Physicist, University of Bologna
I listen for gravitational waves in the noise that hides them.
Notes from a physicist who travels: talks and lectures, the places the work takes me, photographs, and old data-science tutorials I still get emails about.
Recent talksData never lie.
GW150914 — the first gravitational wave ever recorded, 14 September 2015.
What is on this site
everything academic sits on my university page
Scienza e Cultura: da Enrico Fermi alle Onde Gravitazionali passando per il bosone di Higgs.
TEDx, schools, universities and newsrooms. A good part of my year is spent explaining this work to people who did not study physics.
Prague Magic in Every Corner
Conferences, the places around them, and the pictures I take there.
A photographer for passion
A selection of my photographs.
Kaggle Bosch competition using Apache Spark
Kaggle notebooks and signal-processing lessons from the 2010s. Old, but still working.
Talks and outreach
recordings of recent talksA good part of my year is spent explaining gravitational waves to people who did not study physics: students, teachers, journalists. Here are the recordings worth your time.
Scienza e Cultura: da Enrico Fermi alle Onde Gravitazionali passando per il bosone di Higgs.
Scienza e cultura. Rotary Pescara
Da Enrico Fermi alle Onde Gravitazionali, passando per il Bosone di Higgs
Per chi e’ a Pescara il 15 Settembre… Tutte le info sul sito Rotary di Pescara
The travelling scientist
recent tripsNotes and pictures from the places the work takes me, written once the sessions are over.
Prague Magic in Every Corner
Extremely grateful for the invitation to speak at the AI&GW@CZ Workshop in Prague. Spending the day at the Czech Academy of Sciences…
Vienna Vibes and Alpine Highs
A journey through the heart of Central Europe, starting from the imperial halls of Vienna. Here, the highlight was the Belvedere Museum,…
The North Sea: Around Ostend
A few days spent at the BND Graduate School 2024 (Sept 2–12) at Corsendonk Duinse Polders. Between lectures, I took the time…
The archive
written years ago, still onlineWritten while I was competing on Kaggle. People still find them useful, so they stay online.
2016
Build and install Spark on Linux platform.
Build and install Spark on a Linux platform Here a short guide to build,…
2016
Scala project under IntelliJ IDEA
Setup of a scala project using IntelliJ IDEA I suppose you have already downloaded…
2016
Spark code snippets
A growing post which gathers short pieces of code Let’s suppose spark to be…
2016
Spark and XGBoost using Scala
Spark and XGBoost using Scala language Recently XGBoost project released a package on github…
2016
So much noise on a plane! Introducing the Power Spectral Density
Power spectral density (PSD) Wavy has been a little absent in the last period,…
2016