Fermi 125: Enrico Fermi's Legacy 125 Years After His Birth

Abstract

On the 125th anniversary of Enrico Fermi's birth and the 100th anniversary of his article on monatomic gas written during his time in Florence a conference will be held to commemorate the scientific journey that led the young Fermi to discover the quantum statistics of fermions, and to highlight the importance of Fermi's discoveries in 20th-century physics and in current cutting-edge research in physics and astrophysics.

The conference, will be held in Arcetri, at the historic headquarters of the Institute of Physics at the University of Florence, where Enrico Fermi was appointed to teach courses in Rational Mechanics and Mathematical Physics during the academic years 1924–25 and 1925–26. The event is aimed specifically at students in undergraduate, master and doctoral programs in physics and astrophysics.

The conference is organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence, in collaboration with GGI, INAF, INFN, CNR-INO, and LENS.