The VIBRA “Very fast Imaging by Broadband coherent Raman” project. Financed by the European Community’s European Research Council, the project lasted for 5 years and it has brought about the development of a new optical microscope, revolutionary in the biological and biomedical fields.
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“At the moment, identification of tumors and other illnesses is mainly based on the subjective judgment of a pathologist who visually inspects tissue under a microscope. Our optical microscope, based on the coherent Raman spectroscopy, is able to rapidly display the chemical contents of a sample to identify diseased cells in human biopsies – an accurate, reliable and non-invasive tool that can guide the surgeon in real time”, says Dario Polli, Professor of Physics at Politecnico di Milano and scientific director of the project.
By using sophisticated laser techniques, it is possible to map the concentration of the various constituents of matter and create detailed three-dimensional maps of cells and tissues.
Dario Polli: “The results achieved will have a huge impact on biology and medicine: they will make it possible in future to display the properties of organic samples with great biochemical specificity, both in terms of the study of cellular mechanisms at the base of various pathologies and automatic identification of tumors in biopsies, with a better degree of accuracy and reproducibility than we are able to attain today”.
Thanks to a collaboration between Ducati Motor Holding and the MOVE research group, led by Professor Sergio M. Savaresi, the production of the Multistrada V4 has started, the first motorcycle in the world equipped with front and rear radar technology.
The front radar of the motorcycle controls the adaptive cruise control function, which automatically adjusts the distance from other vehicles. The rear radar is able to detect and warn about any vehicles positioned in the visual blind spot: a highly innovative system, whose control algorithms are the object of a patent request registered in May 2017.
Six Italian universities, including the Politecnico di Milano came together on 8 October to sign, in the virtual presence of the Minister of Universities and Scientific research, Gaetano Manfredi, the certificate of incorporation of the Foundation “Italian Higher Education with Africa”.
Foundation "Italian Higher Education with Africa".
The aim of the project is to promote the internationalization of Universities in Africa and contribute towards local development through cooperation.
For Italian Universities it is increasingly important to develop teaching and training and help students resident in African countries to specialize using suitable interdisciplinary scientific methods, as well as to promote support networks, staff and teaching staff refresher courses for local universities.
An initial stage of the project has already started: during the current semester some African universities will be able to select a preset number of students who can take part in a number of online courses by Italian universities.
The first 3D printed fiberglass boat is called Mambo and it is a genuine nautical revolution.
The idea by Moi Composites, a start-up from Milan founded in 2018 as a spin-off of the Politecnico di Milano, founded by two Polimi graduates: Michele Tonizzo (Architecture) and Gabriele Natale (Design & Engineering).
About 6.50 meters long, presented at the Genoa Boat Show, the Mambo is made using 3D printed components.
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“MAMBO (an acronym of Motor Additive Manufacturing Boat - Ed.) is the first 3D printed fiberglass boat in the world” says Michele Tonizzo, CTO and Co-founder of Moi Composites S.r.l. with a degree in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 2015, tells Adnkronos “it is a project by our company to print advanced composite materials (considered the best in the world) in 3D using our technology. The project started about 3 years ago: we wanted to print boats in 3D, so we started to talk to sponsors and partners. We printed the sections in our headquarters in Milan and then they were laminated together, then the boat was outfitted and tested in the sea off Otranto”.
The technology uses robotic machines, able to deposit continuous fibers impregnated with cross linked resin to create items with incredible properties, positioning the fibers in an optimized layout starting from just a digital model. This makes it possible to create fiber-reinforced products, with the same mechanical properties as unidirectional fiberglass, without using models, molds or other equipment. In this way, it is possible to obtain not only prototypes but also limited series products or one-off items.
“The creativity of many designers is smothered by various factors: limits of a technological or geometric nature, or production costs, there are many incredible projects that are destined to always be just a magnificent render. “We took part in the Genoa Boat Show in 2017, and during this event, we had the idea to create MAMBO. So, layer after layer, we have watched the project grow and finally reach the sea today. We 3D printed a boat focusing on the concept of customization, making a unique item created from an idea and made to measure for the owner, giving everyone the possibility to conceive and live the sea in their own personal way. All this could not have happened without the support of our partners, who put their faith in this ambitious project”. Affirms Gabriele Natale CEO and co-founder of Moi Composites, Alumnus of the Politecnico di Milano.
Once the concept had been conceived and the executive project created, the various sections were printed using two KUKA Quantec High Accuracy robots. Located in Milan on the premises of Moi Composites and AMF (Advanced Manufacturing Facility) of Autodesk in Birmingham, they were able to exploit shared manufacturing, considered one of the most notable strong points of 3D printing. Once printed, the pieces were put together and laminated in the Catmarine boat yard, creating a sandwich monobloc structure, without any hull-deck division.
The untiring and invaluable work of the robots together with the knowledgeable and passionate ability of the boat yard craftsmen have given life to a new hybrid industrial system, as technological and digital as it is analogue and tailor-made, transforming the impossible into possible.
According to the QS Business Masters Rankings the Politecnico di Milano has reached an high score in the employability, value for money and thought leadership indicators.
Among the various rankings on Masters, the Politecnico di Milano is 7th in the QS Business Masters Rankings: Supply Chain Management
“The Politecnico di Milano and the Università Bocconi” says Nunzio Quacquarelli, CEO of QS Ranking “reached an high score for the indicators related to employability, value for money and thought leadership in managerial education. The University Luiss di Roma is the third Italian university to be feature in the ranking with a couple of interesting masters offered, in particular the one for the management of Big Data, a topic that has been increasing in popularity”.
Among the international ranking of the single courses offered by Business Schools the Politecnico di Milano has reached the 36th place in the Master in Management Ranking and the 68th place in the Master in Finance Ranking.
Vittorio Chiesa and Federico Frattini, President and Dean of the MIP Politecnico di Milano commented “We are proud to recieve this important aknoledgment a few days after we have reopened our campus. We will keep our committment to keep improving the quality of our offering, which will include even more attention to diversity”.
“Programmable” optic circuits are the new frontier in integrated photonics. Their potential has been outlined in a study published in the prestigious magazine, Nature, by the Politecnico di Milano together with Stanford University, the Max Planck Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gent University and the Universitat Politècnica de València.
Photonics has permeated into many applications and contexts, and “general purpose” optical circuits that can be directly programmed by the end user are now a necessity. These circuits are the optical version of the well-known electronic FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), and differ from circuits specifically created to carry out just one unique function. This versatility means one product can be used for many applications, therefore reducing research and development times, as well as offering considerable cost savings and better accessibility to these technologies.
Programmable optical circuits are completely generic items that can be configured “on demand” to meet a particular purpose. The most commonly used strategy is to arrange a mesh of interconnecting optical guides on a photonic chip, whose nodes can be programmed via software and managed thanks to calibration and control algorithms. This means that the light is distributed, redirected and recombined to rapidly carry out the required function with minimal energy consumption. If the function carried out by the circuit needs to be changed, it just has to be reprogrammed and does not need to be physically replaced.
In the lecture hall or online? Teaching at the Politecnico di Milano during the post pandemic period will be “hybrid”. The project has been created thanks to a collaboration between the Milanese University and CISCO and will combine teaching in person with online teaching.
The pandemic has changed the rules governing daily activities, and teaching is certainly among one of the most affected sectors.
In view of the new academic year starting on 14 September, thanks to a collaboration with the IT colossus CISCO, the Politecnico di Milano has adopted a series of multichannel communication solutions (also enabled by artificial intelligence), which have allowed the university to create mixed in-person and virtual classes, able to guarantee an effective and absorbing teaching experience for remote students.
Should this solution dictated by the emergency become the “new normal” and maintained in future?
“We have to distinguish the actual emergency phase, which lasted from March to July and where we acted using the tools available to us at that time, from what will happen afterwards”, explains the rector of Politecnico di Milano, Ferruccio Resta, to Business Insider Italia. “We are now in a post emergency phase and we can plan the action to be taken: when Covid will finally be over, we will be able to say that the pandemic has been a great accelerator of digital transformation. Our ground rule is that teaching must be carried out in person, students need engagement. However, at the moment we have the necessary digital tools to enrich the university learning experience.”
The short term results have already been significant: in this academic year, enrollment has increased by 3%. We were expecting a 50% presence instead the percentage is 75% for freshmen and 60% for students in their last years.
The aim of this research is to detect benzene (a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon produced by combustion processes) in the atmosphere of the analyzed planets. Research has made important progress thanks to the work of a team from the Politecnico di Milano Cosmos Lab, in collaboration with KAUST University (King Abdullah University for Science and Technology) in Saudi Arabia and the Department of Chemistry of Bologna University.
AskNews interview with Marco Marangoni, professor of Physics at the Politecnico di Milano.
Benzene has always been considered an important source of carbon in the universe and it could create an atmosphere potentially suited to the development of life. At the moment, no direct relation between the presence of benzene and life on a planet has been found, but this tool allows us to easily find new exoplanets (planets that do not belong to our solar system and therefore orbit around a different star from the Sun).
Lo strumento utilizzato in questa ricerca è formato da due parti fondamentali: un laser che emette raggi tra i 12 e i 15 micron, nella quale il benzene e altri idrocarburi hanno il loro spettro d’assorbimento più intenso, e un pettine di frequenza, per analizzare i risultati forniti.
This innovative Italian discovery has been published on the prestigious magazine, Communication Physics (part of the Nature group and one the most authoritative scientific research publications).
Coordinamento delle Associazioni dei Professionisti Italiani a Parigi
Il CAP Paris è stato costituito il 19 febbraio 2019 su iniziativa del COMITES in collaborazione con il Consolato Generale d’Italia, sotto l’egida dell’Ambasciata d’Italia in Francia e con il sostegno della Direzione Generale per gli Italiani all’estero e le politiche migratorie del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale.
CAP Paris raggruppa dieci Associazioni espressione della nuova immigrazione italiana, rappresentative di oltre duemila professionisti italiani residenti nella regione parigina. Il Coordinamento mira a recensire gli italiani che si sono trasferiti in Ile-de-France per motivi lavorativi al fine di accrescerne la visibilità in ambito professionale, scientifico e culturale.
Gli ALUMNI POLIMI PARIGI sono tra i soci fondatori del CAP
Snam and Politecnico di Milano (also thanks to the Fondazione Politecnico di Milano) have undersigned a collaboration agreement to start conjoined research regarding the role of the gas system in energy transition, with specific focus on the potential of hydrogen and other green gases in the fight again climate change.
“Investing in research and development at the present time is a positive signal not only for the university system but also for overall economic recovery. Sharing skills and fruitful collaboration between the public and private sectors will provide credible answers to social needs and the demand for sustainable growth. The relationship between Politecnico di Milano and Snam to deal with concerns such as energy transition and the fight against climate change is a positive example where technology can operate in the midterm to invest in shared research and educate people, the top resource for any long-lasting innovation”, Ferruccio Resta, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano.
As part of the collaboration, Snam and Fondazione Snam will also contribute towards the Politecnico di Milano Pari Opportunità Politecniche (POP - Polytechnic Equal Opportunities), thanks to the “Girls@Polimi” project which donates three scholarships lasting three years to encourage the study of STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) by girls, destined for female students that enroll on engineering courses.
According to Sole 24 Ore, this process will create an Italian player with European dimensions, ready to embrace opportunities for consolidation on an international level, a business reaching 1.8 billion Euros of pro-forma aggregated earnings and a billion Euros of pro-forma aggregated Ebitda on 31 December 2019.
Paolo Bertoluzzo, Speaker at the Convention Alumni Politecnico di Milano in 2013.
Paolo Bertoluzzo, former CEO of Nexi, a graduate of Politecnico di Milano in Management Engineering, will lead the first European digital payment giant:“This operation will create a big Italian PayTech leader in Europe, a great technological and digital excellence on a scale and with competences that will allow it to play an increasingly important role in Italy and on an international level in a market, such as the European one, undergoing strong consolidation.”
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