Genoa Science Festival – Festival della Scienza, Genoa

ERC “session” - 25 October 2014, 16:00-18:00

Venue: Sala del Maggior Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genova – Italy
Master of Ceremonies : Andrea Vico, Science journalist

Speakers:

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC President

Presentations/Demonstrations by three ERC grantees:

•  Virginie Van Wassenhove: “Time in the brain, times in the mind”
  ERC funded project: From implicit timing in the brain to explicit time abstraction in the mind (MINDTIME)

• Sriram Subramanian : “Seeing and feeling air: Making the world of virtual realities physical”
  ERC-funded project: Interactive Systems Involving Multi-point Surfaces, Haptics and true-3D displays (INTERACT)
  Video - Tactile Displays of the Future

• Fabrizio Nestola : “Diamanti: aveva davvero ragione Jules Verne nel suo “Viaggio al centro della Terra”?
  “Diamonds: was Jules Verne actually right in his book “Journey to the Center of the Earth”?
  ERC-funded project:  Inclusions in diamonds: messengers from the deep Earth (INDIMEDEA)

Watch the following videos:

• ERC: la 'Champions League' della scienza europea, ERC session at the Genoa Science Festival
• Pushing researchers to be ambitious, Interview with Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
• ERC generation: the Champions League of European science, Interviews with ERC grantees Virginie Van Wassenhove, Sriram Subramanian and Fabrizio Nestola
• I passi della scienza - with ERC grantee Fabrizio Nestola