Program

Wednesday, February 19th

9:30 - 9:45

Welcome and Introduction
Head of Physics Department Prof. Paolo Milani & 

Condensed Matter group Coordinator Prof. Nicola Manini

9:45 - 10:30

Stephan Roche

(Catalan Institute of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology - ICN2)
"Artificial Intelligence enabling disruptive materials design and engineering"

10:30 - 10:50

Roberto Guerra
"Understanding friction in 2D material surfaces: background and perspectives"

10:50 - 11:10

Simona Achilli

"Towards design and functionalization of 2D materials: theory hand in hand with experiments"

11:10-11:40

Coffee Break

11:40 - 12:00

Guido Tiana

"Sampling the energy profile of complex systems: from protein evolution to artificial neural networks"

12:00 - 12:20

Marco Marino
"Understanding molecular functionalization of magnetic surfaces by first principles"

12:20 - 12:40

Pietro Carrara
"Coherent and dissipative coupling in magnon-phonon hybridization"

12:40 - 13:00

Poster Pitch

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30

Poster Session

14:30 - 15:15

Corentin Coulais 

(Institute of Physics - University of Amsterdam)

"Active mechanical metamaterials: from wave guiding to robotics"

15:15 - 15:35

Mirko Vanzan
"Predicting the chiroptical properties of monosubstituted [6]-helicenes"

15:35 - 15:55

Arabinda Bera
"Clustering of negative topological charges precedes plastic failure in 3D glasses"

15:55-16:20

Coffee Break

16:20 -16:40

Marco Potenza
"Integrated Platform for Global Space and Ground Telecomputation (INSPIRED)"

16:40 - 17:00

Alberto Casu
"The revolution of in situ TEM"

17:00 - 17:20

Alessandro Podestà
"Nanoscale investigation of systems and interfaces by atomic force microscopy"

Thursday, February 20th

9:45 - 10:30

Emre Ozer 

(Senior Director of Processor Development at Pragmatic Semiconductor)

"Stretching the Boundaries of Computing with FlexIC Technology"

10:30 - 10:50

Francesca Borghi
"Brain-like hardware, do we need it?"

10:50 - 11:10

Francesco Monzani
"Leveraging non-unital noise for gate-based quantum reservoir computing"

11:10-11:40

Coffee Break

11:40 - 12:00

Stefano Castellini
"Non-Equilibrium Phenomena Experiments and Educational Projects at Complex Fluids Research Laboratory"

12:00 - 12:20

Davide Sangalli
"Modelling electronic excitations in material science"

12:20 - 12:40

Marcel Di Vece
"Nanoparticles for sustainability: Hydrogen and CO2"

12:40 - 13:00

Poster Pitch

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30

Poster Session

14:30 - 15:15

Giacomo Roati 

(CNR-INO e LENS)
"Ultracold matter for quantum technologies"

15:15 - 15:35

Apostoli Christian

"Describing quantum many-body correlations with variational approaches"

15:35 - 15:55

Sebastiano Corli
"Photonic quantum transpiling, compiling and computing"

15:55-16:20

Coffee Break

16:20 -16:40

Vinay Vaibhav

"Timescale Bridging in Polymer Mechanics Through Non-affine Deformation theory"

16:40 - 17:00

Lorenzo Migliorini
"Electro-active polymeric materials materials for soft robotics and surgical simulators"

17:00 - 17:20

Mirko Siano
"Nanostructured targets for advanced beam diagnostics"