Circolo Sadoul of Ischia
Fondazione IDIS-Città della Scienza of Naples
Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies
Futuro Prossimo - Next Future
March, 30-31 2012
Biblioteca Antoniana – Ischia
What the science of the next future holds, in terms of knowledge and effects on society and economy?
Forecasting the future – even the next future – is an hard work. But we need to build maps of the possible futures, for directing our actions in the present. The present itself say to us that many things are cooking, both in the fields of new scientific knowledge and new knowledge economy, in every part of the world. The 2012 edition of the Science and Society School will try to discover what is cooking. For studying the present and drawing a map of the possible next futures.
Friday, March 30
9 am
Hypothesis on the origin of life
Pietro Greco
Fondazione IDIS-Città della Scienza of Naples
10 am
Ongoing trends of climate change
Guido Barone
Department of Chemistry – University of Naples Federico II
11 am
The future of Green Economy
Daniela Palma
Unit of Technology Transfer, ENEA, Rome
12 am
Nanotech: applications, concerns and promises from the nano-world.
Angela Tino
Cybernetics Institute “E. Caianiello”, CNR of Naples
3 pm
Can we think the physics of the future? Suggestions from the past
Gianni Battimelli
Department of Physics – University of Rome La Sapienza
4 pm
Physics of accelerators, Astrophysics and Cosmology. Problems and perspectives.
Paolo Lipari
Department of Physics – University of Rome La Sapienza
5 pm
Robotics and Society
Guglielmo Tamburrini
Department of Physics – University of Naples Federico II
6 pm
Innovation stories in the shade of Vesuvio
Cristian Fuschetto
Journalist, Science&Society Editor
Saturday, March 31
9 am
Introduction to dynamical systems and chaos
Angelo Guerraggio
Department of Decision Sciences, University of Milan Bocconi
10 am
Actor networks and emerging dynamics: an interpretive paradigm for the study of complexity
Franco Garofalo
Department of Computer Studies and Systems – University of Naples Federico II
11 am
The future of biotech is coloured
Edgardo Filippone
Department of Soil, Plant, Environment and Animal Productions
University of Naples Federico II
12 am
Factories of the Sky. Aerospace, innovation and development
Mario Raffa
Group of Industrial Engineering
University of Naples Federico II
3 pm
Nationalization of Energy and Southern Italy
Gianni Paoloni
Department of Auxiliary Sciences of Philology and Geography – Division of Library Sciences – University of Rome La Sapienza
4 pm
Understanding Earthquakes
Aldo Zollo
Department of Physics – University of Naples Federico II
5 pm
Lessons from the Casamicciola earthquake
Ilia Delizia
President of Circolo Sadoul – Department of Architecture History and Restauration
University of Naples Federico II
