Before moving to Hamburg for their second semester, our first-year students were willing to visit the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), the largest underground laboratory in the world for experiments in particle physics, particle astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics located between the towns of L'Aquila and Teramo - about 120 km away from Rome. So, we managed to arrange an introductory lecture + guided tour led by Prof. Roberto Aloisio from GSSI, whom we wish to thank for his valuable contribution and for having hosted us at such short notice.
The presentation was held in the headquarters of the LNGS, located in an external building near "Assergi" motorwary exit. Then, we moved to the actual underground facilities, located on a side of the ten kilometres long motorway tunnel crossing the Gran Sasso Mountain. According to LNGS website, the laboratories lie beneath 1,400 metres of rock and "consist of three large experimental halls, each about 100 m long, 20 m wide and 18 m high and service tunnels, for a total volume of about 180,000 cubic metres".
After the guided tour, we headed towards the Adriatic coast and stopped off in the countryside for a huge slap-up lunch in Agriturismo Capodacqua, a typical country restaurant with a beautiful view over the surrounding hills.
We hope you've enjoyed it as much as we did and we wish you all the best for your second term!
Before moving to Hamburg for their second semester, our first-year students were willing to visit the Gran Sasso...
Posted by MathMods on Domenica 29 marzo 2015
You are all invited (first and second years) in joining a Welcome-Day meeting organized by Aquilasmus, a student association part of ESN - Erasmus Student Network.
- Day: Wednesday, October 15
- Time: 3.30 pm
- Venue: Aula Magna, Department of Human Studies (city centre, see below for directions).
There will be a presentation of what the association does for international students (e.g. organizing parties, trips, international dinners, cine-forums...).
Participants are also invited to give a short talk. As this is the first time that our Erasmus Mundus group has been invited to such event, we definitely need a volunteer (maybe from the second year) to make a presentation of what MathMods and Erasmus Mundus is.
You'll also be given a welcome pack, containing pens, notebooks, maps and the like.
In the end there'll be a buffet dinner, too!
As we really want all of you to take part in the event, we've cancelled all the classes scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
Directions
City centre, around 100 metres from the big fountain (Fontana Luminosa) and the Castle.
There's an ARPA bus leaving our department at 2.15, then you'll just have to get off at "Questura" (police station) - it's the last but one stop before Terminal. But you can also get any AMA bus driving to Terminal or, better still, Fontana Luminosa.
Click here for a map.
Here are a few stills from the party we threw on Thrusday, Sept. 11 to congratulate our 9 graduates on their successful completion of their Master's programme. The lunch party has also been an occasion to welcome our new 50 first-years to the MathMods programme.
We hope everybody enjoyed the food and the champagne, too!
