Professor Francesco
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Exploring bio-inspired systems:
a synergy between multiscale experimental and
Computational approaches
Wien, September 4, 2024 - September 7, 2024
Guiding colloidal SAT-assembly (pdf)
Guiding colloidal SAT-assembly (pptx)
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SIF Summer School - Topology and Materials
July 18 2024
From water to colloidal water....
a topological nature of the liquid-liquid transition? (pdf)
From water to colloidal water....
a topological nature of the liquid-liquid transition? (pptx)
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European XFEL Users' Meeting
Molecular Water Science
Jan 24 2024
Recent computational studies of the liquid-liquid transition in supercooled water
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Cecam Meeting: Challenges and Opportunities in non-equilibrium soft matter,
September 24, 2023.
DaanEntropy:
A disease spreading within the Computational Soft Matter Community
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UK Colloids 2023,
July 17, 2023
Guiding colloidal self assembly processes
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Liquids, Glasses and Other Adventures in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.
Symposium in Celebration of Pablo Debenedetti's 70th Birthday,
June 16, 2023.
Structural and Topological Changes Across the Liquid-Liquid Transition in Water
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XFEL Virtual Satellite Meetings,
Studying molecular water,
Friday, 21 January 2022.
Computational studies of the liquid-liquid
transition in supercooled water
(45 years in 45 minutes)
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SISSA Seminar, April 28 2021
Entropy in Self-Assembly
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Biohydrogels 2021
Rome, Italy April 23, 2021
Playing with DNA hydrogels
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11 LMC, Prague (2021)
Recent results on the liquid-liquid transition in TIP4P (2005 and Ice)
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Entropy, Information and Order in Soft Matter, Bangalore September 24-29 2018
Lecture 1 (pdf)
Lecture 2 (pdf)
Lecture 3 (pdf)
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Liquid Matter Conference, July 2017, Ljubljana
Angels Dancing on Pinheads
(pdf)
(pptx)
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Roma, Ottobre 2016. La Scienza a Scuola. Zanichelli.
Costruire con mattoni di DNA
(pdf)
(pptx)
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International Soft Matter Conference, ISMC2016, Grenoble
Unconventional collective behaviour of
DNA-made nanoparticles (pdf)
(pptx)
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15th International Conference on Magnetic Fluids ICMF-15
July 4-8 2016 Ekaterinburg.
Competing interactions: from dipolar particles to DNA gels
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Colloquium Boston University December 2016, Colloquium Arizona State University December 2016.
Providing Valence to Colloids: equilibrium
gels and ultrastable liquids
(interesting physics with colloids)
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Frontiers in Water Biophysics 2015, Erice, September 7-12 2015
The liquid-liquid critical point in water: a tutorial
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La Fisica Incontra La Citta, Roma, 5 Nov 2014.
La forma della materia soffice: Costruire con il DNA
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CECAM WORKSHOP: Physics of colloidal particles with heterogeneously patterned surfaces.
September 24-27, 2014 Wien
Vitrimers: bond switching and limited
valence at work
(there is life in the ground state)
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Lisbon, LMC 9 2014
Providing Valence to Colloids: equilibrium
gels and ultrastable liquids
(interesting physics with colloids)
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Bangalore, January 2014
What can we learn about strong and fragile
glasses from the study of
patchy colloidal particles ?
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Workshop on Soft Matter Self Assembly and Dynamics, January 9-10th, 2014 Hyderabad
Simple models of competitive interactions in soft-matter: re-entrant liquids and gels on heating
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AQUA INCOGNITA Galileo 400 years on The Florentine Debates Florence, July 15-19, 2013 Convitto della Calza
Supercooled Water: Two liquids ?
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Cecam Meeting - Vienna 2013
Gelling on heating. A patchy particle story
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SIMULATING ACTIVATED PROCESSES IN PHYSICS AND
CHEMISTRY: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS February 3-8, 2013: Eurotel Victoria,
Villars, Switzerland
(lecture notes)
Numerical studies of self assembly
of patchy particles
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Roma 22/1/2010
Gel, micelle, vescicole in semplici modelli di colloidi "patchy"
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Bangalore Jan 2010
School on glass formers and glasses
Colloidal glasses and other glassy states in soft materials
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Smogen 17-22 August 2008
Summer School: Glass formation, gelation and colloidal aggregation Self Assembly of Patchy Particles |
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Sitges, June, 2008
XXI SITGES CONFERENCE on Statistical Mechanics of Molecular Biophysics Self Assembly of Patchy Particles and DNA-Functionalized Dendrimers |
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Milan, April, 2008
Milano University, General Seminar, Dynamic arrest in colloidal systems:
from glasses to gels |
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Konstanza, April, 2008
SimBioMa, Models for colloidal gelation |
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Bonn, March/April, 2008
Codef II Model for assembly and gelation of four-armed
DNA dendrimers |
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Firenze, December, 2007
Firenze University, General Seminar, Patchy Colloidal Particles:
The role of the valence in gel formation.
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Palermo, November, 2007
CNR-IAIF (Palermo), November 27 2007, Seminar, Patchy Colloidal Particles: The
role of the valence in gel formation.
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Trieste, October, 2007
Trieste University, Seminar, Patchy colloidal particles: the
role of the valence in the formation of gels. |
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Aachen, October, 2007
International Soft Matter Conference 2007
Patchy
colloidal particles: the role of the valence in the formation of gels.
Formers. Thermodynamic and dynamic analogies |
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Chicago, March, 2007
ACS March Meeting 2007, Gel-forming patchy colloids, and network glass formers:
Thermodynamic and dynamic analogies |
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Bangalore, Janaury, 2007
Conference on Nucleation, Aggregation and Growth. Gelforming
patchy colloids and network glass formers: Thermodynamic and dynamic analogies |
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2006 |
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Mainz,November, 2006
Seminar, Gel-forming patchy colloids and network glass
formers: Thermodynamic and dynamic analogies |

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Pisa, September, 2006
Gel-forming
patchy colloids and network glass
Formers. Thermodynamic and dynamic analogies |

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Lugano, April, 2006
Dynamical arrest of soft
matter and colloids |
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2005 |
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Le Mans, November, 2005.
MCRTN, Dynamic Arrest Workshop
Slow Dynamics in the presence of attractive patchy interactions |
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Amsterdam, November, 2005
AMOLF, Seminar, Cluster Phases, Gels and Yukawa
Glasses in charged colloid-polymer mixtures. |
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Vienna, October, 2005
Vienna University, Seminar, Cluster Phases, Gels and Yukawa
Glasses in charged colloid-polymer mixtures. |
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Bad Gastein,
January 2005
Gels
and strong liquids |
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Lille, July 2005.
5th
International DiscussionMeeting
on Relaxations in Complex Systems
New results, Directions and Opportunities
Physical gels and strong liquids |
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Lille, July 2005
Statistical
properties of the landscape of a simple strong. Liquid model
…. and something else |
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Utrecht,
July, 2005
6
TH Liquid Matter Conference
Cluster phases, gels and Yukawa glasses in charged colloid-polymer
mixtures. |
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2004 |
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Genova,
September, 2004
CCP
Routes to colloidal gel formation |
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Bangalore, June
2004
Unifying
concepts in glass physics III
Potential energy landscape description
of supercooled liquids and glasses |
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Bangalore,
June 2004
Unifying
concepts in glass physics III
Density anomalies and fragile-to-strong dynamical crossover |
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Orleans,
July 2004
Networks
in physicsandbiology
potential energy landscape |
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2003 |
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Grenoble, February,
2003
ESRF
Short-range attractive colloids:
one simple liquid with two glasses? |

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Capri, June, 2003
UCGMG
Slow anomalous dynamics close to MCT
higher order singularities. A numerical study
of short-range attractive colloids.
(and some additional comments) |
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Palermo, Dicembre,
2003
Se
mi leghi diffondo …. ovvero …..
Un liquido con due vetri |

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Lyon, 2003
Metastability and landscapes in
complex systems.
One liquid, two glasses,
The anomalous dynamics in short ranged
attractive colloids |
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MIT, November, 2003
One liquid, two glasses.
The anomalous dynamics in short ranged
attractive colloids |
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Konstanz, September,
2002
5th
Liquid Matter Conference
Potential energy landscape equation of state |

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.Messina,
2002
A
new route to the formation of
colloidal gels |

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Roma, 2002
ISC Recenti
sviluppi nello studio della dinamica della materia condensata
soffice |

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Conferenze • Universita’ di Firenze, Marzo 2001
Termodinamica e dinamica di liquidi modello sottoraffreddati in equilibrio ed in aging
• Universita’ di Roma III- Amaldi. 8 Marzo 2001
Termodinamica e dinamica di liquidi modello sottoraffreddati in equilibrio ed in aging
• Technische Universit¨at M¨unchen, KOLLOQUIUM DER MNCHNER PHYSIKER,
Luglio 2000, ospite Prof. G¨otze
Thermodynamics and aging of supercooled liquids
• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany, Luglio 2000, ospite Prof. W. Kob
Thermodynamics of supercooled liquids
• Boston University, Marzo 1999, ospite Prof. Stanley
Aging in configuration space
• National Institute of Health, Bethesda MA (USA) Agosto 1998, Angular Correlations
is supercooled water ospite dr. Sergey Leikin
• Universita’ dell’Aquila, 1998, ospite Prof. G. Ruocco, Mode Coupling Theory for
supercooled liquids
• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany, Marzo 1997, ospite dr. W. Kob
Mode Coupling Theory and Liquid Water
• International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste 14 Maggio 1997, ospite dr S.
Franz
Slow dynamics in liquid water
• Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science, NIST 17 Maggio 1996,
ospite dr. S. Glotzer
Water and the Ideal Kinetic Glass Transition
• Princeton University, 20 Maggio 1996 ospite Prof. P. Debenedetti
Water and the Ideal Kinetic Glass Transition
• Universita’ di Palermo 17 Aprile 1996, ospite dr. R.N. Mantegna
Termodinamica dei liquidi con TMD
PARTECIPAZIONE A CONFERENZE
• Thirth Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, Glasses
and Amorphous Materials, Pisa Settembre 2002 INVITED TALK:
• EPS Liquids2002, Kostanz September 2002 INVITED TALK:
• Gordon Research Conference “Water and aqueous solutions” Holderness August 2002
INVITED TALK:
• American Physical Society, 2002, Indianapolis, Indiana. Corso Glasses and the glass
transition organizzato dalla Division of Polymer Physics Argomento delle lezioni:
Mode Coupling Theory of the glass transition.
• American Physical Society, March 18-22 2002, Indianapolis, Indiana. INVITED
TALK:Energy Landscape in supercooled liquids
• ESF Molecular Liquids: Obernai, France (September 2001). INVITED TALK:Supercooled
water dynamics: Normal or anomalous behaviour ?
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• Horizons in Complex Systems, Messina (December 2001). INVITED TALK:Water
and its energy landscape
• Congrescentrum Rolduc, Nederland 28th DyProSo (Settembre 2001) INVITED TALK:Aging
as dynamics in Configuration Space:The energy landscape approach
• 4th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, Heraklion,
Crete, Greece June 2001. INVITED TALK:Thermodynamics and Aging of Supercooled
Liquids:The energy landscape approach
• San Diego (USA) Americal Chemical Society, San Diego Symposium ”Energy Landscapes
of Proteins, Glasses and Clusters: Dynamics, Folding, Function and Prediction”
(Marzo 2001) INVITED TALK:Thermodynamics and Aging of Supercooled
Liquids:The energy landscape approach
• Scattering Studies ofMesoscopic Scale Structure and Dynamics in Soft Matter Messina,
November 22-25, 2000, Italy INVITED TALK:: Aging in glassforming liquids
• Molecular Features of Soft Matter: Accademina dei Lincei e Scuola Normale Superiore,
Pisa 1-3 June 2000. INVITED TALK: Thermodynamics (and aging) of supercooled
liquids: The energy landscape approach
• Fai della Paganella, 26 Marzo 2000 Charman Attivo Sistemi Vetrosi
• Scattering Studies ofMesoscopic Scale Structure and Dynamics in Soft Matter Messina
Italy, November 22-25 2000 INVITED TALK: Dynamics and Thermodynamics of supercooled
liquids
• Montreaux, European Physical Society meeting: March 13 2000 INVITED TALK:
Aging as dynamics in configuration space
• San Sebastina, Spain, Workshop on glass forming liquids, 15-18 Giugno (2000). INVITED
TALK: Thermodynamics (and aging) of supercooled liquids: The energy landscape
approach
• Bunsen Discussion Meeting, “Metastable Water”, September 22 1999,
INVITED TALK: Slow dynamics of supercooled water
• ICTP Workshop “Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics”, Trieste, September 15–18,
INVITED TALK: Inherent Strucuture Entropy in supercooled liquids
• ERC Molecular Liquids, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain 3-8 September 1999
INVITED TALK: Instantaneous Normal Mode Approach to the dynamics of water
• American Chemical Society, New Orleans (August 22-26, 1999),
INVITED TALK: Slow Dynamics in Supercooled Water: Theory and Simulations
• CECAM workshop , Phase Space and Energy Landscape in disordered systems, organized
by W. Kob, J.L. Barrat and M. Mousseau June 1999
INVITED REVIEW TALK: Inherent Structures and Instantaneous Normal Modes:
The state of the Art
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• CECAM workshop The Instantaneous Normal Mode Approach to Dynamics in Liquids,
9 Luglio 1999 Lione.
TALK: Instantaneous Normal Mode and the glass transitions
• Second Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, Glasses
and Amorphous Materials, Pisa September 1998.
INVITED TALK: Molecular Supercooled Liquids: Comparison between Theory and
Simulations around TMCT
• Fai della Paganella, Marzo 1998
INVITED TALK: Liquid Liquid Phase Transitions
• Gordon Conference: Water and Aqueous Solutions NY (USA) 1998
INVITED TALK Dynamics of Supercooled Water: A theorethical Description
• 3RD International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems Vigo,
Spain 1997
INVITED TALK: Ideal Glass Transition and Harmonic Dynamics in Simulated Supercooled
Water
• Sixt international workshop on disordered systems, Andalo Marzo 1997
TALK: Ideal Glass Transition in Supercooled Water
• The Morphology and Kinetics of Phase Separating Complex Fluids, Messina Italy
1997
INVITED TALK: Ideal Glass Transition in Molecular Liquids: The case of water
• Material Research Society, Winter Meeting, Boston 1996
TALK: Water and the ideal Glass Transition
• YKIS’96, Dynamics of Glass Transition and Related Topics, November 12-15 Kyoto
(Japan) 1996
TALK: Instantaneous Normal Modes in supercooled water
• Gordon Conference: Water and Aqueous Solutions NY (USA) 1996
COMMENTATOR: High Frequency Collective Excitations in Water
• Scuola Italiana di Fisica, Varenna 1996
INVITED TALK: Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Liquid Water
• Sitges Conference, Sitges, Spain 1996
TALK: Slow dynamics in simulated water
• Equilibrium Structures and Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Dispersions, Pisa ottobre
1995
INVITED TALK: Structure Factor Scaling During Cluster-Cluster Aggregation
• Festschrift for S.H. Chen, Puerto Rico 1995
TALK: Aggregation in Colloids
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• First International Conference on Scaling Concepts and Complex Fluids, Copanello
(CZ) Luglio 1994.
INVITED TALK: Scaling in Cluster-Cluster Aggregation
• 12th International Conference on the Properties of Water and Steam, Orlando FL,
USA, Settembre 1994.
INVITED TALK: Phase Behavior of simulated metastable water: A new thermodynamics
scenario
• Gordon Research Conference – Water and aqueous solutions, Plymouth NH, USA,
August 1994.
INVITED TALK: Phase Behavior of Metastable water.
• Numeric Intensive Computation in Chemistry and Physics, Cagliari, Settembre 1992
Settembre 1994.
INVITED TALK: Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics for hexagonal ice
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop – Hydrogen Bond Liquids, Cargese, Corsica,
France, August, 1993.
TALK: Sound Propagation in Liquid water
• Molecular and Complex Liquids, Roma Settembre 1992
INVITED TALK: Phase Behavior of metastable water
• Complex Liquid Systems, Polistena (RC), Luglio 1992
INVITED TALK: Is there a re-entrant spinodal in liquid water ?
• NATO Advanced Study Institute – Propagation of Correlations in Constrained Systems,
Cargese, Corsica, France, July 1990.
INVITED TALK: Hydrogen Bond Cooperativity in liquid water.
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