiana degli Storici della Fisica e dell’Astronomia26 Settembre 2017Ore 15.00 - 18.35
Palazzo Ateneo, Salone degli Affreschi - Bari, Piazza Umberto I
Ore 15.00
Registration
Ore 15.30
Opening remarks by institutional representatives
Invited talks
Ore 16.00
Mauro DI GIANDOMENICOFifty years of History of Science in BariOre 16.45
Bruno GHIDINIThe historical roots of the Department of Physics of Bari (provisional title)Ore 17.30 - 17.50
Coffee break
Ore 17.50
Salvatore ESPOSITODarwin and the others: the reception of Poli’s Testacea outside Italy and other recent discoveries about the Molfetta scientistOre 18.35
End of session
Ore 18.45
Special evening event: Guided visit in old Bari city
27 Settembre 2017Ore 9.00 - 13.25
Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica “Michelangelo Merlin”, Campus Universitario “Ernesto Quagliariello”
THEME:
Physics and Astronomy in the 20th centuryInvited talks
Ore 9.00
Nadia ROBOTTIThe Italian Physicists and the Great WarCommunications
Ore 9.45
Stefano BORDONIThe historical roots of new debates on classical electrodynamicsOre 10.05
Christian BRACCOAlbert Einstein and the Marangoni familyOre 10.25
Mario Calamìa,
Monica GHERARDELLIExact time: the first scientific application of remote communicationsOre 10.45
Fabrizio BONOLI, Valeria Picazzi
Is really the Guido Horn d’Arturo’s tessellated telescope the forefather of the modern large multi-mirror telescopes?Ore 11.05 - 11.25
Coffee break
THEME:
Physics between the 17th and 19th centuriesCommunications
Ore 11.25
Flavia MARCACCIAll the planets are related to the Sun. Riccioli and his spiralized skiesOre 11.45
Grazia ZINI,
Susanna BERTELLI,
Chiara Beatrice VICENTINI,
Paolo LENISAPietro Torquato Tasso (1765-1842), l’inventore: storie di orologi e vari strumenti tra scienza e vita quotidianaOre 12.05
Rosanna DEL MONTE, Azzurra Auteri
The kaleidoscopes applied to figurative arts: the genius of Paolo Anania De LucaOre 12.25
Roberto MANTOVANIA physics outsider: the case of the amateur scientist Gaetano Spandri (1796-1859) Ore 12.45
Lucia DE FRENZAPaolo Volpicelli: a scientist’s career in papal Rome Ore 13.05
Marco TADDIAOn the supposed discovery of terrestrial helium by Luigi Palmieri TitoloOre 13.25 - 14.40
Lunch break
THEME:
Physics and other disciplines Communications
Ore 14.40
Fausto CASISilent Cinema between emigration and returnOre 15.00
Benedetta CAMPANILERoberto Mario Fano: an Italian between architects of the InformationOre 15.20
Luca GUZZARDIEpistemic ConstraintsOre 15.40
Laura FRANCHINIThe birth of the Nobel peace prize and the dispute about the use of a scientific innovationOre 16.00
Giancarlo Albertini, Anna Sicolo
The perception of flowing time: metaphors and mental disordersOre 16.20 - 16.40
Coffee break
THEME:
From antiquity to GalileiCommunications
Ore 16.40
Giuseppe BOSCARINO,
Pietro DI MAURO,
Angelo PAGANO, Emanuele Vincenzo Pagano
Elements of Geometrical Calculation in Archimede: The laws of staticsOre 17.00
Renato MIGLIORATOOn the origins of a scientific paradigmOre 17.20
Vincenzo CIOCINew insights about Galileo’s research on the fall of bodies. A reviewOre 17.40
Annual SISFA General Assembly
20.30
Social Dinner
28 Settembre 2017Ore 9.00 - 13.30
Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica “Michelangelo Merlin”, Campus Universitario “Ernesto Quagliariello”
THEME:
Physics in the 20th centuryInvited talks
Ore 9.00
Paolo ROSSIPhysics in Pisa in the first half of the XX century: a reappraisal Communications
Ore 9.45
Marcella Palese
Noether Theorems and conservation laws in field theoryOre 10.05
Marco Di Mauro,
Salvatore ESPOSITO, Adele Naddeo
A less known Feynman: an interplay between physics and biology at the Hughes Aircraft CompanyOre 10.25
Flavio DEL SANTOKarl Popper’s engagement in quantum physics in the 1960s and his critique of the Logic of Quantum MechanicsOre 10.45
Antonino DRAGOStrocchi’s formulation of Quantum Mechanics. Its improvement to an alternative formulation to the dominant oneOre 11.05 - 11.30
Coffee break
THEME:
From the Middle Ages to the Modern era Communications
Ore 11.30
Maria Luisa TUSCANOKing Ruggero II and the Reform of the CalendarOre 11.50
Ivana GAMBAROJesuit science and epistemology in 17th centuryOre 12.10
Mauro GARGANODella Porta, Colonna and Fontana: the first observers in NaplesTHEME:
Physics in the 19th centuryInvited talksOre 12.30
Tullio AEBISCHERBicentenary birth A. Secchi 1818-2018: the geodetic activityOre 12.50
Pasquale TUCCIAngelo Secchi: “L’Unità delle Forze fisiche”Ore 13.10
Danilo CAPECCHIChristian epistemology of Gabrio Piola. The Lettere di Evasio a Uranio Ore 13.30 - 14.40
Lunch break
Topical Session
Franco Selleri (1936-2013): His research and legacy on the foundations of quantum mechanics and relativityInvited talks
Ore 14.40
Ludwik KOSTROɅ-Units and Ʌ-Mega Quantum of Action in their Historical ContextOre 15.25
Gino TAROZZIThe reality of the wave function and of EPR’s predictable properties in Franco Selleri’s interpretation of Quantum MechanicsOre 16.10
Francesco GUERRAFranco Selleri: the courage of ideasOre 16.30 - 16.50
Coffee break
Communications
Ore 16.50
Giancarlo SCALERACan the history of the ether receive new boost from geosciences?Ore 17.10
Luigi ROMANOFranco Selleri and His Contribution to the Research of Foundations of Relativity TheoryOre 17.30
Angela LAURORAJohn Bell’s scientific correspondence in the early 1970sOre 17.50
Angelo BARACCA,
Flavio DEL SANTOFranco Selleri and Karl Popper: fighting side by side for realism in physicsOre 18.10
Alexander AFRIATThe circularity of rotationOre 18.30
Gianluca INTROZZINinety Years of UncertaintyOre18.50
End of sessions
29 Settembre 2017Ore 9.00 - 13.10
Palazzo Ateneo, Salone degli Affreschi - Bari, Piazza Umberto I
THEME:
Didactics of Physics, Physics and societyCommunications
Ore 9.00
Matteo LEONEPhysicists in the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy:1848-1943Ore 9.20
Elena CORRADINI The Italian University Museums Network for the promotion of the physics collections: development prospects Ore 9.40
Gaetano Abate
The Science Museum of Irpinia in Avellino: recovery, restoration, record and didactics of physics Ore 10.00
Daniele BUONGIORNO,
Marisa MICHELINI The conceptual contribution of the history in learning physics: the case of optical spectroscopy Ore 10.20
Pietro CERRETA Historical experiences and fundamental concepts of electrostatics Ore 10.40
Lucio FREGONESE Coulomb’s electrostatic law in Italian secondary-school textbooks. A difficult situation and possible solutionsOre 11.00-11.20
Coffee break
Ore 11.20
Panel discussion (coordinated by
Augusto GARUCCIO): The role of the history and didactics of physics and astronomy in the training of future physics teachers
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Ileana Vittoria RABUFFO (presidente Commissione Permanente per la Didattica della SIF)
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Alberto MERONI (Associazione per l’Insegnamento della Fisica – AIF)
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Maria MELLONE (Unione Matematica Italiana – UMI)
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Ginevra TRINCHIERI (Società Astronomica Italiana – SAIt)
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Francesca MONTI (Rappresentante area fisica nel CUN)
13.20
Congress ending remarks
Ore 13.30 - 14.30
Lunch break
Ore 14.30
Special event:
Cultural trip to Molfetta (Giuseppe Saverio Poli’s house-museum, Civica Siloteca “Raffaele Cormìo”) and Trani (Cathedral, Synagogue and Hebrew Museum, Typewriters Museum) [provisional programme]
