7th Young Researcher Meeting

Young Researcher Meeting, Torino 2016

F Agostini, C Antolini, A Avella, G Cattani, R Cuccaro, A Cultrera, M Di Stefano, G Fragione, L Lolli, M Migliaccio, L Pagnanini, E Pessana, F Piacentini, D Pietrobon, E Pusceddu, R Romeo, M Serra, E Simonetto, F Stellato

Preface

The Young Researcher Meeting (www.yrmr.it) has been established as a forum for students, postdoctoral fellows and young researchers determined to play a proactive role in the scientific progress. Since 2009 we run itinerant yearly meetings to discuss the most recent developments and achievements in Physics, as we are firmly convinced that sharing expertise and experience is the foundation of the research activity. One of the main purposes of the conference is actually to create an international network of young researchers, both experimentalists and theoreticians, and fruitful collaborations across the different branches of Physics.

The format we chose is an informal meeting primarily aimed at students and researchers at the beginning of their scientific career, who are encouraged to present their work in brief presentations able to provide genuine engagement of the audience and cross-pollination of ideas.

The 7^th edition of the Young Researcher Meeting was held at the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM) in Turin, the Italian National Metrology Institute responsible for the national standards of the International System of Units.

The conference took place from Monday 24^th to Wednesday 26^th October 2016. This edition gathered 120 participants belonging to universities and research centres from all over the world. The plenary talk sessions covered several areas of pure and applied Physics, and they were complemented by an extremely rich and interactive poster session, which was also extended to the coffee breaks.

The programme included a "poster & wine" session on the first evening, a guided tour at the Turin Astrophysical Observatory and a very enjoyable and friendly conference dinner in a typical Piedmont-cuisine restaurant. The participants had furthermore the unique opportunity to visit the INRiM laboratories, which host a wide spectrum of Physics experiments. This year's edition of the meeting featured a lectio magistralis by Walter Bich¹, entitled "Metrology, why not?", which provided an all-around picture of the connections between metrology and several other physics-related research fields. Three invited speakers (Dr. E. Palazzi², Prof. F. Sciarrino³, and Dr. A. Giachero⁴), with different scientific backgrounds, kindly accepted to give broad-audience talks pertaining their research fields (Dr. A. Giachero also contributed to this publication).

This edition of the Young Researcher Meeting gave the organisers the opportunity to present to the attendees, and officially launch, two projects of interest for the wide scientific community:

ⅳ the recently established International Physicists Network (IPN)⁵, an Italian non-profit association having the main purpose to create and promote an international network of young researchers in Physics, both experimental and theoretical, in order to initiate collaborations between different branches of Physics. IPN will be responsible for running the organisation of the YRM in the coming years, as it is the natural continuation of an almost decade-long collaboration between the funders and organisers of the YRM;

ⅳ the partnership code-named Dandelion with the Consortium for Technology Transfer (C2T) and specifically with its top-tier service designed for professional researchers, Find Your Doctor (FyD). Dr. Eva Ratti⁶ gave the talk "What meaning for a PhD nowadays? Knowledge workers as a drive for change" to introduce FyD goals and methods to help researchers to connect with companies looking for their expertise. The project Dandelion has been presented during the "poster & wine" session. It aims to "let competences, ideas, resources and company requirements meet together in an online/offline shared area and exploit the best of both sides" adding a bottom-up approach where "young researchers can now submit their own ideas and research/application projects directly to possible interested companies". It is mainly based on the Elevator Pitch paradigm, complementary to the traditional top-down approach where companies advertise their openings/research challenges and the interested candidates submit their proposals.

This volume consists in a selection of the contributions presented at the conference as either talks or posters. These cover topics in astrophysics and cosmology, particle and theoretical physics, soft and condensed matter, medical physics, quantum information and quantum technologies, and of course metrology.

Organising and Editorial Committee

Fabio Agostini

(fabioagostini31@gmail.com)

NAIS

Alessio Avella

(a.avella@inrim.it)

INRiM

Rugiada Cuccaro

(r.cuccaro@inrim.it)

INRiM

Marco Di Stefano

(marco.distefano@cnag.crg.eu)

Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica - Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CNAG-CRG)

Lapo Lolli

(l.lolli@inrim.it)

INRiM

Lorenzo Pagnanini

(lorenzo.pagnanini@gssi.infn.it)

Gran Sasso Science Institute

Fabrizio Piacentini

(f.piacentini@inrim.it)

INRiM

Emanuela Pusceddu

(emanuela.pusceddu@gmail.com)

National Research Council-CNR

Matteo Serra

(matteoserra83@gmail.com)

Claudia Antolini

(cla.antolini@gmail.com)

Giordano Cattani

(giordano.cattani@gmail.com)

Alessandro Cultrera

(a.cultrera@inrim.it)

INRiM

Giacomo Fragione

(giacomo.fragione90@gmail.com)

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Marina Migliaccio

(migliaccio@asdc.asi.it)

ASDC – ASI Science Data Center

Enrica Pessana

(e.pessana@inrim.it)

INRiM

Davide Pietrobon

(daddeptr@gmail.com)

Raffaella Romeo

(r.romeo@inrim.it)

INRiM

Enrico Simonetto

(e.simonetto@inrim.it)

INRiM

Francesco Stellato

(francesco.stellato@roma2.infn.it)

INFN Roma Tor Vergata

Silvia Cavallero

(Local Organising Committee)

(s.cavallero@inrim.it)

INRiM

Acknowledgements

The organisers of the 7^th Young Researcher Meeting, held in Torino, would like to thank all the authors for their scientific contributions and all the people who made this conference smooth and pleasant.

We thank the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM) for hosting the conference. INRiM and the commercial sponsors (Anton Paar, CalRef, Crisel Instruments, ID Quantique, LOT-Quantum Design, Pfeiffer Vacuum, Sistemi HS, Tele-dyne-Lecroy) for covering the organisational costs, the expenses for the publication of the proceedings, and providing travel grants to selected speakers.

We are grateful to Dr. W. Bich for filling his lecture with his contagious enthusiasm, Dott. Alberto Cora (and his colleagues) at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica enrolled at the Astrophysical Observatory of Pino Torinese for the interesting guided tours. Many thanks also to the colleagues at INRiM who guided the extensive tour of the laboratories.

The event was broadcast live on the conference website, and the recordings are available on YRM Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/c/YoungResearcherMeeting.