New Challenges and Opportunities in Physics Education

1. On the shoulder of giants: the "Dialogue" of Galileo (Michele Camerota).- 2. Galileo: the method of science and the law of falling bodies (Michele Camerota) What physics and all modern science owe to Galileo.- 3. Conceptual and scientific revolutions in the 20th century (Daniele Oriti, Francesco Vissani, Matteo Morganti) Dialogue on the new challenging concepts: space-time, mass, matter, probability, determinism, discretization and fields. Select philosophical issues.- From atoms to Higgs boson (Pierluigi Bortignon, Steven Goldfarb, Suchita Kulkarni) The path to discovery. The Higgs field associated with the Higgs boson gives mass to the fundamental particles. But what next.

Marilena Streit-Bianchi received a doctorate in Biological Sciences from the University of Rome and joined CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva (Switzerland), in 1969. She has been a pioneer in the study of high-energy particles produced by accelerators for cancer treatment. She has held managerial positions on safety training and technology transfer, has been a senior honorary staff member at CERN and is actively engaged in multidisciplinarity. She has been book editor and curator of exhibitions in Europe and Mozambique promoting art and science in particular. She is the vice president of the international association ARSCIENCIA and member of the Italian Physics Society (SIF). She has been co-editor of the book "Mare Plasticum-The Plastic Sea -Combatting Plastic Pollution Through Science and Art" Springer 2020, of the book "Advances in Cosmology" Springer nature 2022. Marisa Michelini is full time Professor of Physics Education in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (DMIF) of the University of Udine, where she is from 1994 Rector Delegate for different areas and also for GEO University Consortium that she has headed since 2014.She is responsible for the Physics Education Research Unit (URDF), which she founded in 1992. At international level from 2012 she is President of International Research Group on Physics Education (GIREP); from 2016 board member of PED Section of European Physical Society (EPS); from 2014 board member of Multimedia Physics Teaching Learning (MPTL) and from 2019 consultant of CERN for Education. Her research activity during the entire career has been devoted to innovative physics education paths on modern physics. She received in 1989 the Italian Physical Society Award for the Exhibit Games Experiments Ideas and in 2018 the IUPAP-ICPE International Award for the research in physics