Venue

The conference will take place in Palermo, the capital of the autonomous insular region of Sicily, in southern Italy. Palermo, founded in 734 BC by Phoenicians, is one of the top tourist destination in the mediterranean area. Due to its unique position at the crossroads of Roman-Latin, Byzantine-Orthodox and Arab-Islamic culture, Palermo is worldwide known for its history, architecture and cultural heritage, heavily influenced by strong interactions with multiple different cultures. In particular, the "Arab-Norman Palermo", listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, includes nine unique civil and religious structures dating from the Norman Kingdom of Siciliy (1130-1194). 

The conference will take place in the historical building of the Department of Physics and Chemistry (DiFC) of the University of Palermo, which builds upon a long-standing and prestigious scientific legacy. In particular, the physicist Emilio Gino Segrè (1905-1989, Nobel prize in 1959) was the Director of the Physics Institute at the University of Palermo, and discovered in Via Archirafi the chemical element Technetium, the only element of the periodic table discovered in Italy. 

Palermo is also known for a very lively street food scene and for its stable and sunny mediterranean climate. Typical temperatures at the beginning of September are in the 20-30 degrees range.