On the occasion of the Centenary recurrence of Vito Volterra’s Presidency of the Italian Society of Sciences (1919-1920), the National Academy of Sciences said of XL celebrates the great mathematician, physicist and policy-maker. A meeting will be held on the library of the Academy at Villa Torlonia, taking place from 10 a.m onwards. The meeting…
DetailsThe conference on “Pant Biodiversity as a support to local communities in Africa and Latin America” will take place on December 16, 2019 in the Library (Biblioteca) of the National Academy of Sciences called “of the XL”. This conference is planned within a series of events with the objective of developing new ideas and approaches…
DetailsThe 41st Congress of the Italian Society of Biogeography will take place in Rome, at the Academic Library, on 22-23 November 2019. The event is co-organized by the Italian Society of Biogeography and the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL. Two general themes of the Congress: Citizen Science, Data banks and Biogeography (Coordinator…
DetailsOn November 15 the public meeting held concomitantly with the Second Annual Conference of the Academy Members will host the lecture of Professor Fabrizio Nestola, Director of the Geoscience Department of Padua University, on: “Superdeep Diamonds: An Indication of the Earth’s Core”. He will report on his group results on natural diamonds and their inclusions…
DetailsThe role of chemical sciences in the study of cultural heritage has a long and solid tradition in our country, however the integration of the different methodologies and strategies is lacking due to the excessive specializations in which the chemical sciences are being established today. The workshop entitled ‘New Chemical Methodologies for the Conservation and…
DetailsThe Emilia Chiancone Medal is given annually to one honoree in recognition of outstanding contributions to the biological sciences. Established in 2019, the Chiancone Medal has been named by the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL to honor Emilia Chiancone, eminent scientist and sorely missed President of the Academy (2011-2018). Medal recipients must have…
DetailsThe XVIII National Conference on Foundations and History of Chemistry will be held in Rome on October 8-10, 2019, hosted and co-organized by the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL. In the occasion of the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements, further to more traditional themes of ancient and modern…
DetailsThe Open Molecular Science Cloud (OMSC) workshop, jointly organized by the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze and the Computational and Theoretical Chemistry (CTC) Division of EuChemS with the support of the MolSSI US consortium, aims to discuss and build a set of cloud services for the Molecular Science Community on the infrastructure of the European Open…
DetailsCelebrating 160 years from Arrhenius birthday and 130 years of remarkable success of his equation, open problems on its foundations and perspectives of future applications are under focus. The meeting will be held in Rome on June 27th and 28th, 2019 organized by the Italian National Academy of Sciences (the XL), in collaboration with the…
DetailsThe 2019 Medals of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL for Mathematics, the Physical and Natural Sciences, and the Matteucci Medal have been awarded. The first two medals are the most ancient scientific prizes awarded by the Kingdom of Italy just after the country reached its unity. They were created in 1866 by…
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