A great loss for Astronomy

September, 15 2020 – Dear all,

Nichi d’Amico, President of the National Institute of Astrophysics, passed away.
We mourn the loss for Astronomy of a researcher of great value and rigor, and for Italy in particular of a competent, tenacious and honest person.

The ASTRI community owes him his continuous support.

“Nichi was a President forthcoming to every person. This is why so many had learned to love him.”

Comments in grief Giovanni Pareschi, ASTRI PI.

We gather around our President’s family aware of the void he left, to continue our projects with the help of his memory.

Image caption: Nichi d’Amico, on the left, with Rafael Rebolo of IAC for the ASTRI Mini-Array construction in Tenerife.
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ASTRI & Coronavirus

#iorestoacasa ASTRI vs. COVID19

Insieme è più facile

March 2020 – Dear all,

In these diffcult times, laden with uncertainties, we can find a new meaning to solidarity and togetherness, a better consciouness of our scientific and professional abilities. At all levels, culture and research bring us closer.
In a very short time span schools and universities have learned how to cope with the new situation, and online lesson are given thanks to dedition of both teachers and pupils, everyone from her/his own house. In INAF, we keep working on the usual projects, adapting to the new situation.
Job as usual also for ASTRI, in which many people are involved, from INAF institutes to Universities and other structurs from Lombardy to Sicily: through teleconferences, single people working at home, exchange of messages and so on.
The image you can see on the right was prepared together with Anna Wolter, Giuseppe Fiasconaro e Federico Di Giacomo to demostrate what we feel now also within the ASTRI project. You can share the image through your social contacts, or any other means.
Following our President Conte messages, let’s keep a physical distance today, so that, when the difficulties are overcome, we will be together in an ASTRI reunion and then with the mini-array.
So long,
Giovanni Pareschi – [Trad. A. Wolter]
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ASTRI: a new pathfinder of the arrays of Cherenkov telescopes“

On June 12nd 2019, in La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain) Prof. Nichi D’Amico, President of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and Prof. Rafael Rebolo Lopez, Director of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canaries, signed a Record of Understanding to enter a detailed negotiation on a technical and programmatic basis aimed to install and operate the ASTRI Mini-Array at the Observatorio del Teide

Click here for Media Inaf news:  “ASTRI: a new pathfinder of the arrays of Cherenkov telescopes“

Image caption: Prof. Nichi D’Amico, President of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and Prof. Rafael Rebolo Lopez, Director of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canaries
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