31 May 2019 18:00 at 19:30Conquistati dalla Luna - Patrizia Caraveo

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Event organized to celebrate the 50th moon Landing  anniversary

Patrizia Caraveo will present her last work

Conquistati dalla Luna
Storia di un’attrazione senza tempo.

The event will be held in Italian

PATRIZIA CARAVEO got her degree in physics in 1977 at the Milano University. Since 2002 she has the rank of Research Director and works at the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF) in Milano. She took part in several international space missions dedicated to high energy astrophysics, starting from the European mission COS-B. Currently, she is involved in the exploitation of ESA’s Integral, of NASA’s Swift, of the Italian Agile and of the NASA Fermi missions, all fully operational in orbit. She also represents INAF within CTA Collaboration Board and CTAO Council.

She is a recognized leader in the study of neutron stars behavior at different wevelengths. Her work lead to the discovery (and to the understanding) of Geminga, the first radio quiet neutron star. Owing to such results, she won the Premio Nazionale Presidente della Repubblica in 2009. Moreover, she shared with her Swift, Fermi and Agile colleagues the Bruno Rossi prize of the American Astronomical Society in 2007, 2011 and 2012.

In 2014 she received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Women in Aerospace European Society and was included by Thomson Reuters in the list of Highly Cited Researchers for Space Science

In 2017 she was awarded the title of Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana

Time

31 May 2019
18:00 at 19:30

Location

Politecnico di Milano, Aula Carassa Dadda

Via Lambruschini, 4 - 20156 Milano - Edif. BL28

Organizer

Politecnico di Milano

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