Dr. Claudio Castellano Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, (ISC-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 Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (Institute of Complex Systems, ISC-CNR), part of CNR, the National Research council of Italy.

Registration is now open for
Future Internet and Society: A Complex Systems Perspective
an ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference that will be held in Acquafredda di Maratea (Italy) from October 2nd to 7th, 2010

Registration is now open for
Paths in Complexity: Fractals, Superconductivity and Galaxies
an international conference on the occasion Luciano Pietronero 60th birthday. It will take place in Rome, September 23-24, 2010

• 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]
  
  

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