Reading Group Meetings:

Along the year, we meet (often in room C29) for informal seminars or discussions about topics one or more of us is interested in and willing to present to the group ("Reading Group Meetings").



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recent and upcoming meetings.




Past sessions (in chronological order): Year 2008

• 28 November 2008. D. Funaro - 4th talk on Electromagnetism and the Structure of Matter
• 5 December 2008 (10.00am). V. Cantoni talks on Application of PR Techniques to Proteomics
• 12 December 2008. D. Funaro - 5th talk on Electromagnetism and the Structure of Matter
  

  Year 2009

• 16 January 2009, 9:30am. D. Funaro - 6th talk on Electromagnetism and the Structure of Matter
• 23 January 2009, 9:30am. M. Piastra: Self-organizing networks for manifold reconstruction (and beyond)
• 30 January 2009, 11:00am. D. Funaro - 7th talk on Electromagnetism and the Structure of Matter
• 17 April 2009, 9:30am. D. Funaro - Final talk on Electromagnetism and the Structure of Matter
• 24 April 2009, 9:00am. Epifanio G. VIRGA: Combining molecular dispersion interaction and steric hindrance in a computable model
  

  Year 2011

• 15 January 2010 9:30am. Silvano ROMANO: Reconsidering dipolar and dispersion interactions in liquid crystals
• 22 January 2010 9:00am. Silvano ROMANO: Rigorous results in the statistical mechanics of classical lattice spin models
• 29 January 2010 9:30am. Fulvio BISI Finite Element Modeling of Liquid Crystals
• 12 February 2010 9:30am. Fulvio BISI Finite Element Modeling of Liquid Crystals (part II)
• 19 February 2010 9:30am. Riccardo ROSSO Quaternions in mechanics: a primer
• 26 February 2010 9:30am. Riccardo ROSSO Quaternions in mechanics: a primer (part II)
• 5 March 2010 11:00am. Giovanni DE MATTEIS Acoustic Streaming: Eckart's solution
• 9 April 2010 11:00am. Giovanni DE MATTEIS Acoustic Streaming: Eckart's solution (part II)
• 16 April 2010, 11:00am. Epifanio G. VIRGA Reflections upon curvature
• 7 May 2010, 11:00am. Epifanio G. VIRGA Reflections upon curvature (part II)
• 14 May 2010, 16:00am. Epifanio G. VIRGA Reflections upon curvature (part III)
• 21 May 2010, 16:00am. Epifanio G. VIRGA Reflections upon curvature (part IV)
• 11 June 2010, 11:00am. Epifanio G. VIRGA Reflections upon curvature (part V)
• 8 October 2010,9:30 a.m. Riccardo ROSSO Afterthoughts on topological charges
• 22 October 2010, 4:00 p.m. Epifanio G. VIRGA Reflections upon Minkowski formula on averaged excluded volume
• 29 October 2010, 4:00 p.m. Epifanio G. VIRGA Reflections upon Minkowski formula on averaged excluded volume (part II)
• 5 November 2010, 4:00 p.m. Leonid MIRANTSEV Molecular dynamics simulations and their applications to solids, fluids and liquid crystals
• 12 November 2010, 4:00 p.m. Leonid MIRANTSEV Molecular dynamics simulations and their applications to solids, fluids and liquid crystals (part II)
• 19 November 2010, 4:00 p.m. A. V. ZAKHAROV Thermomechanical effect on hydrodynamics of liquid crystals
• 26 November 2010, 4:00 p.m. Riccardo ROSSO On continuum [thermo]mechanics of mixtures
• 3 December 2010, 4:00 p.m. Riccardo ROSSO On continuum [thermo]mechanics of mixtures: Part II
  

  Year 2011

• 14 January 2011, 4:00 p.m. Fulvio BISI True 3D distribution of particles from 2D information
• 21 January 2011, 4:00 p.m. Fulvio BISI True 3D distribution of particles from 2D information: Part 2
• 28 January 2011, 4:00 p.m. Riccardo ROSSO Averaging techniques in multiphase flows
• 18 February 2011, 11:00 a.m. Fulvio BISI True 3D distribution of particles from 2D information: Part 3
• 25 February 2011, 11:00 a.m. Riccardo ROSSO Averaging techniques in multiphase flows: Part 2
• 18 March 2011, 4:00 p.m. Epifanio G. VIRGA Glimpses of thermodynamics: a reading from an old book of C.A. Truesdell
• 25 March 2011, 4:00 p.m. Epifanio G. VIRGA Glimpses of thermodynamics: a reading from a recent book of I. Muller
• 1 April 2011, 4:00 p.m. Marco PIASTRA Taming software self-organizing systems: a step towards virtual soft matter?
• 8 April 2011, 4:00 p.m. Marco PIASTRA Taming software self-organizing systems: a step towards virtual soft matter? Part 2
• 29 April 2011, 4:00 p.m. Riccardo ROSSO The physics behind phase-field models
• 6 May 2011, 4:00 p.m. Riccardo ROSSO The physics behind phase-field models: Part II
• 20 May 2011, 4:00 p.m. Epifanio G. VIRGA Glimpses of thermodynamics: a reading from an old paper of C. Eckart