Opening remarks

The Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC) is celebrating its 50$^{th}$ Anniversary over the three years 2011-2013. This year will be the second of the three devoted to the celebrations of the 50$^{th}$ Anniversary. Why three years? The EMFCSC started in 1961 when, with my great friend John Bell, I discussed the problem of creating a bridge between university courses and activities in advanced physics laboratories such as CERN. A year later, on May 8$^{th}$ at CERN, Bell, Patrick Blackett, Victor Weisskopf, Isidor Rabi and Zichichi formally established the EMFCSC. The Centre's first activity was the School of Subnuclear Physics at Erice in 1963. This is why the celebrations are over three years. In 2011, the discovery of the negative sign of the β-function and of asymptotic freedom was celebrated. In 2013, the SSB plus Instantons will be celebrated. In 2012 we celebrate QCD…