• a conference on Coarse-grained description for non-equilibrium systems and transport phenomena, July 4-6, 2022 in Rome at CNR central, see the website

• a conference on Boltzmann Equation and Irreversibility: after 150 years an evergreen problem, November 29-30, 2022 in Pisa, at Scuola Normale and Centro Ennio de Giorgio, see the website

• Tesi magistrale sperimentale: siamo alla ricerca di studenti che siano interessati a esperimenti sugli spermatozoi (ispirati alla fisica statistica del non-equilibrio)

• 2022, A conference on Coarse-grained description for non-equilibrium systems and transport phenomena is announced for days 4-6 of July 2022, see the website, there is no participation fee but registration is required.

• 2022, we (with Andrea Plati) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett. a numerical study showing that friction ratcheting occurs in vibrated granular sphere packings without any explicit spatial symmetry breaking (disorder and defects are sufficient to induce persistent drifts in a direction)
  

• 2022, the first School of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics August 29 - September 8, 2022, Lucca, Italy, is open, see the website !

• 2022, a very lively 1-day workshop on active matter organised by me and Andrea Cavagna on active matter: https://sites.google.com/view/activeday2022/

• 2021, a book for a large non-specialised audience is out from Springer! The title is A Random Walk in Physics: Beyond Black Holes and Time-travels and I authored it together with three old friends: Massimo Cencini, Davide Vergni and Angelo Vulpiani, it can be bought online for instance at amazon (kindle or rigid cover)

• 2021, the organisation of the conference for the 40 years of stochastic resonance has started! It will be held in Perugia from 13 to 15 September 2021.

• 2021, a popularized-science paper in ITALIAN about granular materials and active matter for a very general public, appeared on ITHACA Materiali fatti di molecole macroscopiche: dai granulari alla materia attiva

• 2021, A course (second year) for Ph. D. students in Sapienza/Roma3 on Stochastic Thermodynamics, see the presentation

• 2020, the first SIFS school, will be held in LUCCA-IMT, from August 31 to September 10, 2020, see the website (school canceled for covid19 emergency)

• 2020, nominated Outstanding Referee for 2020, by APS

• 2020, we (with Caprini and Marini Bettolo Marconi) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett. a numerical study showing that "flocking" (at least at short-range) is present also in purely spherical repulsive active Brownian particles, i.e. that velocities spontaneously align even in the absence of explicit Vicsek forces
  

• 2020, A new course for Ph. D. students in Sapienza/Roma3 on Stochastic Thermodynamics, see the presentation

• 2019, A conference at Accademia dei Lincei on the origin of theoretical models, it will take place on the 27-29 November 2019. See the webpage. (The event has appeared also on the CNR journal )

• 2019, we (with Plati, Baldassarri, Gnoli and Gradenigo) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a numerical study of the full experimental setup for granular rotational diffusion, discovering a strong collective motion that emerges when density is large enough
  

• 2018, we (with Angelani, Baldassarri, Cecconi and Gnoli) have won a funding (150kEuro) for a project (MICROSORT) on the physics of sperm

• 2018, we (with Caprini, Bettolo Marconi and Vulpiani) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett a comment to a previous study on thermodynamics of active (living) matter, where we offer a possible solution to a debate about the proper definition of entropy production
  

• 2018, we (with Gnoli, De Arcangelis, Giacco, Lippiello, Pica Ciamarra and Sarracino) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a study of viscosity in dense granular media, which decreases abruptly at a thresold vibration frequency and is recovered at a larger vibration frequency
  

• 2017, we (with Manacorda) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a study of a lattice model for inertial active particles which shows collective swarming, aster-like clusters and underdamped propagating waves
  

• 2017, we (with Sarracino and Vulpiani) have published a review paper on Physics Reports about the definition of temperature in and out of equilibrium in classical statistical mechanics

• 2017, we (with Bettolo and Maggi) have published a paper on Scientific Reports where entropy production and heat are connected - as in the Clausius relation - in a model of self-propelled (active) particles, like bacteria or sperm

• 2017, I am editing (with Sarracino and Vulpiani) a special issue of the "Entropy" journal on the theme "Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems"

• 2016, published on Scientific Reports, an experimental and theoretical study of granular rheology under vertical vibration (in collab. with A. Gnoli, A. Lasanta and A. Sarracino)
  

• 2016, published on New J. Phys, an experimental and theoretical study of the response velocity of a 3d-printed "walker" moving on a vibrating plate (in collab. with N. Koumakis, A. Gnoli, C. Maggi and R. Di Leonardo)
  

• 2016, published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a numerical study of the response of an inertial particle in a "rotating" flow, with very strange nonlinear effects (in collab. with Cecconi, Sarracino and Vulpiani)
  

• 2016, published on Phys. Rev. Lett, an experiment on granular thermal convection induced only by dissipative lateral walls (in collab. with Gnoli, Pontuale and Vega-Reyes)
  

• 2015: Spring 2015 seminars: during the spring of 2015 we had a lucky sequence of three seminars given by young colleagues who - in the recent past - have worked in our group, and are now exploring new interesting paths in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; following the above link you can retrieve the titles, abstracts and slides of the three seminars.

• 2015-2016, a series of published papers on fluctuating hydrodynamics of granular fluids derived from a microscopic model (in collab. with Manacorda, Lasanta, Plata and Prados)

• 2015-2016, a series of published papers on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of small systems and heat engines (in collab. with Cerino and Vulpiani)

• 2015, our research is covered by Nova (science&technology from Il Sole 24 Ore) here

• 2015, published on Phys. Rev. Lett, an experiment on cages and super-diffusion in a vibrated dense granular medium
  

Andrea Puglisi

• new!: 2022, A conference on Coarse-grained description for non-equilibrium systems and transport phenomena is announced for days 4-6 of July 2022, see the website, there is no participation fee but registration is required.

• new!: 2022, the first School of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics August 29 - September 8, 2022, Lucca, Italy, is open, see the website !

• new!: 2022, a very lively 1-day workshop on active matter organised by me and Andrea Cavagna on active matter: https://sites.google.com/view/activeday2022/

• new!: 2021, A course (second year) for Ph. D. students in Sapienza/Roma3 on Stochastic Thermodynamics, see the presentation

• the web page of a friend, collaborator, and mentor, Angelo Vulpiani, on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and dynamical systems

• the web page of a friend and collaborator, Vittorio Loreto, on complexity theory

• ... and details about our experiments at the page of the Granular Dynamics Laboratory

• new!: 2021, a book for a large non-specialised audience is out from Springer! The title is A Random Walk in Physics: Beyond Black Holes and Time-travels and I authored it together with three old friends: Massimo Cencini, Davide Vergni and Angelo Vulpiani, it can be bought online for instance at amazon (kindle or rigid cover)

• A recent interview for a broad audience for the SIFS, on the theme of granular materials (in italian).

• new!: 2021, a popularized-science paper in ITALIAN about granular materials and active matter for a very general public, appeared on ITHACA Materiali fatti di molecole macroscopiche: dai granulari alla materia attiva

• Scientific Interests: granular materials, active matter, stochastic thermodynamics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, computational cognitive science

• new!: 2021, the organisation of the conference for the 40 years of stochastic resonance has started! It will be held in Perugia from 13 to 15 September 2021.

• A recent interview for a broad audience for the SIFS, on the theme of granular materials.

• Research Director at the unit of CNR-ISC based at Sapienza University - Rome - Italy

• new!: 2021, A course (second year) for Ph. D. students in Sapienza/Roma3 on Stochastic Thermodynamics, see the presentation

• new!: 2020, the first SIFS school, will be held in LUCCA-IMT, from August 31 to September 10, 2020, see the website (school canceled for covid19 emergency)

• new!: 2020, nominated Outstanding Referee for 2020, by APS

• Corso di dottorato (Ph.D): Introduction to stochastic thermodynamics : notes and videos

• A very complete historical and conceptual introduction to Brownian Motion and the concept of velocity in it: preprint

• a conference on the origin of theoretical models November 27-29, 2019 at Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, see webpage. (The event has appeared also on the CNR journal )

Andrea Puglisi

• new!: 2020, the first SIFS school, will be held in LUCCA-IMT, from August 31 to September 10, 2020, see the website

• new!: 2020, we (with Caprini and Marini Bettolo Marconi) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett. a numerical study showing that "flocking" (at least at short-range) is present also in purely spherical repulsive active Brownian particles, i.e. that velocities spontaneously align even in the absence of explicit Vicsek forces
  

• new!: 2020, A new course for Ph. D. students in Sapienza/Roma3 on Stochastic Thermodynamics, see the presentation

• new!: 2019, A conference at Accademia dei Lincei on the origin of theoretical models, it will take place on the 27-29 November 2019. See the webpage. (The event has appeared also on the CNR journal )

• new!: the first SIFS school, will be held in LUCCA-IMT, from August 31 to September 10, 2020, see the website

• Curriculum Vitae short

• new!: A conference at Accademia dei Lincei on the origin of theoretical models, it will take place on the 27-29 November 2019. See the webpage. (The event has appeared also on the CNR journal )

[[][]] Andrea Puglisi

• new!: A new course for Ph. D. students in Sapienza/Roma3 on Stochastic Thermodynamics, see the presentation

• new!: A conference at Accademia dei Lincei on the origin of theoretical models, it will take place on the 27-29 November 2019. See the webpage.

• new!: Experimental postdoc position in soft-matter (bio-microfluidics) at CNR-ISC, Rome-Sapienza, Italy, starting fall 2019, see announcement ---- Official applications are OPEN with deadline the 25th of September 2019, instructions here

• new!: 2019, we (with Plati, Baldassarri, Gnoli and Gradenigo) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a numerical study of the full experimental setup for granular rotational diffusion, discovering a strong collective motion that emerges when density is large enough
  

• recent: 2017, online a video with a talk given at the ECEA4 conference on stochastic thermodynamics for active particles
  

• recent: 2017, we (with Manacorda) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a study of a lattice model for inertial active particles which shows collective swarming, aster-like clusters and underdamped propagating waves
  

• recent: 2017, we (with Sarracino and Vulpiani) have published a review paper on Physics Reports about the definition of temperature in and out of equilibrium in classical statistical mechanics

• recent: 2017, we (with Bettolo and Maggi) have published a paper on Scientific Reports where entropy production and heat are connected - as in the Clausius relation - in a model of self-propelled (active) particles, like bacteria or sperm

• recent: 2017, I am editing (with Sarracino and Vulpiani) a special issue of the "Entropy" journal on the theme "Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems"

• 2016, published on Scientific Reports, an experimental and theoretical study of granular rheology under vertical vibration (in collab. with A. Gnoli, A. Lasanta and A. Sarracino)
  

• 2016, published on New J. Phys, an experimental and theoretical study of the response velocity of a 3d-printed "walker" moving on a vibrating plate (in collab. with N. Koumakis, A. Gnoli, C. Maggi and R. Di Leonardo)
  

• 2016, published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a numerical study of the response of an inertial particle in a "rotating" flow, with very strange nonlinear effects (in collab. with Cecconi, Sarracino and Vulpiani)
  

• 2016, published on Phys. Rev. Lett, an experiment on granular thermal convection induced only by dissipative lateral walls (in collab. with Gnoli, Pontuale and Vega-Reyes)
  

• 2015: Spring 2015 seminars: during the spring of 2015 we had a lucky sequence of three seminars given by young colleagues who - in the recent past - have worked in our group, and are now exploring new interesting paths in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; following the above link you can retrieve the titles, abstracts and slides of the three seminars.

• 2015-2016, a series of published papers on fluctuating hydrodynamics of granular fluids derived from a microscopic model (in collab. with Manacorda, Lasanta, Plata and Prados)

• 2015-2016, a series of published papers on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of small systems and heat engines (in collab. with Cerino and Vulpiani)

• 2015, our research is covered by Nova (science&technology from Il Sole 24 Ore) here

• 2015, published on Phys. Rev. Lett, an experiment on cages and super-diffusion in a vibrated dense granular medium
  

• new!: Experimental postdoc position in soft-matter (bio-microfluidics) at CNR-ISC, Rome-Sapienza, Italy, starting fall 2019, see announcement ---- Official applications are OPEN with deadline the 16th of August 2019, instructions here

• new!: Experimental postdoc position in soft-matter (bio-microfluidics) at CNR-ISC, Rome-Sapienza, Italy, starting fall 2019, see announcement

• new!: 2018, we (with Angelani, Baldassarri, Cecconi and Gnoli) have won a funding (150kEuro) for a project (MICROSORT) on the physics of sperm

• new!: 2018, we (with Caprini, Bettolo Marconi and Vulpiani) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett a comment to a previous study on thermodynamics of active (living) matter, where we offer a possible solution to a debate about the proper definition of entropy production
  

• Principal Investigator of the regional (Lazio) project MICROSORT (years 2019-2020)

• Senior Researcher ("primo ricercatore") at ISC-Sapienza (the unit of CNR - ISC based at Sapienza University - Rome - Italy)

• new!: 2018, we (with Gnoli, De Arcangelis, Giacco, Lippiello, Pica Ciamarra and Sarracino) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a study of viscosity in dense granular media, which decreases abruptly at a thresold vibration frequency and is recovered at a larger vibration frequency
  

• recent: 2016, published on Scientific Reports, an experimental and theoretical study of granular rheology under vertical vibration (in collab. with A. Gnoli, A. Lasanta and A. Sarracino)
  

• recent: 2016, published on New J. Phys, an experimental and theoretical study of the response velocity of a 3d-printed "walker" moving on a vibrating plate (in collab. with N. Koumakis, A. Gnoli, C. Maggi and R. Di Leonardo)
  

• recent: 2016, published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a numerical study of the response of an inertial particle in a "rotating" flow, with very strange nonlinear effects (in collab. with Cecconi, Sarracino and Vulpiani)
  

• recent: 2016, published on Phys. Rev. Lett, an experiment on granular thermal convection induced only by dissipative lateral walls (in collab. with Gnoli, Pontuale and Vega-Reyes)
  

• new!: 2017, online a video with a talk given at the ECEA4 conference on stochastic thermodynamics for active particles
  

• new!: 2017, online a video with a talk of mine given at the ECEA4 conference on stochastic thermodynamics for active particles
  

• new!: 2017, we (with Manacorda) have published on Phys. Rev. Lett, a study of a lattice model for inertial active particles which shows collective swarming, aster-like clusters and underdamped propagating waves
  

• new!: 2017, we (with Sarracino and Vulpiani) have published a review paper on Physics Reports about the definition of temperature in and out of equilibrium in classical statistical mechanics

• see also a brief description of activities of the Granes group at ISC-CNR page ...

• new!: 2017, we (with Bettolo and Maggi) have published a paper on Scientific Reports where entropy production and heat are connected - as in the Clausius relation - in a model of self-propelled (active) particles, like bacteria or sperm

• a conference on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems September 18-20, 2017 in Rome at Sapienza University, see webpage

• new!: 2017, we (with Bettolo and Maggi) have published a paper on Scientific Reports where entropy production and heat are connected in a model of self-propelled (active) particles, like bacteria or sperm

• recent: Spring 2015 seminars: during the spring of 2015 we had a lucky sequence of three seminars given by young colleagues who - in the recent past - have worked in our group, and are now exploring new interesting paths in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; following the above link you can retrieve the titles, abstracts and slides of the three seminars.

• recent: 2015-2016, a series of published papers on fluctuating hydrodynamics of granular fluids derived from a microscopic model (in collab. with Manacorda, Lasanta, Plata and Prados)

• recent: 2015-2016, a series of published papers on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of small systems and heat engines (in collab. with Cerino and Vulpiani)