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GIOVANNI ZANZOTTO

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale - DPG

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 8 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498276613

E-mail

giovanni.zanzotto@unipd.it

Education

Dottorato di Ricerca Mathematics (Methods and Applications), May 1992, Università e Politecnico di Milano

Ph.D., Mechanics, University of Minnesota, March 1990

M.S., Mechanics, University of Minnesota, December 1988

Laurea, Mathematics, cum Laude, Università di Padova, March 1984

Experience

1/03 - present Associate Professor, Mathematical Physics, Università di Padova,
5/91 - 12/02 Ricercatore, Mathematical Physics, Università di Padova,
4/90 - 5/91 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Technische Universität Berlin,
Hermann-Föttinger Institut für Thermo- und Fluiddynamik.
1/88 - 3/90 Graduate School, University of Minnesota;
Research Assistant , Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics.
Ph. D. Thesis, supervised by Prof. J. L. Ericksen, titled “Twinning in Crystals”.
10/86 - 12/87 Graduate School, Università and Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica.
8/85 - 6/86 Research Scholar, University of Minnesota,
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics.
10/78 - 3/84 Università di Padova,
Tesi di Laurea in Matematica, supervised by Prof. A. Bressan,
titled “Equazioni costitutive in termoelasticità relativistica non-stazionaria”.

Notices

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 12:00 to 13:30
    at Via Venezia 8, quarto piano
    Si prega di prendere appuntamento via email.

Teachings

Publications

Alcune pubblicazioni / Some publications:

M. Formentin, A. Lovison, A. Maritan, G. Zanzotto
New activity pattern in human interactive dynamics
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, P09006, 2015.

X. Balandraud, N. Barrera, P. Biscari, M. Grédiac, G. Zanzotto
Strain intermittency in shape-memory alloys
Phys. Rev. B 91, 174111, 2015.

A. Camperio Ciani, U Battaglia, G Zanzotto
Human Homosexuality: A Paradigmatic Arena for Sexually Antagonistic Selection?
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2014.

M Formentin, A Lovison, A Maritan, G Zanzotto
Hidden scaling patterns and universality in written communication
Physical Review E90, 012817, 2014.

G. Indelicato,P. Cermelli,D. G. Salthouse,S. Racca,G. Zanzotto,R. Twarock (2012). A
crystallographic approach to structural transitions in icosahedral viruses.
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY. vol.64; p.745-773.

G. Indelicato, T. Keef, P. Cermelli, D. G. Salthouse, R. Twarock, G. Zanzotto (2012).
Structural transformations in quasicrystals induced by higher dimensional lattice transitions.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. SERIES A. vol.; p.

X. BALANDRAUD; D. DELPUEYO; M. GREDIAC; ZANZOTTO G. (2010).
Almost compatible microstructures in shape memory alloys.
ACTA MATERIALIA. vol.58; p.4559-4577.

G. FADDA; ZANZOTTO G.; L. COLOMBO (2010).
First-principles study of the effect of pressure on the five zirconia polymorphs.
PHYSICAL REVIEW. B82; p.064105-064105.


FADDA G; COLOMBO L; ZANZOTTO G. First-principles study of the structural and
elastic properties of zirconia. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, 79 (2009)

ANDREA CAMPERIO CIANI; PAOLO CERMELLI; ZANZOTTO G. (2008).
Sexually antagonistic selection in human male homosexuality.
PLoS ONE. vol.3; p.e2282: 1-8.

FRANCISCO-JOSE PEREZ-RECHE; LEV TRUSKINOVSKY; ZANZOTTO G. (2008).
Driving-induced crossover: from classical criticality to self-organized criticality.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. vol.101; p.230601:1-4.

FRANCISCO-JOSE PEREZ-RECHE; LEV TRUSKINOVSKY; ZANZOTTO G. (2007).
Training-induced criticality in martensites.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. vol.99; p.075501:1-4.

BHATTACHARYA K.; CONTI S.; ZANZOTTO G.; ZIMMER J. (2004).
Crystal symmetry and the reversibility of martensitic transformations.
NATURE. vol.428; p.55-59.

PITTERI M.; ZANZOTTO G. (2003).
Continuum models for phase transitions and twinning in crystals.
Monograph, Chapman & Hall, pp.1-392.

Research Area

Empirical or experimental data analysis and mathematical modelling for material, biological, and social systems.

Thesis proposals

Looking for invariants in the bursty dynamics of interaction networks - human, animal, computer, and brain networks

This is an interdisciplinary project whose goal is establishing whether there exist certain statistical invariants in the bursty dynamics observed in complex network where nodes interact pair-wise or otherwise among themselves. Current results in this direction indicate that such invariants (such as certain universal statistical features exhibited by the active interacting nodes) indeed exist for instance in human dynamics, and specifically in written communication across various different media (paper letters, emails, text messages). We are interested in establishing whether such universality holds also for the inter-event-time distribution of agents, i.e. for the distribution of the pauses in each individual agent's activity, across many different classes of agents (human, animal, computer, brain activity are examples). Another possible type of universality to be investigated regards the existence of Zipf-type distributions in the interaction volumes pertaining to each agent.