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International Schools > Physics

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

Founded in 1963

1st Director Antonino Zichichi, now Antonino Zichichi and Antonio Zoccoli

Subnuclear physics is the branch of scientific research in which phenomena connected with the detailed structure of the ultimate constituents of matter are studied. It is through these studies that man tries to challenge nature by discovering its fundamental laws. This knowledge is the indispensable origin of all technological development and forms the basis of all modern scientific thought. The school aims, each year, to help specialists who are actively engaged in the most advanced research to become up to date on the most significant theoretical and experimental developments. Though applicants are selected as students primarily based on their scientific qualifications, geographical allowances are made to permit every country at least one participant. One of the aims of the school is to encourage and promote young physicists to achieve recognition at an international level. There will be poster sessions whereby each student has the privilege of presenting the results of current studies and interacting with other participants to their mutual benefit. Each student may also propose a contribution for open presentation. The Board of Lecturers and Invited Scientists will select the best proposals. Priority will be given to new material of either an experimental or theoretical nature, especially if the candidate has made an important contribution to the results to be presented. A review paper has lower priority and, as before, will only be selected if the candidate can point out some new features in the field reviewed. Due to the large number of students and the limited time available, it is obvious that only selected ‘New Talents’ can be given the possibility of making themselves known. The selection will be based solely on ‘scientific excellence’, without favour to geographical distribution, the laboratory, or the university of origin. A group of distinguished physicists has been invited to contribute to the lively intellectual atmosphere of the school by participating in the discussions following the Lectures. Moreover, they will take part in the selection of the ‘New Talents’, in the choice of the Best Student and in the award of the various diplomas open for competition. The reconstruction of the first six decades of subnuclear physics has a strong link with the “Ettore Majorana” School of Subnuclear Physics at Erice, a small town on the top of a mountain founded – according to the myth – by the son of Venus. Here, every year since 1963, the development of subnuclear physics has been recorded and the hottest topics of the moment were registered as faithfully as possible in the discussion sessions of the Erice School. At this School, I have attempted to have as Lecturers the most active and authoritative members of the subnuclear physics community. Their ingenuity, their wisdom, their rigorous attempts to understand the constituents and the fundamental forces of nature are reported in the volumes of the Subnuclear Physics Series. The original ideas which have flourished during the past 60 years were the focus of an intense intellectual activity, both for theorists and for experimentalists, who have contributed to the lectures and to the discussion sessions of the Erice Subnuclear Physics School.

Courses

Past courses

2019

57th Course:
In Search for the UnExpected

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
21 – 30 June 2019

2018

56th Course:
From gravitational waves to QED, QFD and QCD

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
14 – 23 June 2018

2017

55th Course:
Highlights from LHC and the other Frontiers of Physics

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
14 – 23 June 2017

2016

54th Course:
The New Physics Frontiers in the LHC-2 Era

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
14 – 23 June 2016

2015

53rd Course:
The Future of our Physics including New Frontiers

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2015

2014

52nd Course:
Status of theoretical understanding and of experimental power for LHC physics and beyond

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2014

2013

51st Course:
Reflections On The Next Step For LHC

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2013

2012

50th Course:
What We Would Like LHC To Give Us

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
23 June – 2 July 2012

2011

49th Course:
Searching for the Unexpected at Lhc and Status of Our Knowledge

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2011

2010

48th Course:
What is Know and Uexpected at LHC

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2010

2009

47th Course:
The Most Unexpected at LHC and the Status of High Energy Frontier

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2009

2008

46th Course:
Predicted and Totally Unexpected in the Energy Frontier Opened by LHC

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2008

2007

45th Course:
Searching for the ‘Totally Unespected’ in the LHC Era

Directors: G. ‘T HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2007

2006

44th Course:
The Logic of Nature, Complexity and New Physics: From Quark-Gluon Plasma to Superstrings, Quantum Gravity and Beyond

Director: A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2006

2005

43rd Course:
Towards New Milestones in our Quest to Go Beyond the Standard Model

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2005

2004

42nd Course:
How and Where to Go Beyond the Standard Model

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2004

2003

41st Course:
From Quarks to Black Holes: Progress in Understanding the Logic of Nature

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2003

2002

40th Course:
From Quarks and Gluons to Quantum Gravity

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2002

2001

39th Course:
New Fields and Strings in Subnuclear Physics

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2001

2000

38th Course:
Theory and Experiment heading for New Physics

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
27 August – 5 September 2000

1999

37th Course:
Basics and Highlights in Fundamental Physics

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 1999

1998

36th Course:
From the Planck Length to the Hubble Radius

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 1998

1997

35th Course:
Highlights: 50 Years later

Directors: G. ALTARELLI – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
26 August – 4 September 1997

1996

34th Course:
Effective Theories and Fundamental Interactions

Directors: G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
3 – 12 July 1996

1995

33rd Course:
Vacuum and Vacua: the Physics of Nothing

2 – 10 July 1995

1994

32nd Course:
From Superstring to Present-day Physics

3 – 11 July 1994

1993

31st Course:
From Supersymmetry to the Origin of Space-Time

4 – 12 July 1993

1992

30th Course:
From Superstrings to the Real Superworld

14 – 22 July 1992

1991

29th Course:
Physics at the Highest Energy and Luminosity: to Understand the Origin of Mass

14 – 22 July 1991

1990

28th Course:
Physics up to 200 TeV

16 – 24 July 1990

1989

27th Course:
The Challenging Questions

26 July – 3 August 1989

1988

26th Course:
The Super-World-III

7 – 15 August 1988

1987

25th Course:
The Super World – II

6 – 14 August 1987

1986

24th Course:
The Super-World

7 – 15 August 1986

1985

23rd Course:
Old and New Forces of Nature

4 – 14 August 1985

1984

22nd Course:
Quarks, Leptons and their Constituents

5 – 15 August 1984

1983

21st Course:
How far we are from the Gauge Forces

3 – 14 August 1983

1982

20th Course:
Gauge Interactions: Theory and Experiment

3 – 14 August 1982

1981

19th Course:
The Unity of the Fundamental Interactions

Directors: S. COLEMAN – S.D. DRELL – A. ZICHICHI
31 July – 11 August 1981

1980

18th Course:
The High Energy Limit

31 July – 11 August 1980

1979

17th Course:
Pointlike Structures Inside and Outside Hadrons

31 July – 11 August 1979

1978

16th Course:
The New Aspects of Subnuclear Physics

31 July – 11 August 1978

1977

15th Course:
The Whys of Subnuclear Physics

23 July – 10 August 1977

1976

14th Course:
Understanding the Fundamental Constituents of Matter

23 July – 8 August 1976

1975

13th Course:
New Phenomena in Subnuclear Physics

11 July – 1 August 1975

1974

12th Course:
Lepton and Hadron Structure

14 – 31 July 1974

1973

11th Course:
Laws of Hadronic Matter

6 – 25 July 1973

1972

10th Course:
High-lights in Particle Physics

7 – 29 July 1972

1971

9th Course:
Properties of the Fundamental Interactions

8 – 26 July 1971

1970

8th Course:
Elementary Processes at High Energy

1 – 19 July 1970

1969

7th Course:
Present Problems in Particle Physics

3 – 19 July 1969

1968

6th Course:
Current Developments in Particle Physics

13 – 28 July 1968

1967

5th Course:
Advances in Particle Physics

1 – 14 July 1967

1966

4th Course:
Strong and Weak Interactions present problems

19 June – 4 July 1966

1965

3rd Course:
Recent Developments in Particle Symmetries

27 September – 10 October 1965

1964

2nd Course:
Symmetries in Elementary Particle Physics

27 August – 7 September 1964

1963

1st Course:
Strong, Electromagnetic, and Weak Interactions

26 May – 8 June 1963

58th Course:
Gravity and matter in the subnuclear world

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZOCCOLI
15 – 24 June 2022

International Schools >Physics

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS

Founded in 1963

1st Director Antonino Zichichi, now Antonino Zichichi and Antonio Zoccoli

Subnuclear physics is the branch of scientific research in which phenomena connected with the detailed structure of the ultimate constituents of matter are studied. It is through these studies that man tries to challenge nature by discovering its fundamental laws. This knowledge is the indispensable origin of all technological development and forms the basis of all modern scientific thought. The school aims, each year, to help specialists who are actively engaged in the most advanced research to become up to date on the most significant theoretical and experimental developments. Though applicants are selected as students primarily based on their scientific qualifications, geographical allowances are made to permit every country at least one participant. One of the aims of the school is to encourage and promote young physicists to achieve recognition at an international level. There will be poster sessions whereby each student has the privilege of presenting the results of current studies and interacting with other participants to their mutual benefit. Each student may also propose a contribution for open presentation. The Board of Lecturers and Invited Scientists will select the best proposals. Priority will be given to new material of either an experimental or theoretical nature, especially if the candidate has made an important contribution to the results to be presented. A review paper has lower priority and, as before, will only be selected if the candidate can point out some new features in the field reviewed. Due to the large number of students and the limited time available, it is obvious that only selected ‘New Talents’ can be given the possibility of making themselves known. The selection will be based solely on ‘scientific excellence’, without favour to geographical distribution, the laboratory, or the university of origin. A group of distinguished physicists has been invited to contribute to the lively intellectual atmosphere of the school by participating in the discussions following the Lectures. Moreover, they will take part in the selection of the ‘New Talents’, in the choice of the Best Student and in the award of the various diplomas open for competition. The reconstruction of the first six decades of subnuclear physics has a strong link with the “Ettore Majorana” School of Subnuclear Physics at Erice, a small town on the top of a mountain founded – according to the myth – by the son of Venus. Here, every year since 1963, the development of subnuclear physics has been recorded and the hottest topics of the moment were registered as faithfully as possible in the discussion sessions of the Erice School. At this School, I have attempted to have as Lecturers the most active and authoritative members of the subnuclear physics community. Their ingenuity, their wisdom, their rigorous attempts to understand the constituents and the fundamental forces of nature are reported in the volumes of the Subnuclear Physics Series. The original ideas which have flourished during the past 60 years were the focus of an intense intellectual activity, both for theorists and for experimentalists, who have contributed to the lectures and to the discussion sessions of the Erice Subnuclear Physics School.

Courses

58th Course:
Gravity and matter in the subnuclear world

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZOCCOLI
15 – 24 June 2022

Past Courses

2019

57th Course:
In Search for the UnExpected

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
21 – 30 June 2019

2018

56th Course:
From gravitational waves to QED, QFD and QCD

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
14 – 23 June 2018

2017

55th Course:
Highlights from LHC and the other Frontiers of Physics

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
14 – 23 June 2017

2016

54th Course:
The New Physics Frontiers in the LHC-2 Era

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
14 – 23 June 2016

2015

53rd Course:
The Future of our Physics including New Frontiers

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2015

2014

52nd Course:
Status of theoretical understanding and of experimental power for LHC physics and beyond

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2014

2013

51st Course:
Reflections On The Next Step For LHC

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2013

2012

50th Course:
What We Would Like LHC To Give Us

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
23 June – 2 July 2012

2011

49th Course:
Searching for the Unexpected at Lhc and Status of Our Knowledge

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2011

2010

48th Course:
What is Know and Uexpected at LHC

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2010

2009

47th Course:
The Most Unexpected at LHC and the Status of High Energy Frontier

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2009

2008

46th Course:
Predicted and Totally Unexpected in the Energy Frontier Opened by LHC

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2008

2007

45th Course:
Searching for the ‘Totally Unespected’ in the LHC Era

Directors: G. ‘T HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2007

2006

44th Course:
The Logic of Nature, Complexity and New Physics: From Quark-Gluon Plasma to Superstrings, Quantum Gravity and Beyond

Director: A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2006

2005

43rd Course:
Towards New Milestones in our Quest to Go Beyond the Standard Model

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2005

2004

42nd Course:
How and Where to Go Beyond the Standard Model

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2004

2003

41st Course:
From Quarks to Black Holes: Progress in Understanding the Logic of Nature

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2003

2002

40th Course:
From Quarks and Gluons to Quantum Gravity

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2002

2001

39th Course:
New Fields and Strings in Subnuclear Physics

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2001

2000

38th Course:
Theory and Experiment heading for New Physics

Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
27 August – 5 September 2000

1999

37th Course:
Basics and Highlights in Fundamental Physics

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 1999

1998

36th Course:
From the Planck Length to the Hubble Radius

Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 1998

1997

35th Course:
Highlights: 50 Years later

Directors: G. ALTARELLI – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
26 August – 4 September 1997

1996

34th Course:
Effective Theories and Fundamental Interactions

Directors: G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
3 – 12 July 1996

1995

33rd Course:
Vacuum and Vacua: the Physics of Nothing

2 – 10 July 1995

1994

32nd Course:
From Superstring to Present-day Physics

3 – 11 July 1994

1993

31st Course:
From Supersymmetry to the Origin of Space-Time

4 – 12 July 1993

1992

30th Course:
From Superstrings to the Real Superworld

14 – 22 July 1992

1991

29th Course:
Physics at the Highest Energy and Luminosity: to Understand the Origin of Mass

14 – 22 July 1991

1990

28th Course:
Physics up to 200 TeV

16 – 24 July 1990

1989

27th Course:
The Challenging Questions

26 July – 3 August 1989

1988

26th Course:
The Super-World-III

7 – 15 August 1988

1987

25th Course:
The Super World – II

6 – 14 August 1987

1986

24th Course:
The Super-World

7 – 15 August 1986

1985

23rd Course:
Old and New Forces of Nature

4 – 14 August 1985

1984

22nd Course:
Quarks, Leptons and their Constituents

5 – 15 August 1984

1983

21st Course:
How far we are from the Gauge Forces

3 – 14 August 1983

1982

20th Course:
Gauge Interactions: Theory and Experiment

3 – 14 August 1982

1981

19th Course:
The Unity of the Fundamental Interactions

Directors: S. COLEMAN – S.D. DRELL – A. ZICHICHI
31 July – 11 August 1981

1980

18th Course:
The High Energy Limit

31 July – 11 August 1980

1979

17th Course:
Pointlike Structures Inside and Outside Hadrons

31 July – 11 August 1979

1978

16th Course:
The New Aspects of Subnuclear Physics

31 July – 11 August 1978

1977

15th Course:
The Whys of Subnuclear Physics

23 July – 10 August 1977

1976

14th Course:
Understanding the Fundamental Constituents of Matter

23 July – 8 August 1976

1975

13th Course:
New Phenomena in Subnuclear Physics

11 July – 1 August 1975

1974

12th Course:
Lepton and Hadron Structure

14 – 31 July 1974

1973

11th Course:
Laws of Hadronic Matter

6 – 25 July 1973

1972

10th Course:
High-lights in Particle Physics

7 – 29 July 1972

1971

9th Course:
Properties of the Fundamental Interactions

8 – 26 July 1971

1970

8th Course:
Elementary Processes at High Energy

1 – 19 July 1970

1969

7th Course:
Present Problems in Particle Physics

3 – 19 July 1969

1968

6th Course:
Current Developments in Particle Physics

13 – 28 July 1968

1967

5th Course:
Advances in Particle Physics

1 – 14 July 1967

1966

4th Course:
Strong and Weak Interactions present problems

19 June – 4 July 1966

1965

3rd Course:
Recent Developments in Particle Symmetries

27 September – 10 October 1965

1964

2nd Course:
Symmetries in Elementary Particle Physics

27 August – 7 September 1964

1963

1st Course:
Strong, Electromagnetic, and Weak Interactions

26 May – 8 June 1963

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