Background
Ciccotti, Giovanni was born on December 19, 1943 in Rome. Son of Guglielmo Ciccotti and Esther Franciosi.
Ciccotti, Giovanni was born on December 19, 1943 in Rome. Son of Guglielmo Ciccotti and Esther Franciosi.
Diploma in Physics, University La Sapienza, Rome, 1967.
Ciccotti holds the position of Professor of the Structure of Matter at the University of Rome Louisiana Sapienza. He"s the author of more than a hundred articles on molecular dynamics and statistical mechanics. He worked with Justice of the Peace Ryckaert on new methods for molecular dynamics on constrained systems
See also SHAKE algorithm.
He has edited several books on molecular dynamics and statistical mechanics developments, including:
"Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Statistical Mechanical Systems", East. Fermi 1985 Summer School. G. Ciccotti and West. G. Hoover Eds.
North Holland, Amsterdam, 1986. "Simulation of Liquids and Solids.
Molecular Dynamics and MonteCarlo Methods in Statistical Mechanics.
A reprint Book". G. Ciccotti, Doctorate. Frenkel and I. R. Mc Donald, Eds. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1987.
"MonteCarlo and Molecular Dynamics of Condensed Matter Systems", Euroconference 1995, K. Binder and G. Ciccotti, Eds., SIF, Bologna, 1996.
"Simulation of Classical and Quantum Dynamics in Condensed Phase", Euroconference 1997, B. J. Berne, G. Ciccotti and Doctorate. F. Coker, Eds. World Scientific, Singapore, 1998.
Fellow: Institute Physics United Kingdom.
Married Donatella Capocaccia, September 15, 1970 (divorced 1989). 1 child, Pietro; married Nicoletta Bosisio, February 16, 1991.