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M FRACCARO LECTURE 2022/23

Jules Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2011) gave the 2022/23 Marco Fraccaro Lecture on 5 April 2023 in Aula U Foscolo on 'The Evolution of Innate Immunity'.

A Volta Lecture 2020/21

Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2020), delivered the 2020/21 A Volta lecture online on 20 January 2022 on 'From Black-Hole Singularities to Cosmic Cosmology'.

M Fraccaro Lecture 2018/19

Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Laureat in Physiology and Medicine (2008), delivered the 2018/19 M Fraccaro lecture on 8 April 2019

Volta Lecture 2016/17

Sir Richard Peto, the 2016/17 Volta Lecturer, discussed on 25th May 2017 how the world can and should halve premature death.

M Fraccaro Lecture 2016/17

Mario Capecchi, 2007 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, delivered the 2016/17 M Fraccaro Lecture on 6 April 2017.

RESEARCH ASSESSMENT

A major seminar series on Research Assessment in France, Germany, the UK and Italy took place in College from November 2016 to February 2017.

The University of Pavia

'Il Cortile dell' Universita', one of several courts of the main 18th century site of the University in the city of Pavia.

Alessandro Volta

An early drawing of the battery by its discoverer, the scientist at the University of Pavia after whom the College is named.

NORTH WING

The new North Wing, completed in 2013, houses the 78 graduate members of College as well as 5 short term visitors.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

The College welcomes enquiries and applications from prospective PhD students. Further details under ‘Admissions’.

STUDYING ABROAD

The College has access to a number of schemes to enable its students to study abroad (see ‘Academic Life’).

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The College offers a basic Course on Latrex open to all students. The Course will take place from October until mid December and will involve 16 hours of teaching arranged in 8 sessions of two hours each (one session per week). The College requests that each student at Volta attends a computing Course and, under current arrangements, students can choose between this Latex Course, a Web Design Course and a Course on Computer Coding. There is no enrolment fee for any of the Course on computing. The poster of the Course can be downeloaded here and a Course flyer can be downloadd here.

The need to prepare and submit documents, from letter of job applications to complex documents such as dissertations, reports, book chapters, etc is an essential feature of life at University and the majority of graduate careers. LaTeX is the quintessential 'what you see is what you mean' application. It is a high-quality typesetting system, ideal for the production of technical and scientific documents but much valued by scholars and professionals outside science and engineering across the worldwide. The Course will offer students hands-on examples on how to structure documents useing LaTeX with a particular focus on dissertation and reports. The Course is open to all College students, Handaouts of the 2017/18 course are listed below.

2017/18

Lecturer
Pavlo Burda

Lectures
01-02. Introduzione, composizione e matematica
03-04. Documenti strutturati & more
05-06. Documenti Strutturati, Figure, Tabelle e Bibliografia04. Attendance

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