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
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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SIMAP

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
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ABC Epatite

Sviluppo di una app per la prevenzione delle epatiti virali e per la consapevolezza dei comportamenti a rischio

Founding Body: Gilead
Total grant: € 40k
Principal Investigator: Francis Allen Farrelly
Other participants:
Project duration: oct. 2018 to oct. 2019
Website: epatite.web.app
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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

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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

GELARTE

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)
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MICROSORT

Chip microfluidici a membrane asimmetriche per il sorting della motilità spermatica

Founding Body: Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio
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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MODSS

Monitoraggio di detriti spaziali basato su stereo-rilevazioni intercontinentali

Founding Body: Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio
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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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

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 ENGRead 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.
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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
Total grant: € 145k
Principal Investigator: Emanuela Zaccarelli
Other participants:
Project duration: 2018-2021
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2018

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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.
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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

 

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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

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

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