Spatial ecological communities on dispersal networks: from metapopulation capacity to coexistence through disorder
Invited talk at the V Conference of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics held at the University of Parma, Italy.
Talks, presentations and posters
The markers on the map represent a conference, workshop, or institute where I presented my work, either invited talks or contributed talks and posters, together with the schools and workshops I attended and my research visits. Click on a marker for more information.
2026
Information processing in multiscale biological systems: from transduction mechanisms to decision-making processes
Invited talk at the Institute of Industrial Sciences, University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan.
Processing information from partially observed signals in biological systems with energetic constraints
Contributed poster at the EPIC Assembly Symposium 2026 held in Tokyo, Japan.
2025
Decoding behavior: inference of decision-making processes with interpretable agent models
Invited seminar at the ‘Padova Neuroscience Center’ at the University of Padova, Italy.
Inference of decision-making strategies with finite memory states
Contributed talk at the Neurophysics of Active Sensing program held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Optimizing transduction of information from hidden observables in biological systems with a limited energy budget
Contributed talk at the International Physics of Living Systems (iPoLS) Annual Meeting held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Tuning transduction from hidden observables to optimize information harvesting with a limited energy budget
Contributed talk at the 29th International Conference on Statistical Physics held in Florence, Italy.
2024
Landscape and habitat heterogeneity drive niche coexistence in dispersing ecological metacommunities
This poster has been shown during the poster session of the ENAC Research Day 2024, held at the Rolex Forum of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Spatially disordered environments stabilize competitive metacommunities
Contributed talk at the conference Stochastic Models and Experiments in Ecology and Biology 2024 held at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy.
Information propagation across timescales in multiscale systems
Contributed talk at the ‘Information processing, noise and adaptation in living systems’ workshop held at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
Information propagation across timescales
Invited seminar at the Quantitative Life Sciences section at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
Tuning transduction from hidden observables to optimize information harvesting
Invited talk at the ‘Information processing and decision-making in biology’ workshop held at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Quantitative Life Sciences section, Trieste, Italy.
2023
Survival and coexistence in spatially explicit metapopulation models
Invited talk at the ‘Emergent dynamical patterns of disordered systems with applications to natural communities’ workshop, held at the University of Padova, Italy.
Emergent encoding of dispersal network topologies in spatial metapopulation models
This poster has been shown during the poster session of the Italian Conference on Complex Systems 2023, held in Naples, Italy.
The architecture of information processing in biological systems
Contributed talk at the 28th International Conference on Statistical Physics held in Tokyo, Japan.
2022
Criticality and network structure drive emergent oscillations in a stochastic whole-brain model
This poster has been shown during the virtual poster session of the Brain Criticality Meeting 2022, held in Bethesda, MD, USA.
Information-driven transitions in optimal projections of underdamped dynamics
Contributed talk at the Conference on Complex Systems 2022 held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Criticality and network structure drive emergent oscillations in a stochastic whole-brain model
Contributed talk at the Conference on Complex Systems 2022 held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Disentangling the critical signatures of neural activity: avalanches, spatial correlations and information
This poster has been shown during the poster session of the Bernstein Conference 2022, held in Berlin, Germany.
Information theory in stochastic processes and complex systems
Invited seminar at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
What can criticality and phase transitions teach us about brain dynamics?
Invited talk at the BrainNet workshop, held at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
Unfolding complex systems with information theory
Invited talk at the Young Seminars of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics, held online. You can watch the talk here.
2021
Modeling the emergence of scale-free fire outbreaks in Australia
Contributed talk at the Conference on Complex Systems 2021 held in Lyon, France.
Disentangling internal interactions from noisy environments through mutual information
This poster has been shown during the poster session of the Conference on Complex Systems 2021 held in Lyon, France.
Disentangling the role of external and intrinsic dynamics on the critical signatures of neural activity
Contributed talk at the Conference on Complex Systems 2021 held in Lyon, France.
Modeling the emergence of scale-free fire out-breaks in Australia
This poster has been shown during the poster session of the conference Stochastic Models and Experiments in Ecology and Biology 2021, held in Venice, Italy.
On the critical signatures of neural activity
This poster has been shown during the poster session of the school Statistical Mechanics and Emergent Phenomena in Biology 2021, held in Beg Rohu, France.
2020
What can a phenomenological Renormalization Group teach us about criticality in a network of neurons?
This poster has been shown during the poster session of the Brain Criticality Virtual Meeting, held online.
Scaling and criticality in a phenomenological Renormalization Group
This poster has been shown during the poster session of the Bernstein Conference 2020, held online.
2019
Scaling and Renormalization Group for the activity of neurons
This poster has been shown during the poster session of the First Italian Conference on Complex Systems, held at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy.