In the news

• "Researchers predict rat behaviors from brain activity" on Around the O
• "Drawn to Science" on the Oregon Quarterly Magazine and on Around the O.
• Scientific American: "Magnet and Neuron Model Also Predicts Arctic Sea Ice Melt"
  
• Quanta magazine "Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next"
  
• MedicalXpress: "Scientists create a model for the neural basis of expectation"
  
• Futurity: "Is this how expecting a taste affects the brain?"

Outreach talks

• "What happens in your brain when you are in the Zone," November 2022, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland [video].
• "Searching for the Origin of Time in the Brain," August 2020, SciencePub, Eugene [video].
• "Thinking about food," September 2015, Spotlight @ Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University. [video]​

Neuroscience Schools

2021

• Advanced Neural Data Analysis Course (ANDA), Jülich, Germany.
  

2020

• Neuromatch Academy (mentor on student projects), online.
  
• "Tutorial on modeling and simulating neural population dynamics," Simons Center Program on Neural networks and the Data Science Revolution: from theoretical physics to neuroscience, and back. [video]
  

2019

• Summer School on Computational Neuroscience (ConTaMiNeuro), Venice.

Conferences/Workshops organized

2022

• Focus Session 04.01.34 "Information Processing in Sensory and Motor Systems,"  March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Chicago.

2020

• Physics of neural circuits and network dynamics. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook. [website] 

2019

• Cortical computations via metastable activity. Bernstein Workshop, Berlin.

2011

• Workshop on higher spins and holography. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook. [website] 

2010

• Workshop on superstring on Ramond-Ramond backgrounds. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook.

Lectures at Physics schools

2022

• Focus Session 04.01.34 "Information Processing in Sensory and Motor Systems,"  March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Chicago.

2020

• Physics of neural circuits and network dynamics. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook. [website] 

2019

• Cortical computations via metastable activity. Bernstein Workshop, Berlin.

2011

• Workshop on higher spins and holography. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook. [website] 

2010

• Workshop on superstring on Ramond-Ramond backgrounds. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook.

AI and the Brain Program

Seminar Series & Tutorials at the Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon (2019-2020).

Popular science

I organized the Simons Center Outreach Program. I asked scientists about their views on life, work, and everything else.

• Edward Frenkel, "The formula of love." [html]
• Sergei Dubovsky, "The axiverse." [html]
• Erik Verlinde, "Entropic gravity." [html]
• Valerie Gonzalez, "Geometry and Islamic art," [html]
• Edward Witten, "Ed Witten's take on string theory." [html]
• C. N. Yang, "What's in a name? A century of Physics." [html]
• Itay Yavin, "The dark side of the force." [html]
• Rajesh Gopakumar, "Holographic gravity." [html]
• Konstantin Likharev, "Neuromorphic networks." [html]
• Brian Greene, "The status of string theory." [html]
• Shmuel Nussinov, "Faster-than-light neutrinos, dark matter, and all that." [html]
• William Bialek, "When Physics meets Biology." [html]

Various:

• "Quantum gravity is a magnet" [html]
• "Fundamental Physics Prize" [html]
• "Higgs boson" [html]​

Popular science articles in Italian on Oggiscienza.it.