TOMASO ASTE

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CONTACT
Name:  Tomaso
Family name:  Aste
Title:
 A/Prof.
Institute address:  Applied Mathematics,
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering,
The Australian National University,
0200 Canberra, ACT
Australia
Tel:  ++ 61  (0)2   61252846
Fax:  ++ 61  (0)2   61250732
e-mail:  tomaso.aste @anu.edu.au
 
 
EDUCATION
 
February 1994
Ph.D.  Milan Univ. (2nd year at the Imperial College , London).
Thesis: "Effect of geometrical and topological constraints on the formation, evolution and functional properties of disordered cellular systems". Supervisor: Prof. Dario Beruto.
February 1990 Ms Degree in Physics, University of Genova, with mark 110/110.
Thesis: "A model for high Tc superconductivity induced by antiferromagnetic fluctuations".  Supervisors: Prof. Enrico Galleani d'Agliano and Prof. Franco Napoli.

 
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

March 1998
Qualification as Professor, in French Universities:  "Qualification aux fonctions de professeur des université"
March 1998 Qualification as assistant Professor, in French Universities:  "Qualification aux fonctions de maître de conferénces".
 


PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
 
2 		 
Books: “The Pursuit of Perfect Packing” (Institute of Physics Ed. 2000); a book about packing problems and disordered granular systems that recounts the story of the solution in 1998 of the long standing “Kepler problem” and addresses many topics ranging from soap bubbles to atomic structures. Taylor & Francis has re-published a largely extended second edition in 2008.
> 80 Scientific Publications in international journals with referees
2 Patents
3
Copyrights
 

MEMBERSHIPS

From May. 06
 Member of the European Physical Society.
Jan 04 -
Founding member and Coordinator of the Australian Marie Curie Fellowship Group (www.mariecurie.org/au/).
Jun 01 -
Founding member of the Researcher association “ARIA” (Association of Researchers in Australasia for Cooperation in S&T with Italy).
From Feb. 1996
 Member of the International Association “Marie Curie Fellowship”.
From Feb. 1990
 Associate member of the INFM (The National Institute for the Physics of Matter, Italy)


EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
 

Guest Editor, for the volume  "GRANULAR AND COMPLEX MATERIALS"    World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems - Vol. 8 cover
Guest Editor, for the special issue of Physica A “Econophysics Colloquium”, 2006. eColl
Guest Editor, for the topical issue of the "No Worries: Trends in Econophysics" on Econophysics, 2006. globe
Guest Editor, for the special issue of Physica A, "Materials and Complexity", 2004.
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