Symposium ‘The astrochemical observatory: focus on chiral molecules’

The Symposium ‘Astrochemical observatory: focus on chiral molecules’ will be held in Rome on March 22-23 in the Academic Library. The initiative can be framed in the context of a new interdisciplinary research field, astrochemistry, which makes use of recent astronomical and radio-astronomical observations, space mission data collections, laboratory observations, theoretical and computational modeling. Several organic molecules, even complex ones, have been…

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The digital road. Communicating the Heritage

The meeting ‘Protection and valorization of the historic-scientific heritage’ is held in the framework of the Academy participation in the European network DiCultHer – the acronym of Digital Cultural Heritage –  whose mission is to promote digital skills in the cultural heritage field. Speakers: Emilia Chiancone, Carmine Marinucci, Silviero Sansavini, Annibale Mottana, Giovanni Paoloni, Filippo…

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First Italian Citizen Science Conference

The massive participation of researchers in the First Italian Citizen Science Conference (Rome, November 23-25, 2017) confirmed the great interest raised by the topic and by the prospects of developing the new approach to science it proposes in Italy. Even though Citizen Science finds applications in many scientific areas, it finds its largest success in…

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“Climate and its Evolution” Seminar in Mestre

‘Climate and its Evolution ’is the title of the Seminar organized in the framework of the series of meetings on ‘Science and Technology in Anthropocene: Risks and Benefits’, promoted by the National Academy of Sciences. The seminar will take place in Mestre on November 30, 2107. It is organized in collaboration with the Ca’ Foscari University…

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‘Computation Secrets and Causality’ Conference by Silvio Micali

Silvio Micali, computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and professor of Computer Science at MIT, will hold the conference “Mathematics and Computation” in the Academy Library on November 27, 2017. The event is organized by the Academy in collaboration with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Professor Micali was assigned the…

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XVII National Meeting of History and Fundamentals of Chemistry

The XVII National Meeting of the National Group of History and Fundamentals of Chemistry will be held on October 10-12, 2017 in Rome. The event, which takes place every other year, will be hosted by the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL at the Academy Library in Villa Torlonia. Visit the Meeting site…

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Science and Technology in the Anthropocene. Chemistry in the energy transition

The meeting ‘Chemistry in the energy transition’, to be held in Bologna on September 29, 2017, is the fourth  appointment of the series ‘Science and Technology in the Anthropocene: risks and benefits’. The reduction of fossil fuel consumption represents one of the challenges mankind has to face urgently by means of energy saving actions, more…

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2017 Academy Medals

The National Academy of Sciences called of the XL has opened the 235th academic year on May 10, 2017 at the Academy Library in Villa Torlonia, in the presence of prof. Giampaolo D’Andrea, Chief of Staff of the Minister of Culture and Tourism. On this occasion, the 2017 Academy medals have been awarded: The Medal of…

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