Lectures and Courses

Title Where When
Chemistry visualization using the STM4 visualization toolkit – a tutorial and some real-life experiences Lomonosov Moscow State University November 6, 2008
An introduction to the molecular visualization toolkit STM4 ETH Zürich — AVS Workshop 2008 April 9, 2008
Advanced visualization with AVS/Express ETH Zürich — AVS Workshop 2008 April 9, 2008
Practical Visualization for Chemistry ETH Zürich — Competence Centre for Computational Chemistry September 3-4, 2007
Visualizzazione e Supercalcolo [italiano] CESIC — Università della Calabria
Master di Secondo Livello in “Scienze Computazionali e Supercalcolo”		 July 16-18, 2007
Calcolo, Supercalcolo & Visualizzazione [italiano] CRS4 October 18, 2006
Introduzione alla visualizzazione scientifica [italiano] CINECA — Scuola estiva di visualizzazione e computer graphics June 16, 2009
June 17, 2008
September 18, 2007
June 19, 2007
September 19, 2006
June 21, 2006
September 22, 2003
June 11-12, 2002
September 24-25, 2002
July 10, 2001
Visualizzare per comunicare [italiano] CINECA — Scuola estiva di visualizzazione e computer graphics June 17, 2009
June 18, 2008
September 19, 2007
June 20, 2007
September 20, 2006
June 22, 2006
Essential Introduction to Computer Graphics USI — Course:
“Science and Computers”		 March 21, 2007
May 24, 2006
Introduction to Scientific Visualization USI — Course:
“Science and Computers”		 March 28 and April 4, 2007
May 31, 2006
Advanced Visualization for Chemistry Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) course March 7-8, 2006
Beyond Ball-and-Stick – what scientific visualization can do for chemistry users Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) tutorial for the CSCS User Day September 27, 2005
General Visualization using AVS/Express ETH Zürich — AVS User Meeting May 7, 2009
December 7, 2006
April 8, 2005
Chemistry Visualization using the STM3 toolkit ETH Zürich — AVS User Meeting December 7, 2006
April 8, 2005
La visualizzazione scientifica
vedere (e comunicare) l'invisibile [italiano]		 Corso di comunicazione tecnico-scientifica della Scuola Avanzata di Formazione Integrata (Pavia) January 27 and 31, 2005
Tutorial on Large Scientific Data Management, Format and Archiving Issues Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) tutorial for the CSCS User Day September 28, 2004
Data Visualization International Master on Soft Computing for Industrial Applications (IMSCIA) April 2004
Introduzione alla visualizzazione scientifica [italiano] Università di Perugia October 25, 2002

Invited talks

Title Where When
La matematica? Non è come pensate! [italiano] Convegno AMITE – Associazione Montessori Italia Europa: “Infanzia e Adolescenza – pensiero e ambiente” (Milano) November 14, 2009
Foster Insight by Integrating Advanced Visualization with Data Analysis Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, USA) – Solid State Seminar series October 9, 2009
Crystal fingerprint space: a novel paradigm to study crystal structures sets CECAM (Lugano) – for the workshop: Structural Transitions in Solids: Theory, Simulations, Experiments and Visualization Techniques July 8-11, 2009
From Tradition to Insight – Do Chemistry Visualization Tools Measure Up? Keynote for the 24th Philippine Chemistry Congress (Tagbilaran, Philippines) April 15, 2009
Crystal Structures Classifier for an Evolutionary Algorithm Structure Predictor IEEE VAST conference (Columbus, USA) October 22, 2008
Visualization issues for chemistry data CECAM (Zürich) – for the workshop: Standardisation and databasing of ab-initio and classical simulations September 19, 2008
Standard and Unusual Visualisation at CSCS and Chemistry visualization research themes at CSCS The Collaborative Computational Projects (CCPs) workshop: Molecular Modeling: Tools, GUIs and Visualisation (Daresbury, UK) March 11, 2008
Chemistry Visualization Tools in an Integrated Discovery Cycle EGEE'07 (Budapest) October 1, 2007
Beyond Ball-and-Stick – Representation and Perception in Chemistry Visualization University of Manchester April 20, 2007
From Tradition to Insight Support – What we can demand from our Chemistry Visualization Tools University of Manchester April 20, 2007
Beyond Ball-and-Stick: In search of the perfect visualization tool for Chemistry SISSA (Trieste) December 11, 2006
Beyond Ball-and-Stick: In search of the perfect visualization tool for Chemistry CRS4 (Pula, Cagliari) – EUA4X event: Transport in Polymeric Membranes: Modern Trends in Simulation Methods and Experimental Techniques October 17, 2006
Information sharing on the web: a personal experience Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) March 2, 2006
Visualizzazione avanzata per simulazioni su supercomputer
(with Théophane Foggia) [italiano]		 Ticino Informatica Conference – Lugano October 28, 2005
From numbers to scientific insight Journee d'automne de la Société Mathématique Suisse – Lugano September 23, 2005
Beyond Ball-and-Stick – in search of the perfect visualization tool Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe (Dresden) March 11, 2005
User-in-the-loop: Supporto al Computational Steering in ambiente di simulazione [italiano] Virtuality 2002 (Torino) October 28-29, 2002
Un sistema di visualizzazione immersiva ad alte prestazioni Virtuality 2001 (Torino) October 29-30, 2001
Visual Data Analysis Workshop [italiano] CNR – Area Ricerca Roma 2 May 25, 2001
Strumenti per la visualizzazione scientifica [italiano] CINECA April 10, 2001
AVS/Express MPE – A High-Performance Immersive Visualization System [italiano] Workshop: “Immersione in ambienti di Realtà Virtuale: tecnologie e applicazioni” – Tecnopolo di Castel Romano (Roma) April 4, 2001
Visual Data Analysis Workshop [italiano] CNR – Area Ricerca Roma 2 October 18, 2000

Media exposure

Title Where When
Storia del varesino che osservava il sodio [italiano] VareseNews March 25, 2009
Pressa il sodio e diventerà isolante [italiano]
[Newspaper page]		 Corriere del Ticino March 14, 2009
Supercomputer per supercalcoli [italiano]
[Video 56k] [Video 256k]		 RTSI – Il Quotidiano May 6, 2005
Tecnologia & Talento [italiano] NextExit September, 2005