Scientific Research

Fields of Research
Scientific publications
International/national conferences contibutions
Awards
Invited Talks
Research projects
Collaborations
Affiliations
The Research Group where I did my Ph.D.
Ph.D. Thesis and respective materials
The Research Group where I did my Post Doc

Fields of Research

• Discrete Element Method (DEM) modeling and simulation of granular media

• Imaging and Characterization of Complex Materials by Elastic Waves

• Imaging and Characterization of the microstructure of porous media

• High Performance Scientific Computing

• Inverse Problems, Optimization and Soft Computing

• Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation in Tumor Biology

Scientific publications:

• list for each field

• download the complete list in PDF format

International/national conferences contributions

• oral presentations and posters

• contributions as a co-author

Awards & Honors

• Recipient of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Achievement Award, for "methods and results using acoustic sensing and imaging", presented by the Associate Directorate for Chemistry, Life and Earth Sciences

Invited talks

• Exploiting Time Reversal Acoustics for the Development of New Ultrasonic and Seismic Imaging Techniques in Complex Solid Media, June 1st 2007, CRS4 - Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia
  Host: Dr. E. Bonomi - Energy and Environment Division
  Download the slides of the talk (.odp format, OpenOffice.org 2.0) and/or the abstract (.pdf format)

• Nonlinear Elasticity and Time Reversal Acoustics for Damage Detection and Localization, May 15th 2008,EMPA (Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Testing and Technology).
  Host: Prof. J. Carmeliet, Dr. P. Richner, Dept. of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
  Download the slides of the talk (.odp format, OpenOffice.org 2.3, or .ppt format, Microsoft PowerPoint).

Research projects I've been involved in

• "Imaging and structural characterization of building materials using X-Ray micro-Tomography", in collaboration with D. Derome (Laboratory for Wood Science & Technology), M. Abuku and S. Carl (Laboratory for Building Science & Technology), internal Research project, EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research)

• "Modeling and simulation of stick-slip dynamics in sheared granular media", Principal Investigator, internal Research project, EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research)

• "Imaging disordered media with Time Reversal Processing", Principal Investigator, internal Research project, EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research)

• "Time Reversal Computational Imaging", co-Principal Investigator (with P.A. Johnson and C. Larmat), Institutional Computing Program, Los Alamos National Laboratory, US Department of Energy

• concluded Research projects

Collaborations

• Nonlinear Elasticity / Time Reversal Imaging Team, EES-17 (Geophysics) Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM, USA): Dr. P.A. Johnson, Dr. T.J. Ulrich, Dr. C. Larmat, Dr. P-Y Le Bas, Dr. J.A. TenCate, Prof. R.A. Guyer

• Acoustics Research Group, Dept. of Physics, Brigham-Young University (Provo, UT, USA): Prof. B.E. Anderson

• Dept. of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of Torino (Torino, Italy), Dr. M. Scalerandi, Dr. A. Gliozzi

Affiliations

• APS (American Physical Society)
• SPS (Swiss Physical Society)

• CNISM (Italian National Committee for physical Sciences of Matter, ex INFM, National Institute for the Physics of Matter)

• ISSNAF (The Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation)

The Research Group where I did my Ph.D., at the Polytechnic Institute of Torino

• some pictures

Ph.D. Thesis and relative materials

• Ph.D. Thesis (in English, .pdf file)

• Report on "High Performance (Scientific) Computing: from your desktop PCs to parallel supercomputers. A user-friendly introduction" (in English, .pdf file)

• Report relative to the Graduate Studies course "The Monte Carlo Method" on "Monte Carlo Solution of Inverse Problems" (in English, .pdf file)

• Report relative to the Graduate Studies course "Scanning Probe Microscopies for Engineering and Physics" about "Atomic Force Acoustic Microscopy (AFAM): an example of Force Modulation Microscopy" (in English, .pdf file), in collaboration with Matteo Nobili e Yotseliz Lopez Gonzales

The Research Group where I did my Post Doc

• Nonlinear Elasticity and Time Reversal Imaging Team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where I worked as a Post Doc Research scholar from November 2006 to November 2008. At this Web site, you can find information about the Team's Research activities, publications, projects, people, and some pictures and movies from the daily work.
• EES-17 Group (ex EES-11, aka Geophysics, Group) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Nonlinear Elasticity / Time Reversal Imaging Team belongs to the EES-17 Group, which is one of the Research Group of the EES (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Division of the the Los Alamos National Laboratory. At this Web site, you can find any information about Research activities, people, projects, funding, technical capabilities, collaborations of the Geophysics Group.
• EES (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Principal Web site of the Division.

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Last update: 11/01/2009