Some recent talks of mine
(click on the title to open the talk) 1) Cogito Ergo \Sum a talk about duality of information processing in shallow networks, from Statistical mechanics to Machine Learning 2) MeccanicaMente a talk about (some) mathematical relations and equivalences of modi operandi in Analytical, Statistical and Relavistic Mechanics 3) CollectiveMigrationOfLeukocytes a talk about statistical inference and inverse problems for leukocytes sensing chemokines to attack cancerous cells. |
Prof. Adriano Barra
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Highlights
- 2018-Highlights of PRE (Physical Review E) of APS, (Editor's Choice for 2018) on our work on Artificial Intelligence 79@Publications: link to appear at the end of 2018.
- 2017-Highlights of EPL (European Physics Letters) of IOP (Editor's Choice for 2017) on our work on immune networks 75@Publications: link here
- 2015-Highlights of J.Phys. A (Math. & Theor. Physics) of IOP (outstanding contributions/best papers of 2015) on our work on neural networks (Section: Statistical Physics). paper 64@Publications: brochure here (with Elena's picture:D)
- 2014-Highlights of J.Phys.A (Math. & Theor. Physics) of IOP (outstanding contributions/best papers of 2014) on our work on spin glasses (Section: Mathematical Physics). paper 51 @Publications: brochure here (with Adriano's picture!:D)
- 2013-Highlights of J.Phys.A (Math. & Theor. Physics) of IOP (outstanding contributions/best papers of 2013) on our work on immune networks (Section: Complex Systems) paper 49 @Publications: brochure here
- 2012-Highlights of J.Phys. A (Math. & Theor. Physics) of IOP (outstanding contributions/best papers of 2012) on our work on spin glasses (Section: Statistical Physics) paper 42 @Publications): brochure here
For four consecutive years my papers on "Journal of Physics A: Mathematical & Theoretical" have been selected for "Highlights: best papers/outstanding contributions of the year" by the Institute of Physics Publishing [IOP]
LATEST NEWS - My PhD-course on "Neural Networks and Learning Machines" in Sapienza will start on February 3th, check this link
- Nov-2024: details for the UMI Italian Conference on AI and Machine Learning are out, check this link.
- Oct-2024: I belong to the PhD-board in the Engineering Faculty of Sapienza Università di Roma: webpage
- Jul-2024: I will join the first conference of the Italian Network for Computational Neuroscience to be held in Rome (Sept. 2024)
- Jun-2024: also this year I will join the Program Committe of AIxIA: link to AIxIA 2024 Edition
- May-2024: attestato Sapienza sulla sicurezza: fruibile cliccando qui.
- Apr-2024: I am a member of the "European Physical Society".
- Mar-2024: finally it is out the new page of our UMI group "Mathematics for Machine Learning".
- Mar-2024: by April first 2024 I will join the Editorial Board of the European Physics Letters EPL: list of editorial board members
- Mar-2024: our 2023 all the talks from our workshop at Alan Turing Institute are available on the Turing's You-Tube chanell
- Feb-2024: by March first, I will be back in Sapienza University (at Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l'Ingegneria)
- Jan-2024: In the past seven years I've spent at Salento University, 5 over 7 times, the Soliani Prize for Mathematical&Theoretical Physics applied to Biology has been assigned to our master thesis students (Alemanno, Aquaro, Albanese, Alessandrelli, Centonze)
- Dic-2023: Conference at Istituto Superiore di Sanità "Dialogs on neuronal networks" in January 2024: link to webpage
- Nov-2023: UMI conference "Mathematics for AI and ML" to be held in Bocconi University in January 2024 [program here].
- Oct-2023: per il triennio (fino al 2026) sono membro della giunta del gruppo AI dell' UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana)
- Sep-2023: since september 2023 I've been enabled Full Professor [ASN] in Applied Physics (Biophysics)
- Sep-2023: our 2023 workshop at Alan Turing Institute is almost ready: registration is open at this link
- Aug-2023: the new team of Editors for Neural Networks (Elsevier), with me in, is finally out: list here.
- Aug-2023: despite the incredible delay, I finally joined UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana) [cedolino]
- Jun- 2023: my (very basic) webpage at Turing Institute is now on-line
- Jul-2023: I will speak at the Italy-USA joint Biomechanics Conference in Naples (Sept. 2023)
- Jun-2023: Elena is a speaker at the Conference "A day on Statistical Physics for Machine Learning" (poster: click here)
- May-2023: I join the Organizing Committe of AIxIA-2023, that will be held in Rome (November 06-09 2023).
- Apr-2023: I am organizing the conference "Stochastic methods for complex Systems" in Salento (18 & 19 May 2023) link
- Mar-2023: our research on cancer has been published in PNAS and there are several press release on in (e.g CNR-press)
- Mar-2023: I play as PhD Referee for M. Benedetti & A. Patti, phd students of Enzo Marinari & Federico Ricci-Tersenghi
- Mar-2023: I play as PhD Referee for G. Lancia, phd student of Cristian Spitoni
- Feb-2023: CNR published this press release on our work on Warburg effect on ACS-NANO (link 2 paper)
- Feb-2023: I'll join the Cortona conference on Mathematical Physics of Complex Systems: good friends and great science!:)
- Jan-2023: The workshop we organized at the Alan Turing Institute is approaching! -> details here.
- Jan-2023: with Elsevier, I stop playing as Editor for J. Computer Science (certificate) [IF=3.2] and start playing as Editor for Neural Networks [IF=9.6]
- Dec-2022: on Dec-02 together with Elena Agliari, Enzo Marinari, Giorgio Parisi and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi we are organizing the conference Guerra-80 to celebrate Francesco Guerra birthday at Istituto Nazionale d'Alta Matematica within the Math Department of Sapienza Università di Roma. (I will also give a talk)
- Nov-2022: on Nov-16 I will give a talk on Neural Nets at Bar-Ilan University: link here.
- Nov-2022: on Nov-10 I will give a talk on Neural Nets at the INTheory Seminars (Sun Yat-Sen University): link here. video here.
- Oct-2022: on Oct-24 I will give a talk on PDE-theory and Machine Learning at Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge for this event.
- Sep-2022: by January 2023 I will join the Editorial Board of the journal Neural Networks (Elsevier)
- Aug-2022: the broad programme on non-lin PDE at Isaac Netwon Institute in Cambridge has started and there will be a session linked to Statistical Mechanics and a (correlated) session linked to Machine Learning (October 2022)
- July-2022: su MaddMaths! la nuova laurea in Matematica per l'AI dell'Università del Salento: link here
- July-2022: I am a member of the Program Committee of the National Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
- June-2022: I am serving arXiv as moderator since 2020: arXiv-report 2020, arXiv-report 2021, (report 2022 yet to come).
- June-2022: \alpha-release of EXALY webpage for a bunch of my papers available
- May-2022: CNR gave a press release on our research on biological complexity, webpage, (also LeScienze)
- April-2022: we are organizing a special issue on Machine Learning and Complex Networks at J. Computational Science.
- March-2022: Presentation of the National Doctoral Training in AI (Pisa driving): link to the scheduled talks here
- December-2021: Closure of the year certificates for my Referee activities at Elsevier ASOC, CHAOS, NEUNET, NEUCOM, PHYSA
- November-2021: I joined the Editorial Board of Journal of Computational Science
- November-2021: A recent talk of mine on the equivalence between Neural Networks and Learning Machines: link here
- October-2021: we are organizing a workshop in Theoretical Artificial Intelligence at Alan Turing Institute in January 2022
- September-2021: I will give a talk at the "Virtual Joint Probability Seminar" organized by Chen, Auffinger & Tang (november 3)
- September-2021: I will give a talk at the 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems (MLIS2021, November 8-11, Xiamen, China) (certificate)
- September-2021: I play as Referee for C. Roussel, phd student of Simona Cocco and Rémi Monasson (november 10)
- April-2021: the new conference on Stochastic Models for Complex Systems (Mat06 area: probability&statistics): June 10-17 (on-line)
- March-2021: March 15: a wonderful conference on Machine Learning & Statistical Physics full of friends
- Feb-2021 I join the Editorial Board (as a mathematics subject editor) of the Royal Society Open Science by the Royal Society Publishing
- Dec-2020 I join the board [Collegio Docenti] (panel: Society) of this exciting new national doctoral programma PhD-AI
- Nov-2020 within the last Italian National Abilitation I've been enabled for full professorship in Mathematical Physics
- Nov-2020 INFN IT security certificate: statement UniSalento security certificate: statement
- Oct-2020 we dedicated the new volume of Ithaca to Artificial Intelligence (mainly from a statistical physics perspective)
- Oct-2020 together with Elena, we wrote two contributions for the Ithaca AI special issue, link-1 & link-2
- Sept-2020 I am the new moderator for arXiv, section: Quantitative Biology -> full list of moderators: click here
- Aug-2020 the semester on dispersive PDE at Newton Institute (Cambridge) has been shifted to the next year 2021
- Jul-2020 I speak at the Federico-II conference "Stochastic models for Complex Systems" (July 1&2)
- Jun-2020 I am in the Jury for the "Habilitation à diriger des rescherches" of the University Paris-Saclay for Dr. C. Furthlehner
(Jury: C. Appert-Rolland, A. Barra, A. Hartmann, K. Mallick, M. Weigt, JP. Nadal, L. Zdeborova) - Jun-2020 The abstract of our contribution (biocomplex) to the past conference AACR Conference is on-line
- May-2020 Finally "Honoring Joel" (the JSP special issue dedicated to celebrate Joel Lebowitz) is out: book of abstract
- April-2020 with Alessia Annibale we will be the opponent to Yasser Roudi PhD student @Kavli: Dean statement
- Mar-2020 Isufi & UniSalento planned a series of talks on "Complex Systems": program here
- Feb-2020 I'll speak at TurboFlow conference (1314 Feb) INFN (Roma2)-CNR-Rome program here
- Feb-2020 on the third week of April I will join -and speak at- this conference! (Jean&Florent&Matteo organizing...)
- Feb-2020 on March 27 I will speak at Assemblea Nazionale del GNFM-INdAM about AI
- Jan-2020 on Feb. 07 I will speak in this talk at the Department of Mathematics of Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna
- Jan-2020 our new research on Artificial Intelligence has just been published on Physical Review Letters, link here
- Dec-2019 during the late-december break I will join the research group of Ido Kanter in Bar-Ilan (Tel Aviv)
- Dec-2019 In the end of this episode of TG1-Speciale, we discuss about sleeping and dreaming in AI (it is in Italian only!)
- Nov-2019 The video of my talk on neural networks & machine learning in this China's conference is available at this link
- Oct-2019 New conference on Statistical Physics & Machine Learning in Trieste, april 2020: link or poster
- Sep-2019 Our group will join the Notte della Ricerca with a poster on AI and a talk (flyer here)
- Sep-2019 The conference SPNC-2019 is approaching. Here is the poster of the event: download poster
- Aug-2019 we are organizing a special issue in Frontiers in Physics on Quantitative Approaches in Social Science
- Aug-2019 I will be vising fellow of the Isaac Netwon Institute (Cambridge) during the program "Random phenomena & Dispersive hydrodynamics" (16th Oct -> 15 Nov 2020).
- Aug-2019 I will be a speaker at the ITCP conference "Youth in High Dimensions" organized by Jean Barbier & Florent Kraktzala
- Jul-2019 I become Senior Editor of Nature Scientific Reports: list of Senior Editors can be found here
- Jun-2019 A recent interview of mine on sleeping neural networks: link here
- May-2019 I will be a speaker at the Conference "Statistical Physics & Neural Computation" (October 4,5,6, China)
- May-2019 A recent one-day meeting on Big Data "and behind": see the happening here
- Apr-2019 A couple of occasions of interactions with the students in UniSalento Locandina-1 Locandina-2
- Mar-2019 I open the Pi-day (a day due to Mathematics) at Unisalento on (not surprisingly) March 14 (3.14), details here
- Mar-2019 A recent interview of mine (in Italian) on our work on Artificial Intelligence is available at this link
- Mar-2019 A summary of our recent research on neural nets is available at Science Trends at this link
- Feb-2019 Our research on Artificial Intelligence has been reported on all the main Italian newspapes (see e.g. Repubblica, Ansa)
- Dec-2018 Together with E. Agliari, P. Sollich & L. Zdeborova we handle a special issue on statistical physics and machine learning at J.Phys.A: Mathematical and Theoretica.
- Nov-2018 Together with E. Agliari and G. Androulakis we will cover an Artificial Intelligence school in Grece on July 2019 (flyer: here)
- Oct-2018 A summary of our recent research on neural nets is available at ScienceTrends at this link
- Sep-2018 I am in the Evaluation Board of the Ph.D. in Mathematics and in Physics&Nanoscience of Salento University (34ciclo)
- May-2018 I've joined the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Physics
- Apr-2018 I've been elected "Elsevier Outstanding Referee" for the year 2017 for the Journal "Applied Soft Computing"
- Apr-2018 Abilitato Professore Associato (II Fascia) in Fisica Teorica delle Interazioni Fondamentali
- Apr-2018 Abilitato Professore Associato (II Fascia) in Fisica Teorica della Struttura della Materia
- Apr-2018 I am one of the speakers at the AI-day at Northubria University (NewCastle, United Kingdom)
- Apr-2018 Settimana della Cultura Scientifica in Salento 16-21 Aprile: scarica il programma degli interventi
- Mar-2018 I am one of the MIUR evaluation experts in the Reprise Evaluation Panel (for fundamental research, Rita Levi Montalcini fellowships).
- Mar-2018 I've been elected "Elsevier Outstanding Referee" for the year 2017 for the Journal "Neurocomputing"
- Mar-2018 I am in the evaluation board in the Forschungszentrum Jülich for the award "Jülich Excellence Prize 2018"
- Mar-2018 Our Friends from King's College are organizing this great conference on Math&Immunology.
- Jan-2018 Our divulgative paper on Biological Cybernetics has been published on Scienze&Ricerche (n.50)
- Dec-2017 we won the PRIN fundings for "Stochastic models for complex systems" (F. Durante PI)
- Nov-2017 Abilitato Professore Associato (II Fascia) in Fisica Applicata (Applied Physics).
- Sep-2017 Notte Italiana della Ricerca: portale INFN per i contributi del polo salentino
- Jul-2017 SuperQuark dedicated a reportage on our work on Theoretical Immunology
- Jul-2017: I am in the evaluation board for Prof. Dr. Moritz Helias (other board members: Prof. John Hertz, Prof. Andrea Crisanti)
- Jul-2017: I speak at the Julich Symposium "Stochastic dynamics in biophysical systems, neuronal networks and field theoretical approaches"
- Jul-2017: for the next four years I will join the Editorial Board of the UniSalento divulgative journal Ithaca
- Jul-2017: I speak at the INdAM conference MOBI2017 about our Theoretical Immunology research
- May-2017: I am a member of the Board (Collegio Dottorale) for the new Ph.D. in UniSalento: "Nanotechnology"
- Apr-2017: I speak at the Spring Doctoral School "Critics2017: Criticality in complex systems" (see flyer)
- Feb-2017: PloS recognized me as officiale Referee for its journals: list here
- Jan-2017: I moved to the Department of Mathematics & Physics "Ennio De Giorgi" of Università del Salento
- Oct-2016: I moved to the Computer Science Department of Sapienza Università di Roma (INF/01) to deepen AI research
- Jun-2016: In the new number of Scienze&Ricerche, n. 32 -index here- (Italian only: inizia la lettura qui) there is a divulgative paper by E. Agliari and myself on emergent properties of nets in the Immune System analyzed via Disordered Statistical Mechanics: paper
- Apr-2016: I have been elected fellow of Institut d'ètudes avanceès IMèRA (Marseille) [final list: here there is one fellow per discipline] where I'll have the privilege to share work with Alain Barrat and Viktor Jirsa on Cibernetic Immunology.
- Apr-2016: I will be Editor (2016/2017) for the Scientific Pages of Artificial Intelligence and Journal of Immune Research
- Feb/Mar 2016: I will held seminars on Biocomplexity in Bologna, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Warwick and London (Randall)
- Feb-2016: Elsevier recognized me as a key Referee for its journals: title here
- Feb-2016: PLoS recognized me as official Referee for its journals: title here
- January 2016: "Almanacco delle Scienze" by C.N.R. has dedicated a page to our divulgative journal Scienze&Ricerche: link here.
- January 2016: also this year I will be in the Editorial Board of the Italian divulgative scientific journal Scienze&Ricerche: certificate
- December 2015: I am visiting Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and present some results at the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory directed by Prof. W. Gerstner
- October-2015: our book Theory and Applications in Mathematical Physics is finally out at World Scientific: link here.
- August-2015: 1500 researchers in AI (me included) signed against "autonomous weapons". Here the Scientific American article, and here the original letter (and here the list of signers) -> no more AI techniques in weapons of mass destruction!!!
- Jun-2015: the highlights (best papers) for the year 2014 of JPA-IOP (Math & Theor Phys) are out! details here.
- Jun-2015: for the next two years I'll play in the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports (section Chemical Physics & Artificial Intelligence).
- May-2015: I speak at Biophysics@Rome2015. Program and details here.
- May-2015: the special issue of Journal of Theoretical Biology on Autoimmune Phenomena is finally out: link here.
Remarkably our contribution (paper n.71 in my pubblication list, namely "Anergy in self-directed B cells from a statistical mechanics perspective" has been judged as "all the more interesting paper" in the preface of the book (available here), wrote by Prof. Root Berenstein. - Mar-2015: I will join the Editorial Board (panel di Fisica) of the divulgative journal Scienze&Ricerche.
- Feb-2015: the next number of Europhysics News, issue 46/2 (link here, pag.7 -or 9, depends on browsers-), dedicates an "highlights article" to progresses made in Neural Networks thanks to our approaches (see the letters PRL2013 and PRL2015 or the long paper where the whole theory is exposed here).
- Jan-2015: Our paper "Metastable states in the hierarchical Dyson model drive parallel processing in the Hierarchical Hopfield network" will appear also in the 2014-IOP-Select.
- Jan-2015: I will be in France (Marseille & Paris) within the trimester at Institute Henrì Poincarè "Disordered systems, random spatial processes and some applications" and present our novel results on Quantitative Sociology and Economical Complexity.
- Our work on hierarchical neural networks has been selected for the cover of JPhysA (Vol.48 Iss. 1): here.
- In the month of December 2014 I am Invited Professor at IMERA to held the course "Modeling the Response of the Adaptive Immune System" for PhDs and researchers.
- In the month of November 2014 I am visiting Sao Paulo University (Brazil) at the Stochastic Modeling Center (from the November Conference, where I will present our novel results on multitasking neural networks, see PRL2012).
- Our book "Mathematical Physics: from Theory to Applications" (editors: A. Barra, E. Agliari, G. Montani, B. Tirozzi) will be available (published by European Physics Press) on April2015
- Details regarding the Conference: "Mathematical Physics: Theory & Application" September 18-20 (Sapienza, Rome): download the Program or Abstracts of the event, (organizers: E. Agliari, A. Barra)
- May-2014: I have been invited to play as opener at the conference "Biophysics@Rome2014": details here.
- Cover page from JPhysA on our Theoretical Immunology work: details available here & here
- Details regarding our Workshop: "Modelling the Complexity of the Immune System" held @ European Conference on Complex Systems 2013, (organizers: E. Agliari, A. Annibale, A. Barra, Ton Coolen) Barcelona (Spain)
- Details on "Complenet2014": Fifth workshop on complex networks (program: here)
- Sapienza-Elsevier webpage (far from up-to-date) of my works: link here
- IOP dedicated an Insight report on our work regarding Immune Networks to better trigger physicist's and mathematician's curiosity.
- Details on the Conference: "Five decades of Theoretical Physics" 21-24 September 2013 held @Sapienza (Dipartimento di Fisica), Rome. (organizers: Adriano Barra, Enzo Marinari, Giorgio Parisi, Giancarlo Ruocco). Download "Locandina" (note: it is a poster size), or the Program or the Abstracts of the event
- Il numero 07 di Accastampato (4/11/12) in ricorrenza della scomparsa di Daniel Amit (Contributi di: Giorgio Parisi, Paolo Del Giudice, Alberto Bernacchia, Adriano Barra): here
- A talk by Peter Sollich summarizing our work on glassy rheology
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