December 2022 Multiscale modelling meets machine learning: leveraging deep learning and friends to investigate soft and biological matter systems, invited research seminar at the ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology, ICTP, Trieste (Italy)
May 2022 From information theory to multiscale modelling of biomolecules, invited online talk at the International Centre for Research on Innovative Biobased Materials (ICRI-BioM), Lodz University of Technology (Poland)
September 2021 Communication pathways in an IgG4 antibody: a multiscale study – invited online talk
at the ICTP-SISSA-CECAM Workshop on Molecular Dynamics and its Applications to Biological Systems, Trieste (Italy)
September 2021 Optimal reduced representations and multiple resolution models of biomolecules –
invited online talk at the Mathematics of Life conference, Hisarya (Bulgaria)
June 2020 Exploring the crossroad between information theory, statistical mechanics, and biology – invited online talk at the GSSI-Gran Sasso Science Institute – L’Aquila (Italy)
February 2020 On the algorithmic identification of optimal coarse-grained representations of biomolecules – invited talk at the Biophysical Society Meeting – San Diego, California (USA)
February 2020 Simple, but not simpler – On representation, information, and molecular modelling –
invited talk at the University of California Davis, Chemistry Dept. (USA)
February 2020 Simple, but not simpler – In search of the optimal level of coarse-graining – invited
talk at the conference Physics of biomolecules: structure, dynamics and function –
Bressanone (Italy)
December 2019 Variable resolution models for multi-scale simulations of complex biomolecules – in-
vited talk at the conference Photonic reservoir computing and information processing in complex networks – Trento (Italy)
June 2019 On the algorithmic identification of optimal coarse-grained representations of biomolec-
ular structures – invited talk at the X Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics – Ouro Preto (Brazil)
June 2019 Searching the optimal folding routes of a complex lasso protein – invited talk at the Integrative Approaches to Protein Folding and Aggregation workshop -Lisbon (Portugal)
December 2018 Systematic and non-uniform coarse-graining of biopolymers – invited talk at the Free University of Bozen, Faculty of Computer Science – Bozen (Italy)
September 2018 Uniform vs. position-dependent coarse-graining: challenges and opportunities from
variable resolution biomolecular modelling – invited talk at the Royal Society meeting Multi-resolution simulations of intracellular processes – Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire (United Kingdom)
September 2018 Fifty shades of coarse-grain – The hot topic of multiple resolution models – invited talk at the CECAM workshop New frontiers in particle-based multiscale and coarse-grained modeling, MPIP Mainz (Germany)
June 2018 Coarse-graining in soft matter – from practical tool to philosophical viewpoint – invited
talk at the Physics and Chemistry of Biological Systems alumni workshop, SISSA,
Trieste (Italy)
March 2018 Characterisation of the free energy landscape of self-entangled polymers – invited talk at the University of Padua (Italy)
March 2018 The devil is in the atomistic detail – Problems and solutions in computational soft matter, invited talk at the University of Pavia (Italy)
February 2018 Multi-scale approaches to the study of topological self-entanglement in biopolymers – invited talk at the IUPAC MODSIM workshop 2018, Milan (Italy)
February 2018 50 shades of coarse-grain – multiple resolution protein modeling – invited talk at the 5th workshop Physics of biomolecules: structure, dynamics, and function, Bressanone (Italy)
November 2017 Looking at Nature with bifocal glasses – The problems of representation, mapping, and multiple resolution in computational soft and biological matter modeling – invited talk at the University of Freiburg (Germany)
June 2017 Adaptive resolution methods in soft matter simulations – invited talk at the University of Trento (Italy)
April 2017 Multi-resolution approaches for simulations of biomolecules: from simple liquids to proteins – invited talk at the Bioexcel workshop Hybrid methods in molecular simulation in Cagliari (Italy)
February 2017 Multi-resolution modelling for biomolecular simulations – invited talk at the CECAM workshop Challenges across Large-Scale Biomolecular and Polymer Simulations at the University of Vienna (Austria)
November 2016 Adaptive dual-resolution methods for soft matter – Where from, where to? – invited talk at the joint CASA/EMI colloquium, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
May 2016 Adaptive dual-resolution methods for soft matter – Where from, where to? – invited talk at the conference Mathematical aspects of material science, Philadelphia (USA)
April 2016 Adaptive dual-resolution methods for soft matter – Where from, where to? – invited talk at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
March 2016 Up and down the ladder – A personal account of multi-scale modeling of biophysical systems – invited talk at the University of Potsdam (Germany)
January 2016 Building bridges: multi-scale computational methods in biophysics – invited talk at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Golm-Potsdam (Germany)
December 2015 Building bridges: multi-scale computational methods in biophysics – invited talk at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Göttingen (Germany)
October 2015 Building bridges: multi-scale computational methods in biophysics – Symposium in the occasion of the Theodore von Kármán Fellowship awarded to Prof. R. Nussinov, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich (Germany)
July 2015 Computer simulations of soft matter: bridging the scales – CECAM school topic seminar, SISSA, Trieste (Italy)
June 2015 Computer simulations of soft matter: bridging the scales – Scientific Workshop on Multiscale modeling, experimental characterization and simulations of nanocomposite, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Paris (France)
April 2015 Computer simulations of soft matter: bridging the scales – invited talk, University of Vienna (Computational Physics dept.), Vienna (Austria)
April 2015 Hamiltonian Adaptive Resolution Simulations of Soft Matter – invited talk, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Faculty of Informatics), Lugano (Switzerland)
March 2015 Computer simulations of soft matter: bridging the scales – Theoretical Physics Seminar, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany)
January 2015 Nuclear quantum effects in water: a multiscale study – Theoretical Chemistry Seminar, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany)
September 2014 Nuclear quantum effects in water: a multiscale study – Theoretical Physics Seminar, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
September 2014 Nuclear quantum effects in water: a multiscale study – Theoretical Physics Seminar, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
March 2013 Theory and practice of adaptive resolution simulations – HYBRID2013 workshop, John von Neumann Institute for Computing, Jülich (Germany)
August 2012 Adaptive coupling of classical and quantum description of molecular fluids – Modeling the Dynamics of Complex Molecular Systems, Leiden (The Netherlands)
August 2012 Coupling Classical and Quantum Mechanics in Adaptive Resolution Molecular Dynamics Simulations – Bridging Scales in Computational Polymer Chemistry, ICERM, Providence (USA)
April 2012 Multiscale simulations of quantum fluids – informal talk, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Multiscale12 program, Santa Barbara (USA)
September 2011 Quantum Locality in Low-temperature Para-Hydrogen: a multiscale study of equi-
librium properties – Statistical and Biological Physics group seminar, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste (Italy)
February 2011 Similarities and differences in knotted-unknotted protein pairs – evidence for knot-promoting loops – Physics Department of Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany)
