The fifth Strategy Report and Roadmap 2018 of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) was presented on 11th September, in the framework of the Austrian Presidency events, at Aula der Wissenschaften in Vienna.

The conference (September 3-7, 2018) is going to be held in Sala Napoleonica, Palazzo Greppi, Via S. Antonio 12, Milan.

Pier Francesco Bortignon passed away on 27 August 2018. His passion for research and teaching, his rigorous attitude and his dauntless commitment have been an example for all of us, and it will be difficult to imagine the Department and the INFN Section without him.

The University of Milan is hosting the third Innovative Training Network (ITN) ColOpt event, from 9th to 13th July 2018, in the Sala Napoleonica of via S. Antonio 12

The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN has announced the observation of Higgs bosons produced together with a top-quark pair. Observing this extremely rare process is a significant milestone for the field of High-Energy Physics. It allows physicists to test critical parameters of the Higgs mechanism in the Standard Model of particle physics.

The international workshop on electronic excitations, organized by the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF) of which UNIMI is a core node, takes place from September 10 to 14, 2018.

Nature Astronomy publishes a paper by a team - including Claudio Grillo, physicist at the University of Milan - announcing the discovery of the hot blue star “Icarus”, 9 billion light years away.

Performed with success the test of an innovative superconducting coil in MgB2, designed, built and tested by the Superconducting Magnet Group at LASA, in the framework for developing new concepts of magnets for particle accelerators.