CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM - La Sapienza

Publications - Impact
• According to the SPIRES-HEP database, the total number of citations of my papers
at 6/6/2010 is around 7950 with an average number of citations per refereed paper
of 48. h number is 41.
• The BOOMERanG results appeared on the front page of several popular american
newspapers including the New York Times (November 26th 1999, April 27th 2000,
April 20th 2001) and have been included in the 10 most important discoveries of
the year in science (Science 2000 December 22nd; 290: 2221-2225).
• The recent result on Neutrino Anisotropies obtained in collaboration with R.
Trotta, appeared between the Research Highlights on Nature (July 2005). The
results was also commented in other magazines like Physics World, Universe Today
and The Economist.
Invited talks at Conferences and Advanced Schools
• 1. 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, held in
Paris, France, Dec. 14-18, 1998.”The Gravitational Wave Contribution to the
Cosmic Microwave Background”.
• 2. Topological Defects and the non-equilibrium dynamics of symmetry breaking
phase transition, Les Houches, 16th-26th February, 1999. “Topological Defects in
Cosmology”
• 3. Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d’Aoste, La Thuile, Aosta, February 27-
March 4, 2000.Plenary Talk, “Round table on the future of Cosmology and Particle
Physics”.
• 4. VIII Convegno su Problemi di Fisica Teorica, Cortona 2000, 10-20 June 2000.Plenary
Talk. ”Boomerang e i modelli cosmologici”.
• 5. Problems of vacuum energy, 24-26 August 2000, NORDITA and TAC, Copenhagen,
Denmark; Plenary Talk. “Consequences on the Cosmological Constant
from the BOOMERanG experiment”.
• 6. EuroConference on Frontiers in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, San Feliu
de Guixols, Spain, 30 September - 5 October 2000; “Big bang nucleosynthesis and
the Boomerang experiment”
• 7.“Higgs and Supersymmetry ”, Orsay, Paris, March 19-22, 2001; Plenary Talk,
“Balloon experiments for CMB”
• 8. Convegno Informale di Fisica Teorica, Cortona, 30 May-2 June 2001; Plenary
Talk, ”Nuovi risultati da Boomerang”.
• 9. “Frontiers of the Universe”, XIII Rencontres de Blois, 17th - 23rd June 2001;
Plenary Talk, “Cosmological Parameters from BOOMERanG”.
• 10. COSMO-01 International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe,
Rovaniemi, Aug 30-Sep 04, 2001; Plenary Talk, “Cosmological parameters
from BOOMERanG”
• 11. Frontiers in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Lenggries (Munich), Germany,
29 September-4 October 2001; Plenary Talk, “Status of CMBR”.
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