Scientific Colloquia

Quantum Complexity
10 November 2022 – 2:30 pm CET | Alioscia Hamma, Professor at Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II – Italy

17 November 2022 – 2:30 pm CET | Pietro De Lellis, Professor at University of Naples Federico II – Italy

Spin-orbit optical phenomena and their applications
24 November 2022 – 2:30 pm CET | Lorenzo Marrucci, Professor at Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II – Italy

GINGER, Gyroscopes IN GEneral Relativity
01 December 2022 – 2:30 pm CET | Angela D. V. di Virgilio, Senior researcher at INFN Sez. Pisa – Italy

Entangled relativity
15 December 2022 – 2:30 pm CET | Olivier Minazzoli, Permanent researcher at Observatory of Côte d’Azur in Nice – France

12 January 2023 – 2:30 pm CET | Valerio Cozzani, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Bologna – Italy

19 January 2023 – 2:30 pm CET | Carlo Altucci, Full Professor of Applied Physics, University of Naples Federico II – Italy

Some free boundary problems in thermal insulation
26 January 2023 – 2:30 pm CET | Carlo Nitsch, Full Professor in Mathematical Analysis, University of Napoli Federico II – Italy

Effective behavior of random media
09 February 2023 – 2:30 pm CET | Felix Otto, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig – Germany

16 February 2023 – 2.30 pm CET | Eduardo Montijano, Professor at Departamento de Informatica e Ingenieria de Sistemas, University of Zaragoza – Spain

Discrete De Giorgi Theory: Analysis and Applications
23 February 2023 – 2.30 pm CET | Endre Suli, Professor of Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford – UK

 

02 March 2023 – 2.30 pm CET | Manuel Ruiz Marin, Full Professor at the department of Quantitative Methods, Law and Modern Languages in Technical University of Cartagena – Spain

 

09 March 2023 – 2.30 pm CET | Fabio Pasqualetti, Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Riverside – United States

16 March 2023 – 2:30 pm CET | József Lőrinczi, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest – Hungary

23 March 2023 – 2:30 pm CET | Daniele Oriti, Professor at Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Munich – Germany

30 March 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Giulia Gubitosi, Researcher at University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples – Italy

 

13 April 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Alessandro Reali, Professor at Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pavia

 

20 April 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Doros N. Theodorou, Professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering School of Chemical Engineering at National Technical University of Athens

27 April 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Flaminia Giacomini, Researcher at ETH Zurich, Zurich – Switzerland

04 May 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Manlio De Domenico, Associate Professor of Applied Physics at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua – Italy

 

11 May 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Vito Latora, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary University (UK) and Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at University of Catania (Italy)

18 May 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Alessandra Pagliano, Professor at University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples – Italy

25 May 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Athanasios Yannacopoulos, Professor of Applied Stochastic Analysis, Athens University of Economics and Business – Greece

08 June 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Massimo Della Valle – Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, Naples – Italy

15 June 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Michael Richardson, Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney – Australia

22 June 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | Paolo Bazzurro, Professor at University School for Superior Studies (IUSS), Pavia – Italy

 

29 June 2023 – 2:30 pm CEST | John Hogan, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol – UK

 

The organizers of this year’s series are Giacomo Ascione, Simone Mancini, and Francesco Bajardi.
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Exploring the early Universe through the cosmic microwave background
4 November 2021 – 3 pm CET | Paolo Natoli, Professor at Department of Physics and Earth Science, Ferrara University – Italy

Evolution by curvature of networks in the plane
11 November 2021 – 2 pm CET | Carlo Mantegazza, Professor at University of Naples Federico II and Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Turbulent dynamics in viscous fluids: a complex phenomenon ubiquitous in nature
18 November 2021 – 2 pm CET | Vincenzo Carbone, Professor at Department of Physics, Calabria University – Italy

Graphons: a tool for the analysis of systems on large networks
25 November 2021 – 2 pm CET | Paolo Frasca, Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique – France

Hyperuniform States of Matter and Their Novel Transport Properties
2 December 2021 – 2 pm CET | Salvatore Torquato, Professor at Department of Physics, Princeton University – USA

Structure, processes and dynamics of networks with higher order interactions
9 December 2021 – 2 pm CET | Stefano Boccaletti, Director of research at CNR – Institute of Complex Systems, Sesto Fiorentino – Italy

Social network dynamics leading to community formation and residential segregation
16 December 2021 – 2 pm CET | Massimo Franceschetti, Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, California University – USA

Climate meets complexity: Exploring predictability of extreme climate events via a complex network approach
13 January 2022 – 2 pm CET | Jürgen Kurths, Professor at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Institute of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin – Germany

The challenge of gravitational wave detectors of the 3rd generation. Cultural and technological aspects
20 January 2022 – 2 pm CET | Ettore Majorana, Professor at Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome – Italy

Space Weather: Science or Application?
27 January 2022 – 2 pm CET | Lucilla Alfonsi, Researcher at Upper Atmosphere Physics and Radiopropagation Unit, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome – Italy

The quest of quantum advantage with a photonics platform
3 February 2022 – 2 pm CET | Fabio Sciarrino, Full Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Rome La Sapienza and Senior Research Fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies Sapienza, SSAS, Rome – Italy

Enlightening the Universe with high-energy cosmic neutrinos
10 February 2022 – 2 pm CET | Marco Chianese, Researcher at University of Naples Federico II – Italy.

The needle in the haystack: the search for rare processes and the fundamental laws of Nature
17 February 2022 – 2 pm CET | Fabio Ambrosino, Professor at University of Naples Federico II – Italy

From Neural PDEs to Neural Operators: Blending data and physics for fast predictions
24 February 2022 – 2 pm CET | George Em Karniadakis, The Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering, Brown University – USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology – USA; Northwest National Laboratory – USA

An overview of the transient sky at high-energies
03 March 2022 – 2 pm CET | Andrea Sanna, Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Cagliari – Italy

Global and cluster synchronization in complex networks and beyond
10 March 2022 – 2 pm CET | Mattia Frasca, Professor at Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engeinering, University of Catania – Italy

High Energy X-ray Astrophysics from Space: revealing the backbones of the Universe
17 March 2022 – 2 pm CET | Maurizio Paolillo, Full professor of Astrophysics at the Federico II University, Naples – Italy

The search for Earth-like exoplanets in the Galaxy
24 March 2022 – 2 pm CET | ‪Giovanni Covone, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of Physics, Federico II University, Naples – Italy

From basic principles in Spintronics to some recent developments toward spin-orbitronics
31 March 2022 – 2 pm CEST | ‪Vincent Cros, Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau – France

Capillary surfaces and a model of nanowire growth
07 April 2022 – 2 pm CEST | Massimiliano Morini, Professor at Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Informatiche at University of Parma – Italy

Likelihood-weighted active learning with application to Bayesian optimization, uncertainty quantification, and decision making in high dimensions
21 April 2022 – 2 pm CEST | ‪Themistoklis Sapsis, Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems and Society and Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – USA

Observing the VHE gamma ray sky with Cherenkov Telescopes in the XXI century
28 April 2022 – 2 pm CEST | Lucio Angelo Antonelli, Director of INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma – Italy

Power-Law Gels, Scott-Blair and the Fractional Calculus of Soft Multi-scale Materials
05 May 2022 – 2 pm CEST | Gareth H. McKinley, Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 – USA

An informal discussion around stochastic control and free boundary problems
12 May 2022 – 2 pm CET | ‪Tiziano De Angelis, Professor at School of Management and Economics, Department of Economic and Social Sciences and Mathematical Statistics, University of Torino – Italy; Affiliate at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino – Italy

Are 2 derivatives enough to describe Nature at a fundamental level?
19 May 2022 – 2 pm CET | Luca Buoninfante, Research Fellow at NORDITA – Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics – Stockholm, Sweden

Simple complexity in the evolution of seismic input and design
26 May 2022 – 2 pm CET | ‪Gian Michele Calvi, Professor and Vice-Rector for Research at IUSS, Scuola Universitaria Superiore, Pavia – Italy; Director of Science at European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, EUCENTRE Foundation, Pavia – Italy; Executive Vice-President at International Association for Earthquake Engineering IAEE, Tokyo – Japan; Adjunct Professor at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC – USA

Quantum fluids of atoms and of light as analog models of gravity: a fruitful synergy of gravitational physics and quantum optics
09 June 2022 – 2 pm CET | ‪Iacopo Carusotto, Research Director at the BEC Center of INO-CNR in Trento, Italy

Risk-modeling Complex Engineering Systems
16 June 2022 – 2 pm CET | ‪Enrico Zio, Professor at Energy Department, Polytechnic of Milan – Italy

From resilience assessment to design for resilience: what is missing?
14 July 2022 – 2 pm CET | ‪Paolo Franchin, Professor at Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, “Sapienza” University of Rome – Italy

 

 

The organizers of this year’s series are Giacomo Ascione, Micol Benetti, and Marco Coraggio.
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19 November 2020 – 2 pm CET | Salvatore Capozziello, Professor at “Ettore Pancini” Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II – Italy Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

The Ohta-Kawasaki model for diblock copolymers: Stability and minimality of critical points

26 November 2020 – 2 pm CET | Nicola Fusco, Professor at “Renato Caccioppoli” Dept. of Mathematics and Applications, University of Naples Federico II – Italy Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Network systems, Kuramoto oscillators, and synchronous power flow
3 December 2020 – 2 pm CET | Francesco Bullo, Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara – U.S.A. Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Measuring the expansion of the universe with quasars
10 December 2020 – 2 pm CET | Guido Risaliti, Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence – Italy

Synchronization: A universal concept in nonlinear sciences
14 January 2021 – 2 pm CET | Juergen Kurths, Professor at Department of Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Probing gravitational field: A fundamental viewpoint
21 January 2021 – 2 pm CET | Lorenzo Fatibene, Professor at “Giuseppe Peano” Department of Mathematics, University of Turin – Italy

Quantum simulators
28 January 2021 – 2 pm CET | Rosario Fazio, Professor at “Ettore Pancini” Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II – Italy International Center for Theoretical Physics ICTP, Trieste – Italy

Engineering the firearm ecosystem: Research on media coverage and firearm acquisition in the aftermath of a mass shooting
4 February 2021 – 2 pm CET | Maurizio Porfiri, Professor at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University – U.S.A. Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Measuring the cosmological parameters with SNe-Ia and gamma-ray bursts
11 February 2021 – 2 pm CET | Massimo Della Valle, Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte – Italy Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Variational approximations of the Griffith functional
18 February 2021 – 2 pm CET | Francesco Solombrino, Associate Professor at “Renato Caccioppoli” Department of Mathematics and Applications, University of Naples Federico II – Italy

The SHiP project at CERN
25 February 2021 – 2 pm CET | Andrey Golutvin, Chair in Physics and Professor at Department of Physics, Imperial College London – U.K.

Astroparticle physics in the era of multi-messenger astronomy
4 March 2021 – 2 pm CET | Gennaro Miele, Professor at “Ettore Pancini” Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II – Italy Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Hierarchical seismic imaging
11 March 2021 – 2 pm CET | Jean Virieux, Professor at Laboratory in Earth Sciences: ISTerre, Université Grenoble Alpes – France

Additive Manufacturing: A world full of opportunities and challenges!!
18 March 2021 – 2 pm CET | Ferdinando Auricchio, Professor at Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia – Italy

The coming revolution of data driven discovery (a fourth methodological paradigm of science)
25 March 2021 – 2 pm CET | Giuseppe Longo Professor at “Ettore Pancini” Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II – Italy

Why do we cooperate? Understanding and modelling societies using reinforcement learning
1 April 2021 – 2 pm CET | Mirco Musolesi, Professor at Department of Computer Science, University College London – U.K. Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute, UK National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence – U.K. Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna – Italy Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Rheo-engineering microfluidics: How to exploit rheological properties of fluids to design microfluidic applications
8 April 2021 – 2 pm CET | Pier Luca Maffettone, Professor at Dept. of Chemical, Material and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II – Italy Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Classical Cepheids as distance indicators: From the Milky Way to the Hubble constant
15 April 2021 – 2 pm CET | Marcella Marconi, Director at Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte in Naples – Italy

Microgravity, science and technology: An overview
22 April 2021 – 2 pm CET | Fabio Peluso, Senior Technical Project Manager at Leonardo S.p.A – Italy

Putting More PHYS into PSHA: Advancing seismic hazard analysis with physics-based modelling
29 April 2021 – 2 pm CET | Thomas H. Jordan, Professor at University of South California Dornsife – U.S.A. Southern California Earthquake Center – U.S.A

Modelling the complexity of multiagent activity for human-AI interaction using dynamical primitives
6 May 2021 – 2 pm CET | Michael Richardson, Professor at Department of Psychology; Centre for Elite performance, Expertise and Training; Faculty of Medical, Health and Human Sciences; Macquarie University – Australia Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Dark energy and cosmic acceleration
13 May 2021 – 2 pm CET | Jailson S. Alcaniz, Professor at Observatorio Nacional Astronomia & Astrofisica, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

The beat of math
20 May 2021 – 2 pm CET | Alfio Quarteroni, Professor at Politecnico di Milano – Italy Professor emeritus at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Switzerland

Synchronization in complex networks, hypergraphs and simplicial complexes
27 May 2021 – 2 pm CET | Stefano Boccaletti, Senior researcher at the CNR’s Institute for Complex Systems in Florence – Italy Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid – Spain Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an – China Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow – Russia Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Dynamics of PDEs and recurrent motions
3 June 2021 – 2 pm CET | Pietro Baldi, Department of Mathematics and Applications “Renato Caccioppoli”, University of Naples Federico II – Italy

Seismic risk assessment and management – The Groningen gas field case
10 June 2021 – 2 pm CET | Annemarie Muntendam-Bos, Senior Specialist at the State Supervision of Mines, the Dutch safety authority for mining activities – Netherlands Associate Professor on Induced Seismicity (part time) at the Delft University of Technology – Netherlands

The pandemic playbook, a physicist take
17 June 2021 – 2 pm CET | Francesco Sannino, Professor at “Ettore Pancini” Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II – Italy Director of the Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology (CP³-Origins) – Denmark Chair at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study – Denmark Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Italy

Symmetries and quantum mechanics: From phase transitions to the evolution of our universe
24 June 2021 – 2 pm CET | Massimo Taronna, Associate Professor at “Ettore Pancini” Physics Department, University of Naples Federico II – Italy

On the synthesis and crowdsourcing of control policies for autonomous agents from data
1 July 2021 – 2 pm CET | Giovanni Russo, Professor at Department of Electrical and Information Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Salerno – Italy

Probing the early universe with LISA and ET gravitational wave detectors
8 July 2021 – 2 pm CET | Angelo Ricciardone, Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Padova – Italy

What is matter according to particle physics, and why try to observe its creation in a lab?
15 July 2021 – 2 pm CET | Francesco Vissani, Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Padova – Italy