In the news

• 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?"
  

Seminars

2019

• "Why spikes? Intrinsically generated variability," Cosyne Workshops, Cascais, 2019.

2018

• "Anticipatory neural activity and cortical state sequences," Department of Neuroscience, Padua University, Italy.
• "Self-initiated action sequences are driven by low-rank noise in motor cortex during decision-making," Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University.
• "Using machine learning to study an animal's learning," Machine Learning Symposium, University of Oregon.
• "Hippocampal reorganization during the formation of temporal associations," 27th Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) Workshops, Seattle.
• "Anticipatory neural activity and cortical state sequences," Computational Neuroscience Center, University of Washington, Seattle.
• "Dimensionality: some scaling properties," Computational Neuroscience Center, University of Washington, Seattle.

2017

• "Anticipatory neural activity and cortical state sequences," Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University.
• "Network dynamics in sensory cortex: from spontaneous activity to expectation," Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa.

• "Network dynamics in sensory cortex: from spontaneous activity to expectation," Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai.
• "Metastable dynamics drive anticipatory neural activity," International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, Boulder.
• "Network dynamics in sensory cortex: from spontaneous activity to expectation," Université Paris Descartes, Paris.
• "Network dynamics in sensory cortex: from spontaneous activity to expectation," Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York.
• "Expectation modulates network dynamics in sensory circuits," Sense2Synapse, The Rockefeller University, New York.
• "Metastable network dynamics mediate expectation," American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans.
• "Network dynamics in sensory cortex: from spontaneous activity to expectation," Institute of Neuroscience, U. of Oregon.
• NIH K-award Workshop, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University.​

2016

• "A bottom-up approach to modeling sensory processing," Colloquium, Brookhaven National Lab. [pdf]
• "Sensory stimuli reduce the dimensionality of cortical activity," American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore.
• "Dynamics of ongoing and evoked activity in sensory cortex," National Institute for Drug Abuse, Baltimore.

​2015

• "Thinking about food," Spotlight, Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University. [video]​
• "Stimuli reduce multistability and dimensionality of cortical activity," Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center.
• "Dynamics of ongoing and evoked activity in sensory cortex," Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Lab.

2014

• "Stimuli quench the dimensionality of neural representations," Winter School on Quantitative Biology, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

2011

• "Anomalous dimensions at strong coupling," 11th Workshop on non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris. [pdf]
• "Anomalous dimensions at strong coupling," Physics Department, Brown University.
• "The Konishi multiplet at strong coupling," Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada. [video]

2010

• "Holographic dual of free field theory," SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Stanford University.
• "Holographic dual of free field theory," SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
• "Taming the b antighost with Ramond-Ramond flux," SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

​2009

• School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

2008

• "Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes," Joint High Energy Theory seminar, Newe-Shalom, Israel.

2007

• "Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes," Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University.
• "Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes," Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.
• "Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes," Physics Department, California Institute of Technology.
• "Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes," Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley.
• "Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes," Physics Department, Harvard University.
• "Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes," Physics Department, Princeton University.
• "Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes," Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University.

​ 2006

• "Integrability of superstrings on Ramond-Ramond backgrounds," Pure spinors in superstring theory, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• "Pure spinor noncritical superstrings in various dimensions," Eurostrings 2006, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK. [pdf] [video]
• School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
• SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
• Physics Department, Milan University-Bicocca, Italy.

2005

• "Seiberg duality, ADE superpotentials and 2-matrix models," Nonperturbative gauge dynamics workshop, Trieste, Italy.
• Joint High Energy Theory seminar, Newe-Shalom, Israel.

2004

• "Chiral rings, anomalies, and Seiberg duality," Gauge theories, gravity and strings, Capri, Italy.
• Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands. 2004 Physics Department, Pisa University, Italy.
• International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. 

2003

• "Branched matrix models and the scale of supersymmetric gauge theories," Theoretical physics conference, Cortona, Italy.

2002

• ​"Superembedding origin of the pure spinor formalism," Theoretical physics conference, Cortona, Italy. ​

Conferences/Workshops

2020

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

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

2010

• "Higher spins and holography," Avogadro meeting on theoretical physics, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy.

2009 

• "Introduction to pure spinors," Fundamental aspects of superstring theory, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara. [video]

2008

• "Gauge mediation," Avogadro meeting on theoretical physics, Trieste, Italy.

2007

• "Strings in Anti-de Sitter spaces," Avogadro meeting on theoretical physics, Trieste, Italy.

2006

• "Counting of BPS states and integrability," Avogadro meeting on theoretical physics, Alessandria, Italy.

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.