Mauro Francaviglia
University of Torino, Italy

Mauro Francaviglia received a degree in mathematics in 1975. Since 1980, he has been a Full Professor of mathematical physics at Torino University, where he heads an international research team on geometrical methods in mathematical physics and the visualization and communication of science (with University of Calabria). He participated in more than 100 conferences, and authored 270 publications, 11 entries for encyclopediae, and 4 monographs. He is an Editor of more than 20 volumes or DVD/CD-Rom of proceedings, and was invited to deliver more than 400 lectures. Francaviglia is the Scientific Director of two International Summer Courses CIME, and a member of committees of more than 20 national and/or international conferences, chairing in particular the GR14 (Florence, 1995). He has permanent relations with Italian and foreign universities: Wroclaw, Moscow, Brno, Bratislava, Porto, and Waterloo (Canada). He was a Member of the GRG Committee (GRG Society) during 1986–1995; Member of the Scientific Council of “Gruppo Nazionale di Fisica Matematica del C.N.R.” (Firenze) during 1984–1997; National Coordinator of the “National Project of Scientific Relevance” M.U.R.S.T. during 1980–1996, with more than 200 scientists in 20 Italian universities; National Coordinator of the “National Project of Scientific Relevance” M.I.U.R. in 2004–2005, with about 80 scientists in 6 Italian universities. Francaviglia is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Geometry and Physics; Associate Editor of the Journal of General Relativity and Gravitation; Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Geometrical Methods in Modern Physics; Editor-in-Chief of The Open Journal of Mathematics; Editorial Board Member of Transactions on Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Models; Editorial Board Member of APLIMAT Journal of Applied Mathematics; Referee of CQG, Physical Review Letters, JMP, and others; Founding Member of Società Italiana di Relatività Generale (SIGRAV), where he was a President during 1990–1996, and Treasurer since 1997.

Biography Updated on 22 June 2008

Personal Home Page

http://www.francaviglia.it

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 1, 2007
  2. Conformal aspects of the Palatini approach in Extended Theories of Gravity
    General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 33–60, 2006
  3. Post-newtonian parameters from alternative theories of gravity
    General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1891–1904, 2005
  4. The Hessian and Jacobi morphisms for higher order calculus of variations
    Differential Geometry and its Applications, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 105–120, 2005
  5. Dark energy dominance and cosmic acceleration in first-order formalism
    Physical Review D, vol. 72, no. 6, 2005
  6. Boundary conditions, energies and gravitational heat in general relativity (a classical analysis)
    Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 21, no. 14, pp. 3459–3482, 2004
  7. Accelerated cosmological models in Ricci squared gravity
    Physical Review D, vol. 70, no. 10, 2004
  8. Accelerated cosmological models in first-order nonlinear gravity
    Physical Review D, vol. 70, no. 4, 2004
  9. A covariant formalism for Chern Simons gravity
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 2589–2598, 2003
  10. Covariant charges in Chern Simons AdS3 gravity
    Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 483–506, 2003
  11. Charges and energy in Chern–Simons theories and Lovelock gravity
    Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 20, no. 23, pp. 5103–5120, 2003
  12. Conserved quantities from the equations of motion: with applications to natural and gauge natural theories of gravitation
    Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 20, no. 18, pp. 4043–4066, 2003
  13. Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 237–258, 2002
  14. Energy in Einstein$ndash$Maxwell theory and the first law of isolated horizons via the Noether theorem
    Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 2633–2655, 2002
  15. Generalized symmetries in mechanics and field theories
    Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 43, no. 6, p. 3147, 2002
  16. Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 197–213, 2002
  17. No¨ther charges, Brown–York quasilocal energy, and related topics
    Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 42, no. 3, p. 1173, 2001
  18. General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 1371–1380, 2001
  19. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 115–135, 2000
  20. General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 145–160, 2000
  21. Anti-Kählerian manifolds
    Differential Geometry and its Applications, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 281–289, 2000
  22. Dual Lagrangian field theories
    Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 41, no. 4, p. 1889, 2000
  23. The Entropy of the Taub–Bolt Solution
    Annals of Physics, vol. 284, no. 2, pp. 197–214, 2000
  24. Remarks on Nöther Charges and Black Holes Entropy
    Annals of Physics, vol. 275, no. 1, pp. 27–53, 1999
  25. Almost-complex and almost-product Einstein manifolds from a variational principle
    Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 40, no. 7, p. 3446, 1999
  26. General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 31, no. 8, pp. 1115–1130, 1999
  27. General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1371–1389, 1998
  28. Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 43–55, 1998
  29. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 31, no. 44, pp. 8823–8833, 1998
  30. Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 3627–3643, 1998
  31. International Journal of Modern Physics A [Particles and Fields; Gravitation; Cosmology; Nuclear Physics], vol. 12, no. 28, p. 5067, 1997
  32. No¨ther formalism for conserved quantities in classical gauge field theories. II. The arbitrary Bosonic matter case
    Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 38, no. 8, p. 3953, 1997
  33. Energy-momentum complex for nonlinear gravitational Lagrangians in the first-order formalism
    General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 637–645, 1994
  34. Covariant first-order Lagrangians, energy-density and superpotentials in general relativity
    General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 965–985, 1990
  35. Algebraic isometric embeddings of charged spherically symmetric space-times
    General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 791–804, 1980
  36. An algebraic isometric embedding of Kruskal space-time
    General Relativity and Gravitation, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 283–296, 1979