Prof. Giuseppe Longo

National and international duties

• 2011 Aug/Dec Member of the KISS working Group on Transient Astronomy
• 2011 may - member of the NSF panel for Interdisciplinary Computing
• 2006-2008 - in charge of the astrophysics area of the project PON-SCOPE
• 2008/2010 - member of the Science Advisory Board for the E.U. funded VO-AIDA project
• 2008/2010- P.I. of a bilateral (Italy-USA) agreement with Caltech to establish a user friendly platform for data mining and exploration (DaME)
• 2009/2010 member of the Science Committee of the GRISU Consortium
• 2005/2008 - P.I. of the DSF Research Unith in the 6-th European Framework Research Infrastructure Project " VO-Tech "
• 2005/2008 - member of the Science Advisory Board for the VO-Tech Project
• 2005/2006 - responsible of the Research Area of Astrophysics and Plasma Physics at the Department of Physical Sciences UNiversity Federico II - Napoli
• 2005/2006 - member of the WYP-2005 (World Year of Physics) committee for the Department of Physical Sciences
• 2004/2008 - member of the Board of the Laurea Course in Physics
• 2004/2005 - P.I. of the DSF Research Unit in the MIUR PRIN-2004 "Steps towards the VST extragalactic survey
• 2003/2006 - member of the CCRA-INAF Commission for "computing, networks and archives" 
• 2001/2005 - Italian Delegate in the U.E. Action COST-TIST 283 Computational infrastructures in the astronomical data grid"
• 2001/2003 - Co-P.I. COFIN'2000 of the Italian Board for the University and scientific and technological Development (on: Astronomical Data Mining)
• 2001/2002 - P.I. of an Italian Space Agency Contract for "Data Mining in Large Astronomical Databases
• 1999/2001 - national P.I. for a 3 years project MURST n. 1234/123 on " Implementation and hendling of VLDB's with KDD and artificial intelligence methods
• 1996/1999 - Co-P.I. of the FOSC Spectrograph for the Castelgrande Observatory
• 1996/2001 - Co-P.I. CRoNaRio (Caltech - Roma – Napoli – Rio de Janeiro) project
• 1995/1996 - member of the T.A.D. (Teaching for Astronomy Development) Committee of the I.A.U.;
• 1995/2001 - member of the International Advisory Board for the Journal Astronomisches Nachrichten
• 1995/1998 - P.I. of a bi-lateral agreement between Italian CNR and Egyptian Resercah Institute to pursue researches on Physics of Interacting Galaxies
• 1992/1993 - Co-P.I. of a contract of the Italian Space Agency (automatic pattern recognition in astronomy).
• 1990/1993 - Co-P.I. of a 3 years contract of the Italian Space Agency (Compilation of an extragalactic photometric database)
• 1988/1992 - P.I. of several CNR (National Research Council) contracts
• 1988/1989 - Co-P.I. of ESA/ESTEC contract No. 7515/57/NL/SK to study the performances of the optical system of the Rosetta spaceprobe;
• 1985/1992 - in charge of the INAF - OAC Computational Facilities
• 1984/1990 - elected representative of the astromers in the OAC Directory Council

SOC's and LOC's

• 1991- SOC member - II Scuola Nazionale OAC/FORMEZ su Statistical Pattern Recognition and Applications to Astronomy (Sant'Agata sui due Golfi);
• 1992 - Member of the Steering Committee of the workshop Interactions in the Universe (Sant’Agata sui due Golfi).
• 1995 - SOC Chairperson of the First Napoli Thinkshop on Physics and Astrophysics: Why Dark Matter (Napoli).
• 1998 - SOC member of the  First Joint OAC-ON School on Observational Cosmology (Rio de Janeiro)
• 1999 - Co-chairperson of the Special Session on Applications of Neural Networks to Astronomy and Geophysics, Washington, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’ 99 - U.S.A., luglio 1999)
• 2000 - SOC member of the Workshop Virtual Observatories of the Future, Caltech (Pasadena – USA, 6-9 luglio 2000)
• 2001 - SOC member of the SPIE meeting on Data Analysis in Astronomy I, San Diego - USA
• 2002 - SOC member of the ESO International Workshop on "Toward an International Virtual Observatory", Garching, June
• 2002 SOC member of the International School-Seminar on Cosmology, Extragalactic Astronomy and Applied Astrophysics, 19-23 giugno, Moscow-Zvenigorod
• 2002 - SOC member of the SPIE Meeting on Data Analysis in Astronomy II, Hawaii USA
• 2003 - Co-Chairperson: Thinking, Observing and Mining the Universe, Sorrento, 22-27 September
• 2004 - Co- Chairperson: Astronomical Data Analysis in Astronomy III, Sant'Agata sui due Golfi, 28 April/1 May
• 2004 - SOC member: International School -Seminar on Cosmology Astronomy and Applied Astrophysics, Moscow, March 1-5
• 2004 - Member of the Program Committee of the IEEE-CAMP 2005 "International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception", Palermo 4-6 July 2005
• 2006 - Member of the SOC, Astronomical Data Analysis IV, Marseille, France
• 2006 - LOC member of the ISAPP'06 School Sorrento, September
• 2008 - SOC member of Astronomical Data Analysis V, Heraklion, Greece (7-9 may)
• 2009 - SOC member of the VO-AIDA School, Garching-ESO, march
• 2009 - SOC of the " Closing workshop of PON 1575", Catania, 10-12 febbraio 2009
• 2010 - SOC member "Astronomical data Analysis VI", Marocco
• 2010 - SOC Co-Chair "Astroinformatics 2010", Pasadena June 16-19
• 2010 - SOC member "CIDU - Astroinformatics", Mountain View (USA), October 5-7
• 2011 - SOC co-chair "Astroinformatics 2011", Sorrento, September 25-29
• 2012 - SOC co-chair "Astroinformatics 2012", Redmond (WA), September 2012

Long Stays Abroad

• 1981-07/08 Astrophysical Observatory of Asiago - Summer visitor
• 1981 - 01/05 visiting scientist at the Kapteyn Laboratory (Groningen - NL)
• 1982/11-1983/02 visiting scholar at the Dept. of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
• 1983/05-1983/11 research fellow at the Kapteyn Laboratory (Groninga - NL)
• 1983 - NSF Grant to participate in the compilation of the 3-rd Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies
• 1984/01-1985/05 research associate at the Dept. of Astonomy, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
• 1992/06-1992/12,1994/03-1994/09, 1995/07, 1995/11, 1996/03 visiting astronomer, Astrophysikalisches Institut (Potsdam - D)
• 1997 visiting scholar at the Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
• 2005/2010 - frequent stays as visiting scholar at the California Institute of Technology

Present teaching Activity

• Course of "Astrophysics 1" - Master In Astrophysics and Physics of the Space
• Course of "Laboratory of Astrophysics 2" - Master In Astrophysics and Physics of the Space
• Course of "Physics of the Interstellar Medium" - Master In Astrophysics and Physics of the Space
• Course of "Physics" for biological Sciences

Past teaching Activity

• Course of "Physics" for nurses - ASL Torre del Greco/Salerno, University Federico II
• 2005/2008 Course of "General physics" - Laurea in Geology, University Federico II
• 2001/2004 Course of "Physics Laboratory" - Laurea in Biology
• 2001/2004 Course of " Laboratory of Informatics " - Laurea in Biology
• 2002/2004 Course on "Observational Cosmology" - Laurea in Physics
• 2002/2004 Course of "Tools for the teaching of Astronomy" - Scuola Interuniversitaria Campania per l'Insegnamento- SICSI
• 2002/2004 Course on "Image Processing" - Scuola Interuniversitaria Campana per l'Insegnamento -SICSI
• 2002 - Course of Physics for Biology, University Federico II of Naples
• 2001 - Courses on observational techniques in cosmology, international doctorate in cosmology and physics of gravitation, University of Salerno
• 1999 - 2002 Professore of Applied Computer Sciences at the Second University of Naples (Faculty of Humanities)
• 1999 - 2002 Course of Esercitazioni di Fisica Generale I for Mathematicians - UFII.
• 1984 - Astronomy 101 (Introductory Astronomy for non-Science Major - University of Texas , Austin)
• 1987 - t.d. Supervisor for the course "laboratory of Physics -II (also Laboratory of Astrophysics)" University Federico II Napoli
• 1996 - Course in "Solar System Astronomy" . Part of a course on Physical Geography - (Faculty of Natural Sciences-UFII)

Lectures at schools

• 1991 - Course on Observational Cosmology (Advanced School on General Relativity, Particle Physics and Cosmology - UFII)
• 1994 - Lecture series on Kinematical Properties of Galaxies (National Graduate School in Astronomy and Astrophysics)
• 1994 - Lecture series on "Physics of Galaxies" (XXI International School for Young Astronomers dell’IAU, Helwan-Egitto)
• 1996 - Course on Image Processing (Master di Perfezionamento in Tecnologie Avanzate della Comunicazione e dell’Informazione -Istituto Superiore di Alti Studi Scientifici E. Caianiello, Vietri sul Mare)
• 2003 - Course on "Time Series Analysis" at the Post Doctoral School "Paleoceanography: theory and field evidence", organized by Geomare Sud and University Federico II (Sep. 25, Oct 3 2003
• 2004 - Lecture at the "Corso di Calcolo Parallelo ed Applicazioni Scientifiche", organized by INAF-Catania, September 2004
• 2008 - Lecture on Data mining in Massive Astronomical Data Sets, School of Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University, June
• 2011 - Series of lectures at the GREAT School, La Palma - Canary Islands, May 29-June 3

Professional lectures

• More than 80 professional lectures at various universities and institutes worldwide. 

Ph.D. committees

• 1991 member of the astronomy Ph.D. Committee, SISSA
• 2002 member of the Physics Ph.D. Committee, XVI Cycle, University of Napoli Federico II 
• 2006 member of Physics Ph.D. Committe, XVIII Cycle, University of Napoli Federico II
• 2007 member of the Ph.D. Committee in Physics, University of Zurich
• 2008 - t.d. foreign supervisor of the Ph.D. of D. Capozzi at the University of Liverpool.

Laurea thesis supervised

• I have supervised many laurea and Ph. D. Thesis in Physics and in Computer Sciences. For a list, click here ( Thesis, in Italian)