Curriculum vitae
Born 1952.
Laurea in Physics at the Universita' di Napoli; 1975.
Present position
Professor of Mathematical Physics
Dipartimento di Fisica
Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata
Previous positions
- Fellowship of Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione
(1977--1978)
- Researcher in Theoretical Physics in
Istituto di Fisica, Universita' di Salerno (1978--1983).
- Researcher in Dipartimento di Matematica,
Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza'' (1983--1985)
- Associate Professor of Statistical Mechanics Dipartimento
di
Fisica, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata
1985--2001
Organizing activity
- Member of Senato Accademico 2015-2021
- Director of the Physics Department 2012-18
- Vice- Director of the Physics Department 2009-2012
- Vice-President of Consiglio di Corso di Studio in Fisica, years 2006-2009
- In charge for the VQR, 2004-10; 2015-19; 2023-27
- In charge for the research of the Physics Department since 2019
- In charge for the proposal of "progetto di Eccellenza" 2018-2022, 2023-2027.
- Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International Research Center for Mathematics & Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS)
- Member of the Scientific board of
Centro di Matematica e Fisica Teorica "Tullio Levi-Civita".
- Former member of the editorial board of Journal of Statistical Physics.
- Member of the European Community network
"Asymptotic Methods in Kinetic Theory".
- Member of the European Community network 2002
"HYperbolic and Kinetic Equations :
Asymptotics, Numerics, Analysis"
- Local coordinator of the research project cof 98--99, 2000-01, 2002-03 di G. Parisi
"Problemi Complessi in Meccanica Statistica e Teoria dei Campi:
uno Studio Teorico, Analitico e Computazionale",
- Referee for the IOP journals, CMP, JSP, SIAM.
- Member of the organizing commitee for :
Conference in Vulcano, 6-12 settembre 1998
Conference in Siena maggio 2000, "New Trends in Statistical Mechanics"
Conference in Accademia dei Lincei May 2003,
"Large Systems: Some Mathematical Problems and perspectives"
Workshop in Rome September 2003,
"Statistical Mechanics and applications"
Conference in Montecatini 2004, Advances in Mathematical Physics"
Rome, October, 2006 ''Workshop on Microscopic Approaches to Elastic
and Surface Tension Functionals''
,
Rome, June, 2017 Roberto Petronzio Memorial Symposium
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Member of the scientific commitee for the following international Conferences:
2009 Roma "Seminal Interactions between Mathematics and Physics"
2010 Parigi "Boltzmann equation:mathematics, modeling and simulations"
2014 CIRM, Marsiglia, "Kinetic Equations"
Visiting professor at (recent years)
1995: New York University, Courant Institute
1997: IHES,
1997: Rutgers University, Math Dep
1998: Universita' di Rouen,
1998: Rutgers University, Math. Dep.
1999: Universita' di Rouen
2000: IHES.
2001: Rutgers University and IHP, Paris
2004 Brown University, USA
2005 IHES, Paris
2005 Hong Kong University
2006 Schrodinger Institute, Wien
2007 Kyoto University, Japan. Marseille University
2008 IHP, Paris
2009 Accademia Sinica, Taipei,
2010 Chalmers University, Goteborg ,Sweden. Newton Institute, Cambridge,UK. Singapore University
2011 IHP, Paris. Brown and Rutgers University, USA. Lisbon University.
2012 Kyoto University, Japan.
2016 Brown University, USA
2017 IHP, Paris
2018 Brown University, USA
Research activity
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1977-1982: Gauge Field Theories and Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
(spin systems).
- 1982-1986: Stochastic Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics.
- 1987-1990: Fluidodynamics and Stochastic Processes.
- 1990--2000 Hydrodynamic
limits for interacting particle systems.
Behaviour of the solutions
of the Boltzmann equations
for small Knudsen number without and with boundary effects.
Navier-Stokes
equation for
stochastic cellular automata, also in the case of thermal automata,
and fluctuation-dissipation theorem.
This research has been done in
collaboration with researchers of the Rutgers University (USA), New
york University
(USA)
and University of Rome 1 and Rome 2.
- 2000--2006 Segregation phenomena and interface motion.
Kinetic and hydrodynamic equations for binary fluids, which
are suitable to describe the dynamics of the phase separation.
In collaboration with J.L.Lebowitz and researchers of Atlanta University, University of L'Aquila and Livermore Laboratory and
PCD student.
- 2006-2010 Kinetic models of phase transition and stability properties
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2010-2013 Variational problems for non convex functionals and stability problems for mesoscopic models of phase transition. In collaboration with researchers of the Universities: Rutgers, Brown, Goteborg, L'Aquila and Marseille.
- 2013-18 Boltzmann equation in a bounded domain. Existence and regularity.
- 2018-2020 Hydrodinamic limit for the Boltzmann equation in a bounded domain and exterior problem.In collaboration with researchers of Brown Un. and Wisconsin Un.
Present research: new equations in fluid dynamics (ghost effect) and relation to Boltzmann equation and Hamiltonian particle system
In collaboration with researchers of Brown Un.and Leigh Un.
Author of about 75 papers on international Journals. H-index=20 (Google Scholar)
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