Sapienza Universita' di Roma Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia Statistical Mechanics and Complexity

Claudio Castellano

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   Dr. Claudio Castellano

SMC, INFM-CNR and
Dipartimento di Fisica, "Sapienza" Universita' di Roma

Mailing address:
Claudio Castellano
Gruppo PIL, Dipartimento di Fisica, Edificio Fermi
"Sapienza" Universita' di Roma
P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy

Tel: +39 06 4993 7511
Fax: +39 06 4993 7440

I am a research scientist at the Center for Statistical Mechanics of Complexity, part of CNR-INFM, the italian National Institute for the Physics of Matter.

News

  • A paper on citation analysis and a fair comparison of citation counts among different disciplines

    F. Radicchi, S. Fortunato and C. Castellano
    Universality of citation distributions: towards an objective measure of scientific impact
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 17268 (2008). [arXiv:0806.0974]

  • A review article on the fast-growing field of applications of statistical physics to social phenomena.

    C. Castellano S. Fortunato and V. Loreto
    Statistical physics of social dynamics
    Rev. Mod. Phys 81, 591 (2009). [arXiv:0710.3256]

    It includes:
    • opinion dynamics
    • cultural dynamics
    • language evolution and competition
    • crowd behavior
    • formation of hierarchies
    • human dynamics
    • social spreading phenomena
    • coevolution of states and topology


  • The theory of finite size scaling on networks sometimes involves an anomalous dependence on the upper cutoff of the degree distribution.

    M. Boguna, C. Castellano and R. Pastor-Satorras
    Langevin approach for the dynamics of the contact process on annealed scale-free networks
    Phys. Rev. E 79, 036110 (2009). [arXiv:0810.3000]

    C. Castellano and R. Pastor-Satorras
    Routes to thermodynamic limit on scale-free networks
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 148701 (2008). [arXiv:0710.2784]


  • A review on the identification of communities in complex networks.

    S. Fortunato and C. Castellano
    Community structure in graphs.
    Springer's Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science (2009). [arXiv:0712.2716]