Conferences

Last update: Jan. 2020

Organization of conference & schools

2020

[19] Organizer (with S. Dietrich, M. Krüger, and A. Maciołek) of the 729. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Fluctuation‐induced forces, 7 - 11 September, Bad Honnef (Germany).

from 2013 to 2020

[11-18] Organizer of the Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems, ICTP, Trieste (Italy), taking place for four weeks in May-June (from 2013 to 2017) or February-March (from 2018 to 2020).

This Spring College is organized within the International Master Program on the Physics of Complex Systems offered by SISSA in collaboration with the Politecnico of Turin (Italy), the Universities of Paris 6, 7, 11, and the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (Paris).

In addition to the participation of ca. 20 students of the fourth semester of the Master, the organizing committee selects each year ca. 30-40 external participants from ca. 150 applicants. The school consists of 5 courses of ca. 20 h of lectures each and it aims at Master students and PhD students in Physics and related areas.

For additional details on the various editions, see: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013.

2019

[10] Organizer (with Michele Burrello, Pasquale Calabrese, Andrea De Luca, Robert Konik, and Antonello Scardicchio) of the international conference The Wonders of Thoretical Physics in honor of Giuseppe Mussardo's 60th birthday, ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 23-25 October (25 invited speakers, ca. 55 participants).

2018

[9] Organizer (with Freddy Bouchet, Giovanni Gallavotti, Valerio Lucarini, Matteo Marsili, and Stefano Ruffo) of the Advanced Workshop on Nonequilibrium Systems in Physics, Geosciences, and Life Sciences, ICTP, 14-25 May (44 invited and contributed talks attended by ca. 75 participants).

[8] Co-organizer of the conference Non-equilibrium behavior of isolated classical and quantum systems, SISSA, 10-13 September (27 invited talks attended by ca. 55 participants).

2017

[7] Co-organizer of the Informal workshop on Statistical field theory and applications, SISSA, 29-30 September. (22 invited talks attended by ca. 60 participants).

2015

[6] Co-organizer of the Informal workshop on Statistical field theory and related topics, SISSA, 9-10 October (23 invited talks attended by ca. 60 participants).

[5] Organizer of the parallel session on Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics at FisMat2015 - Italian National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, Palermo (Italy), 27 September-2 October.

2013

[4] Organizer (with Matteo Marsili, Markus Muller, and Antonello Scardicchio) of the 38th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO38), ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 25-27 March. Co-organized by ICTP and SISSA and co-sponsored by EPL-Europhysics Letters, CEI-Central European Initiative, with a contribution of the Italian MAE - Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conference was attended by 120 participants (from 30 different countries), with 9 invited lecturers and 21 selected oral contributions.

2012

[3] Organizer (with Silvio Franz, Emmanuel Trizac, Jean-Baptiste Fournier, Martine Ben Amar, Matteo Marsili, Riccardo Zecchina, and Alessandro Pelizzola) of PCS2012 - International School on the Physics of Complex Systems, SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste (Italy), 13 May-8 June.

This school is organized within the International Master Program on the Physics of Complex Systems o ered by SISSA in collaboration with the Politecnico of Turin (Italy), the Universities of Paris 6, 7, 11, and the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (Paris).

In addition to the participation of 11 students of the fourth semester of the master, ca. 15 external selected applicants participated in the school. The school consisted of 6 courses of ca. 20 h.

2010

[2] Organizer (with S. Dietrich) of the international workshop on Fluctuation-induced Forces in Condensed Matter (FIFCM10), Max-Planck Institut fur Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden (Germany), 11-15 October.

The workshop gathered leading scientists, among which 25 theoreticians and 12 experimentalists delivering invited talks, as well as 9 invited senior or junior scientists and 20 participants selected among the applicants.

2008

[1] Organizer of the mini-workshop The Physics of Fluctuations, Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart (Germahttp://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~fifcm10/ny), 7-8 July (8 invited speakers, 40 participants).