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Step by step... my activity (CV)

(Per non farsi corrompere dalle lodi, bisogna continuare a lavorare,

non c'e' altro modo. A. Einstein)

2005	Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni (now Dipartimento di Informatica), Univ. of Salerno

Attended events:

ESF Science Meeting W2DL (Salerno, May 3-5, 2006), local commitee
Meeting of the MIUR Project (Varese, July 17-18, 2006).
ESF Science Meeting "Automata and formal languages for DNA computation and bioinformatics" (Como , October 18-20, 2006), invited talk.
AutoMathA: From Mathematics to Applications , Palermo (Italy), June 18-22, 2007, accepted paper.
FCT2007 , Budapest (Hungary), August 27-30, 2007, accepted paper.
Meeting of the MIUR Project 2007 (Milan January 20-21, 2009).
WORDS 2009, organizing committee.
ICTCS 2010, accepted paper.
TPNC 2012, accepted paper.

2004	Temporary researcher in Computer Science on "Formal languages, variable-length codes, splicing systems (Supervision: Prof. C. De Felice), at the Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Univ. of Salerno [three months]

2002-2004

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computer Science on "Splicing systems and Automata Theory (Supervision: Prof. C. De Felice), at the Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Univ. of Salerno

Attended events:

Meeting of the EMCC (Metz, May 10-11, 2002), scheduled talk [Slides].
Meeting of the MIUR Project (Rovereto (TN), July 2-3, 2002) [Slides -not completed)].
Conference DLT2002
Meeting of the EMCC (Budapest, November 29-30, 2002), scheduled talk [Some slides], [Program]
Meeting of the MIUR Project (Palermo, February 13-15, 2003) [Some slides]
Spring Meeting EMCC (Turku, Finland, May 15-17, 2003) [Program]
Conference DLT2003
Conference WORDS2003
Meeting of the MIUR Project (Ravello (SA), September 19-21, 2003 [Slides]
Visit to Prof. J.H. Hoogeboom (December 2003)

1997-2002

PhD in Computer Science, Dipartimento di Informatica, Univ. of Milano. Supervisors: Prof. Giancarlo Mauri, Prof. Clelia De Felice.

First year

International School of PhD in Computer Science SNDIS98 (18-29 Maggio 1998, Bertinoro, Italy). Exams:

Fuzzy logic (P. Hajek)
Computer networks (S. Gai)
Computer Graphics (L. De Floriani)
Learning and neural networks (A. Bertoni)

Course of Algorithms and Complexity (Milano, March-June 1998)

Auditor at 42nd seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire , 1-6 September 1998

(Maratea).

Accepted paper (jointly with C. De Felice) at ICTCS98

Second year ( Thesis proposal )

Advanced course , Prof. Timo Kakola, Univ. of Jyvskyl - Finlandia (20-23 April 1999): "Sistemi informativi e tecnologie groupware per imprese orientate alla conoscenza"

International School on Computational Biology (Lipari) (20 Giugno - 3 Luglio, 1999), Class-room exam: Lecture on "Identifying satellites in DNA Sequences" (di M.F. Sagot & E. Meyers)

Scheduled talk at Words99

Third year ( Thesis progress report )

Lectures "Words, Formal Series, Codes and Symbolic Dynamics" , D. Perrin ( VI Incontro di combinatorica algebrica, Maratea 5-10 ottobre 1999).

Meeting of the Progetto Nazionale "Metodi di calcolo innovativi: metodi sintattici e combinatori (Firenze, 25-27 Novembre 1999)

PhD Course " Topics in TCS: Randomness, Proofs and Computation", Prof. Pino Persiano, Univ. of Salerno. Class-room exam: lecture on the paper "A complete promise problem for Statistical Zero Knowledge, A. Sahai, S. Vadhan. March 2000.

Auditor at Workshop on Traces theory and code parallelization (1-2 June 2000 ).

Accepted paper at DNA6 (June 2000).

Fourth year (relazione, draft tesi, Survey of PhD Thesis, Slides)

International School on Quantum Computing (Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, 11-15 September

2000). Class-room lectures: Basics of Quantum Computing (J. Gruska), Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics (D. De Falco).

Meeting of the EMCC (Milano, 3-4 November 2000).

Meeting of the Progetto Nazionale "Metodi di calcolo innovativi: metodi sintattici e combinatori Milano, 25-27 Novembre 2000)

Master course: Metodi Formali dell'Informatica (C. De Felice)

December - February 2001, Univ. of Salerno.

Teaching activity

Scheduled talk WORDS01