F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 Trieste (Italy) – Losinj (Croatia) August 28 – September 3, 2010 welcome ! Transversity 2011

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 August 28 – September 3, 2011 Third International Workshop on Transverse Polarisation Phenomena in Hard Processes Transversity 2011

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 August 28 – September 3, 2011 Third International Workshop on Transverse Polarisation Phenomena in Hard Processes organized in the frame of PRIN2008 ECSAC, the European Center for Science, Art and Culture Trieste (Italy) and Losinj (Croatia)  brief comments Transversity 2011

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 following PRIN2002 and PRIN2005 PRIN2008 is a Ministry-funded inter-university Italian Research Project of National Interest (PRIN) dedicated to the role of transverse spin, transverse momentum and orbital momentum in nucleons

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 PRIN 2008 theory experiments COMPASS HERMES JLab Roma Frascati Ferrara Alessandria Torino Genova Como Trieste Pavia Cagliari

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 Transversity Workshops PRIN2002 PRIN2005 PRIN2008 Roma Frascati Ferrara 2008 Alessandria Torino Genova Como 2005 Trieste 2011 Pavia Cagliari all “units” involved in the Local OC and in the International OC

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 Transversity Workshops PRIN2002 PRIN2005 PRIN2008 Roma Frascati Ferrara 2008 Alessandria Torino Genova Como 2005 Trieste 2011 Pavia Cagliari all “units” involved in the Local OC and in the International OC next edition: Transversity2014 somewhere, in Italy

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 PRIN2008

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 in the framework of activities

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 The ECSAC is a multidisciplinary institution created to foster a new concept devised at embracing science as a part of our culture and to stimulate culture and reciprocal knowledge and friendship amongst different peoples. It promotes cultural events and offers hospitality to scientists in the island of Lošinj, in Croatia The ECSAC's headquarters is in Lošinj, Croatia, while the Managing Committee and its secretariat are based in Italy, in Trieste, hosted by the Consortium for Physics at ICTP.

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 WHY Trieste? Why Losinj? An initiative of the Physics Consortium in Trieste to honour Paolo Budinich (born in Losinj 95 years ago), father of the “Trieste System” of scientific institutions: ICTP, SISSA, SCIENCE AREA PARK, ICGEB which stimulated the establishment of many more TASC, INFM, ELETTRA…

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 ICTP and SISSA

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 WHY Trieste? Why Losinj? An initiative of the Physics Consortium in Trieste to honour Paolo Budinich (born in Losinj 95 years ago), father of the “Trieste System” of scientific institutions: ICTP, SISSA, SCIENCE AREA PARK, ICGEB which stimulated the establishment of many more TASC, INFM, ELETTRA… The initiative started ten years ago, holding a first International Conference to celebrate the 85 th anniversary of Paolo Budinich ECSAC was formally created a few years later, but to bring it unto the real axis there is still a long way to go and the local support from the Losinj authorities is a necessity

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29, International Conferences on Science, Arts and Culture "Sustainable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities" Veli Lošinj (Croatia), August Trieste (Italy), August "Grid Computing: a new tool for Science and Innovation" Veli Lošinj (Croatia), August "Black Holes in General Relativity and String Theory" Veli Lošinj (Croatia), August "Science for Cultural Heritage" Veli Lošinj (Croatia), August "The Cultural Heritage and its diversity at the origin of creativity" Mali Lošinj (Croatia), August "Are there Quantum Jumps? On the Present Status of Quantum Mechanics" Trieste and Mali Lošinj (Croatia), September "Nanosciences and Nanotechnology" Mali Lošinj (Croatia), September "The role of mathematics in physical sciences" Veli Lošinj (Croatia), August "Predictability in natural sciences" Mali Lošinj (Croatia), August "A multi-disciplinary meeting in the Adriatic Region" Mali Lošinj (Croatia), September

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 thanks to our sponsors The Trieste Physics Consortium (apologies from the president G.C. Ghirardi) The Trieste Section of INFN The ICTP and still expect ELETTRA synchrotron light source, CRT Foundation, …. and, of course ECSAC the PRIN2008 Sections the International Spin Physics Committee the MUNICIPALITY of LOSINJ

F. BradamanteTransversity2011, August 29,2011 not to mention the support of a citizen of the world, whose name is Raymond Prag