Organizing activity and Projects

Director of the Institute of Complex Systems of CNR.
This task involves the coordination of various research groups in various locations. For details, see the ISC web page.

Director of the PIL group of the Physics Department, University of Roma, La Sapienza.

The PIL group consists of scientists supported from various institutions: University; INFM; CNR; Fermi Center; European and national contracts. In total there are about 30 scientists of which: 3 permanent; 3 tenure track; 13 with contracts of various types from 2 to 5 years; 5 Ph D students and a variable number of undergraduate thesis students.

Present Research Projects:

• 2 Projects MIUR-FIRB coordinated by PIL group
• 3 Projects MIUR-PRIN (Cofin) in which PIL group is the main partner
• 6 European Projects (EEC) of which 3 are coordinated by PIL group (underlined): COSIN (2002-2005); DELIS (2003-2006); ECAGENTS (2003-2007); TAGORA (2006-2009); COMPLEXITY-NET (2006-2009); TRIGS (2006-2009).
• Various other smaller projects both national and european.

Among the previous projects we have coordinated the EEC Network:

• Fractal Structures and Selforganization (1997-2003) which included 11 Teams from 8 countries and it has been probably the largest European network in the field of statistical Physics.

Main present areas present of activity:

• Solid state and Condensed Matter Theory
• Theory of High Tc superconductivity and related problems
• Statistical physics, fractal and Complex structures
• Interdisciplinary applications of statistical Physics in Astrophysics, Seismology, Networks and Biophysical problems and Socio-economic problems and Information Theory

The activities are described in more details here.

Organizing activities

Responsible of the Fermi Center Program on: Complexity from the Nanometric to the Cosmic Scale

Organizer of about 15 International Conferences in the fields of Statistical Physics, Fractal structures and Self-organized criticality, Complex systems and High Tc Superconductivity.

Promotor e Co-director of the Erice School Series on Complex Systems, which started in 2004 and organizes 2-3 schools per year.

Chairman of the general INFM Conference with 1100 participants (Congress Center Roma EUR, 2001)

Chairman of STATPHYS 23 (Genova, July 9-13, 2007). This Conference represents the main international event in the field of Statistical Physics. It is organized every three years and it is assigned by the IUPAP Commission.

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