Master of Science in Business Administration

It's Alway Time for Knowledge: Together for a new university spring

The University of Rome Tor Vergata takes part in the initiative launched on a national level by CRUI (the Conference of the Rectors of Italian Universities): on the upcoming March 21, 2016, in a place as symbolic as the Congress Centre Villa Mondragone, a bridge between past and future, “knowledge” will be at the centre of a meeting aiming at reaffirming the strategic role of Research and Higher Education for the future of the country.

“È sempre tempo di sapere (It’s always time for knowledge): together for a new university spring”: will be the leitmotiv of this day organized by the University of Tor Vergata in order to contribute to the debate fostered by CRUI. The idea is to highlight the image of a “positive university”, starting from its results, its commitment and interdisciplinarity.

It is no accident if Tor Vergata chose a villa tuscolana, a unique venue in which history meets archeology, art, physics, science, music, medicine, literature, botanic, architecture and testifies – across centuries- on how knowledge takes form, is passed on and is renewed thanks to the sharing of ideas and the exchange across disciplines.

On the occasion of the event, during which prestigious grant winners will share their testimony, the gates of Villa Mondragone will be opened to hundreds of high school students.

Therefore, this appointment is to reiterate the attention that Tor Vergata gives to the youth, to whom a “journey into knowledge” between past and future, guided through a didactic and scientific tour around the guarded “treasures” of knowledge in Villa Mondragone, to get to recent scientific discoveries of Tor Vergata’s research teams. Discoveries that go from the Foucault’s Pendulum, to “Ancient DNA”, and from Augmented reality to Gravitational waves.

Joining us in this initiative are PhD students who embody the future of the research. The University of Tor Vergata invites them to give proposals, suggestions and contributions as advice on how to convey a true and concrete image of the “positive university”.

The best ideas that will come out of this day will be communicated to CRUI for the drafting of a summary agreed on by all Universities. Such document representing the unified voice of the academic national community will be sent to the Government. It shall be a starting point to build a new university spring of the Research and the Higher Education.

Programme

Guided Didactic and Scientific programme: “Dal Passato al Futuro”
by:
Prof. Marina Formica, Coordinator of the School of Humanities and Philosophies
Prof. Arch. Rodolfo M. Strollo, Department of Industrial Engineering

• Foucault’s Pendulum
  by Prof. Amedeo Balbi, Department of Physics
   
• Ancient DNA
  by Prof. Olga Rickards, Coordinator of the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
   
• Augmented Reality
  by Prof. Giovanni Saggio, Department of Electronic Engineering
   
• Gravitational Waves
  by Prof.ssa Viviana Fafone (Dept. of Physics) and by the Virgo INFN-“Tor Vergata” team

Coffee break

Meeting: “It’s always time for knowledge”

Institutional greetings and Introduction
Prof. Giuseppe Novelli, Rector of The University of Rome Tor Vergata

• Intervention
  Prof. Silvia Licoccia, Delegate of the Research at The University of Rome Tor Vergata
   
• Testimonies
  Prof. Amedeo Balbi, Department of Physics
  Prof. Roberto Testi, ERC, Department of Biomedicine and Preventive Nutrition
  Prof. Lucio Cerrito, ERC, Department of Physics
  Mr. Francesco Grisolia, SIR, Department of Philosophy, Literature, Art
   
• Prize-giving
   
• Debriefing and closure of the workshops
  Prof. Giuseppe Novelli, Rector of The University of Rome Tor Vergata