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  Perugia, May 19, 2012 Luca Gammaitoni speeks at "Smart Cities" workshop at Perugia Green Days presenting a talk entitled "Smart city and ICT: a virtuous pair".  

  Workshop on "Materiali Nanostrutturati", Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia. April 20, 2012. Pictures of the event available here: Pictures Program and slides of the presentations available here: Slides  

Maranello, Italy – April 5 2012 Wisepower srl, spin-off of the NiPS Laboratory met with the R&D Ferrari F1 team to present HAT (Hybrid Autonomous Transceiver).    

Read the recently published Contemporary Physics introductory review: There’s plenty of energy at the bottom (Micro and nano scale nonlinear noise harvesting)Luca GammaitoniContemporary Physics Vol  53 (2) Pages 119-135 Abstract:The future of mobile Information and Communication Technology will be strongly affected

Energy dissipation in small-scale shape-change dynamics L.Gammaitoni Phys. Rev. E, Volume 85, p.020104 (2012) Abstract: Shape is an important feature of physical systems, although very seldom it is addressed in the framework of a quantitative description approach. In this paper

  Il 17 Febbraio, 2012, nell’ambito della manifestazione nazionale "M’illumino di Meno", promossa dal programma di RAI2 Caterpillar, Il NiPS Laboratory, in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Perugia e l’Assessorato alle politiche energetiche del Comune di Perugia,

  Delft, Feb. 8, 2012 Luca Gammaitoni and Helios Vocca from NiPS met with Herre Van der Zant and Warner Venstra from MED at TU Delft (http://home.tudelft.nl). The MED group studies the electronic properties of molecular and mechanical systems at

Feb. 7, 2012 Helios Vocca and Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS visited the Holst Centre/Imec in Eindhoven, Nederlands. During the visit, Rudd Vullers presented the activity of the energy harvesting group at IMEC. Helios Vocca presented a seminar on Nonlinear Energy

    Febrary 2, 2012 Program of the day 9.30  Introduzione (L. Gammaitoni)10.00  MEMS piezo harvesters (H. Vocca)10.30  Energy budget for aut. sensors (F. Orfei)11.00  Autonomous sensor networks (I. Neri)11.30  coffe break11.50  Numerics for thermal rectification (L. Bosi)12.20  Monolitic suspensions

  Cristina Castellano interviews Luca Gammaitoni, NiPS Director, during the TV Show "Speciale Università" on Jan 12 2012. Video interview (in italian).