INVITED TALKS PRESENTED in the following conferences:


1. Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Network on "Astrophysical Chemistry", Final Meeting, Perugia (Italy), April 2002.
Title: Crossed beam studies of CN and C2 reactions relevant to the formation of hydrogen deficient molecules in extraterrestrial environments
2. 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM), Honolulu (Hawaii, USA), December 2005.
Title: Neutral-neutral reactions in extraterrestrial environments
3. XVI European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems, Levico Terme (Italy), September 2006.
Title: Crossed molecular beam studies of radical-radical reactions: O(3P)+CH3 and O(3P)+C3H5
4. IUGG XXIV General Assembly "Earth: our changing planet", Session #JMS013 Aeronomy of Planetary Atmospheres: Comparative Planetology, Perugia (Italy), July 2007.
Title: Gas-phase neutral-neutral reactions in planetary atmospheres
5. XXIX International Symposium on Free Radicals, Big Sky, Montana (USA), August 2007.
Title: Crossed molecular beam studies of radical-molecule and radical-radical reactions
6. Second Workshop on 'Titan - Observations, Experiments, Computations, and Modeling', Miami, Florida (USA), March 2008.
Title: Crossed molecular beam studies of gas phase reactions relevant to the atmospheric chemistry of Titan
7. 1st Italian Astrobiology Society Workshop, Cortona (Italy), May 2008.
Title: Gas-phase reactions relevant to prebiotic chemistry: a laboratory investigation by the crossed molecular beam technique
8. Atomic and Molecular Interactions Gordon Conference 2008, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH (USA), July 2008.
Title: Crossed molecular beam studies of astronomically relevant bimolecular reactions
9. XII ISSOL Meeting - XV International Conference on the Origin of Life, Florence (Italy), August 2008.
Title: Gas-phase prebiotic chemistry in the Solar System: how and where

10. XXIII International Symposium on Molecular Beams, Dalian (China), June 2009.
Title: Crossed molecular beam studies of S(1D) and N(2D)reactions with simple hydrocarbons

11. XXVII Internation Astronomical Union General Assembly, Special Session SpS06 'Planetary Systems as Potential Sites for Life', Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), August 2009.
Title: Gas-phase prebiotic chemistry in extraterrestrial environments

12. Láseres y Espectroscopia Avanzada en Química (QUIMILASER), Seville (Spain), February 2010.
Title: Recent progress in reaction dynamics studies with crossed molecular beams

13. The ALMA Telescope: Heralding a new era of astrochemistry, Boppard (Germany), May 2010.
Title: Crossed-beam studies of astrophysically relevant neutral-neutral reactions
14. NIS Colloquium: First chemical steps towards the origin of life, Turin (Italy) September 2010.
Title: Gas-Phase Prebiotic Chemistry in the Solar System: How and Where
15. S. Barthelemy Astronomy Summer School, Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, Nus (Italy)
Title of the first lecture: Cosmochemistry
Title of the second lecture: The atmosphere of Titan
16. The Warm Universe: Astrochemistry at Hot and Intermediate Temperatures, Tallinn (Estonia), to be held in May 2012,
Title: Reactions of atomic oxygen with unsaturated hydrocarbons the break-up of carbon atom skeleton
 

 

CONTRIBUTED TALKS PRESENTED in the following conferences:
 

1. European Meeting on Photons, Beams and Chemical Dynamics, Orsay (France), July 1992

Title: Dynamic of reactions of O(3P), O(1D) and OH with simple molecules by crossed molecular beams

2. Orientation and Polarization Effects in Chemical Reaction Dynamics (a NATO Advanced Research Workshop), Assisi (Italy), November 1992

Title: Crossed beam studies of four-atom reactions: the dynamics of OH + D2 and OH + CO

3. 9th European Workshop on Molecular Spectroscopy and Photon-Induced Dynamics, Toulouse (France), November 1997

Title: Reaction dynamics of O(1D)+H2 and D2: crossed molecular beam and quasiclassical trajectory studies

4. Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Network on "Astrophysical Chemistry", 1st Annual Meeting, Alcala de Henares, Spain, April 1999

Title: Crossed molecular beam studies of the dynamics of CN(X2S) radical reactions with unsaturated hydrocarbons

5. XXX Congresso Nazionale di Chimica Fisica, Florence, Italy, September 1999

Title: Crossed beam studies of the reaction dynamics of nitrogen atoms with saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons: N(2D) + CH4, C2H2, and C2H4
6. Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Network on "Astrophysical Chemistry", 2nd Annual Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark, April 2000

Title: Crossed beam studies of N, C, and CN reactions of astrophysical interest

7. 13-th European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, Jerusalem, Israel, September 2000

Title: A crossed beam dynamical study of the reactions N(2D)+D2 AND N(2D)+H2O
8. Stereodynamics of Chemical Reactions, El Escorial, Spain, December 2000

Title: Dynamics of the Cl+H2/D2 reaction: a comparison of crossed molecular beam experiments with quasiclassical trajectory and quantum dynamical calculations on a new ab initio potential energy surface
9. Research Training Network (RTN) on "Reaction Dynamics", 1st Annual Meeting, Oxford, UK, March 2001

Title: Crossed beam studies on the dynamics of simple reactions of Cl, O, N, and C atoms

10. XXII Convegno Interregionale TUMA, Terni (Italy), September 2003

Title: Crossed Beam Reactive Scattering of Nitrogen Atoms: the Reaction Dynamics of N(2D)+CH4 and N(2D)+H2O

11. XXIV International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Bari (Italy), July 2004

Title: Crossed Beam Studies of Prototype Insertion Reactions: C(1D) + H2 and N(2D) + H2
12. The Saturn Universe: a Cassini Workshop, Capri (Italy), October 2004

Title: Laboratory studies on the formation of CN-containing molecules in the atmosphere of Titan

13. XXI International Symposium on Molecular Beams, Hersonissos(Grecee), May 2005

Title: Crossed Molecular Beam Studies of Radical-Radical Reactions: O(3P) + C3H5 (Allyl)

14. VII Convegno "Complex Systems: structure, properties, reactivity and dynamics", Alghero (Italy), 13-15 June 2005

Title: Reactions in extraterrestrial environments: laboratory investigations by crossed molecular beams

15. XXXIV Congresso Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Fisica della Societa' Chimica Italiana, Siena (Italy), June 2005

Title: Dynamics of Prototype Insertion Reactions: Crossed Beam Experiments versus Quantum and Quasiclassical Trajectory Scattering Calculations on Ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces for C(1D) + H2 and N(2D) + H2

16. TitanWorkshop, Orsay (France), October 2005.

Title: Dynamics of neutral-neutral reactions relevant to Titan's atmosphere: Molecular beam studies of excited nitrogen atoms reactions with hydrocarbons

17. National Workshop on Astrobiology: Search for Life in the Solar System, Capri (Italy), October 2005

Title: Gas-phase reactions in extraterrestrial environments: laboratory investigations by crossed molecular beams

18. Marie Curie Research Training Network "The Molecular Universe", 1st Annual Meeting, Leiden (The Netherlands), December 2005

Title: Molecular beam studies on the reactions N(2D)+H2O and N(2D)+CH4

19. Faraday Discussion 133: Chemical Evolution of the Universe, St. Jacut de la Mer (France), April 2006

Various Comments

20. VII Convegno Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie, San Felice Circeo (Italy), September 2006

Title: Studio sperimentale di reazioni elementari di rilievo nella chimica delle atmosfere planetarie mediante la tecnica dei fasci moleculati incrociati

21. Marie Curie Research Training Network "The Molecular Universe", 2nd Annual and Mid-Term Review Meeting, Perugia, March 2007

Title: Gas-phase neutral-neutral reactions in the Interstellar Medium - What can we learn from molecular beam experiments?

22. Marie Curie Research Training Network "The Molecular Universe", Final Network Meeting, Boppard (Germania),  September 2008

Title: Progress in crossed beam studies of astronomically relevant neutral-neutral reactions

23. IX Congresso Nazionale di Planetologia, Amalfi (Italy), October 2009

Title: Laboratory studies on possible formation routes of nitriles and organosulfur compounds in the gas-phase chemistry of planetary atmospheres

24. Half-Century of Molecular Dynamics of Elementary and Complex Systems, Rome (Italy), December 2009

Title: Recent progress in reaction dynamics studies with crossed molecular beams

25. 3rd Workshop of the Italian Astrobiology Society - When Darwin meets Copernicus, Duino (Italy), May 2010

Title: Combined crossed-beam and theoretical investigation on the reaction of formation of nitriles in extraterrestrial environments

26. European Planetary Science Congress 2010, Rome (Italy), September 2010

Title: Formation of nitriles and imines in the atmosphere of Titan: Combined crossed-beam and theoretical studies on the reactions of excited nitrogen atoms N(2D) with methane, ethane and unsaturated hydrocarbons

27. Astrochimica: Molecole nello Spazio e nel Tempo, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome (Italy), November 2010

Title: Nitrogen chemistry in extraterrestrial environments

28. Carbon in the solar system, Bruxelles (Belgium), December 2010

Title: Neutral bimolecular reactions involving methane and other hydrocarbons in planetary atmospheres

29. Astrochimica: Molecole nello Spazio e nel Tempo, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome (Italy), November, 2010

Title: Nitrogen chemistry in extraterrestrial environments

30. 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2012), Session on Chemistry and Material Sciences and Technologies, Santander (Spain), June, 2011
 Title: An extension of the molecular simulator GEMS to calculare the signal of crossed beam experiments

31. Nitrogen in planetary systems: the early evolution of the atmospheres of terrestrial planets, Barcelona (Spain), September, 2011

Title: Formation of nitriles and imines in the atmosphere of Titan
 

 

SEMINARS PRESENTED in the following institutions:
 

1. Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen (Germany), 3rd September 1993
Title: Crossed beam studies of four atom reactions: the dynamics of OH+D2 and OH+CO
2. Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), 4th September 1998
Title: Crossed beam dynamics of elementary reactions relevant to atmospheric and combustion chemistry
3. Istitute of Atomic and Molecolar Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan), 21st January 1999
Title: Crossed beam reactive scattering of nitrogen atoms
4. Institut für Theoretische Chemie, Stuttgart University (Germany), 26th July 2000
Title: Crossed molecular beam studies of simple atom-diatom reactions
5. Laboratoire de PhysicoChemie Moleculaire, Université Bordeaux I (France), 21st March 2002.
Title: Crossed beam studies of simple insertion reactions
6. Laboratoire PALMS, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes (France), 16th July 2007
Title: Crossed beam techniques in reaction dynamics

7. Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília (Brazil), 17th August 2009
Title: Crossed molecular beam studies of astronomically relevant bimolecular reactions
8. Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita' degli Studi "La Sapienza", Roma, 28 February 2011
Title: Crossed molecular beam studies of astronomically relevant bimolecular reactions
 

Last update: Jan 2012