The Italian Summer Students Program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and other US Laboratories

Summary

Since 1984 INFN and University of Pisa scientists performing experiments at Fermilab have been run-ning a two-month summer training program for Italian students at the lab [1]. In 1984 the program in-volved only a few physics students from the University of Pisa, but it was later extended to other INFN groups and to engineering students. Since 2004 the program has been supported in part by DOE in the frame of an exchange agreement with INFN and has been run by the Cultural Association of Italians at Fermilab (CAIF, [2]). In 2007 the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa) established an agree-ment with Fermilab to share the cost of four engineering students each year. In the 36 years of its history, the program has hosted at Fermilab approximately 550 Italian students from more than 20