Andrea Puglisi

Researcher at ISC-Sapienza (the unit of CNR - ISC based at Sapienza University - Rome - Italy) Scientific Interests: granular materials, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, computational cognitive science Principal Investigator of the FIRB - IDEAS project GRANULARCHAOS Curriculum Vitae short --- long --- Publications: Updated list -- Isi (h=25) -- Scholar (h=31) Activity Resume act.pdf Ph. D. Thesis on Granular Gases (2002): html and pdf see also a brief description of activities at my ISC-CNR page ... ... and details about our experiments at the page of the Granular Dynamics Laboratory

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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.

Announcements

• new!: 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)
  

• new!: 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)
  

• new!: 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!: 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)

Fluctuating hydrodynamics and mesoscopic effects of spatial correlations in dissipative systems with conserved momentum [N. J. Phys. 17, 083039 (2015)] Lattice models for granular-like velocity fields: Hydrodynamic limit [J. Stat. Phys. 164, 810 (2016)] Lattice models for granular-like velocity fields: Finite-size effects [J. Stat. Mech. 093203 (2016)]

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

A kinetic model for the finite-time thermodynamics of small heat engines [Phys. Rev. E 91, 032128 (2015)] Linear and nonlinear thermodynamics of a kinetic heat engine with fast transformations [Phys. Rev. E 93, 042116 (2016)] Consistent description of fluctuations requires negative temperatures [J. Stat. Mech. (2015) P12002] Entropy production for macroscopic velocity-dependent forces: the problem of dissipation without fluctuations [Europhys. Lett. 111, 40012 (2015)]

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

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

2015: A Springer Brief on granular fluids:

2014: A Springer-LNP on Large Deviations:

• 2014: an experiment on non-equilibrium Fluctuation-Dissipation relation, performed in our Granular Dynamics Lab, published on Plos One (open access!)
  
  

• 2013: a Brownian motor ("ratchet") effect driven only by dry friction , published on Phys. Rev. Lett.
   

• 2011-2012: experiments on a quasi-2d granular fluid with non-equilibrium-induced ("dissipative") structures
  

• 2010: The Granular Dynamics Lab is open, have a look at the lab page

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Courses

• Corso 2' anno laurea specialistica in fisica (valido anche per dottorandi): Introduzione alla teoria dei processi stocastici e applicazioni in fisica : informazioni

• Corso di dottorato (Ph. D.): Fluidized granular materials : program - lessons.pdf

Organised conferences

• Anomalous Transport: from Billiards to Nanosystems conference held in Sperlonga from 20 to 24 September 2010, please visit the webpage

• a workshop on Non-equilibrium fluctuation-response relations held in Giglio Island June 5-8, 2012, see webpage

• a day on Quasi-fluids and quasi-solids: the dynamics of active and granular matter held during the XVII National Conference on Statistical Physics held in Parma, June 20-22, 2012, see website

• a 1-month program on Small system nonequilibrium fluctuations, dynamics and stochastics, and anomalous behavior, July 1-26, 2013 in Beijing (China) at Kavli-China institute, see webpage

• a conference on Large deviations and rare events in physics and biology September 23-25, 2013 in Rome at Sapienza University, see webpage

• a conference on Strolling on Chaos, Turbulence and Statistical Mechanics September 22-24, 2014 in Rome at Sapienza University, see webpage

• a small workshop on Statistical Mechanics of non-Hamiltonian systems May 12-13, 2015 in Rome at Sapienza University, see webpage

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Contacts

• Dipartimento di Fisica - Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" - p.le A. Moro 2 - 00185 Roma - Italy

• office: 4th floor of Fermi building , room 406

• lab: ground floor of Fermi building , room 012

• Tel: +39 06 4991 3491

• Fax: +39 06 446 3158

• andrea.puglisiroma1.infn.it

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