A Science cafe is a place where, drinking a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, people come to discuss about science. Usually some important scientists are invited, so that they can answer the questions posed by non-expert people.
Meetings take place outside a traditional academic context, in places like cafes, bars, etc.

Seventh season

Tuesday 27 Nov, 2012
Cultural psychology and interculturality
with Giuseppe Mantovani and Cristina Zucchermaglio, psychologists

Tuesday 11 Dec, 2012
Sleep and dreams
with Silvia Andreassi, psychoanalyst, Luigi De Gennaro, psychophysiologist

Tuesday 15 Jan, 2013
Fighting bacteria
with Maurizio Fraziano, immunologist, Annalisa Pantosti, medical microbiologist

Tuesday 19 Feb, 2013
Stars e particles
with Paolo De Bernardis, astrophysicist, Riccardo Faccini, physicist

Tuesday 19 Mar, 2013
Mind evolution (link in italian)
with Grazia Attili, evolutionist psychologist, Alfonso Troisi, psychiatrist

Tuesday 16 Apr, 2013
Nonverbal languages (link in italian)
with Marino Bonaiuto, psychologist, Augusto Vitale, ethologist

Tuesday 14 May, 2013
Minus money (link in italian)
with Alberto Bagnai e Gustavo Piga, economists

Tuesday 11 Jun, 2013
Hardware open source (link in italian)
with Antonio Ianiero, engineer, Alessandro Ranellucci, software engineer

Sixth season

Tuesday Nov 15th, 2011
Superluminal neutrinos: revolution or mirage? (link in italian)
with Paolo Lipari and Antonio Polosa, physicists

Tuesday Dec 13th, 2011
Chromosomes and law (link in italian)
with Marina Dobosz, biologist, Orlando Villoni, judge

Tuesday Jan 17th 2012
The languages of science (link in italian)
with Elena Gagliasso, philosopher, Gianni Jona Lasinio, physicist

Tuesday Feb 14th 2012
World and dimensions (link in italian)
with Andrea Sambusetti, mathematician, Gianfranco Pradisi, physicist

Tuesday Mar 13th 2012
Computers and complexity (link in italian)
with Giorgio Gambosi, computer scientist, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, physicist

Tuesday Apr 17th 2012
New networks for new energies (link in italian)
with Michele Governatori, economist, Antonio Iliceto, engineer

Tuesday May 15th 2012
Cancer: magic bullets and intelligent bombs (link in italian)
with Elisa Scarselli, doctor, Alessandra Vitelli, biologist

Tuesday Jun 12th 2012
The method of history: traces and ideas (link in italian)
with Daniele Manacorda, archeologist, Lucio Russo, historian of science

assaggi science bookshop, via degli Etruschi 4, Rome


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Fifth season

Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010
Inconscious geometries (link in italian)
with Isabeau Birindelli, mathematician, Renata Cedrone, architect

Tuesday Dec. 14, 2010
The basis of language: computational or material? (link in italian)
with Francesco Ferretti, philosopher, Raffaele Simone, linguist

Tuesday Jan. 18, 2011
Environment, development... happiness (link in italian)
with Leonardo Becchetti, economist, Lorenzo Ciccarese, ecologist

Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011
Vaccines in the Global Era
with Antonella Folgori, immunologist, Enea Spada, epidemiologist

Tuesday Mar. 15, 2011
The search of the grand unification (link in italian)
with Giovanni Amelino Camelia, physicist, Telmo Pievani, philosopher

Tuesday Apr. 12, 2011
Monogamy and evolution (link in italian)
with Enrico Alleva, ethologist, Gioia Di Cristofaro Longo, anthropologist

Tuesday May 10, 2011
Cosmos and time (link in italian)
with Mauro Dorato, philosopher, Nicola Menci, astronomer

Tuesday Jun. 7, 2011
Networks at work
with Maurizio Mesenzani, manager, and Alberto Polli, statistician

assaggi science bookshop, via degli Etruschi 4, Rome

Fourth season

Tuesday October 20th 2009
"The shapes of the space"
with Massimo Bianchi, physicist, Paolo Piazza, mathematician

Tuesday November 17th 2009
"Machines and ideas"
with Salvo D'Agostino, physicist, Giuseppe O. Longo, engineer

Tuesday December 15th 2009
"Stars and particles"
with Guido Altarelli, physicist, Paolo De Bernardis, astrophysicist

Tuesday January 12th 2010
"Learning from mistakes?"
with Domenico Parisi, psycologist, Alberto Pasquini, engineer

Tuesday February 16th 2010
"The doctor of genes"
with Antonino Cattaneo, neurobiologist, Giuseppe Novelli, geneticist

Tuesday March 9th 2010
"The origin of asymmetry"
with Francesco Cecwithi, biologist, Giorgio Parisi, physicist

Tuesday April 13th 2010
"Thinking and mathematics"
with Laura Catastini, mathematician, Lamberto Maffei, neurobiologist

Tuesday May 18th 2010
"The network society"
with Francesca Comunello, sociologist, Alessandro Panconesi, computer scientist

Bibli, via dei Fienaroli 28, Rome.

Third season

Tuesday October 21st, 2008
"When we became humans"
with Giovanni Destro Bisol, biologist, Margherita Mussi, paleoethnologist

Tuesday November 18th, 2008
"From eye to mind"
with Francesco Ferretti, philosopher, Giovanni Mirabella, neurobiologist

Tuesday December 16th, 2008
"Biofuels: sustainable energy?"
with Vito Pignatelli, chemist, Andrea Rossi, economist

Tuesday January 20th, 2009
"The mathematics of secrets"
with Alberto Berretti and Francesco Pappalardi, mathematicians

Tuesday February 17th, 2009
"The giga-world of nanosciences"
with Elisa Molinari, physicist, Gianfranco Pacchioni, chemist

Tuesday March 24th, 2009
"The direction of time"
with Giovanni Gallavotti e Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, physicists

Tuesday April 21st, 2009
"The irrationality in economy"
with Massimo Egidi, economist, Miguel Angel Virasoro, physicist

Tuesday May 19th, 2009
"Mathematically undemonstrable"
with Claudio Bernardi, mathematician, Carlo Cellucci, philosopher

Bibli, via dei Fienaroli 28, Rome.

Second season

Tuesday April 15th, 2008
Mind and Brain (link in italian)
with Mario De Caro, philosopher, Alberto Oliverio, biologist

Tuesday April 8th, 2008
The forgotten science (link in italian)
with Lucio Russo, mathematician and historian of science

Tuesday March 18th, 2008
Communication and Language (link in italian)
with Maria Cristina Caselli, psicologist, Lunella Mereu, linguist

Tuesday February 12th, 2008
"At the end of the universe" (link in italian)
with Luca Amendola, astronomer, Enrico Massaro, physicist
Bibli

Tuesday January 15th, 2008
"Collective intelligence" (link in italian)
with Andrea Cavagna, physicist, Daniela Santucci, biologist
Bibli

Tuesday December 11th, 2007
"Innatural numbers" (link in italian)
with René Schoof, mathematician, Massimo Squillacciotti, anthropologist
Bibli

Tuesday November 13th, 2007
"Genial genes?" (link in italian)
with Ciriaco Scoppetta, neurologist, Anna Tramontano, biologist

Bibli, via dei Fienaroli 28, Rome.

First season

Wednesday May 23rd, 2007
"What is geometric thinking" (link in italian)
with Edoardo Sernesi, mathematician
La Limonaia, Villa Torlonia

Tuesday May 22nd, 2007
"The origin of life" (link in italian)
with Paola Londei, biologist
Casina dei Pini, Giardini di Villa Massimo

Tuesday April 17th, 2007
"Predicibility and chaos" (link in italian)
with Massimo De Felice, economist, Angelo Vulpiani, physicist
Libri con gusto

Thursday March 15th, 2007
"Science: between practice and method" (link in italian)
with Marcello Cini, physicist, Elena Gagliasso, philosopher
Libri con gusto

Tuesday February 20th, 2007
"The origin of evolution" (link in italian)
with Piero Cammarano, biologist, Stefano Mariani, zoologist
Libri con gusto

Tuesday January 16th, 2007
"Machines and intelligence" (link in italian)
with Enrico Cherubini, neurobiologist, Giorgio Parisi, physicist
Libri con gusto

Libri con Gusto, Largo dei Librari 84, Roma (www.libricongusto.it).

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