EVENTS - FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
INFORMAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 18, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
GUEST SPEAKER: Kaitlyn Parrinello - Astrophysicist and Fulbright Researcher in Trieste.
American Corner Trieste / Associazione Italo Americana FVG
Piazza Sant'Antonio Nuovo, 6 - Trieste
FREE ENTRY
Kaitlyn graduated from the Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2024 (Villanova, Pennsylvania) with a double major in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Italian Studies. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar in Trieste researching Gamma-Ray Astronomy.
Her research includes X-Ray Binary Systems called GRS 1915 * 105. She has presented her work at the American Astronomical Society conference.
In Trieste last summer she did research through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics.
Documentary Film
Bombshell: Hedy Lamarr Story
March 25, 2025 11:00
At American Corner Trieste / Associazione Italo Americana FVG
Piazza Sant'Antonio Nuovo, 6 - Trieste
FREE ENTRY
Documentary Film - Bombshell: Hedy Lamarr Story
Beauty, brains and groundbreaking innovation.
Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr (Ziegfeld Girl, Samson and Delilah) was known as the world’s most beautiful woman – Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her iconic look. However, her arresting appearance and glamorous life stood in the way of her being given the credit she deserved as an ingenious inventor whose pioneering work helped revolutionize modern communication. An Austrian Jewish emigrant who invented a covert communication system to try to help defeat the Nazis, Lamarr was ignored and told to sell kisses for war bonds instead. It was only toward the very end of her life that tech pioneers discovered that it was her concept that is now used as the basis for secure WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth technologies.
