Soft Report - Dipartimento di Fisica - Sapienza

DisseminationThe dissemination of the scientfic results follows the usual routes: paper publications ininternational referred journals, invited and contributed talks to conference, organization ofSchools and workshops (among which the annual Soft meetings) and exchange of Studentsand PostDocs with national and international collaborating groups.PublicationsSoft was particularly successful with publications in its two and half years of life. About 280papers co-authored by Soft members were published in international journals in this period.Many of them appeared in journals with strong impact: we mention for example 36publications in Physical Review Letters, about 55 publications in Physical Review (A, B andE) and three publications in journals with impact factor over-ten: one on PNAS (F. Sciortinoand others, PNAS 102, 16558 (2005)), one on Review of Modern Physics (T. Scopigno et al.RMP 77, 881 (2005)) and one on Nature (M. Santoro, F. Gorelli et al., see below).Worth to mention is the paper by the Soft member D. Leporini (V. Bercu, M. Martinelli, C. A.Massa, L. A. Pardi, D. Leporini, J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 16, 479 (2004)) that appeared in the“Top Paper 2004 Showcase” of the IOP. This list highlights the leading and most frequentlydownloaded papers from J. Phys.: Cond. Matt.Also worth to mention is the discovery, published on Nature (M. Santoro, F. A. Gorelli, R.Bini, G. Ruocco, S. Scandolo, W. Crichton, Nature 441, 857 (2006)), of the amorphoussilica-like carbon dioxide. This discovery received a large press coverage and the paper hasbeen commented in a News & Views article on Nature.115SOFT Scientific Report 2004-06