September 15-16, 2011, Helsinki, Finland During ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2011 conference, Francis Balestra, Sinano Institute-Grenoble INP/CNRS, Adrian Ionescu, EPFL, organized the GUARDIAN ANGELS Workshop:“Guardian Angels for a Smarter Life: Science and Technology Beyond Fiction”- The Workshop is supported by the Guardian Angels project funded by the European Commission
New issue of NANOENERGY LETTERS is now out!
August 1st, 2011 The second issue of NANOENERGY LETTERS has been published. This is a newsletter created within the research project NANOPOWER (funded by European Commission, under the FET proactive initiative "Toward Zero-Power ICT" (2zeroP)) and within the coordination
2011 Summer School in Perugia: highlights
The NiPS Summer School is currently in progress at the Colle della Trinità resort in Perugia, Italy. More than 30 students coming from 9 different countries are attending a dense program of lectures (program) on Micro and nanoscale
Igor Neri and Luca Gammaitoni at EUROMECH Colloquium in Bristol (UK)
NiPS Lab is fully represented at the next Euromech Colloquium at the University of Bristol (UK) devoted to Structural Control and Energy Harvesting. Igor Neri from NiPS Lab presents a talk entitled "A real vibration database for kinetic
L. Gammaitoni invited speaker at the E3TS Workshop in Barcelona, Spain
L. Gammaitoni from NiPS Lab has been invited as a speaker at the Workshop on Energy Efficient Electronic Technologies and Systems (E3TS), held on July 18-19th, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. This international workshop is co-organized and funded by the Guardian
PRIN project from NiPS approved by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
The Italian Ministry of University and Research has issued the list of approved project for the PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale). The project presented by University of Catania (S. Baglio coordinator), University of Perugia (NiPS Lab) and
Sigma-Phy Conference on Statistical Mechanics
11-15 July 2011 Luca Gammaitoni invited speaker at the International Conference on Statistical Physics in Larnaka (Cyprus).
Seminar at the University of Bologna in Cesena
July 7, 2011 Luca Gammaitoni speaks at the University of Bologna, Seconda Facoltà di Ingegneria — Sede di Cesena on Fluctuations Energy Harvesting with nonlinear oscillators. Slides available here: Fluctuations-Energy-Harvesting.pdf
L. Gammaitoni speaks at the Third NaNoNetworking Summit, Barcelona, June 22-23 2011
Luca Gammaitoni, form NiPS, is invited speaker at the Third NaNoNetworking Summit, in Barcelona on June 22-23 2011. The N3Summit aims to become the main discussion forum for researchers of the different scientific areas related to nanoscale communication networks. With
NiPS Director on Radio Tre Scienza
9th June 2011 Luca Gammaitoni reviews a recent book on "wave watching" for Silvia Bencivelli, Radio Tre Scienza. The Book, THE WAVEWATCHER’S COMPANION BY GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY (Bloomsbury £14.99), is a collection of thoughts about waves in all their manifestations