Facilities and staff of the MSc Degree in Physics are provided by the Department of Physics in line with the University Charter. Classrooms are mainly located on the ground floor of the Department of Physics, which is situated in Building F on the Campus.

Classrooms

Frontal lectures are mainly held in 5 classrooms:
Room A, 134 seats
Room B, 45 seats
Room C, 20 seats
Room D, 25 seats
Room E, 12 seats
Room T21 with 12 seats is used for IT laboratory practice.

All classrooms offer internet connection. Rooms A, B, C and D have a projection screen and video projector on the ceiling. Rooms C and D are suitable for e-teaching. Other classrooms available on Campus in other Faculties/Departments may be used for lectures.

Map  of the classrooms

How to book a classroom

Classroom reservations may be checked online at the address:

Viewing and booking classrooms (ITA) - AF01 Edificio F Dipartimento di Fisica

A classroom that appears to be vacant online can be booked by sending an email to: prenotazioneaule@ts.infn.it.

Classrooms are booked once lecture timetables are published.

Study areas

In addition to the University's study rooms, there are several study areas at the Department of Physics, located on the ground floor:

an IT room with 12 computers;
a study room with 36 seats that is used by students for studying, meeting and student union meetings;
a study room with 12 seats that is used by students for studying, meeting and student union meetings;
a study room annexed to the Library with 40 seats, which is managed by students.

Laboratories

The Department of Physics has IT labs and practice labs for training courses. The furniture and scientific equipment available as well as maintenance are provided through funds granted by the University.

The Department of Physics currently provides educational and IT laboratories and laboratories for professional training courses. It provides for furnishings, equipment and maintenance of scientific instruments with funds provided by the University.

The three-year degree course has available:
the Central Laboratory at Building B and the T17 and T19 laboratories for the courses of Laboratorio I, Laboratorio II and Laboratorio III;
the Radioprotection Laboratory (room 111) for the course of Environmental Radioprotection.

At the Department there are also laboratories of the master's degree courses:
Laboratory of Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (room 215), with three experimental positions;
Experimental Physics Laboratory (room 214), with two experimental positions;
Laboratory of Medical Physics (room 223).

The Solid State Physics Laboratory course is held at the laboratory located in the C1 building. This course also uses the courses of Experimental Physics Laboratory and Laboratory of Astronomical Technologies, which also use for some specific didactic phases, experimental positions at the IOM-CNR and Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste laboratories in the Research Area (Basovizza).

The Medical Physics Laboratory includes visits and exercises at the Health Physics Service of the "Ospedali riuniti" hospital in Trieste and at Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste in the AREA Science Park - Basovizza.

The Department’s technicians are always available to help students during practice and to check and maintain the equipment.

IT laboratories

There are two IT rooms:
- one is on the ground floor and has 12 PCs that are available to students all day. Booking is not required (room T21);
- one, called “Poropat”, is on the second floor and has 37 PCs. Each PC has e-learning software programmes to be used for training courses (room 221-217).

All PCs are part of a cluster that was requested by the students. The Operating system is Linux and most of the software is open source. All PCs in the classrooms and IT labs have internet connection.

Computers and IT devices must be used in compliance with Usage Regulations.

All Physics students are provided with an account to access the INFIS cluster. The account can be activated by sending a request to the Segreteria Didattica (Education Administration). The form can be found in the Segreteria Didattica on the ground floor.

Laboratories and facilities for internships and theses

Internships and work for thesis preparation can be carried out in numerous facilities, laboratories and research institutions that have signed an agreement with the Department of Physics.

Here is a partial list of these facilities and labs: the Trieste section of the INFN (Italian Institution of Nuclear Physics), the Elettra laboratory of the Sincrotrone and the free-electron laser light Fermi of the Sincrotrone Trieste SpCA, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the labs of the institute Officina dei Materiali of the National Research Centre, the Trieste Astronomical Observatory of INAF (National Institutions of Astrophysics),...