Contents Part I General Talks 1 Two-Dimensional Anharmonic Crystal Lattices: Solitons, Solectrons, and Electric Conduction ............... 3 Manuel G. Velarde, Werner Ebeling and Alexander P. Chetverikov 2 Generating the Mass of Particles from Extended Theories of Gravity .................................. 15 Salvatore Capozziello and Mariafelicia De Laurentis 3 Enrico Fermi and Ettore Majorana: So Strong, So Different .... 29 Francesco Guerra and Nadia Robotti 4 Physics Teachers’ Education (PTE): Problems and Challenges ... 41 Elena Sassi and Marisa Michelini Part II Astronomy and Astrophysics 5 Simulation of High Energy Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts .............................. 59 Houri Ziaeepour 6 Effects of Modified Dispersion Relations and Noncommutative Geometry on the Cosmological Constant Computation......... 71 Remo Garattini 7 Testing the Nature of Astrophysical Black Hole Candidates ..... 81 Cosimo Bambi ix