Advanced spectroscopy experiments

• Francesco Banfi (BS) – Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopies
• Gabriele Ferrini (BS) – Surface sensitive time-resolved optical spectroscopy
• Claudio Giannetti (BS) – High-Tc superconductors, strongly-correlated electrons
• Alessandro Lascialfari – Magnetic and superconducting nanostructures
• Cristina Lenardi – Photoelectron spectroscopy
• Stefania Pagliara (BS) – Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopies
• Giorgio Rossi – Spectroscopy and surface magnetometry with synchrotron light
• Luigi Sangaletti (BS) – Surface science, spectroscopy of strongly-correlated electrons

 

Biophysics

• Guido Tiana – Statistical mechanics methods applied to complex systems of biological interest
• Stefano Zapperi – Computer simulations of biophysical phenomena and bio-inspired materials
• Tommaso Bellini – Physics of DNA: self-assembly, chiral interactions, nanostructures
• Marco Buscaglia – Experimental investigation of protein folding and of the dynamics of biopolymers
• Roberto Cerbino – Experimental study of the motility and behavior of biological microorganisms

 

Coherent and quantum optics, quantum information and quantum transport

• Fausto Borgonovi (BS) – Open quantum systems and quantum transport
• Fabrizio Castelli – Physics of exotic atoms
• Luca Celardo (BS) - Open quantum systems and quantum transport
• Simone Cialdi – Quantum optics, lasers, nonlinear optics
• Carlo Mereghetti – Quantum Automata, Quantum Computing, Theoretical Computer Science
• Stefano Olivares – Quantum information and quantum optics
• Matteo Paris – Quantum information, quantum optics, open quantum systems
• Nicola Piovella – Cooperative scattering by cold and ultracold resonant atoms
• Marco Potenza – Light scattering & coherent radiation

 

Complex and non-equilibrium fluids

• Tommaso Bellini – Liquid crystals: topology, multistability, memory
• Roberto Cerbino – Physics of complex colloids: concentrated colloids, patchy colloids, food colloids
• Marco Potenza – non-equilibrium colloidal systems
• Alberto Vailati – Pattern formation and dynamics of non-equilibrium systems

 

Mechanical  response of disordered materials

• Stefano Zapperi – statistical and computational studies of friction, fracture and plasticity

 

Nanostructures: synthesis and characterization

• Marcel Di Vece- Nanoparticles and thin films for solar cells and light-matter interaction
• Luca Gavioli  (BS) – Nanosystems for technological applications
• Cristina Lenardi – Biological characterization of nanostructured thin films
• Paolo Milani – Cluster-assembled nanostructured materials, carbon, transition oxides
• Paolo Piseri – Nanostructured and nanocomposite materials, cluster deposition
• Alessandro Podestà – Scanning probing of nanoscale interfacial properties

 

Plasma physics, particle beams, radiation sources

• Vittoria Petrillo – Particles and radiation sources
• Massimiliano Romé – Plasma physics, charged particle traps and beam dynamics, thermonuclear fusion

 

Theory of classical and quantum fluids, solids, surfaces and nanostructures

• Guido Fratesi – Electronic structure and spectroscopy of surface systems and molecules
• Davide Galli – Theory and simulation of quantum fluids and solids
• Nicola Manini - Atomic-scale friction, molecular dynamics, electronic structure
• Giovanni Onida – Ab-initio electronic structure, theoretical spectroscopy
• Davide Pini – Theory of liquids and soft matter

 

Examples of slides on near-past research

• the Condensed Matter Highlights workshops come with nice collections of presentation slides;
• the Physics of Complex Systems Group site holds several presentations too;
• see also for example a presentation by G. Rossi: part-1 and part-2 (16-04-2013).