Abstract: Phenomenological Universalities represent a new tool for the classification and interpretation of observed or experimental data in the context of cross-disciplinary research. Also they can act as a “magnifying glass” to finetune the analysis and to quantify the difference among similarly looking datasets. In particular, the class U2 is of special relevance, since it includes, as subcases, all growth models proposed to date. In this presentation we show that it may be applied, in a simple fashion, to a variety of problems of interest in biomedicine and in the context of elastodynamics. The results suggest the application of different fitting equations from the ones which are currently adopted, and the use, in several contexts, of fractal dimensioned variables.

 

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Academic degrees: Laurea (MS.) in Physics, University of Torino, 1963; Ph.D. in Physics, University of Torino, 1965; "Libera Docenza" (Habilitation) in Physics, University of Roma, 1971.
Positions: 1966-1969 University of Frankfurt, Germany. (Fellow of the A. von Humboldt Stiftung and Research Associate ), 1969-1984 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, USA. (Professor with tenure). 1982-1983 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (Visiting Professor – In sabbatical leave from the University of Puerto Rico). 1984-1987 Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. (Research Physicist). 1987 to date: Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Full Professor. Also, for the years 1994-2000: Director of the National Institute for Condensed Matter Physics (INFM)-Politecnico of Torino Research Unit.
Miscellanea: Coordinator of many national and international research projects (1980-2003), e.g. BRITE EURAM, COPERNICUS (Europe), and NSF, ARO, NATO (USA).
Coordinator of the European Science Foundation programme NATEMIS, 2000-2005, with seven countries involved. Consultant to the Naval Research Laboratory, 1987-1999 and 2003-2004 and to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2000-2002. Also, from 2004 Consultant to the NIH supported “Center for the development of a virtual tumor” (CVIT), Boston, Mass. Co-leader of the Modeling-Simulation Working Package of the EU-funded AERONEWS Project, (6th Framework Programme for European Scientific Research), see ww.kulac.ac.be/AERONEWS. Invited Speaker, Guest Editor, Chair and/or Co-Organizer in many international conferences and meetings. Editor of the books: 1)“New Perspectives on Problems in Classical and Quantum Physics”, Gordon and Breach, 1997-1998, in two volumes. 2) “The universality of Nonclassical Nonlinearity, with applications to NDE and Ultrasonics”, Springer, 2006. Editor-in-chief (one out of three) of the electronic journal “Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling”. Professor ad Honorem at the Universities of Puerto Rico, USA and Brazov, Romania. Invited Professor (or equivalent) at several Universities, such as Melbourne (Australia) , Montreal (Canada) , Cagliari (Italy), etc. Outstanding Performance Award: Naval Research Laboratory, 1985 and 1986. A.Berman Research Publication Award for outstanding paper: Naval Research Laboratory, 1994.

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