Tenth International Workshop DICE2022

 Castello Pasquini/Castiglioncello (Tuscany),  19-23 September 2022

Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics 

"Quantum riddles and spacetime oddities"


 
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Advisory Board
Organizers
Objectives
Invited Lectures
Contrib. Papers
Program
Conference Site
Registration
Proceedings 2002-2018
Travel/
Accommodation
Sponsors


        Updated:
             30/09/21





Advisory Board
 
S. Adler (IAS, Princeton) J. Barbour (Oxford)
G. Casati (Como) G.C. Ghirardi* (Trieste)
C. Grebogi (Edinburgh) S. Haroche (Paris)
J. Hartle (Santa Barbara) B.-L. Hu (Maryland)
C. Isham (London) C. Kiefer (Cologne)
N. Mavromatos (London) C. Rovelli (Marseille)
C. Tsallis (Rio de Janeiro) G. Veneziano (CERN & ENS, Paris)
C. Wetterich (Heidelberg) W. Zurek (Los Alamos)
 
Founding and Supporting Members


T. Arecchi (Firenze)                         O. Bertolami (Lisboa)
I. Bialynicki-Birula (Warsaw) L. Davidovich (Rio de Janeiro)                             
J. Rafelski (Arizona) D. Stein (New York)
M. Tegmark (MIT, Cambridge)


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Organizers


    Massimo Blasone (Salerno) 
    Lajos Diosi (Budapest)
    Hans-Thomas Elze (Pisa, chair)
    Lorenzo Fratino (Paris)
    Leone Fronzoni (Pisa)
    Jonathan Halliwell (London)
    Claus Kiefer (Cologne)
    Enrico Prati (Milano)
    Giuseppe Vitiello (Salerno)  
  
     Conference
secretaries:

    t.b.a.     
     
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Objectives

Following DICE2002 - DICE2018, this biannual workshop addresses researchers in the fields of fundamental interactions, cosmology, general relativity, and quantum mechanics:
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The pillars of modern physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, coexist very successfully, having in their respective domains impressive observational support. However, questionable unification of the known forces, cosmological constant problems, black hole entropy puzzle, and conceptual difficulties of quantum mechanics and its application to the Universe are stumbling blocks on the way to deeper understanding.
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Attempts to quantize gravity continue to stimulate studies of classical and quantum dynamics and of properties of "timeless" reparametrization-invariant systems. A central problem is to determine observables consistent with constraints. New ideas attract attention that consider spacetime or gravity as emergent phenomena, much like hydrodynamics is seen to arise from atomic physics. Even quantum mechanics might reflect deterministic dynamics beneath, which is hidden by coarse-graining to scales where quantum theory has been tested, nineteen orders of magnitude away from the Planck scale.
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Classical behavior in complex quantum systems, attributed to decoherence, has recently been studied from atomic to mesoscopic systems, the motivation being largely the quest for quantum information processing. However, decohering degrees of freedom in subatomic and general relativistic systems are little understood. The control of quantum systems by classical means and the study of quantum-classical hybrid dynamics present new challenges of practical as well as of fundamental character. The related measurement problem, wave function collapse or objective reduction persist as unresolved issues. These problems become particularly acute at the interface of quantum mechanics with gravity.
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The study of these topics may include an analysis of the kind of information that exists in systems with many degrees of freedom and typically long-range interactions and of the basic conditions under which it can be extracted. Corresponding measures of complexity have been elaborated and could play a role here.
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Topics for DICE2022 are defined but not constrained by overlapping interests in:

  • emergent spacetime, matter, and symmetries
  • quantum foundations   
  • key experiments  
  • quantum information and AI for physics   
  • quantum gravity / cosmology and high-energy physics

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Invited Lectures (preliminary)

S. De Bianchi (Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona)
 
   TBA
R. Brandenberger (Mc Gill Univ., Montreal)*
 
   TBA
J. Butterfield (Univ. of Cambridge)
 
   TBA  
E. Cohen (Bar-Ilan Univ., Ramat-Gan)
    
TBA
D.L. Deng (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing) 
    TBA
L. Diosi (Wigner Research Center, Budapest) 
    TBA  
A.C. Elitzur (IYAR- Israeli Inst. Adv. Research, Rehovot)
    TBA
G.F.R. Ellis (Univ. of Cape Town)    <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
    TBA 
L. Garcia-Alvarez (Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Goeteborg) 
    TBA  
M. Genovese (INRIM, Torino) 
    TBA  
N. Gisin (Univ. de Geneve)    <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
    TBA
P. Grangier (Univ. Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau)   
    TBA
J.J. Halliwell (Imperial College, London) 
    TBA 
G. 't Hooft (Utrecht Univ.)    <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
    TBA
B.-L. Hu (Univ. of Maryland) 
    TBA  
A. Kempf (Univ. of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute) 
    TBA
A. Khrennikov (Linnaeus Univ., Vaxjoe-Kalmar) 
    TBA
C. Kiefer (Univ. zu Koeln) 
    TBA    
J. Klauder (Univ. of Florida, Gainesville) 
    TBA 
S. Lloyd (MIT, Cambridge MA)    <KEYNOTE LECTURE>
   
TBA
N. Mavromatos (King's College, London
    TBA
A. Mazumdar (Univ. of Groningen
    TBA
S. Montangero (Univ. di Padova
    TBA
M. Paternostro (Univ. of Belfast)
    TBA
A.K. Pati (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst., Allahabad)*
    TBA
F. Petruccione (Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
    TBA
E. Prati (IFN - CNR, Milano
    TBA
M. Rasetti (Politecnico di Torino & ISI Foundation, NY) 
    TBA
M. Rozenberg (Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay) 
    TBA     
S. Saunders (Univ. of Oxford) 
    TBA
T.P. Singh (Tata Inst. Fund. Res., Mumbai) 
    TBA
G. Vitiello (Univ. di Salerno)
    TBA       
C. Wetterich (Univ. Heidelberg)
 
    TBA       
J. Zaanen (Univ. of Leiden)
    
TBA

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Contributed Papers  (preliminary)

P:  poster presentation  (max. 95cm wide x 105cm high)
C:  oral communication (15min) 

T:  talk (20min)


(abstracts to be submitted until >>> to be defined
<<<
 
- presented papers will have equal status in the Proceedings)
 
A. Ashton (Institute of Physics Publ., Bristol) 
 
Books and journals exhibition
M. Barabanov (JINR, Dubna)  
  Probing of strong interactions and hadron matter
  in hadron and heavy-ion collisions
L. Buoninfante (Tokyo Inst. of Technology)  
  TBA
S. Butera (Univ. of Glasgow)  
  Analog of cosmological particle production in an expanding
  Bose-Einstein condensate and its back-reaction effect 
A. Capolupo (Univ. di Salerno)  
  TBA
A. Capurso (Vodafone, Milano)  
  Networks and momenta
G. Doyen (LMU, Muenchen)  
  How information gains top-down causation over matter:
  beables, limbo states, resonances, and synchronisation
D. Drakova (Sofia Univ.)  
  Hubble tension from quantum diffusion models
  in CMB and Newton clusters
M. Faran (Tel Aviv Univ.)  
  TBA
A. Flachi (Keio Univ., Yokohama)  
  Quantum fields in the presence of torsion
S. Franchino-Vinas (Univ. de La Plata)  
  Interacting scalar field in curved noncommutative spaces 
L. Fratino (Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay)  
  TBA 
S.M. Giampaolo (Ruder Boskovics Inst., Zagreb)  
  Probing axion mediated fermion-fermion interaction
  by means of entanglement
M. Hadad (Open Univ. of Israel, Raanana)  
  Interpretation of the Second Law for cosmology 
Y. Hadad (Technion Inst. of Technology, Haifa)  
  TBA
A. Iorio (Charles Univ., Prague)  
  TBA
A. Jamali (Amirkabir Univ., Tehran)  
  A reconsideration of the theory of quanta
P. Jizba (Czech Technical Univ., Prague)  
  A new class of entropy-power based uncertainty relations
I. Kaminer (Technion Inst. of Technology, Haifa)  
  TBA
I. Kanattsikov (Nat. Quantum Info. Center, Sopot)    
  Quantum state of Minkowski space-time
  from precanonical quantum gravity 
G. Karapetyan (Fed. Univ. of ABC, Santo Andre)  
  Information entropy and rho and phi mesons
  production in QCD
K. Koltko (Indep. Res., Denver)  
  The baryonic Tully-Fisher law and the gauge theory
  of CPT transformations
A.A. Kryukov (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)  
  TBA
I. Kuntz (INFN, Bologna)  
  A look into singularities from quantum field theories of gravity
J. Laessig (Fraunhofer IOSB, Univ. Zittau/Goerlitz)  
  TBA
A. Lahee (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg)
 
Books and journals exhibition
F. Lombardo (Univ. Buenos Aires)  
  Towards detecting traces of non-contact quantum friction in 
  the corrections of the accumulated geometric phase
G. Luciano (Univ. di Salerno)  
  On the very nature of asymptotic neutrinos: the proton's testimony
O. Lychkovskiy (Skolkovo Inst. of Science and Techn., Moscow)  
  TBA
M. Maronese (IFN - CNR, Milano)  
  TBA
E. Minguzzi (Univ. Degli Studi di Firenze)  
  TBA
L. Moro (IFN - CNR, Milano)  
  TBA
H. Chau Nguyen (Univ. of Siegen)  
  Symmetries between measurements in quantum mechanics
P. Pais (Charles Univ., Prague)  
  Torsion through time-loops on Dirac materials with dislocations
P.L. Paiva (Bar-Ilan Univ., Ramat Gan)  
  Flow of time during energy measurements and
  the resulting time-energy uncertainty relations
R. Passante (Univ. di Palermo)  
  TBA
L. Petruzziello (Univ. di Salerno)  
  Casimir effect as a probe for new physics
A. Quaranta (Univ. di Salerno)  
  TBA
J. Rau (Univ. Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden)  
  TBA
R. Riek (ETH Zurich)  
  TBA          
L. Rizzuto (Univ. di Palermo)  
  TBA
R. da Rocha (Fed. Univ. of ABC, Santo Andre)  
  Mesons, nucleons, higher spin baryon resonances and 
  information in gauge / gravity dualities
L. Rocutto (IFN - CNR, Milano)  
  TBA
S. Sengupta (Indian Inst. of Technology, Kharagpur)  
  An emergent theory of gravity from zero-length extra dimensions:
  a potential solution of the "dark matter" problem
K. Simonov (Univ. of Vienna)  
  Particle mixing and the emergence of classicality:
  a spontaneous-collapse-model view
L. Smaldone (Charles Univ., Prague)  
  TBA
F. Strubbe (Ghent Univ.)  
  Unifying classical gravity with quantum mechanics in
  crystallizing spacetime
J. Tolar (Czech Technical Univ., Prague)
  P: On the role of Pauli gradings in quantum information
F. Vassallo (ESTAR Toscana)
  TBA
G. Vitagliano (Inst. Quantum Optics and Quantum Inform., Vienna)
  Spin squeezing and entanglement detection via
  uncertainty relations in cold atoms
M. Wright (The Archive Trust for Research, Bristol)  
  TBA
Y. Wu (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing)  
  TBA
V. Zatloukal (Czech Technical Univ., Prague)  
  Real spinors and real Dirac equation
K. Zloshchastiev (Durban Univ. of Technology)  
  Emergent spacetime in logarithmic superfluid vacuum theory
XYZ   
  PCT: TBA

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Program

Access to lectures for registered participants only.  
Accesso al convegno solo per iscritti --
serata dedicata al pubblico mercoledi, ././. settembre.


(questions at speaker's discretion -- there will be some buffer times here and there for add. discussions!)  

SUNDAY, 18 September 
Arrival in Castiglioncello
16:00 - 19:00     Registration at Castello Pasquini (conference site)
      18:30 - 20:00     Reception at Castello Pasquini

MONDAY, 19 September
TBA

 -- WORKSHOP OPENING --    
   -- Welcome -- 

Chair:
 
<KEYNOTE LECTURE>



 -- Coffee Break --

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13:00 - 15:00  -- Lunch at Ristorante tba --
PARALLEL I
1st floor


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 -- Coffee Break --

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PARALLEL II
2nd floor


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 -- Coffee Break --

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TUESDAY, 20 September
TBA

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<KEYNOTE LECTURE>
 


 -- Coffee Break --

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13:00 - 15:00  -- Lunch at Ristorante tba --
PARALLEL I
1st floor


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 -- Coffee Break --

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PARALLEL II
2nd floor


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16:00 - 16:40  -- Coffee Break --

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WEDNESDAY, 21 September
 
TBA

Chair:
 
<KEYNOTE LECTURE>
 


 -- Coffee Break --

Chair:


13:00 - 15:00  -- Lunch at Ristorante tba --
PARALLEL I
1st floor


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 -- Coffee Break --

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PARALLEL II
2nd floor


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 -- Coffee Break --

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21:00
2nd floor
SERATA DEDICATA AL PUBBLICO (public evening, in Italian)
"Intelligenza Artificiale, Big Data e l'Uomo?"    
M. Bergamasco (Pisa), D. Fiormonte (Roma) e M. Rasetti (Torino)
 
THURSDAY, 22 September
TBA

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 -- Coffee Break --

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13:00 - 15:00  -- Lunch at Ristorante tba --

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 -- Coffee Break --

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19:30  -- Reception / Aperitivo at tba --
      
Best Poster Awards   
20:30  -- Conference Dinner at tba --


FRIDAY, 23 September
TBA

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<KEYNOTE LECTURE>



 -- Coffee Break --

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13:00 - 14:30  -- Lunch at Ristorante tba --

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16:00
 -- Coffee Break --

 -- WORKSHOP CLOSING --   

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Proceedings

Information concerning Proceedings DICE2021 will be sent to participants!

Proceedings of DICE2018 in:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1275 (2019)
H.-T. Elze, M. Blasone, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, C. Kiefer, E. Prati and G. Vitiello (eds.)

- free access at  http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/1275/1

Proceedings of DICE2016 in:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 880 (2017)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, C. Kiefer, E. Prati and G. Vitiello (eds.)
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free access at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/880/1

Proceedings of DICE2014 in:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 626 (2015)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, C. Kiefer, E. Prati and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/626/1

Proceedings of DICE2012 in: 

Journal of Ph
ysics: Conference Series, 442 (2013)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, E. Prati, G. Vitiello and J. Yearsley (eds.)
- free access at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/442/1

Proceedings of DICE2010 in: 
Journal of Ph
ysics: Conference Series, 306 (2011)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell, J. Yearsley, E. Prati and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/306/1
 
Proceedings of DICE2008 in: 
Journal of Ph
ysics: Conference Series, 174 (2009)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi, L. Fronzoni, J.J. Halliwell and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/174/1

Proceedings of DICE2006 in: 
Journal of Ph
ysics: Conference Series, 67 (2007)
H.-T. Elze, L. Diosi and G. Vitiello (eds.)
- free access at
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/67/1

Proceedings of DICE2004 in:
Brazilian Journal of Physics, 35, no. 2A+2B, 205-529 (2005) 
H.-T. Elze (ed.) 

- free access at http://www.sbfisica.org.br/bjp

Proceedings of DICE2002 in:
Decoherence and Entropy in Complex Systems

Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, LNP 633
H.-T. Elze (ed.)
(Springer, Berlin, 2004)

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Registration

Early registration recommended - number of participants limited!
 
Procedure: 

A. Please, send e-mail to elze@df.unipi.it using this format:   

  
     NAME / AFFILIATION / E-MAIL ______________________________________________________

     MAILING ADDRESS _____________________________________________ (for proceedings book)

     STUDENT yes / no __________________________________________________________________

     TITLE / ABSTRACT of contributed paper
_________________________________ (even preliminary)

  
  ARRIVAL / DEPARTURE DATES + ACCOMPANYING PERSONS _________________________

    => talks etc. will be selected by organizers based on abstracts received by June 28th

B. Registration Fee:  full 340EU, student 280EU, accompanying person 180EU.
    The fee will be charged in cash at the registration desk - covering coffee breaks, receptions,
    lunches, conference dinner, conference material, and proceedings.
 

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Conference Site

The conference will take place at Castello Pasquini in Castiglioncello (Tuscany),
which is described, for example, on WIKIPEDIA!  A browser search for Castello Pasquini
or Castiglioncello is also fruitfull. - A Tourist Information office is located at Castiglioncello
train station, a few steps from Castello Pasquini (e-mail: apt7castiglioncello@costadeglietruschi.it),
with website: http://www.costadeglietruschi.it






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Accommodation (Travel advice below) 

Participants -- except invited speakers -- are kindly requested to reserve accommodation
by direct contact with a chosen hotel (all within walking distance to conference site)  

=> as soon as possible, when room rates are announced below.

      
Please, be aware that there exist widespread phishing attempts trying to obtain
       booking or payment information from participants of conferences!!


Please, mention in all correspondence with the hotel to be a 
participant of Convegno DICE2020 at Castello Pasquini and refer to indicated room rate!

(Local town tax "tassa di soggiorno" of EU 0.50 per person x no. of days x no. of hotel *s  is added by hotel.)


Conference room rates for Single / Double rooms per night, incl. breakfast:

Hotel Albergo Miramare ***  EU  /  /  (Triple)
(charming hotel with a history; access to beach)
http://www.albergo-miramare.it  
info@albergo-miramare.it    

Hotel Leopoldo ***  EU  /
http://www.toscanatoscana.it
hotelleopoldo@tin.it  

Hotel Tirreno ***  EU  /
http://www.hotel-tirreno.com
info@hoteltirreno.info   
 
Hotel Baia del Sorriso ***  EU  / 
(about 800 m from Castello Pasquini, beautiful view)
http://www.baiadelsorriso.com
info@baiadelsorriso.com

Hotel Martini ****  EU  / 
(modern, luxurious style)
http://www.villamartini.it
info@villamartini.it

Hotel Villa Parisi  EU  / 
(a luxury treat; beautiful location)
http://www.villaparisi.com
grandhotelvillaparisi@gmail.com
 
Hotel Park ***  EU 
http://www.hotel-park.it
info@hotel-park.it   

Hotel Costa Verde ** EU  / 
http://www.hotelcostaverdecastiglioncello.com
info@hotelcostaverdecastiglioncello.com

Hotel Guerrini ** EU  /  
http://www.guerrinihotel.it
info@guerrinihotel.it

Further hotels may also be found through the tourist information / link above under
"Conference Site".

Travelling:
Nearest and most convenient is PISA international airport.
From there you go by shuttle or taxi to the main train station Pisa Centrale,
which takes about 5-10 min.
Regional trains from Pisa Centrale to Castiglioncello, your destination, take about 30-40 min.
From Roma Termini train station to Castiglioncello may take about 3 h by regional train.  
With long-distance fast trains, you have to reach Pisa or Livorno (from North) and 
Campiglia Marittima or Cecina (from South) and change for regional trains to Castiglioncello.  
Trenitalia Timetables are available here:
    http://www.trenitalia.it

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Sponsors (to be updated)  



Dipartimento di Fisica "Enrico Fermi"
Universita di Pisa 



DOMUS GALILAEANA - Pisa -


 

Centro Interdisciplinare per lo Studio dei Sistemi Complessi
Universita di Pisa 
 
     



Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello"
Universita di Salerno    
 
iisf - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici          
diploma d'onore del parlamento europeo -- presidente onorario pierluigi celli
Via Monte di Dio 14 - Palazzo Serra di Cassano - 80132 Napoli - tel.: 081.7642652 · fax: 081.7642654 · mail: info@iisf.it




ARMUNIA
Castiglioncello
 





Institute Of Physics Publishing  http://journals.iop.org
Dirac House, Bristol



Springer http://www.springer.com
Heidelberg





M
DPI AG  http://www.mdpi.com/
Basel



Ericsson Telecommunicazioni  http://www.ericsson.com
Roma




  

Solvay Italia SA 
http://www.solvay.com
Rosignano

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