Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics

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Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics
MottoDubium sapientiae initium. Memento audere semper
Motto in English
From doubt comes wisdom. Mind daring always.
Type Private
Established2010 (2010)
President Dr. Giuseppe Eramo
Director Prof. Alexey Kavokin
Administrative staff
Anna Miroshnichenko
Location
Marino (Rome)
,
Italy

41°46′01″N12°36′59″E / 41.7670243°N 12.6163607°E / 41.7670243; 12.6163607 Coordinates: 41°46′01″N12°36′59″E / 41.7670243°N 12.6163607°E / 41.7670243; 12.6163607
Colours Red and Black         
Affiliations MIFP, Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics
Website www.mifp.eu

The Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics, commonly known as MIFP, is a private independent non-governmental institution created in order to unite scientists in different countries around the world working in all fields of physics. MIFP is a non-profit organization whose main goal is to provide efficient and flexible management of international collaboration projects and teaching programmes, to ease and increase the communication between leading researchers in different areas of fundamental and applied physics, and to organize international scientific meetings, workshops, schools and conferences. [1] It is located in Marino, Rome, Italy.

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Marino, Lazio Comune in Lazio, Italy

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Province of Rome Province in Lazio, Italy

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Founded in July 2010 by a small group of researchers, by the year of 2012 MIFP numbers over one hundred members. During 2010, 2011 and 2012 MIFP has held, took part in, or partly sponsored more than ten international events in Armenia, Italy, Greece, France, Ukraine, Brazil, Thailand and Russia. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] The mean h-index within the MIFP members is 27. About 50% of the members represent Russian scientific diaspora. [8] [9]

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Ukraine Sovereign state in Eastern Europe

Ukraine, sometimes called the Ukraine, is a country in Eastern Europe. Excluding Crimea, Ukraine has a population of about 42 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. Its capital and largest city is Kiev. Ukrainian is the official language and its alphabet is Cyrillic. The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodoxy. Ukraine is currently in a territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of 603,628 km2 (233,062 sq mi), making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world.

Brazil Federal republic in South America

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the fifth most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populated city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states, the Federal District, and the 5,570 municipalities. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; it is also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world.

MIFP is financed from the research grants and by private donations.

History

In the year of 2001, the 1st French-Russian Meeting on New trends in Solid State Physics in Clermont-Ferrand, France which was sponsored by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing started a series of annual meetings of world leading experts in solid state physics. Further meetings have been held in Clermont-Ferrand on a yearly basis from 2002 to 2006 to be followed by Meetings in Rome in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 with constantly increasing number of participating scientists. Shortly after the 2010 annual meeting, a group of researchers working in different countries decided to create a private organization which main goal would be bringing together a strong international team providing a stimulating research environment and working atmosphere. Another mission of MIFP was reunification of the Russian scientists who spread all over the world after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. With a support from Dr. Giuseppe Eramo, University of Rome II Tor Vergata, MIFP was founded on 1 July 2010, and Prof. Alexey Kavokin, University of Southampton, was appointed its Scientific director. [8] The institute started function within the campus of the University of Rome II Tor Vergata, and moved to Marino, Rome later that year. Starting from the year 2011, the yearly scientific meetings became Annual MIFP March Meetings gathering scientists working not only in Solid state physics but in a great variety of fields.

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Events

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Pavia Comune in Lombardy, Italy

Pavia is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, 35 kilometres south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086,. The city was the capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards from 572 to 774.

Trento Comune in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy

Trento is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th century, the city was the location of the Council of Trent. Formerly part of Austria and Austria-Hungary, it was annexed by Italy in 1919. With almost 120,000 inhabitants, Trento is the third largest city in the Alps and second largest in the Tyrol.

Goals

The major goal of MIFP is the creation of an environment for fruitful research activities, decreasing the amount of administrative and logistics problems for the members of the Institute, providing flexible management, promotion of fundamental physics in the Mediterranean region, sponsoring the collaboration projects in physics across Europe, although it stays open for any offers from all continents. MIFP promotes the high-school teaching programs in physics. The Institute organizes the International Conferences on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures and International Schools on Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics. Members can request management assistance from MIFP for grant applications/organization of events or any other collaboration. [13]

MIFP strategic goal is to evolve from an essentially virtual private institution with the administrative base of several persons to the full-scale international research centre with developed infrastructure, laboratories, the core of permanent researchers (20-30 positions), PostDocs, PhD students and visiting professors (50-60 positions), and relevant administration and technical team (20-25 persons). MIFP intends attracting the highest international level scientists for permanent or fixed-term research positions with competitive salaries.

Scientific Council of MIFP

The Institute is governed by Scientific Council currently consisting of 6 members which are elected by the Members of MIFP at the March Meetings of the Institute. Each member is elected for a five-year period. At quarterly meetings the members of Scientific Council decide on the general scientific strategy of MIFP and approve the addition of the new members of the Institute according to the requests submitted from the candidates. [13]

President: Prof. Boris Altshuler, Columbia University, United States

Members:

Prof. Alexey Kavokin, Physics and Astronomy School, University of Southampton, UK - Scientific Director of MIFP

Prof. Rinaldo Santonico, Physics Department, University of Rome II, Italy

Prof. Andrey Varlamov, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

Prof. Aldo Di Carlo, Engineering Department, University of Rome II, Italy

Prof. Igor Lukyanchuk, Université d'Amiens, France

MIFP Cocktail

Specially for Annual meetings of the Institute as well as other MIFP events, a special cocktail was invented by Massimiliano Romano. The ingredients are: Martini Rosso, Ice, Fresh Oranges, and Pepper from Szechuan, making the acronym of the MIFP. The cocktail was named "Make It For Pleasure". [14]

Massimiliano Romano also invented the Balsamic Gin & Tonic [15] at Lainston House Hotel in 1999.

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References

  1. 1 2 International news section Academy of Sciences of Moldova
  2. 1 2 Second International School of Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics ISNP-2010
  3. 1 2 Nano Euro Med 2011 Multifunctional Nanomaterials: Mediterranean - East Europe meeting
  4. 1 2 International School of Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics ISNP-2011
  5. 1 2 Latin America Meeting 2012
  6. 1 2 ESF PESC Exploratory Workshop: Polaritonics: From Basic Research to Device Applications
  7. 1 2 Vth International School of Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics ISNP-2012
  8. 1 2 Владимир Тихомиров, "Возвратная перспектива", Kommersant , 09.04.2012
  9. ↑ Ru Sci Tech Forum 2012
  10. ↑ 1st MIFP March Meeting website
  11. ↑ SOLAB Laboratory
  12. ↑ 2nd MIFP March Meeting web page
  13. 1 2 MIFP Code of Conduct
  14. ↑ MIFP Cocktail
  15. ↑ "About - Max's Bar & Brasserie".
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