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ACME

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Crystal Engineering of ACentric and MEchanically responsive smart crystals

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: € 47k *
Principal Investigator: Roberto Centore (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Other participants: Francis Allen Farrelly
Project duration: 2023-2025
Website:

Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo… Read the rest

MATRA

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Molecular properties of single antigen-specific T-cells in rheumatoid arthritis

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: € 7k *
Principal Investigator: Prof. Jens Geginat (Università degli studi di Milano)
Other participants: Alessandro Taloni
Project duration: 2023-2025
Website:

Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo… Read the rest

TAMERLAND

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TAckling new psychoactive substances by MEtabolomics: an integrated Research pLan based on mAss spectrometry, Nuclear magnetic resonance and Raman spectrOscopies

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: € 99k *
Principal Investigator: Camilla Montesano (Università Sapienza)
Other participants: Claudia Fasolato
Project duration: 2023-2025
Website:

Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo… Read the rest

CO-SEARCH

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Equations informed and data-driven approaches for collective optimal search in complex flows

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: € 109k *
Principal Investigator: Massimo Cencini
Other participants:  
Project duration: 2023-2025
Website:

Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo Per Il Programma Nazionale Di Ricerca E Progetti Di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
* importo finanziamento pari a 109.258,00 €… Read the rest

ICARUS

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artIficial intelligenCe-assisted 3D digitAl manufactuRing of fUnctionally graded materialS

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: € 56k *
Principal Investigator: Roberta Angelini
Other participants:  
Project duration: 2023-2025
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Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo Per Il Programma Nazionale Di Ricerca E Progetti Di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
* importo finanziamento pari a 56.542,00 €… Read the rest

WoundXene

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WoundXene: chronic wound regeneration by MXenes-based 3D-printed patches

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: € 96k *
Principal Investigator: Valentina Palmieri
Other participants:  
Project duration: 2023-2025
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Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo Per Il Programma Nazionale Di Ricerca E Progetti Di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
* importo finanziamento pari a 96.056,00 €… Read the rest

PUERI

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Disentangling human infants’ Plasticity during sUbsistEnce tRansitIons: an innovative integrated approach

Founding Body: fb
Total grant: € 89k *
Principal Investigator: Prof. Massimo Vidale, Università degli Studi di PADOVA
Other participants: Silvia Capuani
Project duration: 2023-2025
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Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo… Read the rest

BELIEVE

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Biomimetic antimicrobial vesicle-like nanoarchitectures for multi-drug-resistant bacteria

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: €62k *
Principal Investigator: Luigi Paduano (Università di Napoli)
Other participants: Simona Sennato
Project duration: 2023-2025
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Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo Per Il Programma Nazionale Di Ricerca E Progetti Di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
* importo finanziamento pari a 61.532,00 € … Read the rest

BEEPER: la startup ISC fra i finalisti della Start Cup Lazio

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Il 26 ottobre 2023 a partire dalle 14.30 presso la Sala Tirreno della Regione Lazio si terrà l’evento:

Valorizzazione imprenditoriale della ricerca scientifica e impatto sociale, titolo dell’evento finale della IX Edizione Start Cup Lazio, la business plan competition che premia i migliori progetti di start-up/spin-off innovativi provenienti dal sistema regionale della ricerca scientifica.

Fra i finalisti della competizione c’e’ BEEPER acronimo di Benessere personalizzato con Risonanza Magnetica Nucleare, Start-up proposta da Silvia Capuani e Marco Montuori del CNR ISC.… Read the rest

Thermodynamic Limits of Sperm Swimming Precision – PRX Life

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In PRX Life Thermodynamics Reveals Coordinated Motors in Sperm Tails
Thermodynamic Limits of Sperm Swimming Precision, C. Maggi, F. Saglimbeni, V. Carmona Sosa, R. Di Leonardo, B. Nath, and A. Puglisi in PRX Life

Abstract
Sperm swimming is crucial to fertilize the egg, in nature and in assisted reproductive technologies. Modeling the sperm dynamics involves elasticity, hydrodynamics, internal active forces, and out-of-equilibrium noise.

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Show at Villa Torlonia “Matema(n)tica. La scienza si divulga anche così”

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Matema(n)tica. La scienza si divulga anche così

Hector Pablo Ojeda Collado (ISC) together with artist Herman Normoid present a combined Art/Science outreach exhibition at the Casina delle Civette in Villa Torlonia. During the exhibition an activity Lab will be organized with the participation of Andrea Puglisi, José Lorenzana and other ISC researchers.

The inauguration will be on November 4th 2022 at 4pm and will last until January 29th 2023.… Read the rest

News and Views on “Thermally reconfigurable random lasers”

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Light can control microparticles and microstructures can shape light, leading to a wide range of practical applications as well as interesting physics.

By combining optically controlled micro-heaters with thermophilic particles attracted by them researchers form University College London obtained microlasers with programmable and reversible patterns. This achievement is a nice demonstration of what happens when colloidal science meets photonics and is now published in Nature Physics and highlighted by Neda Ghofraniha in News and Views .… Read the rest

Linee Guida Casi Assenza – UOS Sapienza

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Il presente vademecum è stato redatto con l’intenzione di predisporre un chiaro ed esaustivo elenco delle possibilità di assenza che il CNR, conformemente al CCNL, prevede per il proprio personale strutturato, per permettere a coloro che ne avranno l’interesse e la pazienza di scegliere il motivo di assenza che più gli si confà.
Visto la capillare casistica prevista, si è deciso di dividere le seguenti ipotesi in famiglie omogenee.… Read the rest

Linee Guida per la Compilazione delle Presenze Presso UOS Sapienza

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La procedura delle presenze prevede l’inserimento quotidiano delle ore di entrata e uscita nel foglio drive annualmente condiviso dal responsabile presenze. La differenza delle due celle, di entrata e uscita compilate, determina una differenza in dare e avere che sarà riportata a fine colonna, questa rappresenta l’ammontare maturato da ogni dipendente il quale ne dispone per il recupero di flessibilità. Per gli amministrativi e tecnici si prevede, se autorizzati, la turnazione fino a decisione contraria.… Read the rest

Linee Guida per la Compilazione degli Ordini Fino a 40.000 Euro presso UOS Sapienza

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La procedura degli ordini ha inizio con la compilazione della richiesta di acquisto, modulo a disposizione presso la segreteria. Tale modulo deve essere compilato in ogni sua parte in maniera precisa, in particolare è indispensabile dettagliare i dati relativi sia la bene sia al GAE(Gruppo Azioni Elementari) di riferimento necessario alla copertura della spesa.
Relativamente a questo ultimo punto è importante che insieme al responsabile amministrativo di unità si verifichi la presenza della copertura nel piano economico del gae che “intende utilizzare con la relativa voce del piano omogenea al bene richiesto.… Read the rest

Linee Guida per la Compilazione delle Missioni Italia e all’estero Presso L’istituto Dei Sistemi Complessi UCS Sapienza

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Tutti coloro che svolgono un’attività in ISC (stabilizzati o collaboratori) prima di partire in missione devono essere autorizzati dal responsabile di Unità. Per questo motivo è importante la compilazione del modulo Ordine di missione presente nella piattaforma https://missioni.cnr.it/ accessibile con le credenziali SIPER. La maschera d’ingresso prevede una serie di dati precompilati e alcuni da compilare ma di facile intuizione, i dati missione, dati finanziari necessari per la copertura dell’impegno economico e alcune autorizzazioni aggiuntive eventuali come l’uso del taxi e l’auto a noleggio o auto propria.… Read the rest

“Hyper-auxetic” polymer networks published in Nature Communications

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Andrea Ninarello, José Ruiz-Franco & Emanuela Zaccarelli have published Onset of criticality in hyper-auxetic polymer networks in Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 527 (2022)

Against common sense, auxetic materials expand or contract perpendicularly when stretched or compressed, respectively, by uniaxial strain, being characterized by a negative Poisson’s ratio ν. The amount of deformation in response to the applied force can be at most equal to the imposed one, so that ν = − 1 is the lowest bound for the mechanical stability of solids, a condition here defined as “hyper-auxeticity”.… Read the rest

sars-on-chip

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Sviluppo di Lab-on-chip con nanoparticelle lipidiche per la quantificazione della carica virale di Sars-CoV-2 da tampone nasale

Founding Body: FESR Regione Lazio
Total grant: €150k *
Principal Investigator: Massimiliano Papi Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Other participants: CNR ISC: Valentina Palmieri
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza – Dip. Medicina Molecolare: Prof Giulio Caracciolo
Project duration: 24 months
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*) Valore totale del progetto: 149.978,71 € di cui 149.978,71 € a titolo di sostegno finanziario ricevuto dalla Regione Lazio.… Read the rest

PNAS: Two-step deswelling in the Volume Phase Transition of thermoresponsive microgels

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ISC researchers  working on soft matter coauthored a interesting work on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS)
Two-step deswelling in the Volume Phase Transition of thermoresponsive microgels
PNAS September 14, 2021 118 (37) e2109560118

Soft particles often combine colloidal and polymeric aspects, making them very valuable for both fundamental and applied science. Microgels, which are colloidal-scale polymer networks, are one of the most important examples in class of systems.… Read the rest

Simona Olmi wins Human Brain Project (HBP)

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The EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP) adds 5 new projects, among which Simona Olmi’s NextGen, to its partner network dedicated to translating the societal benefits of brain science. Focused on topics such as tackling schizophrenia, developing models to better understand the brain and helping expand human sensorial perception, these projects represent a key milestone in HBP’s transition towards a user-driven research infrastructure, the new EBRAINS.… Read the rest

DETERMINER

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Diagnosi precoce dell’osteoporosi basata sulla qualità dell’osso con Risonanza Magnetica Nucleare

Founding Body: Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio
Total grant: € 135k
Principal Investigator: Silvia Capuani
Other participants: CNR ISC: Marco Montuori
Collaboratori esterni: Fondazione Santa Lucia: Sergio Colonna, Vincenzo Vinicola, Maurizio Tommaselli, Antonio Ursone, Cecilia Della Vedova
Project duration: 24 months
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Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato da Regione Lazio attraverso il Bando Gruppi di Ricerca 2020 … Read the rest

SOSpESO

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Sospensioni & aerOsol: denSità ed Evoluzione mediante Spettroscopia Ottica

Founding Body: Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio
Total grant: € 150k
Principal Investigator: Barbara Ruzicka
Other participants: Membri del gruppo di Ricerca CNR ISC: Barbara Ruzicka, Angelo Sarra (ora UnivAQ)
Membri del gruppo di Ricerca Sapienza: Paolo Postorino, Federico Bordi, Francesca Ripanti
Collaboratori esterni: Claudia Fasolato, Alessandro Paciaroni (Università di Perugia)
Project duration:
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Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato da Regione Lazio attraverso il Bando Gruppi di Ricerca 2020 … Read the rest

MICROARTE

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Nuovi microgel per la conservazione dei beni artistici

Founding Body: Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio
Total grant: € 150k *
Principal Investigator: Emanuela Zaccarelli
Other participants: CNR ISC: Roberta Angelini, Mauro Missori, Simona Sennato, Letizia Tavagnacco
Univ. Tor Vergata: Ester Chiessi, Claudia Mazzuca, Mattia Titubante, Leonardo Severini
Collaboratori esterni: Maria Letizia Sebastiani (Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivistico e Librario – ICRCPAL); Ditta di restauro di Lorenzo Civiero; Librarti; Laboratorio Gottscher; PMI 2610.

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NextGen

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Next generation neural mass models: bridging the scales from micro to macroscopic dynamics

Founding Body: Human Brain project, co-funded by
European Union Horizon 2020
Total grant: € 96k
Principal Investigator: Simona Olmi
Other participants: Viktor Jirsa (University of Aix-Marseille)
Project duration: 2021-2023
Website: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/about/project-structure/partnering-projects/nextgen/

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Augmented Art – Lab NMR

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Il lab NMR si trova nella rete R6 del distretto tecnologico dei beni culturali DTC della Regione Lazio.

Il video mostra i risultati del progetto finanziato dalla Regione Lazio che ha coinvolto:

  • Lab NMR del CNR ISC e Sapienza
  • Multimodal 3D
  • Museo delle Civiltà di Roma

Sono state realizzate immagini NMR di reperti lignei esposti presso l’esposizione del Neolitico presso il Museo delle Civiltà di Roma.… Read the rest

PSU

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Understanding avian flocks near and entering civil infrastructure for species of concern

Founding Body: PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Total grant: € 223k
Principal Investigator: Stefania Melillo
Other participants:
Project duration: 2017-2021
Website:

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k-statistics approach to epidemiology – Scientific Reports

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Antonio Maria Scarfone and co-authors have published The k-statistics approach to epidemiology in Scientific Reports 10, Article number: 19949 (2020)
G. Kaniadakis, M.M. Baldi, T.S. Deisboeck, G.Grisolia, D.T. Hristopulos, A.M. Scarfone, A. Sparavigna, T. Wada, U. Lucia
Keywords: Plague, Pandemics, Epidemics, -Statistics; -deformed Weibull; survival function

Abstract

A great variety of complex physical, natural and artificial systems are governed by statistical distributions, which often follow a standard exponential function in the bulk, while their tail obeys the Pareto power law.… Read the rest

Dielectric permittivity of aqueous solutions of electrolytes probed by THz time-domain and FTIR spectroscopy – Phys. Lett. A.

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A. De Ninno, E. Nikollari, M. Missori and F. Frezza have published Dielectric permittivity of aqueous solutions of electrolytes probed by THz time-domain and FTIR spectroscopy in Physics Letters A.
Highlights
• The permittivity of water is described in terms of two independent Debye functions.
• The model is also applied to chloride solutions.
• The excess high frequency response is explained without ad hoc corrective terms.… Read the rest

Andrea Cavagna & Irene Giardina selected for Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics

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Andrea Cavagna and Irene Giardina selected to receive the American Physical Society’s 2021 Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics, which recognizes outstanding achievement in biological physics research.
The citation reads:

“For the incisive combination of observation, analysis, and theory to elucidate the beautiful statistical physics problems underlying collective behavior in natural flocks and swarms.”

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Neuromorphic Computing Waves – PRL

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Giulia Marcucci, Davide Pierangeli, and Claudio Conti have published Theory of Neuromorphic Computing by Waves: Machine Learning by Rogue Waves, Dispersive Shocks, and Solitons in Physical Review Letters.

Artificial neural networks with nonlinear waves as a computing reservoir are the subject of the paper in which the universality and the conditions to learn a dataset in terms of output channels and nonlinearity are discussed.… Read the rest

NetSci 2020 in Rome

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The Net Sci 2020 International School and Conference on Network Science is being held online this year from September 17th to the 25th.
NetSci 2020 is the flagship conference of the Network Science Society, which aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners working in the emerging research area of network science.
Among the organizers are Guido Caldarelli and Giulio Cimini.… Read the rest

Linee guida per la preparazione del piano economico di un progetto

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Quando si ottiene un finanziamento è necessario definire ed inserire in Sigla il relativo piano economico (d’ora in avanti PE). Questo deve necessariamente configurarsi come la fedele riproduzione del budget di progetto approvato dall’ente finanziatore ed allegato al contratto (si ricorda che una copia del contratto e del budget deve essere allegata in Sigla).

I progetti commerciali fanno eccezione e non richiedono PE.… Read the rest

Microgels at Interfaces Behave as 2D Elastic Particles Featuring Reentrant Dynamics – PRX

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Fabrizio Camerin, Nicoletta Gnan, José Ruiz-Franco, Andrea Ninarello, Lorenzo Rovigatti, and Emanuela Zaccarelli have published Microgels at Interfaces Behave as 2D Elastic Particles Featuring Reentrant Dynamics


The properties and the structure of colloids—in which particles of one substance are dispersed in another—are determined by the way those particles interact with each other. An easy guess might lead one to say that complex particles possess an equally complex interaction potential.… Read the rest

Communicating sentiment and outlook reverses inaction against collective risks – pnas

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Zhen Wang, Marko Jusup, Hao Guo,Lei Shi, Sunčana Geček, Madhur Anand, Matjaž Perc, Chris T. Bauch, Jürgen Kurths, Stefano Boccaletti, and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber have published
Communicating sentiment and outlook reverses inaction against collective risks

Collective risks trigger social dilemmas that require balancing selfish interests and common good. One important example is mitigating climate change, wherein without sufficient investments, worldwide negative consequences become increasingly likely.… Read the rest

Cumulative Merging Percolation and the Epidemic Transition of the Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible Model in Networks

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Claudio Castellano and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras published this article in Phys. Rev. X 10, 011070 – Published 24 March 2020

Complex networks represent the interaction pattern for many real-world phenomena such as epidemic spreading. The simplest and most fundamental model for the diffusion of infectious diseases without acquired immunity predicts a vanishing epidemic threshold in the limit of large systems. In other words, no matter how small the infectiousness of the disease, there is always a finite fraction of the overall population which is infected for long times.… Read the rest

Lake Como School of Advanced Photonics

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Machine Learning Photonics

Lake Como School of Advanced Studies

14 – 18 September 2020

The school brings together experts in emerging photonic technologies, machine learning techniques, and fundamental physics who will share with young researchers their knowledge and interdisciplinary approaches for understanding and designing complex photonic systems and their practical applications. In the new era of artificial intelligence, algorithms and computational interfaces are broadly emerging as novel tools to do scientific research.… Read the rest

Photonic Reservoir Computing and Information Processing in Complex Network

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Trento, 4-6 December 2019
Sociology Building (Aula Kessler)
via Verdi 26, Trento (Italy)
Workshop Directors
Lorenzo Pavesi (University of Trento)
Manlio De Domenico (FBK – Bruno Kessler Foundation)
Claudio Conti (Sapienza University)
For further info see web site
PROGRAM
Wednesday 4th December

19.00 Social event at MUSE – Science Museum of Trento (www.muse.it)
Get together dinner buffet
The idea behind the workshop, L.… Read the rest

La genesi dei modelli: teoria, simulazioni e dati

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25-27 Novembre 2019 – Accademia dei Lincei, Roma

Sala delle Scienze Fisiche – Palazzo Corsini – via della Lungara, 10 – Roma

Nella pratica reale della ricerca scientifica si lavora, di fatto, sempre con “modelli”, termine che può essere inteso in modi anche molto diversi tra loro.

La meccanica classica e la meccanica quantistica, ad esempio, possono essere viste come modelli (in quanto buone approssimazioni di teorie ancora più generali); ma in questi casi siamo di fronte a descrizioni molto raffinate, e possiamo considerarle alla stregua di principi primi.… Read the rest

Alignment of Nonspherical Active Particles in Chaotic Flows – Physical Review Letters

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Massimo Cencini has published Alignment of Nonspherical Active Particles in Chaotic Flows in Physical Review Letters.

Active particles, such as motile microorganisms or artificial microswimmers, swim in a surrounding flow, either externally imposed or self-generated. Besides transporting the active particles, the flow velocity change their swimming direction by exerting a shape-dependent torque through the velocity gradients. The complex interplay of flow advection, particle orientation and self-propulsion is fundamental to understand key processes at the crossroad between aquatic ecology, active matter modeling, and nano/micro- technology with application to drug delivery.… Read the rest

Missioni

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Documenti da Produrre per Le Missioni

(specifiche necessarie soprattutto per le missioni che verranno rendicontate nei progetti europei e non)

N.B Apertura delle missioni ai fini della autorizzazione del direttore fissata a 15 giorni prima dell’inizio della missione.

Bisogna prioritariamente fare sempre riferimento al manuale operativo missioni del CNR Circolare 11/2019

Fare attenzione se si tratta di una missione sul territorio italiano o all’estero perché’ alcune questioni sono regolate diversamente.… Read the rest

ATTRACT finanzia progetti innovativi

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Il 20 e 21 maggio 2019 Silvia Capuani ha preso parte al kick-off meeting del progetto ATTRACT presso il CERN. ATTRACT mira a finanziare progetti molto innovativi riguardanti nuovi sensori e nuove tecniche di imaging. Con lo scopo di colmare la separazione fra ricerca fondamentale e il mercato, mira a riunire ricercatori, imprenditori e aziende. Nella fase attuale ha finanziato 170 progetti con 100k euro ciascuno da investire nei prossimi dodici mesi per dimostrarne la fattibilità.… Read the rest

Polymers and Soft Materials: Glasses, Gels and Networks – Erice School

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ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
Summer Course – Erice, July 9th – 16th 2019
International school: “Water and water systems”
2nd Course: Polymers and Soft Materials: Glasses, Gels and Networks
For general information: waterschools@gmail.com

Course Description

The purpose of the course is that of giving a balanced view of fundamental topics in the realm of polymer, soft and glass materials.… Read the rest

The microscopic role of deformation in the dynamics of soft colloids published in Nature

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Nicoletta Gnan and Emanuela Zaccarelli have published The microscopic role of deformation in the dynamics of soft colloids in Nature Physics.

Soft colloids enable the exploration of states with densities exceeding that of random close packing, but it remains unclear whether softness controls the dynamics under these dense conditions. Experimental studies have reported conflicting results, and numerical studies have so far focused primarily on simple models that allow particles to overlap, but neglect particle deformations.… Read the rest

Scientific perspectives of Italy-India collaborations

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Venue Sala Lauree – Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome

From left to right: Dr. L. Benfatto, Prof. E. Gaudio, Dr V. Grippo, H.E. R. Sandhu, Prof. C. Spinella, Prof. P. Mataloni, Dr M. Pessina, Prof. N. Saini

On the 18th of March our Institute, in collaboration with the Physics Department of the Sapienza University and the Indian Embassy in Rome, organized a meeting o “Light and technology: the frontiers of emergent systems”.… Read the rest

Job opening: post graduate/post doc position in the Complex Photonics Group

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Post graduate/post doc position is open in the Complex Photonics group on experiments in Random Lasers (RLs). Random lasers are cavity less lasers where the resonator is given by the multiple scattering of light by suitable complex disordered materials and are capturing the interest of several research groups in the world for both fundamental physics investigation in random photonics and applications in targeting, sensing and structured illumination.… Read the rest

Mauro Missori awarded a CNR/CACH Bilateral Agreement

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Mauro Missori awarded a CNR Bilateral Agreement with the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (CACH) with the project “Nanoscale degradation indexes of ancient Chinese and Italian papers for conservation & restoration applications”.

The aim of this joint research project is to develop degradation indexes of ancient Chinese and Italian papers for restoration applications. These activities require the use of specific physical and chemical diagnostics technique at the nanoscale suitable for the cellulose-based materials and, in general, for natural polymeric fibers.… Read the rest

Claudia Marconi joins ISC

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Claudia Marconi has a master degree in Chemistry with specialization in chemical-physics. She won a research grant on the topic “Microscopic evaluation of the effect of washing on the optical and structural properties of synthetic fabrics” within a research project between the Institute of Complex Systems and the company FATER SpA (scientific responsible of the project Dr. Mauro Missori).… Read the rest

International Day of Girls and Women in Science

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Aula Amaldi, Edificio Marconi, Sapienza Università di Roma

Locandina evento
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L’11 Febbraio è stato nominato dalle Nazioni Unite “International Day of Women and Girls in Science” con le finalità di: “…achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls”.

In questa importante occasione, il Dipartimento di Fisica della Sapienza organizza un evento rivolto alle studentesse e agli studenti, al personale docente e ricercatore, e a tutte le persone interessate con la finalità di condividere dati, evidenziare stereotipi e discutere azioni positive attraverso il confronto con altre realtà nazionali e internazionali.… Read the rest

A silver path for high temperature superconductivity

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Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without loss of energy when cooled to sufficiently low temperatures. This sort of perpetual movement of electrons allows the creation of large magnetic fields for applications such as magnetic resonance imaging, which is used in hospitals for diagnostics or experiments for the discovery of new particles in large CERN accelerators. These niche applications could become much more widespread if one could avoid having to cool the materials at very low temperatures.… Read the rest

Two postdocs in complex materials applied to quantum technologies

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The Rome-Sapienza Unit of the Institute for Complex Systems (ISC-CNR) is looking for two outstanding postdocs one experimental and one theoretical. Both postdocs will join an interdisciplinary team of nanoscience scientists, material science specialists, and theoreticians with the aim to study and characterize complex materials for quantum technologies. The team will study unconventional and strongly disorder superconductors to exploit the extreme sensitivity and non-linearity of these materials for quantum technological applications like kinetic inductance detectors.… Read the rest

A new look at effective interactions between microgel particles – Nature Communications

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Maxime J. Bergman, Nicoletta Gnan, Marc Obiols-Rabasa, Janne-Mieke Meijer, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Emanuela Zaccarelli & Peter Schurtenberger
Nature Communications volume 9, Article number: 5039 (2018)

Thermoresponsive microgels find widespread use as colloidal model systems, because their temperature-dependent size allows facile tuning of their volume fraction in situ.
However, an interaction potential unifying their behavior across the entire phase diagram is sorely lacking.… Read the rest

hPRIDE

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Produzione e Immagazzinamento di Idrogeno in Sistemi Nanostrutturati Grafene/Nichel

Founding Body: Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio
Total grant: € 135k
Principal Investigator: Rosanna Larciprete
Other participants: Roberto Felici (CNR-SPIN), AndreaLiscio (CNR-IMM), Andrea Pugno (Fondazione “E. Amaldi”-ASI), e due ricercatori post-doc da individuare.
Project duration:
Website:

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SIMAP

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Superconduttori per Imaging Medicale e Aerospaziale ad Alte Prestazioni

Founding Body: Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio
Total grant: € 150k
Principal Investigator: Josè Lorenzana
Other participants: CNR ISC: Lara Benfatto e due ricercatori postdoc da individuare.
CNR IFN: Maria Gabriella Castellano, Giorgio Pettinari, Sara Cibella
Sapienza: Michele Ortolani, Leonetta Baldassarre
INFN: Marco Vignati, Angelo Cruciani
Project duration:
Website:

Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato ai sensi della L.R.… Read the rest

Protein-like dynamical transition in concentrated microgels

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Letizia Tavagnacco, Emanuela Zaccarelli and others published Evidence of a low-temperature dynamical transition in concentrated microgels in Science Advances.

A low-temperature dynamical transition has been reported in several proteins. We provide the first observation of a “protein-like” dynamical transition in nonbiological aqueous environments. To this aim, we exploit the popular colloidal system of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM) microgels, extending their investigation to unprecedentedly high concentrations.… Read the rest

Mailing list

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N.B. Utilizzare un account @*.cnr.it per inviare email alle liste per evitare interventi manuali.

Liste geografiche (sia personale CNR sia esterni e.g. assegnisti, associati):

tutti@isc.cnr.it

Liste del personale:

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Liste segreteria (unificate mediante un alias):

Lista Consiglio di Istituto

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Seminar: Non-reciprocal resonant optomechanics in semiconductor nanostructures

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Friday, 5 October 2018 from 15:00 to 16:00 (Europe/Rome)
University of Rome, Sapienza
Aula Cortini Dipartimento di Fisica – Edificio E Fermi

Alexander V. Poshakinskiy
Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

In semiconductor quantum wells, photoelastic interaction is increased by several orders of magnitude at the exciton resonance frequency, making them promising for optomechanics [1]. Under resonant laser pump, the exciton-mediated stimulated Raman scattering leads to controllable sound amplification or attenuation, akin to the optomechanical heating and cooling effects.… Read the rest

GELARTE

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Microgel e arte: una nuova tecnologia per la conservazione dei beni cartacei

Founding Body: Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio
Total grant: € 150k
Principal Investigator: Emanuela Zaccarelli
Other participants: CNR ISC: Mauro Missori, Barbara Ruzicka, Roberta Angelini, Nicoletta Gnan
Univ. Tor Vergata: Ester Chiessi, Claudia Mazzuca, Laura Micheli, Olivia Pulci
esterni: Laura Iannuccelli, Silvia Sotgiu, Lorenzo Teodonio (Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivistico e Librario – ICRCPAL)
Project duration:
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Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato ai sensi della L.R.… Read the rest

SuperTop2018

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International Workshop on 2D superconductivity, Rome 22 June 2018

SuperTop2018 is an international one-day workshop aimed at bringing together experts in the fields of two-dimensional superconductors, covering different topics ranging from conventional and unconventional superconductors to quasi-2D Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless physics and emergent inhomogeneity. The workshop will be held on June 22 2018 at the Department of Physics of the Sapienza University of Rome, and it is supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affair (MAECI) under the joint Italia-India collaborative project SuperTop.… Read the rest

Emanuela Zaccarelli awarded a MIUR FARE grant

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Emanuela Zaccarelli awarded a MIUR FARE grant with the project SOFTART: Enhancing microgels potentialities: ultrasoftness and cultural heritage applications.

The project builds on the ERC Consolidator project MIMIC and combines theoretical/numerical expertise of the MIMIC team led by Emanuela Zaccarelli with experimental work at CNR ISC carried out by the groups of Barbara Ruzicka, Roberta Angelini, Simona Sennato and Mauro Missori.… Read the rest

SOFTART

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Enhancing microgels potentialities: ultrasoftness and cultural heritage applications

Founding Body: MIUR
Total grant: € 145k
Principal Investigator: Emanuela Zaccarelli
Other participants:
Project duration: 2018-2021
Website:

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Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting

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International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”
July 2-7, 2018

Directors

Andrea Bizzarri – INGV, Sezione di Bologna (Italy)
Shamita Das – University of Oxford (UK)
Alberto Petri – CNR-ISC, Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)

Secretary

Anna Maria Loguercio – CNR-ISC, Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)

Topics

Physics of shallow, intermediate and deep earthquakes
Fundamental of rock mechanics
Laboratory experiments
Inferences from real data
Applications to earthquake engineering

This is not merely a school in a strict sense, but is indeed a high–level event for post–doctoral students and scientists.… Read the rest

2018 Workshop on Complexity in Engineering (COMPENG)

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COMPENG 2018 will focus on the latest developments in complexity science
and their application in an engineering perspective.
Authors are encouraged to submit abstract or papers on their research
considering, but not being limited to, the following topics:

– Agent-based systems
– Big Data and data-driven systems
– Bio-physics, stochastic processes and noise
– Complex Networks
– Critical Infrastructures, transportation systems, realtime management
– Dynamics in Memristor circuits
– Machine Learning
– Laser dynamics and optoelectronic systems
– Plasma control and nuclear fusion
– Control in sensor and actuator networks
– Smart grids

Keynote Speakers:

Giovanni DE NINNO (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia)
Nadia DOMINICI (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Philippe GHENDRIH (CEA, IRFM, France)
Antonio POLITI (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Important dates:

Deadline for Abstract/Paper Submissions
May 31 2018
Notification of Acceptance
June 30 2018

 

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Andrea Cavagna wins ERC Advanced Grant

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Congratulations to Andrea Cavagna for winning an ERC Advanced Grant (panel PE2) with the project:
Renormalization group approach to the collective behaviour of strongly correlated biological systems (RG.BIO)

Biological systems displaying collective behaviour are characterized by strong spatio-temporal correlations, which partly transcend the multiform diversity of their microscopic details, much as it happens in statistical physics systems close to a critical point.… Read the rest

Flexible and Wearable Metamaterials: new frontiers in biomedical and safety&security applications

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Metamaterials are engineered material having periodic structures that exhibit unique properties when they interact with electromagnetic waves in comparison with natural materials. They offer interesting applications throughout the electromagnetic spectrum and are crucial in the Terahertz (THz) frequency band which lies between microwave and infrared and thus invisible to the human eye. This band is a new frontier both for research and technological applications in sectors ranging from astronomy to cultural heritage.… Read the rest

Outstanding Referee: Stefano Lepri

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Stefano Lepri Outstanding Referee of Physical Review for 2018

American Physical Society announces “Outstanding Referees” for 2018

Ridge, NY, 26 February 2018 — The American Physical Society (APS) has selected 147 Outstanding Referees for 2018 that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.… Read the rest

When is a lubricant effective?

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A plate shearing an interstitial granular medium and driven by an always ongoing spring feels less fricion when only few layers are present. Adding more layers results in an increase of friction,
nevertheless the plate slides more often. The ease of slipping is not determined by friction alone?

 

M A Annunziata, A Baldassarri, F Dalton, A Petri and G Pontuale, Increasing ‘ease of sliding’ also increases friction: when is a lubricant effective?… Read the rest

Ciclo di seminari: Dalla fisica della Risonanza Magnetica Nucleare alle immagini diagnostiche

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Silvia Capuani (CNR ISC & NMR and Medical physics Laboratory Physics Dpt. Sapienza)
Friday, 26 January 2018 from 15:00 to 17:00 (Europe/Rome)
at Dipartimento di Fisica – Edificio G. Marconi ( Aula Conversi )
(locandina ciclo seminari)
Venerdì 26 gennaio 2018: Il segnale NMR.
Mercoledì 31 gennaio 2018: La spettroscopia NMR protonica e di eteronuclei.
Venerdì 2 febbraio: L’Imaging NMR convenzionale.… Read the rest

Riordino siti ISC

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Dopo una fase di transizione sono stati chiusi i siti

  • www.artov.isc.cnr.it
  • www.mlib.isc.cnr.it
  • www.fi.isc.cnr.it

che ora sono reindirizzati al sito principale isc.… Read the rest

NAR: Energetic funnel facilitates facilitated diffusion

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Massimo Cencini has published Energetic funnel facilitates facilitated diffusion in Nucleic Acid Research.

Gene transcription is regulated by proteins – Transcription Factors (TFs) – that by binding to short target sequences are able to promote or impede the binding of RNA-Polymerase (RNAP) and, consequently, activate or repress tran-
scription. Fast and accurate control of gene expression is crucial for many biological functions, and relies on the ability of TFs to rapidly find their transcription factor binding site (TFBS) among a multitude of competing DNA sequences,
and to establish with it a stable complex.… Read the rest

Observation of replica symmetry breaking in disordered nonlinear wave propagation

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Davide Pierangeli, Andrea Tavani, Fabrizio Di Mei, Aharon J. Agranat, Claudio Conti & Eugenio DelRe have published an article Observation of replica symmetry breaking in disordered nonlinear wave propagation in nature communications.
Abstract
A landmark of statistical mechanics, spin-glass theory describes critical phenomena in disordered systems that range from condensed matter to biophysics and social dynamics. The most fascinating concept is the breaking of replica symmetry: identical copies of the randomly interacting system that manifest completely different dynamics.… Read the rest

Talk: Miguel Alonso – November 22, 2017

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Aula 6 – Edificio Fermi, Dipartimento di Fisica
3pm-4pm
The connection between rays and waves
Miguel Alonso (University Rochester)
While the ray model is outdated as a physical theory, it is still an extremely valuable conceptual and computational tool for the design and modeling of optical systems. It is therefore important to know the limits of its validity as well as its connection to the more physical wave framework.… Read the rest

PRX: Relating Topological Determinants of Complex Networks to Their Spectral Properties: Structural and Dynamical Effects

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Claudio Castellano has published Relating Topological Determinants of Complex Networks to Their Spectral Properties: Structural and Dynamical Effects in Physical Review X.

In many social and biological systems, the pattern of interactions is described by complex networks—mathematical constructions composed of points (vertices) representing individuals, joined by lines (edges), standing for pairwise interactions between them. These structures are important because they affect the behavior of the dynamical processes they mediate.… Read the rest

Talk: Martin Weitz – November 2 2017

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Aula Conversi, Dipartimento di Fisica (I piano edificio Marconi)
3pm-4pm (info)
Martin Weitz (Universität Bonn)

Bose-Einstein condensation has been observed with cold atomic gases,
exciton-polaritons, and more recently with photons in a dye-filled optical
microcavity. I will here describe recent measurements of our Bonn group
determining the heat capacity of a two-dimensional photon gas in the regime
around the Bose-Einstein phase transition.… Read the rest

Seminario: Alessandro Taloni – 15 novembre 2017

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Aula Conversi, Dipartimento di Fisica (I piano edificio Marconi)
Ore: 16:00
Alessandro Taloni

Complexity models in biophysics and material science

Abstract
I will review three topics of my recent activity:

  1. Fractional Langevin Equation and its application to linear stochastic models.
    The Generalized Elastic Model accounts for the dynamics of several physical systems, such as polymers, fluctuating interfaces, growing surfaces, membranes, proteins and file systems.

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Seminario: Andrea Marini – 8 novembre 2017

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Aula Conversi, Dipartimento di Fisica (I piano edificio Marconi)
ore 16:00
Andrea Marini

Nanofotonica nonlineare su metalli e grafene: sfide e opportunità

Abstract:
La nanofotonica è la scienza che studia il confinamento della luce in regioni di spazio con dimensioni inferiori alla lunghezza d’onda. In mezzi dielettrici convenzionali questo non è possibile a causa della diffrazione, che pone il limite fisico della lunghezza d’onda come minima distanza di confinamento della luce.… Read the rest

Gaussian, non Gaussian and Anomalous diffusion to improve medical diagnosis

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In the biomedical field, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance (DMR) images provide a measure of water proton displacements by probing motion on the mesoscopic length scale (around 10-20 µm), which is orders of magnitude smaller than the macroscopic MR resolution (typically 1-2 millimetres for clinical MR scanners).

Therefore, independently of image resolution (which is linked to the hardware of the NMR scanner) we can obtain microstructural information of human tissue at the mesoscopic length scale.… Read the rest

Nonequilibrium statistical physics: A modern perspective (book)

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Paolo Politi and Roberto Livi have published a book:
Nonequilibrium statistical physics: A modern perspective.
Statistical mechanics has been proven to be successful at describing physical systems at thermodynamic equilibrium. Since most natural phenomena occur in nonequilibrium conditions, the present challenge is to find suitable physical approaches for such conditions: this book provides a pedagogical pathway that explores various perspectives.… Read the rest

ISC Meeting 2017

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October 16th-17th 2017

Programma Meeting 2017

Soft Matter

Monday  16 October 10.00 → 12.20 (Morning)
10:00-10:20 Introduction by the Director
10.20-10.40 “In silico” synthesis of microgel particles E. Zaccarelli
10.40-11.00 Experimental behaviour of soft colloids: responsive microgels B. Ruzicka
11.00-11.40 Keynote talk
Can colloids teach us something on the anomalous
thermodynamic behaviour of supercooled water?		 F. Sciortino
11.40-12.00 Flexible colloidal structures in active baths L.

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Physics of Complexity @ ISC-Sapienza

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La Fisica della Complessità @ISC-Sapienza

17 Ottobre 2017, ore 16:00

Università La Sapienza,

Dipartimento di Fisica,

Aula Conversi

(flyer)
L’Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (ISC) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, la cui attività si svolge da vari anni in stretta collaborazione con i ricercatori del Dipartimento di Fisica, dedica un pomeriggio tematico alla presentazione delle sue attuali linee di ricerca. Le presentazioni avranno carattere generale, sono rivolte ai colleghi di tutti gli ambiti disciplinari e agli studenti interessati a svolgere tesi in collaborazione con il personale dell’Istituto.… Read the rest

Economic Fitness: Evolving Economic Complexity for Development

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See also A Better Way to Make Economic Forecasts

Il 14 settembre alla Banca Mondiale di Washington
Questo evento è totalmente dedicato ai risultati e alle prospettive della collaborazione
tra il gruppo della Sapienza (Fisica) e dell’Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi del CNR,
coordinato dal Prof. Luciano Pietronero, con la World Bank.
Economic Fitness (EF) consiste in un nuovo paradigma sviluppato dal gruppo di
Pietronero in cui si descrivono le economie come processi evolutivi di ecosistemi di
tecnologie e infrastrutture industriali e finanziarie che sono globalmente
interconnesse.… Read the rest

Super Top

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Topological Phases of Matter in 2D Superconducting materials

Founding Body: Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
Total grant: € k
Principal Investigator: Lara Benfatto
Other participants:
Project duration: 2017-2019
Website:

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Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems Workshop

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September 18-20, 2017
Venue University of Rome “La Sapienza” Physics Department, Marconi building I floor
Website
A challenging frontier in statistical physics concerns systems with a small number N of degrees of freedom, far from the thermodynamic limit: such an interest is motivated by the recent increase of resolution in the observation and in the manipulation of the micro-nano world. The peculiar feature of small systems is the relevance of fluctuations, which cannot be neglected.… Read the rest