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In the last centuries, humanity has fully explored and mapped the emerged fraction of Earth surface; today it has growing interest in exploring and exploiting the submerged fraction of the Earth as well as the nearby space regions, intensively. To this aim, engineers provide new powerful means (robots, underwater and space communication systems, new nano-satellite solutions); the exploration and exploitation of resources also pose problems relating to the biology of living beings. Moreover a wide range of new issues arise, about the economic implications and legal implications.
The School aims to provide a concise overview of the relevant scientific challenges and development prospects in a unitary framework where issues of economic and environmental impact, potential conflicts and regulatory assessments are also addressed.
The Seasonal School will take an holistic approach and will introduce participants to the key technologies in a unitary framework, where the engineering role is viewed together with biological and medical issues, economic aspects and legal problems.
At the end of the Seasonal School, the participants will have a comprehensive overview of the future trends in the challenging topics of space and sea exploration.

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Cyclic loading. High cycle fatigue. S-N curve. Fatigue limit. Low cycle fatigue. Manson -Coffin relation. Neuber theory. Linear elastic fracture mechanics. Energy concept. Stress field near the crack tip. Stress intensity factor. Fracture toughness. Fracture mechanical design. Non linear fracture mechanics. Crack opening displacement. J-integral. Stable crack growth. Testing techniques. Design philosophy in nonlinear fracture mechanics. Environment assisted cracking. Case studies.

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The goal of the subject is to present the theoretical bases of the finite element method and its practical application to typical structural engineering problems. The classic approach to the finite element method will be followed in presenting the basic idea of the method, the element types, the applied interpolation functions, the various matrices and the basic steps of their construction, the resulting system of equation and the solution techniques of it. All these will be demonstrated and practiced through examples, showing how the various structure types (trusses, beams, frames, plates, shells, 3D solids) can be analysed. An introduction to nonlinearities from various sources will be given, with special focus on the effect and handling of geometric nonlinearity. Beside the static problems, the application of the finite element method to some heat transfer problems of the structural engineering practice will also be discussed.

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Based on general knowledge in optics, the course aims at getting students familiarized with the rapidly expanding field of modern photonics. Photonics is advancing into the forefront of applications where electronic devices approach their speed and bandwidth limits. The course expressively, recalling only the necessary mathematic, physical and optical tools, reviews the photonic devices describing their operation and illustrating their application. Main topics: Relation of optics and photonics, the inevitable evolution of photonics, significance of photonic view, phase matching and internal quantum efficiency. Photon generation by spontaneous and stimulated emission (LED, laser diode, optical amplifier, superluminescent LED and single photon sources). Light manipulation in simple and Bragg-structured planar and cylindrical optical waveguides (Bragg mirrors, fiber based optical devices, photonic fibers and white laser). Electro-optic Pockels and Kerr effects, optical Kerr effect, Faraday effect and applications (Pockels cell, self-phase modulation, self-focusing and optical isolator). Acoustooptic effect and applications (modulators, light deflectors, filters and special devices). 2nd and 3rd order nonlinear optics and applications (SHG, SFG, DFG, SPDC). Photodetectors, solar cells and single photon detectors. Measurement tools at optical frequencies (optical time and frequency measurement, atomic clock, frequency comb, LIGO).

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The Seasonal School will delve into gender studies with a multidisciplinary critical perspective, combining different approaches in social sciences. In order to tackle the most relevant issues in contemporary gender studies and feminist theory, participants will be provided with pivotal conceptual tools from an epistemological, political, legal and philosophical point of view as well as with a cross-cutting knowledge of the different theoretical-methodological frameworks employed in the debate. Other than providing a theoretical-political framework on the contribution of the gender dimension in social sciences, the training programme will require participants to reflect on global and intersectional perspectives as well as on the impact of policies and politics on everyday challenges: e.g. the structural dimension gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the emerging of situated needs for different subjectivities in public and collective space. The aim of the Seasonal School is to enable students to understand the impact of such challenges on the society as a whole, from a political, legal and social perspective, raising a critical attitude informed by a feminist intersectional standpoint.

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Get a basic overwiew of the principles of Chemistry, providing an introductory informations, including definitions etc. to be used in later specific subjects The course consists of three parts. In the first one the macroscopic properties of the matter is discussed, including phase transitions. In the second part basic chemical priciples as acid-base, redox processes, chemical equlibria, electrochemistry and chemical kinetics will be covered briefly. In the third part the aromic and molecular structure, the chemical bonding and the rules in the periodic table is discussed.

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