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Simonetta Filippi
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, ICRA / ICRANet
Last update: 8th February 2002 |
Personal:
Academic Qualification:
Researcher in Physics.
Home Institution:
University Campus Biomed. of Rome, via E. Longoni, 83, Rome, ITALY.
Born: on March 13, 1958 in Bassano Romano (VT), ITALY
Italian citizen
| Phone: | +39-06-49914299 |
| Fax: | +39-06-4454992 |
| e-mail: | filippi@icra.it |
Education:
Doctorate in Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza," (with highest honors),
1982.
Thesis title: Formation of self-gravitating systems in Relativistic Cosmology and in
Newtonian approximation.
(Thesis advisor: Remo
Ruffini).
Professional experience:
| Assistant Professor of Physics | Department of Mathematics, Catholic University, Brescia, Italy, 1983-84. |
| Research Fellow | Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (Naples), 1984-86. ICRA: International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Rome, 1987-1990. |
| High-school professor, | Liceo Classico, Naples, 1985-86. |
| Visiting Researcher | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Harvard
University-Boston), summer 1990. University of Chicago, 1990. |
| Research Assistant | Department of Physics, University "La Sapienza," Rome, 1990-93. |
| Research Leader | ICRA Project on "Structure and Morphology of
galaxies," (CEE grant), 1993-96. ASI grant, 1993-96. |
| Researcher | ICRA, 1989-1997 |
| Assistant Profes. of Physics | University Campus Biomed. of Rome, Italy, 1993-1999. |
| Expert on Theoretical Physics | Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza," 1996-99. |
| Reviewer | "Kluwer academic publishers," (ed. Prof. J. E. Dyson.) 1997. |
| Researcher in Physics | University Campus Biomed. of Rome, Italy, 1999. |
Research interests:
Equilibrium and stability of rotating self-gravitating systems with non-linear velocity field: Generalized Riemann Ellipsoids.
The implications of the n-th order virial equations on the equilibrium of Jacobi, Dedekind and Riemann ellipsoids.
Landau damping of fermion perturbations in an expanding universe.
Conferences:
Varenna Physics School on "Gamow Cosmology": communication on "The Capture of Particles in an Einstein-Straus Universe", 1982.
Equatorial School of Relativistic Astrophysics, CIF (Centro Internacional de Fisica), Bogot� (Colombia), communication on "Processes of clustering in Friedmann cosmology", 1984.
International Meeting on Internal Dynamics of Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy), invited talk: "New class of rotating, anisotropic and inhomogeneous models of elliptical galaxies based on the tensor virial theorem," 1988.
"Fifth Marcel Grossmann Meeting," Perth (Australia), communication on "Equilibrium of triaxial self-gravitating ellipsoid with rotation and anisotropic pressure," 1988
International Meeting on Dynamics of Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Observable properties of generalized Riemann ellipsoids and their application to elliptical galaxies", 1989.
"Italian - Soviet Symposium on Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics" (Estonia), invited talk: "Generalized Riemann ellipsoids," 1989.
"Italian - Korean meeting on relativistic astrophysics", (Rome, Italy), invited talk: "Non-linear Dedekind-Riemann sequences," 1989.
International Meeting on Dynamics of Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Nonlinear Velocities in Ellipsoidal Figures of equilibrium," 1990.
"Sixth Marcel Grossmann Meeting," ( Kyoto, Japan) communication on "Dynamical Equilibrium and Stability of Rotating Masses," 1991.
International Meeting on Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Relations between observed quantities and parameters of galactic models," 1991.
International Meeting on Structures in Early-Type Galaxies, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Landau damping in galactic systems," 1992.
"Seventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting," Stanford University (USA), communication: "The Landau damping in semi-degenerate gravitating systems," 1994.
"Italian - Korean meeting on relativistic astrophysics," (Italy), invited talk: "The n-th order Virial Theory," 1995.
International Meeting on Normal galaxies at high and low red-shift. Structure, Dynamics and Evolutions, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) , communication: "Inhomogeneous self-gravitating, rotating toroidal sequences," 1997.
"Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting" (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel), communications: "Landau damping of fermions perturbations in an expanding universe," "Toroidal solutions to the problem of inhomogeneous rotating gravitational systems," 1997.
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