On Saturday, December 7, at 5:00 PM, the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the company Orientare Srl, in collaboration with the cultural association Rosas 1945 Eventi, will inaugurate the scientific exhibition Einstein Telescope: listening to the universe at the Centro Polifunzionale Comunale in Nuoro (via Roma 64), which will remain open until January 6, 2025.
The exhibition, designed by Orientare Srl in collaboration with INFN, arrives in Nuoro for the first time following its success in Cagliari at the Castello di San Michele.
Immediately after the ribbon-cutting ceremony, a conference will be held, moderated by writer and journalist Stefano Ferri. After the opening remarks by Fabio Rosas, co-founder of Rosas 1945 Eventi, the conference will be introduced by Giovanni Pirisi, the extraordinary commissioner of the municipality of Nuoro, and remotely by the President of INAF, Roberto Ragazzoni and by the President of INFN, Antonio Zoccoli.
After the institutional greetings, Alessandro Cardini, director of the Cagliari section of INFN, and Alessandro D’Ambrosio, administrator and vice president of Orientare Srl, will introduce the exhibition path. Following this, the scientific manager of Einstein Telescope Italy, Domenico D’Urso (University of Sassari), the president of ANCI Sardinia and mayor of Fonni, Daniela Falconi, and Mario Calìa, mayor of Lula, will also speak.
«After the very positive experience of the exhibition at the Castello di San Michele in Cagliari, we were pleased to accept the proposal from Orientare Srl and Rosas 1945 Eventi to bring the exhibition to Nuoro», highlights Alessandro Cardini. «The initiative, which is part of a rich framework of activities, both local and national, of communication and promotion of the Italian candidacy for Einstein Telescope (ET), is particularly important because it allows us to tell the story of the project in a place geographically very close to the candidate area of Sos Enattos. The Einstein Telescope is a unique opportunity for Italy and Sardinia: to seize it, it is crucial to share the project with the citizenship and engage the community, creating a continuous dialogue, particularly with the territory concerned, so that ET becomes a project of everyone».
The exhibition covers several thematic areas, starting with Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, the scientist who has most influenced the evolution of physics and modern science, and extending to gravitational waves, whose discovery marked the beginning of a new era, allowing us to observe the universe through these vibrations of spacetime.
The central part of the exhibition is dedicated to the Einstein Telescope, the future infrastructure for gravitational wave research, which is considered a leading project at the European level due to its potential for new scientific knowledge and technological innovation. As a result, it is included in the Roadmap developed by European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), the European body that provides advice on which crucial scientific infrastructure investments should be made in Europe.
The exhibition continues by exploring the new scenarios that would emerge with the activation of the Einstein Telescope and its scientific objectives, while also delving into the complexity and challenges that the construction of such a cutting-edge infrastructure poses to the scientific community and the industrial world. An important section of the exhibition is dedicated to the Italian candidacy to host the Einstein Telescope and the activities already underway at the candidate site of Sos Enattos.
Exhibition opening hours: Tuesday-Thursday: 9:30 AM -12:30 PM/ 4:30 PM -7:30 PM; Friday-Sunday: 9:30 AM -1:00 PM / 4:30 PM – 8:00 PM; Monday closed.