Researchers in motion

Gabriele Pedrini is a Ph.D. student in “History, Institutions and International Relations of Contemporary Asia and Africa” and will attend a GlobusDoc internship at the Institute for Palestine Studies (مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية – Arabic website) in its headquarters located in Beirut (Lebanon), starting from 1st March 2014 until June 2014.

The internship will be under the supervision of Dr. Maher Charif and with the following tasks:
– Participate in seminars and conferences and write synopsis for the Institute website
– Participate in the preparation and organization of conferences
– Draft proposals
– Draft and edit material for the Center for Information and documentation at the Institute
– Assistance to Research Department

Blaine Nelson is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He previously was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Tübingen, Germany and completed his doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on learning algorithms particularly in the context of security-sensitive application domains. He investigates the vulnerability of learning to security threats and how resilient learning techniques can mitigate such security threats. He was a co-chair of the ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security in 2012 and 2013 and he was a co-organizer of a Dagstuhl Workshop entitled “Machine Learning Methods for Computer Security” in 2012.

As Distinguished Visiting Scholar he will be at the University of Cagliari (Pra Lab, DIEE) from 1st to 31st March 2014.

Within the “Globus Programme” GIUSEPPE MARCI and MAURO PALA  Professors at the University of Cagliari (Department of Filology, literature and linguistics) will spend one month, december 2013, in México (Instituto italiano de cultura de la Ciudad de México, Universidad de Puebla, Universidad de Oaxaca) to hold the following Lectures:

5 December 2013: Giuseppe Marci – “Immagini dell’Italia contemporanea nei ‘gialli’ di Andrea Camilleri”;

5 December 2013: Mauro Pala – “La scrittura di Babele: osservazioni sulla letteratura italiana dell’immigrazione: generi, tematiche, problemi”;

9 December 2013: Mauro Pala – “Configuración de identidades e impactos de las corriesntes migratoria en literatura”;

Visiting student YU GUAN will collaborate with the University of Cagliari in the period 2-15 December 2013. He will visit the Pattern Recognition and Applications Lab (PRA Lab, Director Fabio Roli) at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

He is PhD Candidate at the University of Warwick in Coventry, Department of Computer Science, Digital Forensic Lab.