Philosophy at Volta
The College is pleased to announce that Luca Vanzago, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pavia has accepted to act as Director of Studies in Philosophy at Collegio A Volta.
With L Vanzago's appointment, College hopes to attract undergraduate and MSc students reading Philosophy at the University and will promote further the College work in the areas of History and Philosophy of Science, a key interest at Volta.
Luca Vanzago is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, and a member of the Department of Humanities. His main fields of research are Phenomenology, Process Thought, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness, and the Epistemology of Pain and Suffering. He has widely published in Italy and abroad. Among his publications, the books Modi del tempo (2001), L’evento del tempo (2004), Coscienza e alterità (2007), Breve storia dell’anima (2009), Merleau-Ponty (20012), Coscienza (2013) (with Faustino Savoldi and Mauro Ceroni, 2013), The Voice of No One (in press).
Personalised Medicine
A panel of scientists and opinion makers will debate the roadmap to Personalised Medicine in the Aula Magna of the University of Pavia (Strada Nuova) on July 9th at 6.30 pm.
The meeting, entitled Science and Individual Health is organised by the Aspen Institute (Italy) and will involve contributions from Giulio Tremonti, Senator and President of the Institute, Fabio Rugge, Chancellor of the University of Pavia, Sergio Pecorelli, Chancellor of the University of Brescia; Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Director of the Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism at the University of California, Irvine; Stefano Bertuzzi, Executive Director of the American Society for Cell Biology; Roberto Cingolani, Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova and Cecilia Bartolucci, Coordinator of the S&T Foresight Project (Food) at the CNR Institute of Cristallography, Bari. All College students are warmly invited to participate.
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Medical Schools
Andy Chamberlain of Cambridge Assessment will give a seminar on Tuesday the 30th of June at 3.00 pm in the Division of Human Genetics (14 via C Forlanini) on Admission tests for Medical Schools fit for the future. All College students and in particular medical students are invited to attend.
Admission to Medical Schools is a major challenge as all countries all over the world need to ensure that future doctors have the background knowledge and the human skills that the study and practice of medicine require. Cambridge Assessment have developed several of the admission tests used in the United Kingdom (BioMedical Admission Test, BMAT, and the International Medical Admission Test, IMAT) and in this seminar Andy Chamberlain will discuss the format of current admission tests and their future requirements and development.
Cambridge Assessment is a not-for-profit organisation established as the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) by the University of Cambridge in 1858. It operates and manages the University's three exam boards Cambridge English Language Assessment, Cambridge International Examinations and the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA (OCR) Examinations) and carries out leading-edge academic and operational research on assessment in education. It designs and delivers assessments to over 8 million learners in over 170 countries and is committed to fairness, a sound ethical underpinning and high technical standards and, in the academic year 2013/14, brought income for £ 317 millions to the University of Cambridge.
Job Requests
The online procedure for job requests (repairs and maintenance to room, kitchen or communal areas) is back and working. The recent transfer of the College website to the Hypergrid server caused difficulties with the procedure but skilled and dedicated efforts by yr 5 medical undergraduate - and College IT support - Guy Alex Ochakovski have re-enabled the system.
Job requests are available on the College intranet accessible from the home page and requires an additional username and password. Students who do not have this additional username and password may obtain it by emailing Alex and should use this procedure for future, non urgent requests for repairs and maintenance.
Urgent requests must be submitted to the College Office during office hours, to the Porter on duty outside office hours and via the emergency telephone numbers between 1.00 am and 7.00 am (weekdays) and on Sunday and other festivities. Emergency t numbers are available on the ground floor corridor near the College Office, adjacent the door leading to the entrance hall.
Silvia Tinelli
I am a Civil Engineer having obtained my Bachelor Degree at the University of Parma (Italy) in 2012 with the highest marks and I am currently enrolled in the PhD School of the Faculty of Civil Engineering. Regarding my education, I started my Civil Engineering Degree in September 2006, qualifying as a Civil Engineer (2009) and then specialising in Structural Engineering (2012). Regarding my professional activities, after finishing my degree I left Italy for New York City in order to attend an internship focused on the design of certain buildings, mainly situated in the City. Through this opportunity, I met Professor Ilan Juran, the Executive Director of the Department of Urban Infrastructure Institute at NYU-Poly, who gave me the chance to listen to some lectures related to Urban Engineering. Thereafter, I understood how the main thing for me was to put together my Structural Engineering education with the issues of sustainable development and economic feasibility of the fast growing urban centers. Thus I have started my research investigating the issue of contamination in water systems and water monitoring systems.
2016/17
Analisi Matematica I (Ing Edile e Architettura, Ing Elettronica e Informatica, Ing Industriale, Bioingegneria)
01. Real numbers and bounds I
02. Real numbers and bounds II
03. Functions, Introduction
04. Functions limits I
05. Functions limits II
06. Successions
07. Functions continuity
08. Functions study I
09. Functions study II
10. Derivates
11. Integrals
12. Numerical series
13. Exercises
2017/18
Analisi Matematica I (Ing Edile e Architettura, Ing Elettronica e Informatica, Ing Industriale, Bioingegneria)
01-02. Insiemi, numeri reali, massimi, minimi ed estremi, diseguaglianze e valore assoluto
03. Introduzione alle funzioni, funzioni limitate, limiti
04-05. Proprietà dei limiti, limiti notevoli, limiti di funzioni esponenziali e logaritmiche
06. Successioni, limiti di successioni
07. Funzioni continue, proprietà delle funzioni continue, teoremi delle funzioni continue, esempi di funzioni continue
08-09. Infiniti ed infinitesimi, asintoti, punti di massimo e minimo, punti stazionari, monotonia, punti estremi, concavità e convessità, grafico di una funzione
10. Calcolo differenziale, esempi di derivate, derivate n-esime, punti di non derivabilità, calcolo delle derivate, esempi di calcolo delle derivate
11. Calcolo integrale, esempi di calcolo integrale, proprietà dell'integrale, teoremi del calcolo integrale, calcolo delle primitive, esempi di calcolo di primitive
12. Serie numeriche, serie a termini positivi, serie a termini di segno variabile, serie a termini di segno alterno
13. Attendance
Riccardo Paroli
I am a postgraduate student currently enrolled in the MSc Chemistry Course at the Univerrsity of Pavia (year 1). My Chemistry studies and training started during my pre-University schooling where I studied the basics of organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, physical-chemistry and chemical technology. I completed pre-University Course in July 2013 and enrolled in the Chemistry BA in October 2013. I completed my BA in Chemistry in July 2016 and in October 2016 I started my MSc Course. With my supervisions I aim to help students to deal with a subject that may prove unfamiliar to a number of them, help them master the key concepts and generally support and advise them to ensure that will successfully sit and pass the General and Inorganic Chemistry examination. A The list of my supervisions is below (topics and date) and each of them is a link to a brief synopsis/handout.
2016/17
Chimica Generale e Inorganica (Chimica, Fisica, Chimica e Tecnologia Farmaceutica, Farmacia, Science Biologiche, Biotecnologie)
01. Principi della chimica
02. I legami chimici
03. Orbitali molecolari e polarità delle molecole
04. Nomenclatura e reazioni chimiche
05. Reazioni acido-base
06. Reazioni redox
07. Le soluzioni e i gas ideali
08. I composti di coordinazione
09. Gli equilibri chimici e l’acidità
10. Acidi e basi, tamponi e titolazioni
11. Elettrochimica
12. Esercizi di riepilogo di tutto il programma
2017/18
Chimica Generale e Inorganica (Chimica, Fisica, Chimica e Tecnologia Farmaceutica, Farmacia, Science Biologiche, Biotecnologie)
01. Principi della chimica
02. I legami chimici
03. Teoria VSEPR
04. Orbitali molecolari e polarità delle molecole
05. Nomenclatura e formule chimiche
06. Reazioni chimiche 1
07. Reazioni chimiche 2
08. Le soluzioni e i gas ideali
09. Gli equilibri chimici
10. Acidi e basi deboli
11. Elettrochimica 1
12. Elettrochimica 2
13. Attendance
Maria C Renna
I am am a graduate member of the College with BA and MSc degrees in Biotechnology. I have research experience in the field of Haematology and I have been involved in College teaching for several years in both Genetics and Cell Physiology.
2016/17
Genetica (Scienze Biologiche, Biotecnologie)
01. ll materiale genetico: DNA e RNA I
02. ll materiale genetico: DNA e RNA II
03. La genetica mendeliana I
04. La genetica mendeliana II
05 La replicazione del DNA: mitosi I
06. La replicazione del DNA: mitosi II
07. La replicazione del DNA: meiosi I
08. La replicazione del DNA: meiosi II
09. Espressione genica. Trascrizione I
10. Espressione genica. Trascrizione II
11. Espressione genica. Traduzione I
12. Espressione genica. Traduzione II
13. Mutazioni
2017/18
Fisiologia cellulare (Bioingegneria)
01. Membrane biologiche
02. Trasporto cellulare
03. Canali ionici
04. Potenziale di membrana
05. Potenziale d'azione
06. Sinapsi
07. Recettori cellulari
08. Riflessi
09. Fisiologia renale
10. Fisiologia respiratoria
11. Fisiologia cardiaca 1
12. Fisiologia cardiaca 2
13. Attendance
Andrea Barone
I am an MSc sudent in Physical Sciences at the University of Pavia. I have a BA degree from Pavia and have undertaken my final year under the supervision of Pietro Carretta. My main interests focus on the matter and its properties from optics to thermodynamics, from macroscopical properties to quantum ones.
2016/17
Fisica 1 (Matematica, Fisica, Bioingegneria, Ing Elettronica e Informatica, Ing Industriale)
01. Cinematica del punto
02. Dinamica del punto
03. Dinamica dei sistemi di punti e dei corpi estesi I
04. Dinamica dei sistemi di punti e dei corpi estesi II
05 Dinamica dei sistemi di punti e dei corpi estesi III
06. Dinamica dei sistemi di punti e dei corpi estesi IV
07. Meccanica dei fluidi
08. Gas ideali
09. Cicli e macchine termiche
10. Esercizi di riepilogo I
11. Esercizi di riepilogo II
12. Esercizi di riepilogo III
2017/18
Geometria e Algebra Lineare (Ing Civile e Architettura, Ing Civile e Ambientale, Ing Elettronica e Informatica, Ing Industriale, Bioingegneria)
01. Generalita su spazi vettoriali, esempi, concetto di linearità, dimensione
02. Geometria analitica: equazioni parametriche, cartesiane, esercizi
03. Determinanti, rango, teorema di Rouche-Capelli, esercizi
04. Sottospazi, formula di Grassman, somma diretta, esercizi
05. Applicazioni e sistemi lineari,teorema delle dimensioni
06. Cambiamenti di base e matrici associate
07. Il metodo di eliminazione di Gauss
08. Autovettori e autovalori
09. Applicazioni bilineari, congruenza,calcolo della segnatura
10. Teorema spettrale
11. Preparazione allo scritto
12. Preparazione all'orale
13. Attendance
2017/18
Fisica 1 (Matematica, Fisica, Bioingegneria, Ing Elettronica e Informatica, Ing Industriale)
01. Cinematica del punto
02. Dinamica del punto
03. Dinamica dei sistemi di punti e dei corpi estesi I
04. Dinamica dei sistemi di punti e dei corpi estesi II
05 Dinamica dei sistemi di punti e dei corpi estesi III
06. Dinamica dei sistemi di punti e dei corpi estesi IV
07. Meccanica dei fluidi
08. Gas ideali
09. Cicli e macchine termiche
10. Esercizi di riepilogo I
11. Esercizi di riepilogo II
12. Esercizi di riepilogo III
13. Attendance
Irene Grassi
II am a 3rd year medical undergraduate enrolled in the Medical Course taught in Italian (so-called Golgi Course) at the University of Pavia. I read Physiology last year. Together with my colleague Valentina Carinii I will give supervisions in Physiology to year 2 medical undergraduates. I aim to help younger students to understand a subject that constitutes an essential foundation for the subsequent study of Pathology and Clinical Medicine.
2016/17
Fisiologia Umana B (Medicina e Chirurgia in lingua Italiana)
01. Fisiologia Cellulare 1. Cellula nervosa e sinapsi, Potenziale d’azione
02. Fisiologia Gastroenterica 1. Sistema Nervoso Enterico, Motilità Gastrointestinale
03. Fisiologia Gastroenterica 3. Digestione e Assorbimento, Funzioni del fegato
04. Fisiologia Cardiovascolare 2. Meccanica Cardiaca
05. Fisiologia Cardiovascolare 4. Sistema vasale, Controllo dei vasi del circolo sistemico
06. Fisiologia Renale 2. Trasporto di acqua e soluti lungo il nefrone
07. Fisiologia Renale 4. Equilibrio acido-base
08. Fisiologia Renale 6. Omeostasi di Potassio, Calcio e Fosforo
09. Fisiologia del Sistema Respiratorio 2. Scambi gassosi, Rapporto ventilazione-perfusione
10. Fisiologia del Sistema Respiratorio 3. Controllo nervoso e controllo acido-base
11. Neurofisiologia 2. Riflessi, Sistema Nervoso Autonomo
12. Riepilogo finale
Valentina Carini
I am Valentina Carini. I am 21 years old and I have joined Collegio Volta September 2014. I am a 3rd year medical undergraduate enrolled in the Medical Course taught in Italian (so-called Golgi Course) at the University of Pavia. I read Physiology last year and discovered a special interest for this subject. My other interests - beside medical subjects - include art, travel, sports, music and movies. Together with my colleague Irene Grassi I will give supervisions in Physiology to year 2 medical undergraduates. I aim to help younger students to understand a subject that constitutes an essential foundation for the subsequent study of Pathology and Clinical Medicine.
2016/17
Fisiologia Umana A (Medicina e Chirurgia in lingua Italiana)
01. Fisiologia Cellulare 2. Vie nervose della sensibilità, Dolore
02. Fisiologia Gastroenterica 2. Secrezioni
03. Fisiologia Muscolare. Muscolo Scheletrico e Liscio, Contrazione Muscolare (isotonica e isometrica), Ciclo dei ponti trasversali
04. Fisiologia Cardiovascolare 1. Potenziale d’azione cardiaco, Elettrocardiografia
05. Fisiologia Cardiovascolare 3. Gittata Cardiaca, Metodi di calcolo della gittata, Controllo nervoso cardiaco, Recettori del sistema cardiovasale
06. Fisiologia Cardiovascolare 5. Circolazioni distrettuali
07. Fisiologia Renale 1. Anatomia del rene, Filtrazione, Clearance renale, Minzione
08. Fisiologia Renale 3. Controllo dell'osmolalità dei liquidi corporei
09. Fisiologia Renale 5. Controllo del volume dei liquidi corporei
10. Fisiologia del Sistema Respiratorio 1. Meccanica Respiratoria
11. Neurofisiologia 1. Controllo motorio e vie nervose
12. Neurofisiologia 3. Sonno, Sensi
2017/18
Fisiologia Umana A (Medicina e Chirurgia in lingua Italiana)
01. Fisiologia muscolare. Muscolo scheletrico e liscio; contrazione muscolare; ciclo dei ponti trasversali
02. Fisiologia cardiovascolare 1. Potenziale di azione cardiaco; elettrocardiografia
03. Fisiologia cardiovascolare 2. Meccanica Cardiaca
04. Fisiologia cardiovascolare 3. Gittata cardiaca; metodi di calcolo della gittata. Controllo nervoso cardiaco; recettori
05. Fisiologia cardiovascolare 4. Sistema vasale; controllo dei vasi del circolo sistemico
06. Fisiologia cardiovascolare 5. Circolazioni distrettuali
07. Fisiologia respiratoria 1. Meccanica respiratoria
08. Fisiologia respiratoria 2. Rapporto ventilazione-perfusione
09. Fisiologia respiratoria 3. Controllo nervoso
10. Fisiologia endocrina 1. Asse ipotalamo-ipofisario; tiroide
11. Fisiologia endocrina 2. Surrene
12. Fisiologia endocrina 3. Pancreas endocrino
13. Attendance
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Pavlo Burda
I am an MSc sudent in Computer Engineering at the University of Pavia. I have a BA degree from Pavia and a broad interest in computer science and computer languages. I have been offering teaching in these subjects in College for several years.
2016/17
Fondamenti di Informatica (Ing Elettronica, Ing Industriale, Bioingegneria)
01. Ambiente di sviluppo e comandi base
02. Principi programmazione (algoritmi, strutture etc)
03. Flowchart e costrutti
04. Sintassi c e costrutti I
05. Sintassi c e costrutti II
06. Vettori e funzioni
07. Implementazione algoritmi di comune utilizzo I
08. Lettura/scrittura file base
09. Lettura file avanzato
10. Prima prova d’esame
11. Seconda prova d’esame
12. Simulazione/tips & tricks
2017/18
Computer Coding (All University Courses)
01. Code editor, CSS, Django administration and forms
02. Django installation, models, query sets and templates
03. Django urls, views, dynamic data in templates, extensions
04. Internet, installation, command line
05. Introduction to HTML and Phyton. Phyton installation and examples
06. Extending templates, what's next, first Django project
07. Attendance
2017/18
LaTeX (All University Courses)
01. Introduzione, composizione e matematica
02. Documenti strutturati & more
03. Documenti Strutturati, Figure, Tabelle e Bibliografia 04. Attendance
04. Attendance
Gabriele Libertella
I am a year 3 student in the Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Course at the University of Pavia and I have been a member of Collegio Ghislieri or Collegio Volta throughout my undergraduate years. I have a strong interest in Analytical Chemistry and offered supervisions in this subject to Volta undergraduates taking this course.
2016/17
Chimica Analtica (Chimica e Tecnologia Femaceutica, Farmacia)
01. Statistica. Cifre significative, media, moda, mediana. Distribuzione normale
02. Statistica. Varianza, deviazione standard e coefficiente di variazione. Esercizi
03. Statistica. Test Q di Dixon
04. Statistica. Test di ipotesi, T di student, test F, confronto fra medie
05. Statistica. Regressione lineare e curva di correlazione
06. Statistica. Analisi multivariata
07. Le ossidoriduzioni, variazione dell'energia libera in funzione del potenziale di riduzione
08. Le ossidoriduzioni, equazione di Nernst ed esercizi
09. Solubilità. Esercizi
10. Soluzioni tampone. Esercizi
11. Idrolisi di acidi e basi
12. Esercizi di ricapitolazione sulle reazioni di ossidoriduzione, idrolisi di acidi e basi e solubilità
Lucia Fruga
I am a final year Chemistry undergraduate. I come from Bergamo and plan to enrol in the MSc Chemistry Course of the University of Pavia in October 2017. I am particularly interested in Organic Chemistry. I have several other interests, namely movies, tv series, reading, craftsmanship, sports. My supervisions in Organic Chemistry 2 aim year 2 undergraduates in Chemistry and Chemistry and and Pharmaceutical Technology to approach the subject in a rigorous way and complete the Course and examination successfully. During the supervisions I will discuss and revise the key theoretical point and will demonstrate problem-solving and applications. A summary of my supervisions can be downloaded here. The topics and dates of the supervision are listed below and are links to individual synopsis/handouts.
2016/17
Chimica Organica 2 (Chimica, Chimica e Tecnologia Farmaceutica)
01. Chemistry of enolates and enols
02. Chemistry of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds and poly condensed aromatic compounds
03. Chemistry of carbohydrates and amino acids
04. Chemistry of peptides, protein structure and enzymes
05. Chemistry of heterocyclic compounds 1
06. Chemistry of heterocyclic compounds 2
07. Organometallics - theory
08. Organometallics - industrial synthesis and catalysis
09. UV-Vis spectroscopy
10. IR spectroscopy
11. 1H NMR spectroscopy
12. 13C NMR spectroscopy
2017/18
Chimica Organica 2 (Chimica, Chimica e Tecnologia Farmaceutica)
01. Chimica degli ioni enolato ed enoli
02. Chimica degli ioni enolato ed enoli e composti
03. Radicali
04. Carboidrati e peptidi
05. Reazioni pericicliche
06. Chimica dei composti aromatici e policiclici, piropo, furano e tiofene, imidazoli, ossazoli e tiazoli, isozzasoli, pirazoli, isotiozali
07. Carbeni ed esercizi di ripasso
08. Complessi dei metalli di transizione
09. Spettroscopia UV-Visible
10. Esercizi di spettroscopia IR
11. Esercizi di spettroscopia 1H NMR
12. Esercizi su spettrometria di massa e 13C NMR
13. Attendance
Undergraduate Teaching
Teaching is an essential component of College life and, at Volta, takes different shapes and roles. College courses, seminars, meetings, workshops and symposia represent fundamental aspects of College teaching beyond the one offered by University Department and all College students are strongly encouraged to take every opportunity to participate in these activities. In addition, Volta promotes teaching of specific subjects involving University lecturers who offer guidance to College undergraduatea - thus acting as Directors of Studies - and Junior Tutors who deliver the main type of College teaching, namely supervisions and who offer general, informal and critical advice on how to survive in the complex landscape of Courses and Examinations typical of Italian Universities.
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