Franco Bagnoli awarded public outreach prize
Prof. Franco Bagnoli has been awarded a national public outreach prize for an article published in Sapere. The text in available here.… Read the rest
Archive for year: 2018
Two postdocs in complex materials applied to quantum technologies
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
In the news: Physics Today reviews Paolo Politi’s book
Physics Today reviews Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: A Modern Perspective by Roberto Livi and Paolo Politi, Cambridge U. Press, 2017… Read the rest
A new look at effective interactions between microgel particles – Nature Communications
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
Produzione e Immagazzinamento di Idrogeno in Sistemi Nanostrutturati Grafene/Nichel
| Founding Body: | Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio |
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| 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. |
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Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato ai sensi della L.R. 13/08… Read the rest
SIMAP
Superconduttori per Imaging Medicale e Aerospaziale ad Alte Prestazioni
| Founding Body: | Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio |
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| 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 |
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Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato ai sensi della L.R.… Read the rest
ABC Epatite
Sviluppo di una app per la prevenzione delle epatiti virali e per la consapevolezza dei comportamenti a rischio
| Founding Body: | Gilead |
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| Total grant: | € 40k |
| Principal Investigator: | Francis Allen Farrelly |
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| Project duration: | oct. 2018 to oct. 2019 |
| Website: | epatite.web.app |
Guido Caldarelli president of the Complex Systems Society
Congratulations to Guido Caldarelli for being elected as president of the Complex Systems Society… Read the rest
Protein-like dynamical transition in concentrated microgels
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
Seminar: Non-reciprocal resonant optomechanics in semiconductor nanostructures
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
Gilead Digital Health Fellowship Program award goes to ISC App project
Gilead Digital Health Fellowship Program award goes to “ABC epatite”. Sviluppo di una app per la prevenzione delle epatiti virali e per la consapevolezza dei comportamenti a rischio.
Principal Researcher F.A. Farrelly.… Read the rest
Emanuela Zaccarelli promoted to research director
Congratulations to Emanuela Zaccarelli for being promoted to the position of research director.… Read the rest
Andrea Puglisi promoted to senior researcher
Congratulations to Andrea Puglisi for being promoted to the position of senior researcher.… Read the rest
GELARTE
Microgel e arte: una nuova tecnologia per la conservazione dei beni cartacei
| Founding Body: | Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio |
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| 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) |
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Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato ai sensi della L.R.… Read the rest
MICROSORT
Chip microfluidici a membrane asimmetriche per il sorting della motilità spermatica
| Founding Body: | Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio |
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| Total grant: | € 150k |
| Principal Investigator: | Andrea Puglisi |
| Other participants: | CNR ISC: Andrea Gnoli, Luca Angelani, Fabio Cecconi, Andrea Baldassarri, Claudio Maggi, e un ricercatore (TD per un anno) da individuare. |
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Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato ai sensi della L.R.… Read the rest
MODSS
Monitoraggio di detriti spaziali basato su stereo-rilevazioni intercontinentali
| Founding Body: | Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio |
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| Total grant: | €150k |
| Principal Investigator: | Andrea Cavagna |
| Other participants: | CNR ISC: Massimo Cencini, Stefania Melillo Sapienza: Fabio Santoni, Fabrizio Piergentili, Tommaso Cardona |
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Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato ai sensi della L.R. 13/08… Read the rest
Lara Benfatto awarded Ludwig-Genzel-Prize
Lara Benfatto awarded Ludwig-Genzel-Prize.
The Ludwig-Genzel-Prize is awarded to a young scientist for exceptional contributions to the field of condensed-matter spectroscopy.… Read the rest
José Lorenzana appointed acting director
José Lorenzana will take over from Claudio Conti as director starting July 1st 2018.
Many thanks to both of them.… Read the rest
Verbale del Consiglio di Istituto dell’Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (ISC) del 19/06/2018
verbale Consiglio di Istituto – 19 giugno 2018… Read the rest
Sezione divulgazione
È ora disponibile una sezione in italiano dedicata alla divulgazione.… Read the rest
SuperTop2018
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
Complex Networks and Water Distribution Systems
April 19th 2018
Università della Campania “Vanvitelli”
Via Roma, 29 Aversa (CE)
“I giovedì del dottorato”, periodic meetings of the PhD School in Environment, Design and Innovation of Università della Campania “Vanvitelli”
LOCANDINA SEMINARIO DOTTORATO 19 Aprile ADI XXXIII CICLO ENG… Read the rest
Symposium EP07: Tailored Disorder─Novel Materials for Advanced Optics and Photonics
Hynes Convention Center (Boston, USA)
November 25-30, 2018
The MRS Fall Meeting 2018 symposium aims to create collaboration and a creative discussion among the many groups involved in the search, development and use of disorder covering all areas and disciplines from biology, physics and materials science and engineering.
(pdf)… Read the rest
Emanuela Zaccarelli awarded a MIUR FARE grant
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
Enhancing microgels potentialities: ultrasoftness and cultural heritage applications
| Founding Body: | MIUR |
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| Total grant: | € 145k |
| Principal Investigator: | Emanuela Zaccarelli |
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| Project duration: | 2018-2021 |
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Valentina Palmieri awarded PREMIO FUTURO prize
Research on graphene for anti-bacterial applications wins the prize “PREMIO FUTURO” awarded to Valentina Palmieri, leading the ISC-Cattolica collaboration.
PremioGiovedìScienza_VII ed_VINCITORI_10-5-2018_COMUNICATO… Read the rest
Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting
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)
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
Andrea Cavagna wins ERC Advanced Grant
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
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
Claudio Conti @ RAI News on Stephen Hawking
Rai News 24
also on Sky News 24.… Read the rest
Outstanding Referee: Stefano Lepri
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?
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
Spatio-temporal phenomena in complex systems with time delays
The review article Spatio-temporal phenomena in complex systems with time delays by S. Yanchuk and G. Giacomelli has been selected for inclusion in the Journal of Physics A Highlights of 2017 collection (Topical Reviews):… Read the rest
Ciclo di seminari: Dalla fisica della Risonanza Magnetica Nucleare alle immagini diagnostiche
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
Anderson localization
We have numerically studied the Anderson localization (AL) in 3D disordered systems, where its experimental demonstration is particularly tricky because of the restrictive Ioffe-Regel criterion. We employ an ab initio approach by using a finite difference time domain (FDTD) code in order to simulate a time-of-flight experiment to demonstrate the optical AL in micron-sized samples.
We also used the FDTD code to investigate the effect of disorder on the optomechanical forces.… Read the rest
In the news: anti-graphene surface and bone tissue in Le Scienze
Le Scienze – the italian edition of American scienze – reports on
Laser-printed anti-bacterial graphene oxide helps regenerate bone.… Read the rest
Workshop on Teaching and Learning Statistical Physics
April 4th-6th 2018
Consorzio del Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
Via San Donato, 21 – 53045 (Google Maps)
Montepulciano (Siena, Italy)
Organizers: Roberto Livi (University of Florence) and Paolo Politi (Institute for Complex Systems, CNR)
Scientific Secretary: Giovanna Pacini (University of Florence)
Further information: (Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics (the book and beyond))… Read the rest