Conferences and Schools:

Here you can find some slides from my talks. For my contributions to the conference proceedings check the publications page.

Geometry and Quantum Theories, Firenze, June 10 - 11, 2013

The Time Machine Factory, Turin, October 14 - 19, 2012
Talk: Chronology violations and the origin of time

DICE12, Spacetime-Matter-Quantum Mechanics from the Planck scale to emergent phenomena, Castello Pasquini, Castiglioncello  (Italy), September 17 - 21, 2012 
Talk:  Topological ordered spaces as a foundation for a quantum spacetime theory

XXXV Spanish Relativity Meeting (in Portugal), Progress in Mathematical Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology,
Guimaraes (Portugal), September 3 - 7, 2012
Talk: What is a reasonable spacetime. Some remarks on the hole-free condition

Weak KAM Theory in Italy, Cortona (Italy), September 12 - 17, 2011
Talk: Causality of gravitational waves and Weak KAM theory

FQXi International Conference: Setting Time Aright,  Bergen, Norway and Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27-September 1, 2011

DICE10, Space-Time-Matter -current issues in quantum mechanics and beyond, Castello Pasquini,
Castiglioncello  (Italy), September 13 - 17, 2010
Talk:  A new synchronization method and its role in the problem of time

XXXIII Spanish Relativity Meeting, Gravity as a crossroad in physics, Granada (Spain), September 6 - 10,
2010
Talk: Causality and entropic arguments pointing to a null Big Bag hypersurface

Non-commutative structures and non-relativistic (super)symmetries, Tours, June 22 - 25, 2010
Talk: A connection between Lorentzian distance and mechanical least action

85e rencontre entre physiciens théoriciens et mathématiciens : Aspects géométriques et probabilistes de la théorie de la
relativité , Strasbourg (France), June 10 - 12, 2010

Geodycos10. Analysis, Geometry and Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds, Lyon, April 28 - 30, 2010
Talk: K-causality and time functions in general relativity

5th Iberian Cosmology Meeting (IberiCos2010), Porto, March 29 - 31, 2010

Classical and Weak KAM Theorem: the Aubry-Mather sets, a break-through in the study of dynamical systems, Montegrotto Terme, Padova (Italy) February 14 - 19, 2010

New Developments in Lorentzian Geometry, Berlin, November 18 - 20, 2009
Talk: Time functions as utilities

Assemblea Scientifica GNFM, Montecatini Terme (Italy), October 1 - 3, 2009

XXXII Spanish Relativity Meeting, Gravitation in the Large, Bilbao (Spain), September 7 - 11, 2009
Talk: From causality to time and back

FQXi International Conference: Exploring The Foundations And Boundaries Of Physics And Cosmology,  Ponta Delgada, Azores (Portugal), July 7-12,  2009
Talk: Time and causality in general relativity

Symétries non-relativistes: théorie mathématique et applications physiques LMTP Tours, June 23-24 , 2009
Talk: In the shadow of the Lorentz group

Mathematical Relativity in Lisbon 2009, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, June 18-19, 2009

DICE 2008 Castello Pasquini, Castiglioncello (Italy), September 22 - 26, 2008
Talk: On the existence of time in non-singular spacetimes

XXXI Spanish Relativity Meeting  Salamanca (Spain), September 15 - 19, 2008
Talk: Chronological null complete spacetimes admit a time function

Assemblea Scientifica GNFM, Montecatini Terme (Italy), October  11 - 13, 2007
I gave the talk "The causal ladder of spacetimes".

18th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Sydney, July 8 - 14, 2007
I gave the talk "On how Einsenhart's and generalized pp-wave spacetimes mirror Lagrangian mechanics".

XXIX Spanish Relativity Meeting Einstein's legacy: from the theoretical paradise to astrophysical observation, Palma de Mallorca (Spain), September 4 - 8, 2006
Talk: Towards a closed differential aging formula in special relativity

III International Meeting on Lorentzian Geometry, Castelldefels (Barcelona, Spain), November 21 - 23, 2005
I gave the talk "The lightlike dimensional reduction of the inhomogeneous massless little group into the Galilei group".

XXVIII Spanish Relativity Meeting A century of Relativity Physics, Oviedo (Spain), September 6 - 10, 2005
Talk: Brownian motion on the relativistic velocity space

Albert Einstein Century International Conference, Paris, July 18 - 22, 2005

School on Relativistic Coordinates, Reference and Positioning Systems, Salamanca (Spain), January 21-25, 2005
I gave the talk "Simultaneity in special and general relativity."

XXVII Spanish Relativity Meeting Beyond General Relativity, Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, September 23 - 25, 2004
I gave the talk "Spacelike slices from globally well-behaved simultaneity connections".

9th International Conference on Differential Geometry and its applications, Prague, Czech Republic, August 30 - September 3, 2004
An enlarged version of my talk "Maximizing curves for the charged particle action".

Mathematical Relativity: New Ideas and Developments, Bad Honnef, Germany, March 1 - 5, 2004

15th SIGRAV Conference on General Relativity and gravitational physics, Monte Porzio Catone, Roma, Italy, September 9 - 12, 2002

The XXV International school of theoretical physics: Standard model and beyond, Ustron, Poland, September 10- 16, 2001

Lectures on random matrices and applications, Parma, Italy, April 5 - 7, 2000

Invited Seminars

"A mathematical, network based, alternative to the GPS simultaneity definition", Facultad de Ciencias de Valladolid, June 24, 2004, Organized by: J.-F. Pascual- Sánchez

"La natura convenzionale della simultaneità", Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata "G. Sansone", Firenze, July 1, 2002, Organized by: M. Modugno

Other talks related to my work:

XXVIII CONVEGNO AMASES, Modena (Italy), September 8 - 12, 2004
F. Bellini gave the talk "Valuing Himalaya options" on our joint work on mathematical finance.