Engaging with the public is a duty to give back to the community. On the one hand, because it helps in creating a community where people act as informed citizens. On the one hand, since part of the research that I do is funded by public money.

The world we live in nowadays is high-technological, whose constant advances require more and more technical knowledge to be understood. The video here by The European Mathematical Society presents this last point in a very clear way. It is therefore extremely important that scientists and mathematicians find effective ways to build public confidence about scientific discoveries that will change the world we live in.

I am always glad to engage with the public, whether this is aimed to make young students interested in hard disciplines like STEMS, or to share with citiziens of all ages the cutting-edge advances in (my) mathematical research.

Do you want to know more about mathematics, its applications and the work of mathematicians? Are you organizing and event and want to include a workshop or a lecture? Contact me and I'll be glad to to discuss ideas with you.

On 14 September 2022 I gave a public lecture titled The beauty and power of patterns and shapes where I guided the audience through a journey into the wonders of self-assembly in nature and the aplications they inspired. The lecture was one of the events organized by the PR Committee of the Math Department for the cultural program in occasion of the Imaginary exhibition (website) that Radboud University hosted from 3 to 23 September.

Every year, DESDA (website), the math student association of Radboud university, organizes a symposyum, with seminars and activities with faculty. In 2021, I ran a workshop to make students discover the wonders and the power of the Turing Machine. Groups of students challenged themselves in solving problems with the languarge of the universal machine. The only tools allowed? Pen and toilet paper!

In 2018 Carnegie Mellon University organized the first Science Jam event: an occasion to foster the interaction between researchers of different disciplines. Each participant had to present a piece of own research in a fun, friendly and fast-paced environment. It was a really good occasion to use Arlecchino to talk about homogenization. Take a look here for more info on the event.

Being invited to talk at the Lyceum International Club of Firenze (website) was an honor and a pleasure. The conference (part of the general program of 2017 present here), titled Il pennello di Galileo (Galileo's brush), was about the role of mathematics in scientific investigation, and how math can be used to recolor damaged images.

Wonder how math can help in reconstructing a painting? The interview made by Luisa Alessio for OggiScienza (in italian, see here) will let you know something about it!

I was very lucky to find at SISSA and in particular at SISSA Medialab (website) people with a lot of passion and professionality in communicating science that have given me the possibility to learn and to make practice with this art. In the a.y. 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 I has been a vounteer for SISSA per la Scuola, the initiative that permits students, ranging from primary to high school, to visit SISSA and to speak with PhD students about science. These kind of experiences are priceless.

Every year SISSA organizes SISSA in Festa, an event aimed to present to people the world of science. In 2014, together with Matteo Casati, we prepared an interactive seminar about caustics. Here you can find the article and the video on the local press. (You can find me at 2:30!)

Chi se ne frega della matematica? (Who cares about math?) is probably one of the most asked questions in (and out) class rooms. So no better title could have been chosen for a presentation, given in the occasion of the SISSA Special Day for High School Students 2015 (February 11th) to discuss the role of mathematics in real life applications.

I had the possibility to engage with the general audience of Trieste during the annual event Trieste Next (link here) in 2014. In that occasion I talked about applications of mathematics to real life problems

A collaboration with RCS, on the behalf of SISSA Medialab, gave rise to three fact sheets titled
- Il teorema dei quattro colori (pdf - 466Kb),
- Cantor e l'infinito (pdf - 426Kb),
- Le altre matematiche (pdf - 187Kb)
that have been published on the teacher's guide for a medium level school textbook edited by RCS.