Carlo Piccardi
Professor

Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
20133 Milano, Italy

tel (++39) 02 2399 3566
fax (++39) 02 2399 3412
e-mail carlo.piccardi@polimi.it
web page http://home.dei.polimi.it/piccardi/

[publication highlight]

This is a recent publication on the use of random walk methods for finding network communities and for testing the significance of any a priori defined cluster:

C. Piccardi, Finding and testing network communities by lumped Markov chains, PLoS ONE, 6(11), e27028, 2011. [doi

PLoS ONE is an open-access journal, so you can freely read and download the paper (click on "doi" above).

The Matlab codes and the data used in the paper can be downloaded here.


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I am a Full Professor of Systems and Control at the Politecnico di Milano. My teaching activity is in the area of dynamical systems (linear and nonlinear) and automatic control, both to undergraduate and graduate students of the Politecnico schools of engineering. I also teach in the PhD program of my Department (DEI), mostly in the area of nonlinear dynamics and complex systems.

My research interests are focused on several topics concerning nonlinear dynamics and complex systems. Some recent areas of research are:

  • Structural properties of networks, with applications in economics and finance;
  • Spreading processes on complex networks;
  • Synchronization of networks of dynamical systems;
  • Reduced models for systems with low dimensional chaos, and their use for solving control and parameter estimation problems; 
  • Application of optimal control techniques to chaotic systems; 
  • The use of numerical methods for bifurcation analysis of nonlinear systems, including continuation methods and harmonic-balance techniques; 
  • The analysis of structural properties of cooperative systems.
I am currently member of the steering committee of the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity (SICC), for which I co-organized in recent years many schools and workshops on various topics related to nonlinear dynamics and their applications.


[publications]

Click for a list of my publications on peer reviewed journals. 
 

[per gli studenti] 

LA MIA DIDATTICA PER L'A.A. 2011/2012

Nel prossimo anno accademico 2011/2012 terrò i due corsi sotto elencati. Cliccando sul nome andate alla pagina del corso, dove trovate materiale didattico, regole d'esame, avvisi, ecc..

Fondamenti di automatica (per Ing. Matematica) (L, 10 cfu, 2 sem)
Dinamica dei sistemi complessi (sede Bovisa) (LM, 10 cfu, 1 sem)


[per gli studenti delle lauree magistrali]

Se siete interessati a studi di carattere generale riguardanti i modelli matematici e le loro applicazioni, in particolare a temi quali la dinamica non lineare, il caos, le reti complesse, i sistemi adattativi, potete considerare di inserire nel vostro piano di studi qualcuno di questi corsi, attivi nell'a.a. 2011/2012.

Presso il Campus Bovisa:

Dinamica dei sistemi complessi (10 cfu, 1 sem), docente Carlo Piccardi

Presso il Campus Leonardo:

Teoria dei sistemi (Dinamica non lineare) (5 cfu, 1 sem, 1 emisem), docente Sergio Rinaldi
Complessità nei sistemi e nelle reti (5 cfu, 1 sem, 2 emisem), docente Fabio Dercole
Non linearità dei sistemi ambientali  (10 cfu, 1 sem), docente Alessandra Gragnani

Per qualunque informazione in merito a questi corsi sieti invitati a rivolgervi ai rispettivi docenti.


Last update: November 5th, 2011