Young researchers’ meeting

The rooftop garden of the Hotel Nettuno where the conference took place

The objective of this summer school is to increase the skills of young scientists for better career building. The program contains three complementary parts: workshops and talks given by invited experts; talks given by the participants followed by discussion; scientific tutorial talks.

Date and Venue: Sunday, 27.Sep. ­- Saturday, 03.Oct. 2009

I - Career relevant topics

Katrina Grey,
Careers adviser, University of Glasgow – Efficient CV Workshop, and Being Interviewed Workshop.

Dr. Jean-Luc Dumont,
Principae, Belgium – Structuring Your Research Paper Workshop.

David Olivetti,
What you should know about the work contract and your rights. What should you pay attention to when signing a contract. How to work in an industrial company dealing with scientific products.

II - Invited Presentations

One floor below, conference guests are waiting for "il primo", the first course

Prof. Gianluca Farinola,
University of Bari – Synthesis and properties of polyconjugated polymeric and molecular materials for photonics and electronics.

Prof. Leonas Valkunas,
Vilnus University – Photosynthetic excitons.

Prof. Giuseppe Gigli,
Engineering Faculty of the University of Lecce – Structural and Optical properties of Molecular Materials.

Dr. Maria Antonietta Loi,
Material Science Centre of the University of Groningen.

Dr. Juan Cabanillas Gonzalez,
Physics department Politecnico di Milano. (Substituted by Dr.R.Sai Santosh Kumar, Italian Intitute of Technology)

III - Tutorials from the BIMORE Knowledge Pool

Talks given by the participants and discussion about how to improve them. The talks should be prepared in a form of a short tutorial about the field of work of the participant or an interesting technique he would like to share with the others. These talks will be followed by discussion sessions aimed to point out the general mistakes and to propose the ways to improve presentation skills of the participants.

which incidentially has the same colors as the national flag

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