Location
The PhD School will be held from June 22 to 24, 2026 in L’Aquila and will take place at the University of L’Aquila in Centro Congressi Zordan, Piazza San Basilio.
As part of the school activities, a special visit will be organized at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories, located near L’Aquila. Participants will attend a seminar at the surface laboratories introducing the scientific activities carried out at LNGS and will then access the underground experimental facilities for a guided visit to the laboratories.
Topic
The school topic is “Industrial skills in electronic and microelectronic systems” and will cover all the aspects concerning the strategies to allow bright ideas, born in the Academia, to be protected and made available for the market.
Visit to the Gran Sasso National Laboratories – PhD School SIE 2026
As part of the PhD School of the SIE 2026 Annual Meeting, a technical-scientific visit to the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratories is scheduled for:
📅 Tuesday, June 23, 2026 (afternoon)
The visit is reserved for PhD students regularly enrolled in the PhD School and faculty members registered for the conference.
⚠️ Important Information on Accessing the Underground Laboratories
Access is regulated by the LNGS safety regulations. Please note in particular that:
- Entrance to the tunnels is permitted only after participating in the introductory seminar with a mandatory video course on safety.
- The maximum number of allowed participants is 40 people.
- The temperature in the underground laboratories is approximately 8–9 °C year-round.
- Humidity is close to 100%.
- Participants under the age of 14 are not admitted.
Appropriate clothing is therefore recommended (warm jacket/sweatshirt, closed-toe shoes).
📄 Mandatory Registration Procedure
For safety reasons and in compliance with LNGS regulations, all participants must complete the online form no later than June 12, 2026.
⚠️ Warnings
- Access to the laboratories will not be possible without completing the form and submitting the required documentation.
- In the event that applications exceed the maximum limit of visitors allowed, participation requests will be considered in the order they were submitted via the online form.
- For any participants who are excluded, a parallel seminar will be organized and held by professors from the University of L’Aquila.
For any questions, you may write to: alfiero.leoni@univaq.it