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CENSUS is the space pole for scientific nanosatellites at Paris Observatory, member of PSL University in France. We support scientific teams in their nanosatellite projects, from the observation concept to the mission profile, with a Model-Based System Engineering methodology. We also have COTS, a cleanroom and a ground station.

The topic of autonomous navigation in deep space has been explored as part of a supported project and has evolved as a domain of expertise for CENSUS: we have developed an optical navigation estimator for cruise and proximity operations. From there, several ideas have emerged as new projects: combining the estimator with radio-science data, adding on-board machine learning to save ADCS budget, techniques for “augmented” optical sensors to measure distant beacons.

The seminar will present CENSUS, with a special focus on our activities for deep space and astrometry.

Short bio
Dr. Segret defended his Ph.D. in Astronomy-Astrophysic on the topic of optical navigation for deep space CubeSats at Paris Observatory. He received an M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from ISAE-ENSMA French National College and an M.S. degree in Space Instrumentation from Paris Observatory. He is the Technical Officer of CENSUS, space pole of PSL Université (France), hosted at Paris Observatory, dedicated to scientific nanosatellites.

Lunch Seminar in presence

Rossella Salandra
School of Management, University of Bath, UK

There are well-documented disparities in the number of minority groups’ scientists — such as female and racial minority communities’ researchers — mentioned in scientific outputs. These disparities might be the result of productivity differences (contribution), or they might be due to minority groups’ contributions not being acknowledged (attribution). We consider scientists contributing to systematic reviews of healthcare interventions published by Cochrane and leverage a unique attribution of credit guidance to explore whether deserving scientists are properly credited in the reviews’ acknowledgements (potential omission bias in the acknowledgements). We document some disparities in the attribution of credit in this setting, providing evidence that the lack of recognition of minority groups’ scientists is also noticeable through omission bias in the acknowledgements.

Rossella Salandra is an Associate Professor in the School of Management at the University of Bath.  She holds a PhD in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Imperial College Business School and an MSc in Industrial Management Engineering from the University of Padua.  Her academic work has focused on how research is carried out, disseminated, and evaluated. For example, she has developed expertise and interest in systems to govern the quality of healthcare evidence and how to incorporate high-quality and useful research into academic literature and decision-making. She has also studied university-industry collaboration, public investment in R&D and academics’ attitudes towards delivering socio-economic impact. Before joining academia, she worked in industry for seven years, acquiring professional knowledge in business analytics, market research and consulting.

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Arianna Marchetti
London Business School

Extensive literature documents the central role that firm-specific human capital plays in employee turnover. However, the questions of how workers develop firm-specific human capital and why they do so despite the potential limitations on subsequent employment opportunities continue to be debated. We attempt to address both questions by proposing a novel mechanism through which workers may develop firm-specific skills: socialization in strong cultures. Building on prior work on human capital and organizational culture, we argue that working in strong cultures may lead workers to acquire knowledge of specific cultural elements and develop informal relationships with colleagues that are challenging to transfer across organizations.
We test these predictions on a sample of 16,668,259 employees working for 4,396 firms in the US between 2013 and 2018. We measure organizational turnover using online employee profiles and cultural strength using 640,783 employees’ company reviews on Glassdoor. We rely on an exogenous shock to the enforceability of formal employment contracts – a 2015 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that weakened barriers to employee mobility – and explore its impact on organizations with stronger and weaker cultures. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that following the shock, turnover increased significantly in organizations with weaker cultures but remained constant in organizations with stronger cultures. We further find that conditional on mobility, workers departing organizations with stronger cultures experienced lower increases in salary and seniority in their next role than employees departing organizations with weaker cultures. Finally, both results are driven by organizations requiring more informal integration of effort.

Arianna Marchetti is an Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at London Business School. Her research lies at the intersection of strategy and organization. Arianna studies the interplay between formal organization design and organizational culture, and its implications for coordination and corporate performance. She is very passionate about ML and AI, and how they will change our approach to doing research in Management. Prior to joining academia, Arianna worked as a Consultant for EY in Italy. She earned her PhD in Management at INSEAD, and her BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from La Sapienza University in Rome.

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The accurate assessment of the aerodynamic interaction in potentially non-conventional scenarios is a key step to developing next-generation aircraft capable to respond to the need for sustainable and resilient aviation. Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization processes, and parametric and sensitivity aerodynamics studies, require the repeated evaluation of aerodynamic loads and performance for a range of operating conditions and geometric parameters. The goal is to find a suitable trade-off between computational cost and accuracy, a data-driven approach based on Principal Components Analysis and Manifold Learning will be presented with application to the numerical prediction of the aerodynamic environment surrounding wings and airframes in support of the analysis and design of next-generation aircraft.

Short bio
Dr. Fossati is a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of Strathclyde. At Strathclyde, he is a member of the Aerospace Centre of Excellence (ACE) and he is the director of the Laboratory for Future Air-Space Transportation Technologies (FASTT-Lab).

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POLI-TECH STORIES
The Politecnico di Milano meets the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Dublin
Through its professors, the Politecnico tells stories of polytechnic culture: stories of science, technology and creativity, of the achievements of its great masters, of future visions.

Gianvito Vilé, Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano | Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”

Sixty years ago, Prof. Giulio Natta, jointly with Prof. Karl Ziegler, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries in the field of high polymer chemistry. Thanks to these studies, it was possible for the first time to synthesize ordered polymers with a high degree of stereospecificity. Before that, such polymers were found exclusively in nature and, as stated in the Nobel Prize motivation, it was precisely Prof. Natta’s research that broke this monopoly.

In this lecture, Gianvito Vilé (Politecnico di Milano) will provide an overview of Natta’s scientific discoveries, examining the science, the impact on society, as well as the role of Politecnico in collaborating with the large chemical industry of the time, and in supporting the research that led to the award of the Nobel Prize. The conference will also stress the importance of catalysis in these six decades, from Ziegler-Natta catalysts to those for the conduction of sustainable processes for the green transition.

The event will be in english, at 7.30 p.m. (italian time)

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The European Green Deal aims at creating a 2050 neutral economy through multiple channels of intervention. Technological innovation is crucial to reach the targets of decarbonisation of the energy sector and to increase energy efficiency, enhance the role of the circular economy in many sectors and develop cheaper and healthier forms of private and public transport. In this context, a ‘green’ or ‘clean’ economy emphasizes the search for innovative opportunities in cleantech, able to address the resource scarcities and environmental risks.

The CLEU project is composed by a research team affiliated to the Department of Production and Management Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano and the Department of Management, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna.

Program

9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee

10:00-11:00 Welcome address and Presentation of CLEU project and preliminary results
Prof. Annalisa Croce (Politecnico di Milano)
Prof. Elisa Ughetto (Politecnico di Torino)
Prof. Laura Toschi (Università di Bologna)

11:00-13:00 Round table
Moderator: Giancarlo Giudici, Full Professor of Finance, Politecnico di Milano
Participants:
Wouter Torfs, Senior Research Officer in the EIF’s Research & Market Analysis division
Alessandra Accogli, CEO and Founder Sinergy Flow
Francesco Bicciato, Direttore Generale Forum Finanza Sostenibile
Chiara Candelise, CEO and Founder Ecomill
Giorgio Ciron, Direttore Innovup
Francesco De Michelis, CEO Mito technology
Gaetano Lapenta, CEO and Founder Fybra
Roberta Laveneziana, Mid&Small caps Listing Account Manager EuroNext
Federica Loconsolo, Responsabile Commerciale e ESG Riello Partners
Federica Marano, Innovation and Sustainability Consultant Elis – Zero Accelerator Program
Michela Masoni, Innovation & Corporate Venturing Analyst at LVenture Group
Stefano Peroncini, CEO EUREKA! Venture SGR
Giacomo Benedetto Silvestri, Chairman Eniverse Ventures
Niccolò Sovico, CEO and Co-founder Ener2crowd
Giuseppe Spanto, Managing Director and Board Member Iscleanair
Federico Malgarini, CEO Innovatec Venture

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Lunch Seminar in presence

Monica Masucci
University of Sussex Business School, UK

Abstract
Intrapreneurs and corporate sponsors (‘champions’) are two key agents typically involved in the development of early-stage internal corporate ventures (ICVs). This paper investigates how a key dimension of the human capital of these agents – prior success experience at corporate venturing– influences the progress and survival of the subsequent ICVs they are involved in throughout their nascent development process (i.e., prior to commercial launch). Using event history analysis and drawing on a longitudinal sample of 1,527 nascent ICV projects reviewed by the internal corporate venture unit of a major energy company between 1996 and 2009, we provide evidence on the relationship between intrapreneurs’ and sponsors’ prior success experience in venture development and the likelihood that the subsequent ICVs they pursue are approved for further development or discontinued at the early and late phases of their nascent development process. We also examine whether workload constraints inhibit the ability of intrapreneurs and sponsors to leverage their prior success experience to the benefit of new venture projects. By providing a more nuanced understanding of the role played by prior success experience-an important dimension of human capital- in the internal venturing process, our findings enrich knowledge about the successful development of nascent internal corporate ventures.

Monica Masucci is an Associate Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the University of Sussex Business School in the UK, where she is the director of the MSc in Strategic Innovation Management. She is also Affiliate Professor of Innovation at SDA Bocconi School of Management and Head of Pre-Acceleration at Bocconi for Innovation, where she leads a training program for aspiring entrepreneurs. Her research focuses on corporate entrepreneurship and innovation, industry architecture and ecosystem dynamics, open innovation and the creative economy. She has authored book chapters, articles and research reports on her topics of interest.  Her work has been published in Research Policy, Technovation, Small Business Economics and European Planning Studies and she has been the recipient of several research grants and teaching and research awards. She serves as co-editor in chief of the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management.

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Through this seminar a panoramic on the current and future activities at DEIMOS Space will be provided, offering an overview of the most recent industrial technological development in the space sector. This will also provide to the students first-hand feedback about the application of the theoretical knowledge that they have been developing during their academic career.

Short bio
Simone Centuori is currently the Flight Segment Director at DEIMOS Space, a team composed of about 150 engineers in Spain, Portugal, UK, Romania, and Italy, and dedicated to all the DEIMOS activities related with the flight component of a space mission. From mission design to trajectory calculation and flight dynamics, from GNC to AOCS, from on-board SW to avionics and spacecraft platforms and AIT, the projects developed in Flight Segment along the last 20 years have covered a wide range of applications in Earth Observation, Space Exploration and Atmospherics Flight. Simone obtained his MSc degree in aerospace engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2005 and his personal background is in mission analysis, both for Earth observation and interplanetary missions: with almost 20 years’ experience in the space sector spent between ESA, GMV and DEIMOS, Simone led the mission analysis of several ESA missions, among them FLEX, BIOMASS, Phobos Sample Return and Mars Sample Return.

New generative AIs such as chatGPT and DALL-E have the potential to revolutionize various industries such as art, entertainment, and advertising, among others. They also raise ethical concerns about their malicious usage at generating deepfakes and other harmful content.

The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) unit of Milan has asked four academic experts to discuss the myths and risks associated with this technology in a public panel open to academics and students. The panel, organized under the PNRR-Future Artificial Intelligence Research, will examine the technical capabilities and limitations of generative AIs and address common misconceptions, such as the idea that these systems can operate independently without human oversight.

The event will be introduced by Riccardo Zecchina, Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at Università Bocconi. The panel will be moderated by Francesco Pierri, Postdoctoral Researcher of Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano.

Invited speakers: Mark Carman, Associate Professor Politecnico di Milano; Alfio Ferrara, Full Professor Università di Milano; Dirk Hovy, Associate Professor Università Bocconi; Gabriella Pasi, Full Professor Università di Milano Bicocca.

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Seminar of the “Multibody System Dynamics” collaborative class, in collaboration with the Warsaw University of Technology.

The simulation of contacts in large complex mechanical systems is an open problem in the multibody community. Among the most prominent approaches, we will discuss the method based on non-smooth contact dynamics.
In this context, unilateral contact forces and frictional forces are defined via set-valued functions. This has the benefit of embedding discontinuous phenomena such as stick-slip and impacts directly in the formulation, although this comes at the cost of a more intricate mathematical framework, where Differential Algebraic Equations, typical of multibody systems, are extended to become Differential Variational Inequalities. In some literature, this is also called the Measure Differential Inclusion approach.
Details will be discussed also about collision detection algorithms, parallel implementation and real-time applications.

Short bio
Alessandro Tasora is professor of Appied Mechanics at the University of Parma and since 2016 he co-organizes the Multibody Dynamics Workshop with Pierangelo Masarati.

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