Talks and Seminars

Invited Talks

  1. Zaccone A. (2024). Towards a “standard model” of liquid state physics. Invited talk at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, 07/03/2024.
  2. Zaccone A. (2024). Complex fluids in shear flow and other external fields. Seminar series “Reducing complexity of nonequilibrium system”, Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Germany, 23/01/2024.
  3. Zaccone A. (2023). Topological transition due to quantum confinement in superconductor thin films. Invited talk at the 2023 EPS European Condensed Matter Division Conference, Milano, Italy, 8/09/2023.
  4. Zaccone A. (2023). A solution to amorphous elasticity and plasticity based on topological physics. Invited talk at the 9th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, Chiba, Japan, 15/08/2023.
  5. Zaccone A. (2023). Mechanisms for enhancing the superconducting critical temperature via lattice effects. Condensed Matter Physics Seminar at National Technical University of Athens, 10/03/2023.
  6. Zaccone A. (2023). Random Close Packings: Finding Solutions, from Structure to Elasticity. Mathematical Physics Seminar at Imperial College London, 22/02/2023.
  7. Zaccone A. (2023). A solution to amorphous elasticity and plasticity based on topological physics. BioSoft Seminar & Physical Chemistry Seminar at Tel Aviv University, 19/01/2023.
  8. Zaccone A. (2022). A solution to amorphous elasticity and plasticity based on topological physics. Invited Talk, Hong Kong Tech Forum on Quantum Physics and Complex Systems, City University of Hong Kong, 7-9/12/2022.
  9. Zaccone A. (2021). Understanding complex materials from soft matter to superconductors. Invited Colloquium Talk, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI) and Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai, 25/05/2021.
  10. Zaccone A. (2021). Understanding the boson peak in glasses and glassy polymers. Invited talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting 2021.
  11. Zaccone A. (2018). Generalized Langevin Equation modelling of viscoelastic and dielectric properties of glasses. Invited talk at the CECAM workshop on “Dynamic Coarse-Graining and Memory Effects in Soft Matter Systems”, at Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, 24-26/10/2018.
  12. Zaccone A. (2018). Microscopic modelling of dielectric alpha and beta relaxation in glasses and orientationally disordered crystals based on Generalized Langevin Equations. Invited talk at the 10th Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 27-31/08/2018.
  13. Zaccone A. (2017). The origin of the boson peak and its link with the dielectric and dynamic mechanical response of amorphous solids. Invited talk at the 8th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxation in Complex Systems, Wisla, Poland, 25-27/08/2017.
  14. Zaccone A. (2017). Colloids in shear. Invited plenary talk at the SoftComp Annual meeting 2017, organized by the SoftComp (Soft Composites) EU research network. Venice, Italy, 29-31 May 2017.
  15. Zaccone A. (2017). Understanding polymer glasses and their deformations at the monomer-level. Invited talk at the German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting (Division of Chemical Physics). Dresden, Germany, 19-24/03/2017.
  16. Zaccone A. (2017). Towards a nonequilibrium atomic-scale theory of the dynamical response of metallic glasses. Invited talk at the German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting (Metal and Material Physics Division). Dresden, Germany, 19-24/03/2017.
  17. Zaccone A. (2017). Molecular-level framework for the dynamic mechanical response and yielding of polymer glasses. Contributed talk at the 2017 Mach Conference, co-organized by Johns-Hopkins University and US Army Research Lab. Annapolis MD, USA, 7-9/04/2017.
  18. Zaccone A. (2017). Bottom-up framework for the atomistic simulations of mechanical response of polymer glasses. Invited talk at the US Army Research Laboratory, Weapons & Materials Division, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD, USA, 04/01/2017.
  19. Zaccone A. (2016). Nonaffine lattice dynamics of metallic glasses. Invited talk at the Glass Meeting Goettingen (GMG) workshop. University of Goettingen, Germany, 16/06/2016.
  20. Zaccone A (2015). Yielding of colloidal glasses. Invited talk at the Flowing Matter Across the Scales, COST conference. Rome, Italy, 25/03/2015.
  21. Zaccone A. (2011). Shear-induced solidification of dilute colloidal suspensions: the ambiguous role of shear. Keynote presentation at the 25th European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) Conference. Berlin, Germany, 04-09/09/2011.
  22. Zaccone A. (2010). Shear-driven solidification in colloidal suspensions: from Brownian liquids to granular suspensions. Invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Granular & Granular-Fluid Flow. Colby College, Waterville, USA, 24/06/2010.
  23. Zaccone A. (2015). Inversion-symmetry breaking controls the boson peak of glasses and disordered crystals. Invited talk at the Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam (UvA).
  24. Zaccone A. (2015). Statistical mechanics of self-assembly of functional nanoparticles and protein systems. Invited talk at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg MD, USA.
  25. Zaccone A. (2015). Mechanical response of soft functional materials. Invited seminar at the Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, 06/2015.
  26. Zaccone A. (2014). Microscopic origin of nonlinear nonaffine deformations in metallic glasses. Invited talk at Physikalisches Institut, University of Goettingen.
  27. Zaccone A. (2014). Molecular self-assembly and gelation. Invited talk at Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
  28. Zaccone A. (2013). Molecular-level theory of soft and biological matter. Invited talk, Department of Physics, Durham University, UK 29/05/2013.
  29. Zaccone A. (2013). Mechanics of disordered matter at the molecular level and the glass transition. Invited talk within the Theoretical Physics Seminar series, Department of Physics, University of Bristol, UK 15/05/2013.
  30. Zaccone A. (2013). The low-T side of the glass transition: melting of amorphous solids and polymers. Invited talk at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK 19/02/2013.
  31. Zaccone A. (2012). Statistical mechanics of elasticity in disordered solids. Invited talk within the Series of Seminars in Statistical Mechanics, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, 26/01/2012.
  32. Zaccone A. (2012). Mechanical properties of disordered matter. Invited talk within the Lorentz Seminar, Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 7/02/2012.
  33. Zaccone A. (2009). Activated-rate processes in shear and application to shear-induced phenomena in soft matter. Invited talk at the Helmholtz Institute for Materials and Energy (formerly Hahn-Meitner Institute), Berlin, Germany, 16/11/2009.