The Cagliari FestivalScienza returns for its 19th edition, dedicated to the theme “Visions”: the ability to look beyond what we know, broaden our understanding of reality and imagine new perspectives through science.
Taking place from 5 to 9 November, the festival offers talks, science workshops and educational activities for young people and adults. Once again this year, Einstein Telescope (ET) will take centre stage with several events.
The programme opens on Thursday, 5 November, at 5:30 pm, in the Council Chamber of Palazzo Regio, Piazza Palazzo 1, with the inaugural lecture, “Ten Years of Gravitational Waves: Discoveries, Open Challenges and the Prospects of the Einstein Telescope Detector”, presented by Pia Astone, research director at INFN.
The lecture will review the major discoveries made in gravitational-wave astronomy and the challenges that remain, showing how the limitations of current instruments can be overcome with next-generation detectors such as the future Einstein Telescope.
On 9 November, “ET: Tracing the Big Bang” will take place, featuring Alessandro Cardini, director of the INFN Cagliari Section. Scheduled for 9:00 am at EXMA, the event will explore the potential of the future gravitational-wave observatory, which promises to listen to the universe’s most distant and faint signals, tracing its history back to the dark ages following the Big Bang and looking ahead to help us understand its possible destiny.
The events will continue in Nuoro as part of the activities associated with the festival. On Thursday, 12 November, at 5:00 pm, the Sebastiano Satta Library will host “The Einstein Telescope at Sos Enattos”, with Andrea Contu, INFN researcher and head of ET Sardinia. Introduced by Francesco Dolfi, (regional communicator for ET), the event will offer an opportunity to learn more about the project and the Italian candidate site proposed to host it.
On Friday, 13 November, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, the Sebastiano Satta Library will also host a workshop for upper secondary school students, led by Sara Intina, Fabrizio Luchi and Matteo Tuveri from the University of Cagliari. The activity will introduce students to gravitational waves and explore the role that instruments such as the Einstein Telescope will play in studying the most extreme phenomena in the cosmos.
Finally, on Thursday, 19 November, at 4:00 pm, ET will feature in an event at the “Zappa-Pitagora” Higher Education Institute in Isili, with a presentation by Domenico D’Urso (University of Sassari and INFN).
View the full programme at this link.