CURRICULUM VITAE Michele Gianfelice

CURRICULUM VITAE
Michele Gianfelice
date and place of birth : january the 5th 1970, Rome (Italy)
nationality : italian
civil status : unmarried
military service : completed (23/11/95-22/11/96)
Personal Address :
Viale Beata Vergine del Carmelo 97-C, 00144 ROMA ITALY
tel. +39 347 321 30 24
e-mail [email protected]
Present Professional Address :
Politecnico di Torino
Dipartimento di Matematica
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 TORINO
tel. : +39 011 564 75 10
fax : +39 011 564 75 99 (62)
e-mail : [email protected]
home page : http://calvino.polito.it/~gianfelice
Present Occupation :
Since november 2005 research contract “Lagrange fellowship” at the Department of Mathematics of the Technical University of Turin, Turin (Italy);
field of research: Random graphs techniques for coordinated control
advisor of the project: Prof. F. Fagnani.
Studies :
2002 - Doctorat de l’Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I), french PhD in Physics;
sector (Mention): Science
field (discipline): Physique des Particules, Physique Mathématique et Modélisation
final grade (mention): très honorable
advisor: Dr Pierre Picco Directeur de Recherches au CNRS
- Dottorato di Ricerca in Matematica (XIII ciclo), italian PhD in Mathematics;
field: Mathematical Physics
obtained at the University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
advisor: Prof. Massimo Campanino
tutor: Prof. Sandro Graffi
1995 - degree (Laurea) in Physics obtained at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome (Italy)
advisor: Prof. Francesco Guerra
Scholarships, Research Funds and Contracts :
- 01/11/1997-31/10/2001 European Comunity scholarship for PhD students;
- 01/11/2001-31/10/2003 research contract at Department of Mathematics of the University of
Bologna, (Bologna, Italy) for a period of two years renewable;
- 03/11/2003-02/11/2004 research contract at Department of Mathematics of the University of
Bologna, Bologna (Italy);
- 01/07/2004 post-doc position at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Bologna,
Bologna, Italy) for a period of one year renewable only once;
- 03/11/2004-02/11/2005 research contract at Department of Mathematics of the University of
Bologna, (Bologna, Italy) for a period of one year (refuse of the post-doc scholarship);
- 03/11/2005-02/11/2007 “Lagrange fellowship” research contract at the Department of Mathematics of the Technical University of Turin, Turin (Italy).
Teaching Activities :
2001-2002 - Department of Mathematics of the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy). Lectures and
practicals for the undergraduate course in Probability (Calcolo delle Probabilità II modulo)
of the diploma Laurea in Matematica (equivalent to MSc in Mathematics);
2002-2003 - attività di collaborazione alla didattica per l’area didattica Matematica at the Faculty of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna (Rimini, Italy). Practicals for the undergraduate
courses in Mathematics:
- Calculus for functions of one variable (Matematica I modulo - Analisi matematica),
- Linear Algebra (Matematica II modulo - Algebra lineare),
of the diploma Laurea in Statistica e Informatica per l’Azienda (equivalent to BSc in Statistics);
- attività di collaborazione alla didattica at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of
Bologna, (Bologna, Italy). Practicals for the undergraduate course of Calculus for function of
several variables (Analisi matematica L B ) of the diplomas Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica
(equivalent of BSc in Engineering with specialization in Information Technology) and Laurea in Ingegneria dell’Automazione (equivalent of BSc in Engineering with specialization in
Automation);
2003-2004 - attività di collaborazione alla didattica at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of
Bologna, (Bologna, Italy). Practicals for the undergraduate course of Calculus for function
of one variable (Analisi matematica L A) of the diplomas Laurea in Ingegneria Meccanica
(equivalent of BSc in Engineering with specialization in Mechanics) and Laurea in Ingegneria
Energetica (equivalent of BSc in Engineering with specialization in Energetics);
- attività di collaborazione alla didattica at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of
Bologna, (Bologna, Italy). Practicals for the undergraduate course of Calculus for function of
several variables (Analisi matematica L B ) of the diploma Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica
(equivalent of BSc in Engineering with specialization in Electronics);
- Department of Mathematics of the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy). Lectures and
practicals for the postgraduate course of Stochactic Methods and their applications (Metodi
probabilistici per le applicazioni ) of the diploma Master di II livello in Matematica per le
Applicazioni (equivalent of MSc in Applied Mathematics);
2004-2005 - attività di collaborazione alla didattica at the Faculty of Science of the University of Bologna,
(Bologna, Italy). Practicals for the undergraduate course of Probablility and Statistics (Calcolo delle Probabilità e Statistica) of the diploma Laurea in Informatica (equivalent of BSc in
Computer Science);
- attività di collaborazione alla didattica at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of
Bologna, (Bologna, Italy). Practicals for the undergraduate course of Calculus for function of
several variables (Analisi matematica L B ) of the diplomas Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica
(equivalent of BSc in Engineering with specialization in Information Technology) and Laurea
in Ingegneria Elettrica (equivalent of BSc in Engineering with specialization in Electronics);
- attività di collaborazione alla didattica at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of
Bologna, (Bologna, Italy). Practicals for the undergraduate course of Calculus for function of
several variables (Analisi matematica L B ) of the diplomas Laurea in Ingegneria Gestionale
(equivalent of BSc in Engineering with specialization in Logistics) and Laurea in Ingegneria
dei Processi Gestionali (equivalent of BSc in Engineering with specialization in Management);
- Department of Mathematics of the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy). Lectures and
practicals for the postgraduate course of Stochactic Methods and their applications (Metodi
probabilistici per le applicazioni ) of the diploma Master di II livello in Matematica per le
Applicazioni (equivalent of MSc in Applied Mathematics).
2005-2006 - PhD course (18h) entitled Introduzione alla teoria dei grafi aleatori ed alla percolazione (Introduction to random graphs theory and percolation) given at the Department of Mathematics
of the Technical Univerity of Turin (Turin, Italy);
- Technical University of Turin (Turin, Italy). Undergraduate lectures of Probability Theory
(10h) part of the course of Applied Statistics (Statistica Applicata) of the diploma Laurea in
Ingegneria Biomedica (equivalent of BSc in Biomedical Engineering).
Research Activities :
- The research project linked to the Lagrange Fellowship concerns the so called coordinated
control, that is the analysis of the behaviour of a systems consisting of a large number of simple
(in general identical) subsystems (agents) whose time evolution is subject to feedback control
rules taking into account the dynamical state of the single agent and of its neighbours but
also the boundary conditions and random perturbations of the velocity field. In collaboration
with Prof. F. Fagnani (Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino), il Prof. M.
Campanino (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Sudi di Bologna), Prof. M. Isopi
(Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma “la Sapienza”) I started to analyse, making
use of techniques borrowed from the theory of random graphs, percolation and control theory,
the probability that, varying the control parameters and the initial conditions, such systems,
in the limit of the number of agents becomes very large, assume particular dynamical states
which in the literature go by the name of flocking or swarming. More precisely, since the
agents are supposed to interact (communicate) only if their mutual distance is smaller than
a certain value, my aim is to study the probability that a large number of agents (eventually
infinite) give rise to a communication graph evolving in time or collapse in a specific point of
the configuration space.
- Since november 2001 I began to study, in collaboration with Prof. M. Campanino (Department of Mathematics - University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)) the asymptotical shape of the
percolation cluster for the Bernoulli percolation model in the subcritical regime. In particular, we have analised the local limit behaviour for the probability of the event that tree points
are connected through three disjoint open self-avoiding paths under the condition that they
are connected. Actually I am currently studying the dacay of truncated two points connectivity function for the Bernoulli percolation model, in the supercritical regime, along off-axis
directions, for values of the lattice dimension larger than or equal to three. The expected
asymptotic behaviour of such quantity, in the limit of the distance between the points becoming very large, is the Ornstein-Zernike one at least for values of the occupation probability
sufficiently close to one.
- Since january 1999 I began to study the equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of a model of plane
rotaors with Kac potential. Most of the results in this subject were obtained in collaboration
with Dr. P. Picco Directeur de Recherches at the Centre de Physique Théorique C.N.R.S.
(Luminy - Marseille, France), where I spent two years as a PhD student, and with Prof. M.
Campanino (Department of Mathematics - University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)). Some of
the results of these reseachs are contained in my PhD thesis (thèse en cotutelle France-Italie
/ tesi in cotutela Italia -Francia) entitled:
Transizione di fase di Kosterlitz-Thouless per un modello di Kac a simmetria
continua
Transition de phase de Kosterlitz et Thouless pour un modèle de Kac à symétrie
continue
Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition for Kac rotators.
- Since 1996, under the supervision of Prof. G. Dell’Antonio (Department of Mathematics
- University of Roma “la Sapienza”), I began to study the evolution of a quantum system
constrained to a surface of codimension lower or equal one.
- Since 1993 in collaboration with Prof. C. Albanese (Department of Mathematics - University
of Toronto, Canada) and with Prof. M. Isopi (Department of Mathematics - University of
Bari, Italy)I began to study the stochastic evolution of descete interacting spin systems, in
particolar the Glauber process for Ising spin systems. Some of the results of these studies are
presented in my Laurea thesis in Physics entitled:
Rilassamento Termodinamico per Sistemi di Spin Stocastici
Thermodinamic Relaxation for Stochastic Spin Systems.
Visited Research Institutions :
- 11/25/1996-12/01/1996 Weierstrass Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik Berlin
(Germany);
- 01/01/1999-01/01/2001 Centre de Physique Théorique C.N.R.S. Luminy, Marseille (France);
- 01/01/2001-01/26/2001 Centro de Modelamiento Matematico UMR 2071/ Universidad de
Chile - C.N.R.S. Santiago (Chili), where I attended the Summer School entitled: From Classical to modern Probability, held in Universidad de la Frontera Temuco (Chili);
- 24/01/2004-08/02/2004 Centre de Physique Théorique C.N.R.S. Luminy, Marseille (France).
Congresses :
Organization :
- 09/09/2002-13/09/2002 member of the organizing comitee of the Probability workshop entitled: Random Processes and Fields and Financial Applications, held at the Department
of Mathematics - University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy), in collaboration with Prof. M.
Campanino, Dr F. Biagini and Dr M. Dedonno.
Invited Talks :
16/09/2003 Departement of Mathematics - University of Bologna (Italy), Convegno finale del progetto
nazionale ”Processi Stocastici e applicazioni a Filtraggio, Controllo, Simulazione e Finanza
Matematica”
Local limit theorem for triple connections in subcritical Bernoulli percolation.
Talks :
27/11/1996 Department of Matematics - Technische Universität, Berlin (Germany)
Approach to Termodynamic Equilibrium for Classical Spin Systems, an algebraic
description;
21/06/1999 Department of Mathematics - Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy)
Convergenza all’equilibrio per sistemi di Ising stocastici;
08/11/1999 Centre de Physique Théorique C.N.R.S. Luminy - Marseille (France)
A lower bound for the spectral gap of Glauber dynamics for Ising spin
systems;
14/12/1999 Department of Mathematics - University of l’Aquila, l’Aquila (Italy)
Convergenza all’equilibrio per la dinamica di Glauber di sistemi di spin di
Ising nella fase di alta temperatura;
04/02/2004 Centre de Physique Théorique C.N.R.S. Luminy, Marseille (France)
A local limit theorem for triple connection in subcritical Bernoulli percolation.
22/03/2004 Dipartimento di Matematica dell’Università degli Studi di Bologna
Un teorema del limite locale per connessioni multiple nel modello della percolazione
di Bernoulli al di sotto del punto critico.
Pubblications :
- Quantum Methods for Interacting Particle Systems II, Glauber Dynamics for Ising
Spin Systems with M. Isopi, Markov Processes and Relat. Fields 4, 411-428 (1998);
- Erratum and Addenda to ’’Quantum Methods for Interacting Particle Systems II,
Glauber Dynamics for Ising Spin Systems’’ with M. Isopi, Markov Processes and Relat.
Fields 9, 513-516 (2003);
- On the Location of the 1-particle Branch of the Spectrum of the Disordered
Stochastic Ising Model with M. Isopi, preprint submitted for pubblication to Commun.
Math. Phys. and available at the url http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311108;
- A local limit theorem for triple connections in subcritical Bernoulli percolation
with M. Campanino, preprint submitted for pubblication to Probab. Theory and Relat.
Fields;
- On the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition for Kac rotators preprint in preparation;
- Decay of correlations for one-dimensional Kac rotators preprint in preparation;
- Large deviations for two-dimensional Kac Rotators with P. Picco, work in progress;
- Ornstein-Zernike theory for the Benoully bond percolation on Z d , d ≥ 3, in the
supercritical regime work in progress.
Laguages :
Italian
English
French
Spanish
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Other Professional Abilities and Experiences:
- I have obtained a licence to teach physics in secondary schools (high schools);
- Since 1998 I am on duty in the technical corps (meteorology and climatology division) of
the italian airforce, actually I am benefiting from dispensation of active service to pursue my
research interests;
- From 04/06/1995 to 06/30/1995 I worked as civil servant in the department of agricolture
of the Social Security agency of the italian government (Servizio per i Contributi Agricoli
Unificati ).