Faculty Description

• PROFESSOR
• Ph. D., Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland), 1997
• http://physics.ucsd.edu/~diventra
• RESEARCH: Condensed Matter Physics

• Office Location:  MH 4631
• Office Phone:  858-822-6447
• Email:  diventra@physics.ucsd.edu
• Administrative Contact:  Judy Winstead

• Current research interests include electronic and nonlinear optical properties of solids, quantum Hall effect, superconductivity, strong correlation effects in interacting electron systems, transport in disordered interacting systems, interplay of disorder and quantum/thermal fluctuations, classical and quantum magnetism, superfluity, liquid crystal physics, biophysical kinetics, pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems, and chaos.

• Nanopore Method Could Revolutionize Genome Sequencing

• A team led by Physicist Massimiliano Di Ventra at the University of California, San Diego has shown the feasibility of a fast, inexpensive technique to sequence DNA as it passes through tiny pores. The advance brings personalized, genome-based medicine closer to reality.

  Full Article
• Plenary Lecture, Sanibel Symposium, St. Augustine, FL (2/2003)
• Plenary Lecture, Sanibel Symposium, St. Augustine, FL (2/2003)
  
  Fellow, Institute of Physics (2002)
  
  NSF Early CAREER Award (2002)
  
  Plenary Lecture, Nano and Giga Challenges in Microelectronics, Moscow (9/2002)
  
  New Century Technology Council Innovation Award (2002)
  
  Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2001)
  
  University of Trieste Fellowship for Research Abroad (1993)
  
  National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM) Fellowship (1991)
  
  Diploma in Physics cum laude, University of Trieste (1991)
  
  Editorial Board, Computational Science and Discovery
  
  Editorial Board, International Journal of Modern Physics B
  
  Editorial Board, Modern Physics Letters B
  
  Editorial Board, International Journal of Nanoscience (2001-2007)
  
  Editorial Board, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (2003-2006)
  
  Editorial Board, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2004-2005)
• UC San Diego Physicist Massimiliano Di Ventra elected American Physical Society Fellow
• Professor Di Ventra was elected APS Fellow, "For contributions to the theory of electronic transport in nanoscale conductors" and was nominated by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics.

  The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise; e.g., outstanding physics research, important applications of physics, leadership in or service to physics, or significant contributions to physics education. Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one's professional peers.

  Each nomination is evaluated by the Fellowship committee of the appropriate APS division, topical group or forum, or by the APS General Fellowship committee. After review by the full APS Fellowship Committee, the successful candidates are elected by APS Council.

• - Y.V. Pershin and M. Di Ventra Experimental demonstration of associative memory with memristive neural networks cond-mat/09052935. (2010)


• - T. Driscoll, H.T. Kim, B.G. Chae, B.J. Kim, Y.W. Lee, N. Marie Jokerst, S. Palit, D.R. Smith, M. Di Ventra, D.N. Basov, Memory Metamaterials Science 325, 1518 (2009).


• - H. Appel and M. Di Ventra, Stochastic Quantum Molecular Dynamics Phys. Rev. B 80, 212303 (2009).


• - M. Di Ventra, Y.V. Pershin, L.O. Chua, Circuit elements with memory: memristors, memcapacitors and meminductors Proc. IEEE 97, 1717 (2009). See also this short introductory article Proc. IEEE 97, 1371 (2009).


• - M. Di Ventra, Y. Dubi, Information compressibility, entropy variation and approach to steady state in open systems Europhys. Lett. 85, 40004 (2009).


• - Y.V. Pershin, S. La Fontaine, M. Di Ventra, Memristive model of amoeba's learning Phys. Rev. E, 80 021926 (2009).


• - G. Vignale, M. Di Ventra, Incompleteness of the Landauer formula for electronic transport Phys. Rev. B 79, 014201 (2009).


• - R. D 'Agosta, M. Di Ventra, Stochastic time-dependent current-density functional theory: a functional theory of open quantum systems Phys. Rev. B 78, 165105 (2008).


• - Y.V. Pershin, M. Di Ventra, Spin memristive systems Phys. Rev. B 78, 113309 (2008).


• - Y.V. Pershin, Y. Dubi, M. Di Ventra, Effective single-particle order-N scheme for the dynamics of open non-interacting many-body systems Phys. Rev. B 78, 054302 (2008).