The CV is available in the following forms:

• html version (this file, ready to be printed)
• PDF
• Postscript

Work Address

     Marco Cavaglià
     Department of Physics and Astronomy
     203B Lewis Hall
     The University of Mississippi
     Post Office Box 1848
     University, Mississippi 38677-1848, USA
     Tel: + 1(662) 915-7642
     Fax: + 1(662) 915-5045
     E-mail: cavaglia@phy.olemiss.edu
     Web page: http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~cavaglia

Academic Education and Present Position

• January 2004 - present: Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, USA.
• October 2003 - December 2003: Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, USA, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Torino, Italy.
• October 2002 - September 2003: Lecturer at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, U.K.
• September 2000 - August 2002: Bruno Rossi Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Theoretical Physics, M.I.T., Cambridge MA, USA.
• October 1999 - August 2000: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Physics, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.
• September 1997 - September 1999: Postdoctoral Position at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm, Germany.
• January 1997 - August 1997: Research Associate at Tufts University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Medford MA, USA.
• October 28th, 1996: Ph.D. Degree in Astrophysics. Title of the Thesis: Quantisation of Gauge Systems: Application to Minisuperspace Models in Canonical Quantum Gravity. Supervisors: Prof. Vittorio de Alfaro, Prof. Dennis W. Sciama; External Examiner: Prof. Carlo Rovelli.
• November 1992 - October 1996: Ph.D. Course in Astrophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). All examinations passed with honors. From December 1st, 1994 to November 31st, 1995: National Community Service.
• July 1992: University Degree (Laurea, equivalent to MSc.) in Physics, University of Torino. Title of the Thesis: Anisotropic Electromagnetic Wormholes. Graduating marks: 110/110 Summa cum laude and Honorable Mention.
• 1988 - 1992: 4-Year course in Physics at the University of Torino. All examinations passed with honors.

Other Positions

• Visiting scientist at the California Institute of Technology, LIGO Laboratory. November 1st, 2007 - May 4th, 2009.
• Graduate Faculty at the University of Alabama. Academic year 2007-08.

Awards

• May 2003: Honorable Mention in the 2003 Gravity Research Foundation competition for the essay Cosmic black holes, by E.-J. Ahn and M. Cavaglià.
• May 2002: Third Prize in the 2002 Gravity Research Foundation competition for the essay A new era in high-energy physics, by E.-J. Ahn and M. Cavaglià.

Grants and Fellowships

• April 2009 - present: Catching a New Wave: Gravitational-wave Astronomy as a Probe of the Universe. PI: M. Cavaglià. Granting agency: National Science Foundation. Duration: 2 years. Amount: $824,073.
• December 2008 - February 2009: Einstein's Cosmic Messengers: An Interdisciplinary Outreach Event at Ole Miss, PI: M. Cavaglià. Granting agency: University of Mississippi. Amount: $2,500.
• July 2008 - present: Mississippi's participation in LIGO's search for gravitational waves. PI: M. Cavaglià. Granting agency: National Science Foundation. Duration: 3 years. Amount: $240,000.
• January 2008-August 2009: 2008 Faculty Research Program Award: Mississippi's Search for Gravitational Waves, PI: M. Cavaglià. Granting agency: University of Mississippi. Amount: $ 11,870.
• January 19, 2007. Gravitational diffraction radiation. Summer research grant. PI: M. Cavaglià. Granting agency: College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi. Amount: $7,200.
• May 2006-April 2007: Phenomenology at particle colliders (Task part of DOE grant Experimental Study of Electroweak and Heavy Flavor Physics - PI: L.M. Cremaldi, co-PI: R.S. Kroeger, G.B. Quinn, D. Summers). Granting agency: Department of Energy. Amount: $3,000.
• January 18th, 2006: Simulation and analysis of black holes in high-energy particle collisions. Summer research grant. PI: M. Cavaglià. Granting agency: College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi.Amount: $7,080.
• January 2006: Provost's Partners Grants Program: Cosmic Ray Detector, PI: M.Cavaglià. Granting agency: University of Mississippi. Amount: $1,000.
• January 2005 - May 2006: 2005 Faculty Research Program Award: Black Holes in particle colliders and cosmic rays. PI: M. Cavaglià. Granting agency: University of Mississippi. Amount: $7,943.
• September 2004: Grant for the organization of the Fourth Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (Cala Gonone, Italy, September 2005). PI: M. Cadoni, M. Cavaglià, J. Nelson. Granting agency: University of Pisa. Amount: Eu 2,000.
• July 2004: Faculty Travel Support: 14th Course of the International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics (Erice, July 2004) and 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (Dublin, Ireland, July 2004). Granting agency: University of Mississippi. Amount: $1,075.
• July 2004: Grant for the organization of the Fourth Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (Cala Gonone, Italy, September 2005). PI: M. Cadoni, M. Cavaglià, J. Nelson. Granting agency: Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). Amount: Eu 4,500.
• June 2004: Grant for the organization of the Fourth Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (Cala Gonone, Italy, September 2005). PI: M. Cadoni, M. Cavaglià, J. Nelson. Granting agency: University of Cagliari. Amount: Eu 6,000.
• June 2004: Grant for the organization of the Fourth Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (Cala Gonone, Italy, September 2005). PI: M. Cadoni, M. Cavaglià, J. Nelson. Granting agency: University of Torino. Amount: Eu 5,000.
• May 2004: Faculty Travel Support: 11th International Symposium on Particle physics, String theory and Cosmology, Gyeongju (Korea), May 30th - June 4th, 2005. Granting agency: University of Mississippi. Amount: $1,000.
• June 2003: Treaty of Windsor Programme 2004/05, M-theory phenomena at low energies: From theory to experiments, PI: M. Cavaglià, P. Vargas Moniz (University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal). Granting agency: British Council Research Grant. Amount: £ 2,000.
• May 2000: MIT Bruno Rossi two-year post-doctoral research fellowship.
• June 1999: Three-year post-doctoral research grant of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.
• July 1996: Selected by competition (oral and written examination) for a research grant of the University of Torino. Result: first classified, marks 66/70.
• October 1992: Selected by competition (oral and written examination) for the Ph.D. courses in Particle Physics and Astrophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA).

Schools Attended

• July 2004: International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics, 14th Course: "Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe", Erice (Italy), July 2nd - 13th, 2004. Chaired one session.
• December 2000: International school of astrophysics Daniel Chalonge, 8th course: Phase transitions in the early universe: theory and observations. Erice (Italy), December 6th - 17th, 2000.
• July - August 1996: Quantum Fields and Quantum Space Time, Institut d'études scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica (France).
• June 1994: Summer School in High Energy Physics and Cosmology, ICTP, Trieste (Italy).
• April 1994: Spring School and Workshop on String Theory, Gauge Theory and Quantum Gravity, ICTP, Trieste (Italy).
• September 1993: National School for Ph.D. Students in Astrophysics: 2nd course: Cosmology and Stellar Evolution, Sant'Agata, Napoli (Italy).
• July 1993: International School of Subnuclear Physics, 31st course: From Supersymmetry to the Origin of Space-Time; Erice (Italy).

Current and Past Research Activities

     Most of my research activity has been devoted to the study of gravity, general relativity, astrophysics and quantum field theory.

• Gravitational-wave theory and detection: Waveforms and source modeling, detection, LIGO data analysis, LIGO detector characterization.

• Classical models of gravity: Phenomenological aspects, exact solutions, two-dimensional dilaton gravity, wormholes, topologically massive gravity, black hole thermodynamics, naked singularities.
• Quantum gravity: Quantum two-dimensional dilaton gravity, quantum theory of black holes and wormholes, minisuperspace models, definition of time in quantum gravity, third quantization of the gravitational field.
• String and membrane theories: AdS/CFT correspondence, branes, conformal dynamics, M-theory, exact solutions.
• TeV-scale gravity: Transplanckian phenomena, phenomenological aspects, brane world models, gravitational wave emission in higher dimensions.
• High energy cosmic rays: Black hole and brane production, air-shower simulations.
• Cosmology: String and M-theory cosmology, quantum cosmology, gravity perturbations in the early universe.
• Applied Mathematics: Quantization of finite-dimensional gauge systems.

Current Collaborations

• Member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
• Black holes and other exotica at particle colliders and cosmic ray observatories (with L. Cremaldi, A. Roy, D. Summers, University of Mississippi, and R. Godang, University of South Alabama).

PhD Supervision/Student Advising

• Dr. Arunava Roy, PhD University of Mississippi (2005-2009). Title of Dissertation: Particle Phenomenology of Gravitational Events at the TeV Scale.
• Mr. Jericho Cain, University of Mississippi (2006-).
• Ms. Brooke Rankins, M.A., University of Mississippi (2007-).
• Mr. Jun-Qi Guo, M.A., University of Mississippi (2005-2008).

Teaching Experience

• Introduction to quantum mechanics, Phys. 451 (Undergraduate, University of Mississippi, fall semester 2007-08).

• Selected Topics in Physics, Phys. 503 (Graduate, University of Mississippi, spring semester 2005-06, fall semesters 2007-08, 2008-09).
• Special topics: Advanced quantum mechanics, Phys. 629 (Graduate, University of Mississippi, spring semester 2006-07, spring and fall semesters 2007-08).
• Research seminar, Phys.510 (Graduate, University of Mississippi, spring semester 2006-07, fall semester 2008-09).
• Advanced Electromagnetic Theory I, Phys. 621 (Graduate, University of Mississippi, fall semesters 2004-05 through 2008-09).
• Advanced Electromagnetic Theory II, Phys. 622 (Graduate, University of Mississippi, spring semesters 2004-05 through 2008-09).
• Quantum Field Theory, Phys. 631 (Graduate, University of Mississippi, fall semester 2006-07, 2008-09).
• Physics for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Phys. 215 (Undergraduate, University of Mississippi, spring semesters 2004-05, 2005-06). Instructor of Record for laboratory sections.
• Gravitation and Cosmology (Selected Topics in Physics I) Phys. 503/623 (Undergraduate/graduate, University of Mississippi, spring semester 2005-06). Taught with Dr. Luca Bombelli.
• Tutoring for Physics students (Undergraduate, University of Mississippi, 1 hour/week, each semester 2004-05).
• General Physics II, Phys. 214 (Undergraduate, University of Mississippi, spring semester 2003-04). Instructor of Record for laboratory sections.
• A brief introduction to constrained systems and quantum gravity (Graduate, University of Portsmouth, UK, spring semester 2002-03).
• APM310 General Relativity (Undergraduate, University of Portsmouth, UK, spring semester 2002-03).
• APM202 Fluids and electromagnetic waves (Undergraduate, University of Portsmouth, UK, spring semester 2002-03).
• APM310, Relativistic astrophysics (Undergraduate, University of Portsmouth, UK, spring semester 2002-03). Unit coordinator.
• APM304 Cosmology (Undergraduate, University of Portsmouth, UK, fall semester 2002-03).
• AST201 Stellar Structure (Undergraduate, University of Portsmouth, UK, fall semester 2002-03).
• Astronomy 9A, Concepts of the Cosmos (Undergraduate, Tufts University, first summer session 2002).
• Research Supervisor for students in string theory, subject 8.391-8.392 (Graduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spring semester 2002).
• Summer Study Writing Program for high school students, Odysseys: Exploring Self, Exploring Society (Undergraduate, Tufts University, second summer session 2001). Invited Guest Lecturer.
• Astronomy 10B, Wanderers in space (Undergraduate, Tufts University, second summer session 2001).
• Quantum Theory II (8.322), Recitation R01 (Undergraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spring semester 2001). Teaching assistant for Prof. Roman Jackiw.
• Astronomy 9, Concepts of the Cosmos from Flat Earth to SETI (Undergraduate, Tufts University, first summer session 1997).
• Astronomy 21, Galaxies and the Universe: Application of physics to observable astronomical objects and the expanding universe (Undergraduate, Tufts University, spring semester 1997).

Other Scientific Activities

• Member of the Organizing Committee of the First Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity (MCCQG), Kolymbari, Crete (Greece) September 14th - 18th, 2009. Creator and webmaster of the conference web page.
• Organizer of the Fourth Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting, Oxford MS, March 7th-8th, 2008. Creator and webmaster of the conference web page.
• Organizer of the Second School and Workshop on gravity and theoretical physics, University of Mississippi, January 8th - 11th, 2007.
• Organizer of the Physics and Astronomy Departmental Colloquia, University of Mississippi, spring semester 2006-07, fall semester 2008-09.
• Co-organizer of the First Minischool on Quantum Gravity for graduate students, University of Mississippi, January 9th - 13th, 2006.
• Co-editor of the Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Cala Gonone (Sardinia, Italy), September 12th - 16th, 2005, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 33 (2006) doi:10.1088/1742-6596/33/1/E01, M. Cadoni et al. Eds.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the Fourth Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (QG05), Cala Gonone, Sardinia (Italy) September 12th - 16th, 2005. Creator and webmaster of the conference web page.
• Co-editor of the Proceedings of the Third Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Villasimius (Italy), September 13th - 17th, 1999, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 88 (Elsevier, North-Holland, August 2000), V. de Alfaro et al. Eds.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the Third Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (QG99), Villasimius (Italy) September 13th - 17th, 1999.
• Co-editor of the Proceedings of the Second Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Santa Margherita Ligure (Italy), September 17th - 21st, 1996, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 57 (Elsevier, North-Holland, August 1997), V. de Alfaro et al. Eds.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the Second conference on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, (QG96) Santa Margherita Ligure (Italy), September 17th - 21st, 1996. Creator and webmaster of the conference web page.
• Co-editor of the Proceedings of the XI Italian Meeting of General Relativity and Gravitational Theory (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996) eds. M. Carfora et al.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Meeting Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Dubna, Russia, July 5th - 7th, 1995.
• Grant Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF Career Grants, International Research Fellowship Program, Theoretical Physics Division).
• Grant Reviewer for the Department of Energy (U.S. Department of Energy's 2009 Phase I SBIR/STTR Program).
• Referee for American Journal of Physics, Annals of Physics, Astroparticle Physics, Astrophysics and Space Science, Cambridge University Press, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Entropy, Foundations of Physics Letters, General Relativity and Gravitation, International Journal of Modern Physics A, International Journal of Modern Physics D, International Journal of Theoretical Physics , Journal of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Modern Physics Letters A, Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letters A, Physics Letters B, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters.
• Reviewer for the American Mathematical Society (Mathematical Reviews). More than 200 papers and two books reviewed.

Research Publications

     Recent preprints:

• Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in 186 Days of LIGO's fifth Science Run, LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B.P. Abbott et al.), LIGO-P0900009, e-Print: arXiv:0905.3710 [gr-qc].
• Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data, LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B.P. Abbott et al.), LIGO-P0900032, e-Print: arXiv:0905.1705 [gr-qc].
• Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B.P. Abbott, et al.), LIGO-P080093, e-Print: arXiv:0905.1654 [gr-qc].
• Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run, LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B.P. Abbott, et al.), LIGO-P080056, e-Print: arXiv:0905.0020v3 [gr-qc].
• Search for high frequency gravitational wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run, LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B.P. Abbott et al.), LIGO-P080080, e-Print: arXiv:0904.4910 [gr-qc].

     Articles in refereed journals:

1. String resonances at the Large Hadron Collider, A. Roy and M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D 80, 015006 (2009), e-Print: arXiv:0902.1473 [hep-ph].
2. Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO's S5 data, LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B.P. Abbott et al.), LIGO-P080095-04-Z, Phys. Rev. D79, 122001 (2009), e-Print: arXiv:0901.0302 [gr-qc].
3. Instability of hyper-compact Kerr-like objects, V. Cardoso, P. Pani, M. Cadoni and M. Cavaglià, Class. & Quantum Gravity 25, 195010 (2008), e-Print: arXiv:0808.1615 [gr-qc].
4. PP-waves on Superbrane Backgrounds, M. Cavaglià and B. Harms, Mod. Phys. Lett. A23, 3225-3231 (2008), e-Print Archive: arXiv:0802.4090 [hep-th].
5. Discriminating supersymmetry and black holes at the Large Hadron Collider, A. Roy and M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D77, 064029 (2008), e-Print Archive: arXiv:0801.3281 [hep-ph]
6. Supersymmetry versus black holes at the LHC, A. Roy and M. Cavaglià, Mod. Phys. Lett. A23, 2987-2996 (2008), e-Print Archive: arXiv:0710.5490 [hep-ph].
7. Ergoregion instability of ultracompact astrophysical objects, V. Cardoso, P. Pani, M. Cadoni and M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D77, 124044 (2008) e-Print Archive: arXiv:0709.0532 [gr-qc].
8. Discriminating supersymmetry and black holes at the Large Hadron Collider, M. Cavaglià and A. Roy, Phys. Rev. D 77, 064029 (2008) e-Print Archive: arXiv:0801.3281 [hep-ph].
9. Matched-filtering and parameter estimation of ringdown waveforms, E. Berti, J. Cardoso, V. Cardoso and M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D 76, 104044 (2007) e-Print Archive: arXiv:0707.1202 [gr-qc].
10. QCD and spin effects in black hole airshowers, M. Cavaglià and A. Roy, Phys. Rev. D 76, 044005 (2007) e-Print Archive: arXiv:0707.0274 [hep-ph].
11. Signatures of black holes at the LHC, M. Cavaglià, R. Godang, L. Cremaldi and D. Summers, JHEP 06, 055 (2007) e-Print Archive: 0707.0317 [hep-ph].
12. Catfish: A Monte Carlo simulator for black holes at the LHC, M. Cavaglià, R. Godang, L. Cremaldi and D. Summers, Comput. Phys. Commun. 177, 506-517 (2007) e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0609001.
13. Gravitational Larmor formula in higher dimensions, V. Cardoso, M. Cavaglià and J.-Q. Guo, Phys. Rev. D75, 084020 (2007), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0702138.
14. Gravitational diffraction radiation, V. Cardoso, M. Cavaglià and M. Pimenta, Phys. Rev. D74, 084011 (2006), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0609094.
15. Stability of naked singularities and algebraically special modes, V. Cardoso, M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D74, 024027 (2006), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/06041011.
16. Hawking emission of gravitons in higher dimensions: Non-rotating black holes, V. Cardoso, M. Cavaglià, L. Gualtieri, JHEP 0602, 021 (2006), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0512116 (TOPCITE +50).
17. Black hole particle emission in higher-dimensional space-times, V. Cardoso, M. Cavaglià, L. Gualtieri, Phys. Rev .Lett. 96, 071301 (2006), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0512002 (TOPCITE +50).
18. Simulations of black hole air showers in cosmic ray detectors, E.-J. Ahn, Marco Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D73, 042002 (2006), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0511159.
19. What we (don't) know about black hole formation in high-energy collisions, V. Cardoso, E. Berti, M. Cavaglià, Class. & Quantum Gravity 22, L61-R84 (2005), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0505125.
20. (Anti-)de Sitter black hole thermodynamics and the generalized uncertainty principle, B. Bolen, M. Cavaglià, Gen. Rel. Grav. 37, 1255-1262 (2005), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0411086.
21. Relic gravitons on Kasnerlike branes, M. Cavaglià, G. De Risi, M. Gasperini, Phys. Lett. B610, 9 (2005), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0501251.
22. Uncertainties in limits on TeV-gravity from neutrino-induced air showers, E.-J. Ahn, M. Cavaglià, A.V. Olinto, Astroparticle Physics 22, 377 (2005), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0312249.
23. How classical are TeV-scale black holes?, M. Cavaglià, S. Das, Classical Quantum Gravity 21, 4511-4522 (2004), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0404050 (TOPCITE +50).
24. Approximately self-similar critical collapse in 2+1 dimensions, M. Cavaglià, G. Clément, A. Fabbri, Phys. Rev. D70, 044010 (2004), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0404033.
25. Gravitational energy loss in high energy particle collisions: ultrarelativistic plunge into a multidimensional black hole, E. Berti, M. Cavaglià, L. Gualtieri, Phys. Rev. D69, 124011 (2004), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0309203 (TOPCITE +50).
26. Cosmic black holes, E.-J. Ahn, M. Cavaglià, Honorable Mention in the 2003 Essay competition of the Gravity Research Foundation, Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. D12, 1699 (2003), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0306189.
27. TeV black hole fragmentation and detectability in extensive air-showers, M. Ave, E.-J. Ahn, M. Cavaglià, A.V. Olinto, Phys. Rev. D68, 043004 (2003), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0306008 (TOPCITE +50).
28. Black hole multiplicity at LHC (Do black holes radiate mainly on the brane?), M. Cavaglià, Phys. Lett. B569, 7 (2003), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0305256 (TOPCITE +50).
29. Will we observe black holes at LHC?, M. Cavaglià, S. Das, R. Maartens, Classical Quantum Gravity 20, L205 (2003), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0305223 (TOPCITE +50).
30. Black hole and brane production in TeV gravity: A review, M. Cavaglià, Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. A 18, 1843 (2003), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0210296 (TOPCITE +100).
31. A new era in high-energy physics, E.-J. Ahn, M. Cavaglià, awarded Third Prize in the 2002 Gravity Research Foundation competition, Gen. Rel. Grav. 34, 2037-2042 (2002), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0205168.
32. Brane factories, E.-J. Ahn, M. Cavaglià, A.V. Olinto, Phys. Lett. B 551, 1-6 (2003), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0201042 (TOPCITE +100).
33. Two-dimensional dS/CFT correspondence, M. Cadoni, P. Carta, M. Cavaglià, S. Mignemi, Phys. Rev. D 66, 065008 (2002), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0205211.
34. Quantum gravitational corrections to black hole geometries, M. Cavaglià, A. Fabbri, Phys. Rev. D 65, 044012 (2002), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0108050.
35. Conformal dynamics of 0-branes, M. Cadoni, P. Carta, M. Cavaglià, S. Mignemi, Phys. Rev. D 65, 024002 (2002), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0105113.
36. Pre-big bang in M-theory, M. Cavaglià, Class. & Quantum Gravity 18, N. 7, 1355 (2001), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0103095.
37. Open strings, 2-d gravity and AdS/CFT correspondence, M. Cadoni, M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D 63, 084024 (2001), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0008084.
38. Two-dimensional black holes as open strings: A new realization of the AdS/CFT duality, M. Cadoni, M. Cavaglià, Phys. Lett. B 499, N. 3-4, 83-88 (Feb. 2001), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0005179.
39. Canonical and quantum FRW cosmological solutions in M-theory, M. Cavaglià, P. Vargas Moniz, Class. & Quantum Gravity 18, N. 1, 95 (2001), e-Print Archive: hep-th/0010280.
40. A note on Weyl transformations in two-dimensional dilaton gravity, M. Cavaglià, Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 15, N. 34 (2000) pp. 2113-2118, e-Print Archive: hep-th/0011136.
41. Quantum gravity corrections to the Schwarzschild mass, M. Cavaglià, C. Ungarelli, Phys. Rev. D 61, 064019 (2000), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9912024.
42. Static quantization of two-dimensional dilaton gravity and black holes, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, Gravitation & Cosmology 5, N. 3 (19) 161-166 (1999), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9907052.
43. The Birkhoff theorem for topologically massive gravity, M. Cavaglià, Gravitation & Cosmology 5, N. 2 (18) 101-103, e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9904047.
44. Canonical and path integral quantisation of string cosmology models, M. Cavaglià, C. Ungarelli, Classical & Quantum Gravity 16, 1401-1415 (1999), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9902004.
45. Geometrodynamical Formulation of Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity, M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D59, 084011 (1999), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9811059.
46. Approximate Canonical Quantization for Cosmological Models, M. Cavaglià, Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. D 8, 101 (1999), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9811025.
47. Two-dimensional dilaton gravity coupled to massless spinors, M. Cavaglià, L. Fatibene, M. Francaviglia, Class. & Quantum Gravity 15, 3627-3643 (1998), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9801155.
48. Quantization of the String Inspired Dilaton Gravity and the Birkhoff Theorem, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, Phys. Lett. B 424, 265 (1998), an extended version can be found in the e-Print Archive: hep-th/9802158.
49. Solvable model of two-dimensional dilaton-gravity coupled to a massless scalar field, M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D 57, 5295 (1998), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9802013.
50. Two-Dimensional Reduced Theory and General Static Solution for Uncharged Black p-Branes, M. Cavaglià, Phys. Lett. B 413, 287 (1997), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9709055.
51. General Static Solution for Uncharged Black p-Branes, M. Cavaglià, Acc. Sc. Torino - Atti Sc. Fis. 131, 175-184, (1997).
52. The Choice of Time in Quantizing the 2-Dimensional CGHS model, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, Acc. Sc. Torino - Atti Sc. Fis. 131, 169 (1997).
53. The Birkhoff Theorem in the Quantum Theory of Dilaton 2-Dimensional Gravity, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, Acc. Sc. Torino - Atti Sc. Fis. 131, 65 (1997), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9704164.
54. Time gauge fixing and Hilbert space in quantum string cosmology, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, Gen. Rel. Grav. 29, 773 (1997), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9605020.
55. Quantization of an integrable model in dilaton-Einstein gravity, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. D6, 39 (1997), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9602062.
56. Hamiltonian formalism for black holes and quantization II, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. D5, 227 (1996).
57. Hamiltonian formalism for black holes and quantization, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. D4, 661 (1995), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9411070.
58. Instability of the R³xS¹ vacuum in low-energy effective string theory, M. Cadoni, M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D52, 2583 (1995), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9502086.
59. Cosmological and wormhole solutions in low-energy effective string theory, M. Cavaglià, M. Cadoni, Phys. Rev. D50, 6435 (1994), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9406053.
60. A Schrödinger equation for miniuniverses, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. A10, 611 (1995), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9402031.
61. Quantum electromagnetic wormholes and geometrical description of the electric charge, M. Cavaglià, Phys. Rev. D50, 5087 (1994), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9407030.
62. Wormhole solutions in the Kantowski-Sachs space-time, M. Cavaglià, Mod. Phys. Lett. A9, 1897 (1994), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9407029.
63. Can the interaction between baby universes generate a big universe?, M. Cavaglià, Int. Jou. Mod. Phys. D3, 623 (1994), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9408011.
64. Anisotropic wormhole: Tunneling in time and space, M. Cavaglià, V. De Alfaro, F. de Felice, Phys. Rev. D49, 6493 (1994), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9301022.
65. On a quantum miniuniverse filled with Yang-Mills radiation, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, Mod. Phys. Lett. A9, 569 (1994), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9310001.

     Articles in conference proceedings:

1. Gravitational-wave Astronomy: Opening a New Window on the Universe for Students, Educators and the Public, M. Cavaglià et al., LIGO-P080059-00-Z, 2008 Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ASP Conference Series: Preparing for the 2009 International year of Astronomy: A hands-on symposium, eds. Michael G. Gibbs, Jonathan Barnes, James G. Manning, and Bruce Partridge, Vol. 400, p. 328, e-Print Archive: arXiv:0806.3764 [physics.ed-ph].
2. Black holes in particle colliders and cosmic ray showers, M. Cavaglià, proceedings of the international conference Dynamics and Thermodynamics of BHs and naked singularities, Milan, Italy, May 10th-12th, 2007.

3. Black holes from cosmic rays: Certainties and uncertainties, M. Cavaglià, Proceedings of the 40th Rencontres de Moriond, La Thuile, Italy, March 12th - 19th, 2005, (The Gioi Publishers, Vietnam, 2005), J. Dumarchez, J. Trân Tranh Vân Eds.
4. Black hole formation in particle colliders and high-energy cosmic rays: Recent results, M. Cavaglià, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 2005), Gyeongju, Korea, May 30th - June 4th, 2005, AIP Conf. Proc. 805, 338-341 (2006), K. Choi et al. Eds.
5. Resolution of nearly mass degenerate Higgs bosons and production of black hole systems of known mass at a muon collider, R. Godang, S. Bracker, M. Cavaglià, L. Cremaldi, D. Summers, D. Cline, Proceedings of DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS), Riverside, California, August 26th - 31st, 2004, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A20, 3409-3412 (2005), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0411248.
6. TeV-scale gravity: Detecting black holes with cosmic ray air showers E.-J. Ahn, M. Cavaglià, Proceedings of the International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics, 14th Course: "Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe", Erice, July 2nd - 13th, 2004, Nato Science Series II, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 209, p. 327-334 (2005), M.M. Shapiro et al. Eds.
7. Nonperturbative gravitational events in high-energy collisions, E.-J. Ahn, M. Ave, M. Cavaglià, A. Olinto, Proceedings of the International Conference on 20 Years of SUGRA and Search for SUSY and Unification (SUGRA 20), Boston, Massachusetts, March 17th - 20th, 2003, (Rinton Press, Princeton NJ, 2004), p.437-441, P. Nath Editor.
8. Nonpertubative gravitational events at the TeV scale, M. Cavaglià, Proceedings of the Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 20th - 26th, 2003.
9. Probing TeV gravity with extensive air-showers, M. Ave, E.-J. Ahn, M. Cavaglià, A.V. Olinto, in Proceedings of the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2003), Tsukuba, Japan, July 31st - August 7th, 2003, Edited by T. Kajita, Y. Asaoka, A. Kawachi, Y. Matsubara, M. Sasaki, Frontiers Science Series N. 41 (FSS-41) ISSN 0915-8502, ISBN 4-946443-80-0, e-Print Archive: astro-ph/0306344.
10. FRW Cosmological Solutions in M-theory, M. Cavaglià, P. Vargas Moniz, Proceedings of the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (Rome, July 2nd - 8th, 2000), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0011098.
11. Recent developments in quantum string cosmology, M. Cavaglià, C. Ungarelli, in Proceedings of the third conference on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Villasimius (Italy), September 13th - 17th, 1999, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 88, 355-358 (Elsevier, North-Holland, August 2000), V. de Alfaro et al. Eds., e-Print Archive gr-qc/9912049.
12. Geometrodynamical Formulation of Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity and the Quantum Birkhoff Theorem, M. Cavaglià, in Proceedings of the XI-th International Conference on Problems of Quantum Field Theory, Dubna, July 13th - 17th, Eds. B.M. Barbashov, G.V. Efimov, A.V. Efremov (Dubna, Russia, 1999), p. 56-60, e-Print Archive: hep-th/9811058.
13. Integrable Models in Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity, M. Cavaglià, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology PASCOS-98, Boston, USA, March 22nd - 29th, 1998, Ed. P. Nath (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999), e-Print Archive: hep-th/9808135.
14. Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity, M. Cavaglià, in Particles, Fields & Gravitation, Lodz, Poland 1998, AIP Conference Proceedings 453, pp. 442-448, Ed. J. Rembielinski (AIP, Woodbury, NY, 1998) e-Print Archive: hep-th/9808136.
15. Quantization of constrained systems: Application to quantum string cosmology, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, in Proceedings of the XII Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, Roma, September 23rd - 27th, 1996 (World Scientific, Singapore, 1997).
16. Quantization of the Schwarzschild Black Hole, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, in Quantum Gravity: Proceedings of the Sixth Moscow Seminar, Moscow, Russia, June 12th - 19th, 1995, V.A. Berezin, V.A. Rubakov, D.V. Semikoz Eds. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1998) pp. 216-239, e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9508062.
17. Definition of Time in Quantum Cosmology, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, in Proceedings of the XI Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, SISSA, Trieste, Italy, Sept. 26th - 30th, 1994, M. Carfora, M. Cavaglià, P. Fré, C. Reina, A. Treves, M. Francaviglia, G. Pizzella eds. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996) p. 375.
18. Quantization of the Robertson-Walker universe, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, in Proceedings of the International Workshop The Quantum Systems: New Trends and Methods, Minsk, Bielorussia, May 23rd - 29th, 1994.
19. A Schrödinger equation for quantum universes, M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, A.T. Filippov, in Proceedings of the Workshop Birth of the Universe and Fundamental Physics, Roma, May 21st - 24th, 1994 (World Scientific, 1995), e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9408044.

Other scientific publications

1. Universi in collisione (Colliding universes), M. Cavaglià, Nuovo Orione, Ed. Sirio s.r.l., N. 141 (February 2004), in Italian.
2. L'origine dei raggi cosmici ad alta energia (The origins of high energy cosmic rays), E.-J. Ahn, M. Cavaglià, Nuovo Orione, Ed. Sirio s.r.l., N. 112, p. 50 (Sept. 2001), in Italian.
3. Prima del big bang (Before the Big Bang), M. Cavaglià, Nuovo Orione, Ed. Sirio s.r.l., N. 99, p. 58 (Aug. 2000), in Italian.
4. Universi Caotici (Chaotic Universes), M. Cavaglià, Nuovo Orione, Ed. Sirio s.r.l., N. 72, p. 48 (May 1998), in Italian.
5. Gravità e quanti: la sfida continua (Gravity and Quantization: the Challenge Continues), M. Cavaglià, V. de Alfaro, La Stampa, Suppl. Tuttoscienze, September 18, 1996, n. 736.
6. Cosmologia oggi (Cosmology Today), M. Cavaglià, Nuovo Orione, Ed. Sirio s.r.l., N. 51, p. 48 (August 1996), in Italian.
7. Stelle mancate (Aborted Stars), M. Cavaglià, Sapere, Ed. Dedalo, yr. 62, N. 1 (982), p. 79 (February 1996), in Italian.
8. Relatività e geometria dell'universo (Relativity and Geometry of the Universe), M. Cavaglià, L. Zampieri, L'Astronomia N. 164 (April 1996), Ed. Media Presse s.r.l., in Italian.

Selected Talks and Seminars

• Education and Public Outreach of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, invited talk at the LIGO Program Advisory Committee (PAC-26) (MIT, Cambridge MA, 23rd, July 2009).
• Astronomy's New Messengers: A LIGO traveling exhibit to reach out to a young adult audience, invited talks at the 8th Edoardo Amaldi meeting (Columbia University, NYC, June 21st - 26th, 2009) and at the 2009 TAUP Conference (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome, July 1st - 5th, 2009).
• Hunting for gravitational waves, talk at the Quarknet workshop (University of Mississippi, June 25th, 2008).

• Past, present and future of LIGO, talk at the Fourth Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting (University of Mississippi, March 7th-8th, 2008).

• Phenomenology of black holes in particle colliders and cosmic ray showers, invited plenary talk at the Workshop on Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, November 5th-9th, 2007).

• Present and future of LIGO, invited colloquium the University of Alabama, November 28th, 2007.

• LIGO in Mississippi, talk at the Fall Meeting of the Mississippi Association of Physicists, (CAVS Extension, Canton MS, November 3rd, 2007).

• The search for gravitational waves, invited colloquium at the College of Liberal Arts Faculty Forum (University of Mississippi, September 18th, 2007).

• LSC in Mississippi: A proposal of membership, talk at the LIGO-VIRGO Collaboration Meeting, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, July 21st-26th, 2007).

• Black holes in particle colliders and cosmic ray showers, invited plenary talk at the international conference Dynamics and Thermodynamics of BHs and naked singularities, Milan, Italy, May 10th-12th, 2007; invited colloquium at the Beijing Normal University, June21st, 2007, invited seminar at the University of Alabama, January 10th, 2008.

• Concluding remarks, talk at the Second school & workshop on gravity & theoretical physics, University of Mississippi, January 8-11, 2007.

• Gravitational diffraction radiation, talk at the 3rd Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting (Huntsville, March 23-24, 2007), 16th Midwest Relativity Meeting (St. Louis MO, November 16-18 2006) and at the Workshop on Quantum Gravity (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 28-29 August 2006).
• A Monte Carlo simulator for black holes at the LHC, talk at the Workshop on Quantum Gravity, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 28-29 August 2006.
• A Monte Carlo simulator for black holes in the atmosphere, invited colloquium at the University of Kansas, Lawrence (KS), March 27th, 2006.

• Black hole evaporation in higher-dimensional space-time, talk at the 2nd Annual Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting, Boca Raton (FL), March 17th - 18th, 2006.
• Black hole factories, invited colloquium at the Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green (KY), November 7th, 2005.
• Detecting TeV Black Holes in Particle Colliders and Cosmic Ray Air Showers, invited colloquium at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (LA), July 13th, 2005.
• TeV-scale gravity: A new window on high-energy physics, talk at the International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics, 14th Course: "Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe", Erice (Italy), July 5th, 2004.
• Detecting TeV black holes with cosmic ray air showers, invited talk at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (AL), May 13th, 2004 and at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD), 12 November 2004.
• Physics with friendly black holes of known mass at a muon collider, invited colloquium at the University of Mississippi, Oxford MS, April 27th, 2004.
• Particles, strings, and extra dimensions, talk at the Tennessee Technological University, March 23rd, 2004.
• Quantum gravity in the lab?, Invited talk at University of Cagliari, Italy, October 30th, 2003, University of Bari, Italy, November 19th, 2003, and Dept. of Mathematical Physics, University of Torino, Italy, November 26th, 2003.
• Nonperturbative gravitational events at the TeV scale, talk at the Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, July 25th, 2003.
• Quantum gravity in the lab, invited colloquium at The University of Mississippi, Oxford MS, June 16th, 2003.
• Branes, black holes and high-energy cosmic rays, invited talk at DAMTP, Cambridge, February 21st, 2003.
• Black hole and brane production in high-energy physics, invited talk at the Institute of Physics meeting "Brane-world gravity", Imperial College, London, November 13th, 2002, and at The University of Nottingham, February 14th, 2003.
• Brane factories: A new era in high-energy physics, invited talk at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Torino (Italy), July 11th, 2002.
• p-brane factories (p-branes in the talk = chaos at the conference) , invited talk at the 2002 Winter Conference Ultra High Energy Particles from Space, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen (CO), January 27th - February 2nd, 2002.
• p-brane factories, invited seminars at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee (WI), January 18th, 2002, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago (IL), January 22nd, 2002, at the Center for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago (IL), January 25th, 2002, and at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (AL), March 1st, 2002.
• M-theory cosmology in a nutshell, invited seminars at the University of Maryland, College Park (MD), November 9th, 2001 and at Oakland University, Rochester (MI), November 15th, 2001.
• M(I)-Theory cosmology, or, M-Theory cosmology as seen on MIT, invited seminars at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA), September 28th, 2001 and at Syracuse University, Syracuse (NY), October 8th, 2001, and invited talk at the Workshop on neutrino physics and cosmology, Copenhagen (DK), June 11th - 22nd, 2001.
• Open strings, 2-d gravity and AdS/CFT correspondence, invited seminar at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Yale University, New Haven (CT), September 25th, 2001 and at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Torino (Italy), December 4th, 2000.
• AdS/CFT correspondence in two dimensions, invited seminar at Nordita, Copenhagen (DK), June 19th, 2001.
• The Bohr atom of quantum gravity, invited seminar at the Department of Physics, University of Bologna (Italy), June 6th, 2001, and at LAPTH - Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-vieux de Physique Théorique, Université de Savoie, Annecy, October 25th, 2001.
• Non-linear sigma model approach to two-dimensional gravity, invited seminars at the Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA, May 15th, 2000 and at the Tufts Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University, Medford MA, USA, May 19th, 2000.
• Canonical quantization vs path integral in pre-big bang cosmologies, seminar at the Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, March 1st, 2000.
• Graceful exit in quantum string cosmology: A formal approach, invited seminar at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, February 25th, 2000.
• The Birkhoff Theorem or, How to Play with S, Have Fun, and Do Serious Physics, invited talk (Lectureship Interview) at the Department of Mathematics, University of York, July 2nd, 1999.
• Graceful Exit in Quantum String Cosmology, talk at the Current Issues in String Cosmology, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bur-sur-Yvette (France) June 14th, 1999.
• Quantum String Cosmology, invited talk at the Mid-Term TMR Conference on Integrability, Non-perturbative Effects and Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory, Université de Mons-Hainaut, December 11th, 1998 and invited seminar at the Tufts Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University, March 30th, 1998.
• Integrable Models in Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity, contributed talk at the Second Annual European TMR Conference on Integrability, Non-perturbative Effects and Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Durham, September 20th - 27th, 1998 and invited talk at the Sixth International Symposium on PARTICLES, STRINGS, and COSMOLOGY, PASCOS-98, Northeastern University, Boston, March 22nd - 29th, 1998.
• Two-Dimensional Dilaton-Gravity (and Black Hole Quantization), invited seminar at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, July 22nd 1998.
• Geometrodynamical Formulation of Two-Dimensional Dilaton-Gravity and the Quantum Birkhoff Theorem, invited talk at the XI International Conference Problems of Quantum Field Theory, Dubna, Russia, July 13th - 17th 1998.
• Two-Dimensional Dilaton-Gravity, invited seminar at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, June 26th 1998 and at the University of Torino, Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Torino, Italy, June 23rd 1998.
• Integrable Models in Two-Dimensional Dilaton-Matter-Gravity, contributed talk at the International Conference Particles, Fields and Gravitation, Lodz, Poland, April 15th - 19th, 1998.
• Exit in Quantum String Cosmology: Cooking Recipes, invited talk at the conference Current Problems in Theoretical Physics, IIASS, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, April 3rd - 9th, 1998.
• Solvable Models in Two-Dimensional Dilaton-Gravity, contributed talk at the Quantum Gravity Day, Albert-Einstein-Institut, October 30th, 1997.
• On the Quantum Birkhoff Theorem in 2-D Dilaton Gravity, invited seminar at Tufts University, April 25th, 1997.
• The Quantum Birkhoff Theorem in 2-D Dilaton Gravity, invited seminar at the Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 14th, 1997.
• Constrained Systems, Gravity, and Quantization, invited seminar at Tufts University, February 7th, 1997.
• Quantisation of Gauge Systems: Application to Minisuperspace Models in Canonical Quantum Gravity, Ph.D. examination, SISSA, Trieste, October 28th, 1996.
• Quantization of Constrained Systems: Application to Quantum String Cosmology, contributed talk at the XII Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, Rome, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, September 27th, 1996.
• Gauge Fixing for Finite Dimensional Gravitational Systems: the Example of the Schwarzschild Black Hole, invited seminar at the University of Vienna, May 14th, 1996.
• Classical Canonical Treatment of the Schwarzschild Black Hole and Quantization, invited talk at the International Meeting Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Dubna, Russia, July 5th - 7th, 1995.
• Definition of Time in 4-Dim. Canonical Gravity, invited talk at the XI Italian Meeting of General Relativity and Gravitational Theory, SISSA, Trieste, September 1994.
• A Schrödinger Equation for Quantum Universes, contributed talk at the workshop Birth of the Universe and Fundamental Physics, Roma, May 21st - 24th, 1994.

Service/Outreach

• LIGO Scientific Collaboration:
• Chair of the LIGO Education and Public Outreach working group (2008-present). Webmaster of the LIGO EPO group wiki.
• Ex-officio member of web page committee of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (2009-present).
• Member of stochastic group review committee of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (2008-present).
• Lead of the Data Quality-Veto working group of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (2009-present).
• Principal author of White Paper and of letter of intent for planning of LIGO outreach exhibit Catching a New Wave. Planning and organization of nationwide tour of LIGO exhibit and participation to the NYC 2009 World Science Festival.
• Coordinated the 100 Hours of Astronomy webcast Around the World in 80 Observatories for the LIGO Observatory (April 2009).
• Exhibitor for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration at the 2009 Joint Annual Meeting of the NSBP+NSHP.
• Organized graduate student visits to the Gravitational Wave Observatory LIGO, Livingston LA, April 2006 and April 2008.
• Public Outreach:
• Point of contact for International year of Astronomy celebrations at the University of Mississippi.
• Organized two outreach interdisciplinary concerts by renowned composer and percussionist Andrea Centazzo at the University of Mississippi (Nutt Auditorium, - February 5th and 6th, 2009).
• Organized the picture exhibit The World at Night at the University of Mississippi Library (March 31st - April 30th, 2009).
• Co-organized the exhibit The Artist's Universe at the University of Mississippi's Museum (2009).
• Helped with the booth of the University of Mississippi's Museum booth at the Double Decker Festival, Oxford MS, April 25th, 2009 on the occasion of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy.
• Organized Halloween Physics Nights (Spooky Physics Demonstrations) at the University of Mississippi, October 26th, 2007 and October 31, 2008.
• Helped with Astronomy Open Houses, University of Mississippi (2004-2008).
• Collaborator of Einstein Online (Max-Planck Institut Outreach Program), Scienza per tutti (INFN Outreach Program), National Geographic Documentary film director Thomas Lucas, and National Geographic KIDS Magazine.
• Service to Department and College:
• Webmaster and creator of the Theory Group, Outreach and LIGO Web Pages at the Physics and Astronomy Department.
• Created online student evaluation forms for physics laboratory classes at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Mississippi.
• Elected member of the Faculty senate. University of Mississippi. Academic years 2006-07 and 2007-08.
• Judge at the Scholars Bowl, University of Mississippi (2005-2006).
• Judge at the Science Fair, University of Mississippi, March 23rd, 2005, March 21st, 2007, March 25th, 2009.
• Judge at the Quiz Bowl, University of Mississippi, March 5th, 2005.
• Fall visiting day homecoming open house, University of Mississippi. October 8th, 2005 and October 7th, 2006.
• Spring visiting day open house, University of Mississippi. March 31st, 2007.
• Provost task force on research: Member of Graduate Student and Faculty Recruitment subcommittees, University of Mississippi (2004).
• Assessment Committee, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi (2004-)
• Graduate Recruitment/Admission Committee, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi (2006-)
• Brochure/Web page Committee, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi (2006-)
• Comprehensive Exam Committee, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi (2005-)
• Selection Committees, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi: Department Chairperson (2009) Assistant Professor (2006 and 2008), Visiting Professor (2005).
• Selection Committee, International Programs Advisor, University of Mississippi (2008).
• Reader and thesis committee member, Ms. Kathryn Cannada graduation, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, April 2006. Dissertation committee member of Mr. Octavian Micu, Department of Physics, University of Alabama, September 2007.
• Service to other universities/scientific discipline:
• Member of dissertation committee for Mr. Octavian Micu, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, September 27th, 2007.
• Sponsor and host of Dr. Vitor Cardoso's (IST, Lisbon) Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Mississippi from November 2008 - March 2009.
• Sponsor and host of Dr. Marc Casals' (IST, Lisbon, Dublin City University, Ireland) visits at the University of Mississippi (November - December 2008, March 2009).
• Supervisor and host of exchange visiting student Paolo Pani (University of Cagliari, Italy) - Summer and fall 2007.

Memberships

• American Physical Society

• Mississippi Association of Physicists

Miscellaneous

• Language Skills: English (good, fluent), French (good), German (fair), Spanish (reading, good), Portuguese (fair), Chinese (little).

• Programming Language and Technical Software Skills: C++, Fortran, Perl, VMS, Unix, Cgi, HTML, Mathematica, Maple, Matlab.

• Practical experience in observational astronomy.