International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy - ISAMS

07/21/2017

Poster for the 2017 International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy (ISAMS) School in Erice, Italy. July 20 - August 4, 2017
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05/16/2017

Announcement & Program for the 2017 International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy (ISAMS) School in Erice, Italy.
July 20 - August 3, 2017
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12/07/2016

2016 School - Workshop on Advances in Luminescence Research

06/01/2016

Announcement & Program for the 2016 International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy School in Erice, Italy, August 1-7, 2016
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07/18/2015

2015 School - Nano-Optics for Enhancing Light-Matter Interactions on a Molecular Scale

07/12/2015

"Centro Majorana Un corso per Di Bartolo" as appeared in the newspaper Giornale di Sicilia on June 23, 2015.

English translation is as follows:

This year, and for over forty years now, Professor Rino Di Bartolo, who teaches at Boston College, and is a native of Trapani, has held in Erice on the premises of the center "Ettore Majorana”, a course for young scholars from around the world. From July 4 to 19, in fact, Di Bartolo will direct about 50 young researchers on the latest research in Nano-optics and its applications in various fields ranging from biochemistry to electrical engineering.

07/06/2015

An "In brief" titled "Centro Majorana Un Corso per Di Bartolo" also appeared in the newspaper Giornale di Sicilia in early July, 2015

English translation of the Italian text from TrapaniOK.it follows:

Baldassare Di Bartolo, known as Rino, a professor at Boston College, was born in Sicily and more precisely Trapani.

Rino Di Bartolo is a Sicilian, and like so many others who have emigrated abroad, an example of successful emigration because, for many years, Prof. Di Bartolo has taught physics and spectroscopy at Boston College.

Nevertheless, being inextricably linked to his land, he returns once a year to teach a course for young scientists from around the world at the Institute "Ettore Majorana" in Erice, Italy, which is directed by Prof. Antonino Zichichi.

Prof. Di Bartolo has always remained humble, son of a Knight of Labour, Salvatore, and owner of a mill and pasta factory in Trapani that failed in the 70s.

Here is a brief narrative summary of his personal character by Sergio Di Bartolo:

This year, and for over forty years now, Professor Rino Di Bartolo has held in Erice, at the Institute Ettore Majorana, a course aimed at young scholars around the world. From July 4 to 19, in fact, Professor Di Bartolo will direct about 50 young researchers from around the world in the latest research on Nano-optics and its applications in fields ranging from biochemistry to electrical engineering. Nanophotonics or nano-optics is the study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, and the interaction of nanoscale objects with light. The nanometer is commonly used to specify the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation near the visible part of the spectrum. It is, therefore, a branch of optics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, and nanotechnology.

Baldassare (Rino) Di Bartolo was born in Trapani where he attended school: elementary school, the Technical Institute "S. Calvin ", the High School "V. Fardella ". He received in 1950 the degree of Doctor Engineer in industrial engineering at the University of Palermo, Italy.

After a few years in the industry and research in Rome and Naples, he arrives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked as a member of "Foreign Student Summer Project", with a Fulbright scholarship and a scholarship to MIT. Later back at MIT, as a visiting fellow in the department of physics, he completed a Ph.D. in physics in 1964.

The next four years see Prof. Di Bartolo as the director of the Spectroscopy Laboratory of Mithras, a division of Sanders Associates, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Subsequently Prof. Di Bartolo spent his years as a teacher at the Laboratoire de spectroscopie et Luminescence, Claude Bernard University of Lyon (France), at the department of chemistry at MIT and at the Spectroscopy Laboratory at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also collaborated with the American Society for Engineering Education Program at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

Since September 1973, Dr. Di Bartolo has been director of the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy at Institute "Ettore Majorana" International Center for Scientific Culture in Erice, Italy, to conduct annual summer schools.

He is still a professor of physics at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, which he joined in 1968. Over the years at Boston College, Prof. Di Bartolo has directed more than 30 theses in physics (27 for Ph.D.). Author of a large scientific literature in the field of Theory of Physics of Laser and Molecular Spectroscopy, Prof. Di Bartolo has authored other books, some more purely literary that associate with the strong bond of his native land, Sicily, the main inspiration of his stories. Among his works are "The anarchist and other stories of Sicily".

RICEVIAMO E VOLENTIERI PUBBLICHIAMO:Baldassare Di Bartolo, detto Rino, professore dell´Università di Boston, siciliano di nascita e più precisamente Trapanese.

04/30/2015

The TG Techno Nanotechnology Zone - For all the latest news and information on emerging nanotechnologies

04/03/2015

Announcement & Program for the 2015 International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy School in Erice, Italy.

10/18/2014

40th Anniversary of the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy (ISAMS) - Tribute of August 4, 2014

10/18/2014

40th Anniversary of the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy (ISAMS) - Tribute of August 3, 2014

10/07/2014

2014 School - Workshop on Complex Luminescence Phenomena in Inorganic materials