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Claudio Conti (Ph.D. 2002, ERC StGrant 2008) is Director of the Institute of Complex Systems of the National Research Council (ISC-CNR)

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CLAUDIO CONTI is the author of more than 200 articles published in the top-level journals (including 34 Physical Review Letters, 1 Nature, 1 Science, 2 Nature Physics, 5 Nature Communications, and 4 Nature Photonics). Among his recent interests, there is the merging of concepts in the science of complexity, machine learning, photonics, and nonlinear optics, towards applications as Ising machines and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics.

He is currently the Director of the Institute of Complex Systems of the Italian National Research Council (ISC-CNR) in Rome (Italy). Formerly, he was New Talent Grant from the Research Center Enrico Fermi; Humboldt fellowship for Experience Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light; Senior Researcher at CNR; Principal Investigator of the Starting Independent Research Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), with the project Light and Complexity; Principal Investigator of the ERC Proof of Concept Grant Vanguard; Principal Investigator of the Templeton Foundation Grant Generalized Uncertainty Principle and the Photon; and Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of the University Sapienza.

CC contributed to more than 150 international conferences (50 invited talks). CC has more than 9000 citations in Google Scholar (Scopus h-index 40, Google h-index 45, Total Impact Factor > 1000).

Selected invited talks and seminars

2020

Wave complexity and the spatial Ising machine, The 50th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics PQE-2020, January 5-10, Snowbird, US, Invited

2019

Ising machines and reservoir computing with tumor models, Photonic Reservoir Computing and Information Processing in Complex Network, December 4-7, Trento, Italy, Director

Wave complexity and computation, Seminaire Generaux, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB), October 9, Paris (FR), Invited

Deep reservoir computing in tumor cells, Optics at Nanoscale (ONS’19), September 9-11, Anacapri, Italy, Invited

Ising machines and reservoir computing with tumor models, ML-Photonica 2019, August 26-27, Belgrad, Serbia, Invited

Machine learning for quantum and classical devices, SPIE.Optics+Photonics 2019, August 11-15, San Diego, USA, Invited

Tutorial speaker at CIOP 2019, Complexity, topology, and machine learning in nonlinear optics, August 6-9, Xi’an, China

Keynote Speaker at PIERS 2019, Quantum and Classical X-waves with Angular Momentum, June 17-20, Rome, Italy

Multimodal Propagation, Deep Learning, and Optical Neural Networks, PIERS 2019, June 17-20, Rome, Italy, Invited

Machine Learning Photonics (including topological), Workshop on Topological Photonics and Beyond (TPD 2019), Nankai University, June 30-July 3 2019, Tianjin, China, Invited

Deep reservoir computing in tumor cells and Ising machines by spatial light modulators, Artificial Intelligence in nanophotonics (IWANN 2019 workshop), June 12-14 2019, Gran Canaria, Spain, Invited

Plenary Speaker at Waves Cote d’Azur , Waves and Complexity, 4-7 June 2019, Nice, France

Lecturer at the Andalo Winter School on Nonlinear Photonics NLP2019
Lessons on Complex Photonics in GitHub

2018

Nonlinear optics in disordered media and other things, August 21-24, Nonlinear Photonics International Summer School, Novosibirsk (Russia), Invited

Pseudo-quantum gravity with nonlinear optics, 8 February 2018, seminar at NTU, Department of Physics (Singapore)

Replica Symmetry Breaking in Disordered Nonlinear Waves, Advanced Photonics 2018 Congress, ETH Zurich, 2-5 July 2018, Invited

Topological Cascade Lasers, seminar at the University of Ottawa, 24 Jan 2018, and at the Nankai University, 27 Aprile 2019

2017

Topological cascade laser, Optics & Photonics Taiwan, the International Conference, OPTIC 2017, Kaohsiung, 7-9 December 2019, Invited

Complex Photonics, Complexity in Nonlinear Photonics 2017, 25-29 September, Como (IT), Invited

Pseudo-quantum gravity, Workshop Chiral Photonics, Erlangen, September 2017, Invited

Quantum soliton evaporation and other topics, Discrete, Nonlinear and Disordered Optics, DINDOS17, Max Planck Institute of Complex Physics, Dresden, 8-12 May 2017, Invited

Nonlinear optics, optomechanics, and antibacterial coating by graphene and graphene oxide, SPIE Photonics West OPTO 2017, 28 January – 2 February, San Francisco, Invited

Random Lasers, International Workshop on Complex Photonics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 22-24 January 2017, Mumbai, Invited

2016

Nonlinear Gamow Vectors, Nonlinear Waves 2016, June 25-28, 2016, Beijing, CN, Invited

Nonlinear Gamow Vectors, XXXVI Dynamics Days Europe 2016, June 6-10, Corfu, GR, Invited

Complexity of Nonlinear Waves, CHAOS 2016, May 23-26, 2016, London, UK, Invited

Shock waves and Antibacterial Cloaks, CIOP 2016, July 17-20, 2016, Shanghai, CN, Invited

Unconventional Quantum Nonlinear Optics, Fluids of Light Workshop 2016, 17-19 Oct, Edinburgh (UK), Invited

2015

Invited key-speaker at the discussion panel “Future Directions in Nonlinear Optics” of the OSA Nonlinear Optics Technical Group, at Frontier in Optics, Frontier in Optics, 2015, October 18-22, San Jose, California (USA)

Quantum Gravity Simulation and Irreversibility in Nonlinear Optics, Nonlinear Optics (NLO) 2015, July 26-31, Kauai, Hawai (USA), Invited

Optomechanics of Random Media, Photonics North 2015, May 24-26, 2015, Ottawa, CA, Invited

Simulation of Irreversible Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in Nonlocal Nonlinear Optics, Photonics Middle East Conference 2015, December 13-16, Doha, QA, Invited

Conference organization

Director of the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies “Machine Learning Photonics,” 14-18 September 2020

Program Chair with Robert W. Boyd of the OSA Nonlinear Optics NLO 2019, 15-19 July, Hawaii (US)

Organizer of the Symposium EP07: Tailored Disorder – Novel Materials for Advanced Optics and Photonics, 2018 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 25-30, with H. Cao, S. Mujumdar and C. Zollfrank

Full list of publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nuSdWCAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

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Machine Learning Photonics Workshop in Como

3 February 2020

Lake Como School of Advanced Photonics NEW DATE: MARCH 15-19, 2021 The school brings together experts in emerging photonic technologies, machine learning techniques, and fundamental physics who will share with young researchers their knowledge and interdisciplinary approaches for understanding and designing complex photonic systems and their practical applications. In the new era of artificial intelligence, algorithms and computational interfaces are broadly emerging as novel tools to do scientific research.

Quantum Gravity Slingshot

10 May 2018

Modified uncertainty principle and non-commutative variables may phenomenologically account for quantum gravity effects, independently of the considered theory of quantum gravity. We show that quantum fluids enable experimental analogs and direct tests of the modified uncertainty principle expected to be valid at the Planck scale. We consider a quantum clock realized by a long-lasting quantum fluid wave-packet orbiting in a trapping potential.

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14 September 2019

Dispersive shock waves in thermal optical media belong to the third-order nonlinear phenomena, whose intrinsic irreversibility is described by time asymmetric quantum mechanics. Recent studies demonstrated that nonlocal wave breaking evolves in an exponentially decaying dynamics ruled by the reversed harmonic oscillator, namely, the simplest irreversible quantum system in the rigged Hilbert spaces. The generalization of this theory to more complex scenarios is still an open question.