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Swedish Physics Days

On August 13-15 I will attend for the first time to the Swedish Physics Days, an important national...

Extrasensorial Plot Premonition

In the previous article here, I tangentially examined a situation that arises often in collaborative...

Reference Letters

Lately I have been writing lots of reference letters for students who are applying to Ph.D. positions...

Highlights From MODE And EUCAIF

After a month of intense travel, which among other things included attendance to the MODE Workshop...

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Tommaso Dorigo is an experimental particle physicist, who works for the INFN at the University of Padova, and collaborates with the CMS and the SWGO experiments. He is the president of the Read More »

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Save Children Burnt by Caustic Soda!

Save Children Burnt by Caustic Soda!

Apr 19 2009 | comment(s)

sierra leoneIn Sierra Leone mothers use caustic soda to home-make soap, and children often exchange it for water and drink it. During 2008 alone, 249 children have been admitted in the surgical pediatric unit of the Emergency center in Goderich, near Freetown - a number twice higher than that recorded in 2007.

Patients who ingested caustic soda are subjected to periodic esophageal dilatation, which is the only way to give them the hope of autonomous nutrition and thus a life.
Gates Foundation to chat with bloggers about World Malaria Day

Gates Foundation to chat with bloggers about World Malaria Day

Apr 17 2009 | comment(s)

My mailbox has an automated spam filter, but often some smarter messages seep through and end in there; since, however, I already receive hundreds of emails a day, I am not too happy to entertain myself with ones I do not need: so I have developed a sort of instinct to automatically ignore messages which are likely to be spam. Wrong!
Dark Matter: A Critical Assessment Of Recent Cosmic-Ray Signals

Dark Matter: A Critical Assessment Of Recent Cosmic-Ray Signals

Apr 17 2009 | comment(s)

Palazzo Franchetti in veniceI participated with pleasure last month to a four-day conference devoted to neutrino telescopes, NEUTEL 2009, in Venice. Venice is my home town, and walking in the morning to the conference venue in Palazzo Franchetti (see left), a big and beautiful palace on the Canal Grande, was a pleasant change from my usual commute by train with Padova.
A Fascinating New Higgs Boson Search By The DZERO Experiment

A Fascinating New Higgs Boson Search By The DZERO Experiment

Apr 16 2009 | comment(s)

Reporting on scientific results to a broad audience is difficult, in my opinion, not so much because of the need to explain things in a simple way -which is easy and fun, once you master the matter- as for the self-discipline you are forced to stick to.
A banner worth a thousand words

A banner worth a thousand words

Apr 15 2009 | comment(s)

If you happened to visit this site earlier today, you may have found it devoid of a suitable banner. That is because I took some time pondering on that design detail for this new site. I wanted something that resembled the banner of the old site which hosted my blog, over at wordpress, which showed a starry field; but I also wanted to convey some personality with it -no more anonymous pictures stolen from a prepackaged theme (Regulus in that case); and possibly, some meaning.
Confirmed for WCSJ 2009

Confirmed for WCSJ 2009

Apr 15 2009 | comment(s)

This short post is my first contribution to ScientificBlogging: with it I am relocating my blog here from wordpress. I am thrilled by the opportunity to join a larger group of excellent science writers, and possibly reach a larger audience interested in particle physics and in my other occasional discussions of chess, politics, astronomy, astrophysics, or the personal notes I sometimes choose  to dump here.