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Enzo Marinari

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Enzo Marinari (born on July 7, 1957, in Avellino) is an Italian theoretical and computational physicist.[1] He has contributed to introducing several new algorithms in computational physics, such as Parallel Tempering[2], the SU(N) updating method[3] and Constraint Allocation Flux Balance Analysis (CAFBA)[4]. He is a professor at the Physics Department of the Sapienza University of Rome.

Education and career

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Enzo Marinari got his physics degree at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1980. Until 1984 he worked as a staff scientist at the Theoretical Physics Institute of the CEA Saclay, in France. In 1988 he was nominated Associate Professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and in 1994 he became a full professor at the University of Cagliari. Since 1999 he is a full professor at the Physics Department of the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy.[5]

From 1992 until 1994 he was contemporarily the Physics Director for the Northeast Parallel Architecture Center (NPAC) in Syracuse, NY, USA. During the period 2004-2011, he was the Scientific Director for physics of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.[1]

During his career Enzo Marinari has done research in different fields of physics, such as particle physics (QCD, string theory), statistical physics (spin glasses, disordered and complex systems, phase transitions, temperature chaos) and biophysics (metabolic and neural networks).[6] He has been one of the founding members of the Spanish-Italian Janus collaboration[7] and of the Italian APE collaboration, both promoting the use of computational methods in research in physics. He has written and edited several books[8][9][10][11] and plays an active role in explaining science and its applications on mainstream media channels.[12][13]

Recognitions

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In 1980 Enzo Marinari received the Borsa Persico of the Accademia dei Lincei.[5] In 1989 he was elected as best physicist under the age of 35 by the Accademia dei Lincei.[5] In 1992 he received an essay prize from the Gravity Research Foundation.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b Biography of Enzo Marinari on the French CAPHÉS archive, retrieved 2024-09-19
  2. ^ Marinari, Enzo; Parisi, Giorgio (1992), "Simulated Tempering: a New Monte Carlo Scheme", Europhysics Letters, 19 (6): 451–458, arXiv:hep-lat/9205018, doi:10.1209/0295-5075/19/6/002
  3. ^ Marinari, Enzo; Cabibbo, Nicola (1982), "New Method for Updating SU(N) Matrices in Computer Simulations of Gauge Theories", Physics Letters B, 119 (4–6): 387–390, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(82)90696-7
  4. ^ Mori, Matteo; Hwa, Terence; Martin, Olivier C.; De Martino, Andrea; Marinari, Enzo (2016), "Constrained Allocation Flux Balance Analysis", PLOS Computational Biology, 12 (6): e1004913, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004913, PMID 27355325
  5. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2024-09-19
  6. ^ Interview with Enzo Marinari for the French CAPHÉS archive, retrieved 2024-10-16
  7. ^ The JANUS Collaboration, retrieved 2024-09-19
  8. ^ Barrone, Luciano M.; Marinari, Enzo; Organtini, Giovanni; Ricci-Tersenghi, Federico (2012), Scientific Programming, World Scientific, Singapore, doi:10.1142/8842, ISBN 9789814513401
  9. ^ Leuzzi, Luca; Marinari, Enzo; Parisi, Giorgio (2023), Calcolo delle probabiltà - Un trattatello per principianti volenterosi, Zanichelli, Bologna, ISBN 9788808499660
  10. ^ Charbonneau, Patrick; Marinari, Enzo; Mézard, Marc; Parisi, Giorgio; Ricci-Tersenghi, Federico; Sicuro, Gabriele; Zamponi, Francesco (2023), Spin Glass Theory and Far Beyond (PDF), World Scientific, Singapore, doi:10.1142/13341, ISBN 9789811273919
  11. ^ The Library of Congress, retrieved 2024-10-16
  12. ^ La7 interview with Enzo Marinari, retrieved 2024-09-19
  13. ^ INFN Podcast on Complexity, retrieved 2024-09-19
  14. ^ Gravity Research Foundation Winning Essays 1992, retrieved 2024-09-19
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