Past Scientific Initiatives

• Member of the local Center Council of the G. Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) (2005-2012 and 2018-2024)


• Member of Teachers' Committee of the Ph.D. School in Physics , University of Florence (2001-2023)


• Scientific Programme: ``Topological properties of gauge theories and their applications to high-energy and condensed-matter physics'' , GGI, Arcetri, Florence, August 23, 2021 - October 01, 2021


• Scientific Programme: ``Conformal Field Theories and Renormalization Group Flows in Dimensions d>2'' , GGI, Arcetri, Florence, May 23, 2016 - July 08, 2016


• European Marie Curie network: QICFT , ``Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Computation'' (2012-2016)


• INFN Scientific Initiative SFT: ``Statistical Field Theory, Low-Dimensional Systems, Integrable Models and Applications'': Meeting 6-7 June 2013, GGI, Arcetri


• History of physics book: ``The Birth of String Theory'' (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012); related conference held at G.Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Arcetri, May 18-19, 2007


• European Research Council funding scheme IDEAS: participation to the Programme Committee (2006-2013)


• Series of workshops: ``Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Systems'', held at the Physics Dept., Bologna, since 1993


• European Science Foundation network INSTANS: ``Interdisciplinary Statistical and Field Theory Approaches to Nanophysics and Low-D Systems'' (2005-2010)


• Scientific Programme: ``Low-dimensional Quantum Field Theories and Applications'' , GGI, Arcetri, Florence, September 1 - November 7, 2008


• INFN Scientific Initiative FI61: ``Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory'' (1998-2008) and FI11: ``Low-Dimensional Field Theory, Integrable Systems and Applications'' (2009-2013)


• STATPHYS 23 satellite conference: ``Statistical Field Theory of Quantum Devices'', Perugia, July 16-19, 2007


• INSTANS network First Summer Conference , Villa Olmo, Como, June 2006


• European Community network EUCLID: ``European Collaboration Linking Integrability with Other Disciplines'' (2002-2006)


• EUCLID School ``New Paths in Theoretical Physics'', Sissa, Trieste, May 2005


• EUCLID Annual Conference: ``Integrable Models and Applications: from Strings to Condensed Matter'', Arcetri, Florence, September 2003


• Int. Conference ``Statistical Field Theories'', Villa Olmo, Como, June 2001


• Earlier EC network (1996-2000)