Manifesto

UniVersum is a novel series of cosmology meetings whose main goal is to gather on a regular basis members of the active Italian cosmology community. Besides discussing our many scientific activities, the aim of this series of encounters is also to foster collaborations amongst us and to discuss crucial topics and strategical choices that involve the community at large. Examples of regular informal workshops of this type are common in other European Countries, i.e. IberiCós in Spain and Portugal, or UKcosmo in Great Britain. We feel that also our community could strongly benefit from having a set of meetings with this format.

Here is how the idea of UniVersum saw the light of day! What we have in mind is a one-and-a-half day meeting, taking place every year in a different university or research centre all around Italy, featuring short talks from PhD students and post-docs, and extended discussion sessions led by reference senior scientists in various fields of cosmological research. As said, we envisage both usual, scientific debate sessions, as, more importantly, forums where we can discuss crucial questions related to cosmology in Italy.

Here is this edition's poster. The first UniVersum meeting was held in Turin in 2017, details can be found here

Programme

UniVersum aims at becoming an annual encounter, easy and feasible for cosmologists from all over Italy. Following on the positive and constructive feedback from the 1st edition, this year we shall start at 2pm on the first day and finish mid-afternoon two days after, with the last day more focussed on a specific topic, i.e. the cosmic large-scale structure.

The second edition will be held on 11th-13th April 2018. The provisional programme is available here, and this is the list of the talks.

Registration is now open at this link!

Location

The second encounter of the UniVersum series will take place in Bologna, in the historical framework of the ancient Specola tower. Here you can find the location on Google maps.

Many lodging facilities are available whithin walking distance, from hotels to B&Bs, hostels and airbnb's. The participants should contact directly their hotel to arrange for the reservation. Please note that, at the time of UniVersum, Bologna will probably be crowded with tourists, we thus recommend the participants to book their accommodation as soon as possible to avoid any inconvenience. Here below is a list of nearby accommodations:

• Hotel Roma ***

  Via D' Azeglio 9, 40123 Bologna (walking time: 16 minutes)

• Hotel University ***

  Via Mentana 7, 40126 Bologna (walking time: 18 minutes)

• Hotel Holiday ***

  Via Bertiera 13, 40126 Bologna (walking time: 20 minutes)

• Hotel Paradise ***

  Vicolo Cattani 7, 40126 Bologna (walking time: 21 minutes)

• Hotel Accademia ***

  Via delle Belle Arti 6, 40126 Bologna (walking time: 18 minutes)

• Hotel Pedrini ***

  Strada Maggiore 79, 40125 Bologna (walking time: 4 minutes)

• Albergo San Vitale

  Via San Vitale 94, 40125 Bologna (walking time: 11 minutes)

• Hotel San Donato Best Western ****

  Via Zamboni 16, 40126 Bologna (walking time: 15 minutes)

• Hotel I Portici ****

  Via Indipendenza 69, 40121 Bologna (walking time: 27 minutes)

• Hotel San Giorgio ***

  Via delle Moline 17, 40126 Bologna

• Aemilia Hotel ****

  Via G. Zaccherini Alvisi 16, 40138 Bologna (walking time: 13 minutes)

Participants

Steering Committee:
Stefano Camera (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Marco Baldi (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
Carmelita Carbone (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Michele Liguori (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Local Organising Committee:
Marco Baldi (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
Daniela Paoletti (INAF Bologna)
Matteo Tenti (INFN Bologna)

Participants:
Nicola Alchera
Lorenzo Amati
Carlo Baccigalupi
Marco Baldi
Nicola Bartolo
José Bermejo-Climent
Daniele Bertacca
Micol Bolzonella
Anna Bonaldi
Marco Bonici
Silvio Bonometto
Lorenzo Bordin
Matteo Braglia
Enzo Branchini
Alvina Burgazli
Alessandro Buzzelli
Giovanni Cabass
Stefano Camera
Carmelita Carbone
Vincenzo Cardone
Roberto Casadio
Alessandro Casalino
Marco Celoria
Valentina Cesare
Michele Cicoli
Manuel Colavincenzo
Loris Colombo
Walter Del Pozzo
Giulia Despali
Giuseppe Fanizza
Fabio Finelli
Jean-Philippe Fontaine
Nicolao Fornengo
Carlo Giocoli
Giacomo Girelli
Dario Grasso
Alessandro Gruppuso
Luigi Guzzo
Mahmoud Hashim
Dhiraj Kumar Hazra
Dionysis Karagiannis
Andrei Lazanu
Francesca Lepori
Michele Liguori
Nicola Locatelli
Vladimir Luković
Orlando Luongo
Manuela Magliocchetti
Giovanni Marozzi
Federico Marulli
Nicoló Masi
Sabino Matarrese
Ben Metcalf
Marina Migliaccio
Diego Molinari
Pierluigi Monaco
Chiara Moretti
Lauro Moscardini
Paolo Natoli
Eugenio Noda
Matteo Nori
Filippo Oppizzi
Giorgio Orlando
Daniela Paoletti
Massimo Pietroni
Luigi Pilo
Lorenzo Pizzuti
Lucia Pozzetti
Alvise Raccanelli
Alessandro Renzi
Fabrizio Renzi
Massimiliano Rinaldi
Emiliano Sefusatti
Matteo Tenti
Federico Tosone
Alessandro Tronconi
Gian Paolo Vacca
Luca Valenziano
Franco Vazza
Matteo Viel
Eleonora Villa
Andrea Zacchei
Alessandra Zanichelli
*To be confirmed.

Elements

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