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Cosmos Award, face to face with science

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ROME – The “Cosmos” award is back, dedicated to the best scientific dissemination works, which are read and commented on in schools throughout Italy, and from this year also in Italian schools abroad. Rooted in the city of Reggio Calabria thanks to Gianfranco Bertone, professor at the University of Amsterdam and with the collaboration of the Metropolitan City, the award is a magnet for scientists, enthusiasts and students: it did not stop even in the year of the lockdown (here the winners of 2020).

Now the “digital” tour starts to discover the finalist works of the 2021 edition: a calendar of five appointments with the five great names in astronomy, physics and mathematics competing for the Prize – Massimo Capaccioli, Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Luciano Rezzolla and David Spiegelharter -, in dialogue with 5 internationally renowned members of the Scientific Committee.

The series of meetings will open on Wednesday 24 March, at 6.30 pm, with Massimo Capaccioli, astrophysicist, emeritus professor at the University of Naples “Federico II”, author of The charm of Urania. Twenty-five centuries of sky exploration (Carocci publisher). In dialogue with him, Roberto Battiston, professor of experimental physics at the University of Trento, former president of the Italian Space Agency (2014-2018).

Following, in subsequent appointments, Sean Carroll, author of Something deeply hidden (Einaudi) in dialogue with Amedeo Balbi on March 31; Brian Greene, author of de Until the end of time (Einaudi), in dialogue with Carlo Rovelli on 8 April. On April 9, it will be David Spiegelhalte’s turnr, author of The art of statistics (Einaudi), with Paolo Zellini; Luciano Rezzolla, author of de The irresistible pull of gravity (Rizzoli), with Lucia Votano.

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The matches will be broadcast in live streaming on the website www.premiocosmos.org). It will also be possible to follow the live broadcast on the You Tube channel, Youtube channel, on the Facebook page and on the Twitter profile of the award.

The winner will be announced on next May 6th. Another book will be chosen by a jury of students. The contenders will be – in addition to the aforementioned Massimo Capaccioli and David Spiegelharter – Alessandro Bilotta and Dario Grillotti, with The function of the world. A story of Vito Volterra (Feltrinelli); Lorella Carimali, with The equation of freedom. In mathematics there is the key to rebirth (Rizzoli); and Licia Troisi, with The bold beauty of the cosmos. A journey through the mysteries of the universe through images of the invisible (Rizzoli).

The Scientific Committee
The five finalists of the Cosmos Prize were selected by a scientific committee composed of 10 leading personalities from the scientific world, with experience in scientific dissemination: Amedeo Balbi, professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Rome Tor Vergata; Gianfranco Bertone, professor of Theoretical Astroparticle Physics at the Center of Excellence in Gravitational and Astroparticle Physics in Amsterdam and founding director of the European Consortium for Astroparticle Physics; Maria Luisa Chiofalo, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Pisa; Andrea Ferrara, full professor of Cosmology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and joint professor of the Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Tokyo; Piergiorgio Odifreddi, internationally renowned mathematician and scientific popularizer; Carlo Rovelli, direttore Center for Theoretical Physics University of Aix-Marseille; Sandra Savaglio, professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Calabria and regional councilor with responsibility for the University, Scientific Research and Education; Pierluigi Veltri, professor of Physics of Matter at the University of Calabria; Lucia Votano, Research Director associated with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN); Paolo Zellini, professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

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