On Friday 17 January 2025, at 5:30 pm, the Honoris Causa Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering will be awarded to Prof. Jeffrey Scott Hangst at the Teatro Grande in Brescia.
Ceremony upon registration at this link.
PROGRAM
Greetings
Prof. Francesco Castelli
Rector University of Brescia
Reading of the motivation
Prof. Lucio Zavanella
Full Professor of Industrial Mechanical Systems, former Director of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Laudatio
Prof. Germano Bonomi
Full Professor of Experimental Physics Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Lectio Magistralis
Prof. Jeffrey Scott Hangst
Full Professor
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Spokesperson of the ALPHA experiment that first observed
the effect of gravity on antimatter at CERN in Geneva
Prof. Jeffrey Scott Hangst is one of the world's leading experts in the study of the properties of antimatter. Among his scientific discoveries, the one published last year in the journal Nature on the measurement of the gravitational acceleration of antimatter stands out. Although the gravitational interaction between antimatter and matter has been the subject of speculation since its discovery in 1928, the effect of the Earth's gravitational field on antimatter was observed, for the first time, only recently. This exceptional discovery, in which a research group from the University of Brescia also participated, was made by researchers from the ALPHA experiment, led by Prof. Hangst, at the Antimatter Factory at CERN.
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The Chorus Universitatis Brixiae will perform
Image credits: CERN