Summary 1998

ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE

ERICE - SICILY

SUMMARY OF 1998 COURSES

All Courses are sponsored by the Sicilian Regional Government (ERS), the Italian Ministry of Education (MPI), the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, the Galileo Galilei Foundation (GGF) and the World Federation of Scientists (WFS). 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 PHARMACOLOGY
Directors: P. BENIGNO - L. RAUSA - G.P. VELO
51st Course: Research in Palliative Care - Director: G. TRIZZINO
27 February - 2 March 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE "G. D'ALESSANDRO"
Directors: L. DARDANONI - G.M. FARA - M. SZKLO
19th Course: Il Servizio di Igiene degli Alimenti e della Nutrizione nella Prevenzione delle Patologie da Alimenti
Director: N. COMODO
7 - 11 March 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE "G. D'ALESSANDRO"
Directors: L. DARDANONI - G.M. FARA - M. SZKLO
20th Course: La Prevenzione degli Eventi Infettivi: dalla Formulazione delle Strategie all'Applicazione nel Territorio
Director: G. GIAMMANCO
7 - 11 March 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BIOPHYSICS "A. BORSELLINO"
27th Course: Space Cognition and Movement: Organization, Dysfunction and Recovery
Directors: R. CAMINITI - B. FIERRO - C. PERFETTI - F. PICCOLI
13 - 15 March 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BIOPHYSICS "A. BORSELLINO"
28th Course: Molecular Ecology - Directors: G.R. CARVALHO - G. COGNETTI
20 - 31 March 1998

8th WEEK OF THE SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
Celebrations du Centenaire de la Decouverte de la Radioactivite': Henri Becquerel, Pierre et Marie Curie
23 - 29 March 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS - Director: G. BENEDEK
12th Course: Applications of Surface Sciences Techniques - Directors: G. MARGARITONDO - M. SANCROTTI
1 - 8 April 1998

WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTISTS GLOBAL DEFENCE PERMANENT MONITORING PANEL - Panel Coordinator: A. PIONTKOVSKY
Seminar on: Non-Proliferation of WMD and Cooperative Security Measures
4 - 9 April 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ELECTRON MICROSCOPY - Director: U. VALDRE;
8th Course: Impact of Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy on Materials Research - Directors: D. RICKERBY - G. VALDRE;
14 - 25 April 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS - Director: S. MARTELLUCCI
24th Course: Water and Air Pollution - Directors: S. MARTELLUCCI - R. RAGAINI
16 - 22 April 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
94th Course: Orthopaedics and Traumatology - Director: G. LETIZIA
26 - 30 April 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
96th Course: Survivors of Childhood Cancer. "Follow up" and Emerging Problems - Directors: R. HAUPT - L. MASSIMO
2 - 6 May 1998

SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI DIRITTO E PROCEDURA PENALE "G. FALCONE" - Director: A. MORMINO
5th Seminar: L'Errore Giudiziario - Director: S. SANTIAPICHI
7 - 11 May 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHARMACOLOGY - Directors: P. BENIGNO - L. RAUSA - G.P. VELO
52nd Course: Peptidergic G-Protein Coupled Receptors: From Basic Research to Clinical Applications
Directors: P. GEPPETTI - W. MUELLER-ESTERL - D. REGOLI - T.W. SCHWARTZ
14 - 25 May 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY - Director: T.L. BLUNDELL
27th Course: Implications of Molecular and Materials Structure for New Technologies -
Directors: F.H. ALLEN - J.A.K. HOWARD
28 May - 7 June 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS - Director: G. BENEDEK
13th Workshop: Polarons: Condensation, Pairing, Magnetism - Directors: A. BUSSMANN-HOLDER - K.A. MULLER
9 - 17 June 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LIQUID CRYSTALS - Director: C. ZANNONI
1st Course: Advances in Computer Simulations of Liquid Crystals - Directors: P. PASINI - C. ZANNONI
10 - 21 June 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS - Director: G. BENEDEK
14th Workshop: EPIOPTICS 5 - Directors: R. DEL SOLE - J. McGUILP
17 - 22 June 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY - Director: B. DI BARTOLO
15th Workshop: Radiative and Nonradiative Transitions in Solids - Director: B. DI BARTOLO
22 - 28 June 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHARMACOLOGY - Directors: P. BENIGNO - L. RAUSA - G.P. VELO
53rd Course: Melatonin and its Analogues: From Molecular Biology to the Clinical Application- Director: F. FRASCHINI
22 - 29 June 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS "G. STAMPACCHIA" - Director: F. GIANNESSI
26th Course: Nonlinear Optimization and Application - Director: G. DI PILLO
23 June - 2 July 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS "G. STAMPACCHIA" - Director: F. GIANNESSI
27th Course: Convergence and Topology - Directors: P. COLLINS - S. DOLECKI - G. TIRONI
27 June - 2 July 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
97th Course: Recent Advances in Perinatal Medicine - Directors: E. COSMI - G.C. DI RENZO
3 - 7 July 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS - Director: G. BENEDEK
15th Workshop: J-T Effect and Electron-Phonon Dynamics - Directors: J. JORTNER - N. TERZI
7 -13 July 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOLID EARTH GEOPHYSICS - Director: E. BOSCHI
14th Course: From Belice (1968) to Colfiorito (1997): Thirty Years of Earthquakes in Italy - Directors of the Workshop:A. AMATO - E. BOSCHI - M. COCCO
13 - 19 July 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF COSMIC-RAY ASTROPHYSICS - Director: M.M. SHAPIRO
11th Course: New Vistas in Astrophysics - Directors: M.M. SHAPIRO - J.P. WEFEL
15 - 23 July 1998

WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTISTS FOOD AND SOIL GROUP WORKSHOPS
Workshop on: Food and Soil - Directors: G. FIEROTTI - C.R. LERICI
25 - 28 July 1998

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN GENOMA - DOE
30 July - 7 August 1998

ERICE INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS ON PLANETARY EMERGENCIES - Chairman: A. ZICHICHI
23rd Session
19 - 24 August 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS - Director: A. ZICHICHI
36th Course: From The Planck Scale Length to the Hubble Radius - Directors: G. 't HOOFT - G. VENEZIANO - A. ZICHICHI
29 August - 7 September 1998

INFN ELOISATRON PROJECT
37th Workshop
7 - 15 September 1998

WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTISTS PANEL
Women and Sciences - Panel Coordinators: N. BYERS - D. WOLF
9 - 14 September 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS - Director: A. FAESSLER
20th Course: Nuclear Collisions from the Equation of State to Quark Matter - Director: A. FAESSLER
17 - 25 September 1998

SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI ARCHEOLOGIA E CIVILTA' MEDIEVALE "F. GIUNTA"
18th Course: L'Acqua nella Società Medievale - S. FODALE
26 September - 3 October 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR THE STUDY OF WRITTEN RECORDS - Directors: G. CAVALLO - J.O. TJADER
12th Course:Talking to the Text: Marginalia from Papyri to Print - Directors: V. FERA - G. FERRAU' - S. RIZZO
26 September - 3 October 1998

INFN ELOISATRON PROJECT
38th Workshop
6 - 14 October 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF IUS COMMUNE - Directors: M. BELLOMO - K. PENNINGTON
17th Course: The European Dimension of the Ius Commune: From Sicily to Scandinavia, From Iberian Peninsula to Hungary
Director: P. ERDÖ
6 - 14 October 1998

WORKSHOP INTERNAZIONALE SULLA SICILIA EPIGRAFICA - Director: G. NENCI
1st Workshop
15 - 18 October 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLEANING THE ENVIRONMENT
Director: R. RAGAINI
4th Course: Verification and Monitoring of Containment Barriers - Directors: L EVERETT - R. RAGAINI
20 - 25 October 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLEANING THE ENVIRONMENT
Director: R. RAGAINI
5th Workshop: International Integrated Nuclear Waste Management Strategies - Directors: W. KASTENBERG - R. RAGAINI
25 - 30 October 1998

INFN ELOISATRON PROJECT
39th Workshop
4 - 11 November 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF IUS COMMUNE - Directors: M. BELLOMO - K. PENNINGTON
18th Course: Ius Commune and Ius Proprium: Historical Experiences in Sicily, Iberian Peninsula and Latin America
Directors: E. MONTANOS FERRÍN - V. TAU ANZOATEGUI
4 - 11 November 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS - Directors: S. MARTELLUCCI - A.N. CHESTER
24th Course: Advances in Optoelectronics for Environmental Monitoring - Director: C. BELLECCI
16 - 22 November 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS - Directors: S. MARTELLUCCI - A.N. CHESTER
25th Course: Observational Database and Mechanisms of Climate - Director: G.P. GREGORI
21 - 27 November 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ETHOLOGY - Director: D. MAINARDI
15th Course: Vertebrate Mating Systems - Directors: D. MAINARDI - M. APOLLONIO
28 November - 3 December 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ETHOLOGY - Director: D. MAINARDI
14th Course: Ethology and Biomedical Research - Directors: D. MAINARDI - S. PARMIGIANI
2 - 6 December 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
98th Course: Diabetes: Update on the Genetics Pathogenesis Prevention and Therapy of Type 1 Diabetes
Director: A. GALLUZZO
7 - 12 December 1998

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHARMACOLOGY - Directors: P. BENIGNO - L. RAUSA - G.P. VELO
53rd Course: Advances in Pharmacology - Director: G.P. VELO
12 - 18 December 1998