SUMMARY OF THE 2004 COURSES

All Courses are sponsored by the World Federation of Scientists (WFS), the Sicilian Regional Government (ERS), the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research and the Galileo Galilei Foundation (GGF). Some of the Courses are under the sponsorship of: the Italian Ministry of Health, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the American National Science Foundation (NSF), the Italian National Research Council (CNR), the Weizmann Institute of Science, the European Physical Society (EPS), the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Commission of the European Communities (CEC), some of the main Italian and foreign Universities and Research Centres, and the World Laboratory.

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
  120th Course: Diabetology
  Directors: M. DI MAURO - A. GALLUZZO
  4 - 6 March 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
  121st Course: Senologia
  Director: E.V. COSMI
  7 - 12 March 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON "PHYSICS FOR INDUSTRY"
  Director: E. IAROCCI
  3rd Workshop on Particle Accelerators and Detectors: From Physics to Medicine
  Director: E. IAROCCI
  14 - 18 April 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIOELECTROMAGNETISM "ALESSANDRO CHIABRERA"
  Director: F. BERSANI
  1st Course: Methodology in Bioelectromagnetic Experimental Investigations
  Directors: F. BERSANI - B. VEYRET
  20 - 28 April 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF COSMOLOGY AND GRAVITATION "P.G. BERGMANN"
  Director: V. DE SABBATA
  19th Course: Historical Review of Gravitational Theories and Experiments
  Directors: G. DRAGONI - V. MELNIKOV
  2 - 12 May 2004

• INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MOLECULAR AND PHYSICAL GASTRONOMY "N. KURTI"
  Director: H. THIS-BENCKHARD
  6th Session: Interactions of food and drinks
  Director: H. THIS-BENCKHARD
  5 - 9 May 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS ON PLANETARY EMERGENCIES
  Chairman: A. ZICHICHI
  31st Session: The Cultural Planetary Emergencies
  7 - 12 May 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY
  Director: M. PAVONE-MACALUSO
  10th Course: Advances and Controversies in Urological Oncology
  Directors: L. ANDERSSON - M. PAVONE-MACALUSO
  F.H. SCHRÖDER - P.H. SMITH
  18 - 23 May 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND BRAIN FUNCTION
  Director: B. MARAVIGLIA
  2nd Course: Frontiers of Brain Functional MRI and Electrophysiological Methods
  Director: B. MARAVIGLIA
  23 - 27 May 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF IUS COMMUNE
  Directors: M. BELLOMO - K. PENNINGTON
  24th Course: Governance of the Social: Models of Federalism in the EU and US. Past, Present and Future
  Directors: B. CARUSO - K. STONE
  28 - 31 May 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
  122nd Course: Recent Advances in Perinatal Medicine
  Director: E.V. COSMI
  1 - 6 June 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
  Director: B. DI BARTOLO
  21st Workshop: Advances in Luminescence Research
  Director: B. DI BARTOLO
  1 - 7 June 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
  Director: T.L. BLUNDELL
  35th Course: Diversity Amidst Similarity: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Polymorphs, Solvates and Phase Relationships
  Directors: J. BERNSTEIN - R.E. DAVIS
  9 - 20 June 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
  Director: T.L. BLUNDELL
  36th Course: Electron Crystallography: Novel Approaches for Structure Determination of Nanosized Materials
  Directors: J. LABAR - T.E. WEIRICH - X.D. ZOU
  9 - 20 June 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS "G. STAMPACCHIA"
  Director: F. GIANNESSI
  40th Course: Large Scale Non linear Optimization
  Director: G. DI PILLO
  22 June - 1 July 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS "G. STAMPACCHIA"
  Director: F. GIANNESSI
  41st Course: Evolution and Computation
  Directors: M. DI BACCO - I. POLI
  2 - 9 July 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF COSMIC RAY ASTROPHYSICS
  Director: M.M. SHAPIRO
  14th Course: Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe
  Directors: V. PTUSKIN - M.M. SHAPIRO - T. STANEV - J. WEFEL
  2 - 13 July 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LIQUID CRYSTALS
  Director: C. ZANNONI
  11st Workshop: Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals: Effects of Surfaces and Ferroelectric Subphases
  Directors: E. GORECKA - M. MARINELLI - P. PASINI
  10 - 17 July 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS ON LA MAIN À LA PTE DANS LE MONDE, PARTAGE, ECHANGE, FORMATION
  Directors: B. FONTES - P. LÉNA - G. TORCHET
  13 - 19 July 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS
  Director: G. BENEDEK
  31st Course: Radiation Effects in Solids
  Directors: K.E. SIKHAFUS - E.A. KOTOMIN - S.J. ZINKLE
  17 - 29 July 2004

   

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS
  Director: G. BENEDEK
  32nd Course: Complexity, Metastability and Non-Extensivity
  Directors: C. BECK - A. RAPISARDA - C. TSALLIS
  20 - 26 July 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS
  Director: G. BENEDEK
  33rd Workshop: Epioptics 8
  Directors: A. CRICENTI - Th. RASING
  20 - 26 July 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF FUSION REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
  Directors: D. PALUMBO - S. MARTELLUCCI
  9th Course: Technology of Fusion Tokamak Reactors
  Director: F. DE MARCO
  26 July - 1 August 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
  Directors: A.N. CHESTER - S. MARTELLUCCI
  40th Course: Optical Chemical Sensors
  Directors: F. BALDINI - J. HOMOLA
  29 July - 10 August 2004

• ADVANCED SCHOOL OF HISTORY OF PHYSICS
  Director: W.R. SHEA
  3rd Workshop on Science and Religion
  Directors: K. GIBERSON - W.R. SHEA
  4 - 8 August 2004

• ERICE INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS ON PLANETARY EMERGENCIES
  Chairman: A. ZICHICHI
  32nd Session
  Co-Chairman: T.D. LEE
  19 - 24 August 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS
  Director: A. ZICHICHI
  42nd Course: How and Where to Go Beyond the Standard Model
  Directors: G. 't HOOFT - A. ZICHICHI
  29 August - 7 September 2004

• INFN ELOISATRON PROJECT
  Director: A. ZICHICHI
  44th Workshop: QCD at Cosmic Energies (The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and QCD)
  Directors: Y. DOKSHITZER - M. STRIKMAN - G. VENEZIANO
  29 August - 7 September 2004

• ADVANCED SCHOOL OF HISTORY OF PHYSICS
  Director: W.R. SHEA
  4th Workshop on Science and Religion: The impact of the Humanities on the Development of European Science
  Directors: P. GALLUZZI - W.R. SHEA
  4 - 10 September 2004

• INFN ELOISATRON PROJECT
  Director: A. ZICHICHI
  45th Workshop: Innovative Detectors for Supercolliders
  Director: W. BARLETTA
  8 - 15 September 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS
  Director: A. FAESSLER
  26th Course: Lepton Scattering and the Structure of Hadrons and Nuclei
  Director: A. FAESSLER
  16 - 24 September 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF GEOPHYSICS
  Director: E. BOSCHI
  24th Course: Ionospheric Physics and Applications: Present and Future
  Directors: L.R. CANDER - B. ZOLESI
  24 - 29 September 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHARMACOLOGY
  Directors: P. BENIGNO - L. RAUSA - G.P. VELO
  69th Workshop: Drug Scientific Information
  Director: G.P. VELO
  29 September - 2 October 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LIQUID CRYSTALS
  Director: C. ZANNONI
  12th Workshop
  Director: P. PASINI
  9 - 16 October 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CARDIOLOGY
  Director: F. FEDELE
  9th Course: Echocardiography Today and Tomorrow
  Directors: S. DE CASTRO - F. FEDELE - J. NESSER - N.G. PANDIAN
  14 - 18 October 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
  123rd Course
  Directors: L. BALDUCCI - M. BARBAGALLO - I. CARRECA
  19 - 26 October 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
  124th Course: The Immunology of Normal and Pathological Pregnancy
  Directors: F. FIORINO - P.M. JOHNSON - P. QUARTARARO
  28 - 31 October 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BIOPHYSICS "A. BORSELLINO"
  34th Course: Advanced Course on Neuroepidemiology
  Directors: F. PICCOLI - W.A. ROCCA - G. SAVETTIERI
  4 - 10 November 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ETHOLOGY
  Director: D. MAINARDI
  21st Workshop: Ungulate Management in Europe
  Directors: M. APOLLONIO - D. MAINARDI
  12 - 17 November 2004

• INFN ELOISATRON PROJECT -
  Director: A. ZICHICHI
  46th Workshop: A Supercollider Round the Corner
  18 - 23 November 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE "G. D'ALESSANDRO"
  Directors: G.M. FARA - G. GIAMMANCO - M. SZKLO
  32nd Course
  22 - 27 November 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
  125th Course
  Directors: L. BALDUCCI - M. BARBAGALLO - I. CARRECA
  2 - 6 December 2004

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON COMPLEXITY
  Director: A. ZICHICHI
  1st Course
  Director: L. PIETRONERO
  7 - 11 December 2004

• INFN ELOISATRON PROJECT
  Director: A. ZICHICHI
  47th Workshop: Computing for Supercolliders: Lattice and Grid
  9 - 15 December 2004