Research

My research interests include a wide area of the physics of disordered materials:

	propagation of signals in random materials
	coherent propagation and mesoscopic physics
	glassy behavior
	spin glasses
	diffusion and general theory of random walks
	photonic crystals http://cmpweb.ameslab.gov/NATO_PCLL/

Also computational problems connected to those areas

Relations between the development of science and the cultural universe in which it is generated

	Galileo's life
	The cultural world of the Italian Renaissance