Conferences and Talks

Conferences on invitation

•  13-17 June 2022 invited speaker at the conference CANUM 20222 within the Minisimposium: “Contrôle et contrôle optimal en mécanique des fluids” with seminar entitled: “Scalloping with friends “

• 20-24 September 2021 invited speaker  at the INDAM meeting “Active Materials: from Mechanobiology to Smart Devices” with seminar entitled: “Kinetic and mean field control of cells through leaders”

• 30 August-03 September 2021invited speaker at the conference SIMAI 2020+2021 with seminar within the Minisimposium “Mathematical models for cells migration” entitled “Kinetic and mean field control of cells through leaders”

• 09 Luglio 2020 invited by the University of Glasgow to hold an online seminar “Rods in contact under pressure”

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• Invited speaker at the workshop “Math from the Body”, with seminar: “A model for magnetic microrobots for drug delivery” Venice, Italy 06-08 June 2019

• Invited speaker in the special session on “Geometric structures applied to classical mechanics, control theory and engineering" in the Congreso Bienal de la Real Sociedad Matematica Española. Santander, Spain, February 4-8, 2019

• Invited speaker at the Conference "Control of state constrained dynamical systems", Department of mathematics, University of Padua, 25-29 September 2017, title of the communication: "Controllability properties of dynamical systems with hysteresis".

• Invited speaker at the workshop "Hybrid dynamical systems: optimization stability and applications", Trento 9-11 January 2017, title of the communication: "Controllability properties of dynamical systems with hysteresis".

• Invited speaker at the XXII Congress-Italian Association of theoretical and applied mechanics (AIMETA) inside the mini symposium entitled: "Meccanobiology motility and Morphogenesis of living matter ", Genova, 14-17 September 2015, title of the communication: "Planar swimming in ideal fluids". 

Other conferences

• 11-13 December 2019 presentation of the proceeding  “Optimal motion of a scallop, some case studies” at the  58th conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Nizza-Francia 2019.

• 17-20 September 2019 seminar “Optimal motion of a scallop, some case studies” at the  French German Swiss conference on Optimization Nizza 2019.

• Communication: "Motion Planning via Reconstruction Theory" at the conference Symmetry and Perturbation Theory (SPT), Pula (CA), 3-10 June 2018.

• Communication "Motion Planning via Reconstruction Theory" at the 12th International ICMAT Summer School on Geometry, Mechanics and Control, Santiago de Compostela, 2-6 July 2018.

•  Communication: "Controllability of the hydro-Chaplygin sleigh" at the 12th young researcher workshop on Geometry, Mechanics and Control, Padova, 22-24 January 2018. 

• Communication: "Design and steering of a magneto-elastic micro-swimmer inspired by the motility of sperm cells" at the workshop "Mathematical Modeling and Self Organization in Medicine, Biology and Ecology: from Micro to Macro", Giardini Naxos (ME) .17 -21 September 2017.

• Presentation of the proceeding: "Purcell magneto-elastic swimmer controlled by an external magnetic field" at the 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Toulouse, 9-13 July 2017. 

• Communication: "Geometry and Control of Planar swimming" at the 11th ICMAT International Summer School on Geometry, Mechanics and Control, Madrid, 26-30 June 2017.

• Communication: "Swimming by switching" at the National Assembly of the GNFM –National Group of  Mathematical Physics Motecatini Terme,  4-6 May 2017.

• Seminar: "Optimal control problems for slender microswimmers" Trento November 2015.

• Partecipation to Assemblea nazionale del GNFM October 2015.

• Seminar: "Planar swimming in ideal fluids" Congresso AIMETA 2015

• Seminar:"Modelization, controllability and optimal strokes for N-link Microswimmer" InternationalWorkshop Multiscale Models in Mechano and Tumor Biology: Modeling, Homogenization, and Applica-tions. Darmstadt September 2015.

• Seminar: "Planar swimming in ideal fluids" Bressanone 18 December 2014

• Seminar: "Planar swimming in ideal fluids" Trento 17 December 2014

• 10 October- 28 November 2014 IHP Trimester Geometry, Analysis and Dynamics on Sub-Riemannian Manifolds

• 31 June-11 July 2014 Period at SISSA Trieste to work with Prof.Antonio DeSimone

• Partecipation to the summer school Mechanobiology of Cells and Tissues: Motility and Morphogenesis June 16, 2014 June 20, 2014 Coordinators:Antonio DeSimone(SISSA, Trieste, Italy) Marino Arroyo (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)

• INdAM Workshop Analysis and Geometry in Control Theory and its Applications , with a special tribute to Hèlène Frankowska and Hèctor J. Sussmann Roma, 9-13 June 2014, Dipartimento di Matematica G. Castelnuovo, Università La Sapienza

• Seminar: "Locomotion in fluids" SISSA Trieste December 2013

• August-September 2012 fellowship at SISSA Trieste to work with prof Antonio DeSimone

• September 2012 Partecipation to "Summer School of Mathematical Physiscs" in Ravello

• September 2011 Partecipation to "Summer School of Mathematical Physiscs" in Ravello.