Selected TALKS and LECTURES:

"Particle physics: the open questions" , -
Lecture delievered during CERN's Open Days 2013, Sept 28-29.
(PDF slides)

"Introduzione alla fisica delle particelle e all' LHC" , -
Lezione e seminario pubblico, organizzate dal Liceo Leonardo e Liceo Calini, 21 Gennaio 2013, Brescia
(Introduzione alla fisica delle particelle)
(L'LHC e la ricerca delle leggi fondamentali della natura)

"The Big Bang theory: an epistemological perspective" , -
Talk at the Wilton Park Conference: The Big Bang and the interfaces of knowledge: towards a common language? Nyon, Switzerland, Monday 15 ? Wednesday 17 October 2012
(Lecture writeup)

"Introduzione alla fisica delle particelle e delle interazioni fondamentali" , -
Lezioni organizzate dalla Fondazione Calzari Trebeschi, 24 Ottobre - 30 Ottobre 2008, Brescia
(Lezione 1)
(Lezione 2)

"Expected and unexpected in the exploration of the fundamental laws of Nature" , -
Lecture at the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference, Future of humanity Institute, University of Oxford, 17-20 July 2008.
(pdf file)
(Video)

"Introduction to hadronic collisions: theoretical concepts and practical tools for the LHC", -
(Lect 1) (Lect 2) (Lect 3) (Lect 4) (Lect 5)

"Answering the great questions of HEP with energy and intensity frontier facilities", Wine & Cheese Colloquium, FNAL, Nov 2007,
- (pdf file)

"Visible and invisible in modern physics", Symposium on `Art, science and Salvador Dali: from visible to invisible', Madrid-Barcelona-Figueres, 23-25 october 2007,
- (Contribution to the proceedings)

"Heavy quark PDFs and the massless approximation to heavy-quark production", GGI Institue, Florence, Sept 2007,
- (pdf file)

"Challenges and opportunities for the LHC era", TH Wednesday seminar, CERN, August 2007,
- (pdf file)

"SM backgrounds to SUSY searches", SUSY07 plenary, Karlsruhe, July 2007,
- (pdf file)

"W/Z/gamma + light/heavy flavour jets", CTEQ Workshop `Physics at the LHC, early challenges', Michigan, May 14-15 2007,
- (pdf file)

"High-energy physics at the LHC startup", Colloquium, ETH, Zurich, Jan 2007,
- (pdf file)

"LHC physics: the first 1(2) year(s)", Colloquium, delievered in different variants at
Universitaet Bern, May 2006,
Princeton Unversity, April 10, 2006
University of Valencia, Mar 24, 2006
- (pdf file)

"The future of particle physics", Opening talk at the `Frontier detectors for frontier physics' workshop, Biodola, May 2006,
- (pdf file)

"Introduction to the theory of hadronic collisions", 2 Lectures delivered at the 2nd LHC Olympics, CERN, Jan 2006,
- (Lecture 1 and 2)

"The physics goals of the LHC", 2 Lectures to the High School Teachers programme, CERN, July 2005/06,
- (pdf file)

"QCD in hadronic collisions", Lectures at the Latin American CERN School, Malargue, Febr 2005
- (Lect 1) (Lect 2) (Lect 3)

"LHC physics: the first 1(2) year(s)", Fabiola Gianotti and M.L.Mangano, 2nd Workshop Italiano sulla Fisica di Atlas e CMS, Napoli, Oct 13 2004,
- (pdf file) (ppt file)

"Precision Physics at the LHC ", HERA-LHC Workshop, plenary session, CERN, Oct 12 2004,
-(pdf file)

"Merging Matrix elements and shower MCs", Lund University, Oct 8 2004,
-(pdf file)

"Conclusions and personal recommendations ", CERN SPSC Villars meeting, Sept 22-28 2004,
-(pdf file)

"Introduction to Particle Physics ", Lectures during CERN's "High School Teachers" programme, July 2004, CERN,
-(pdf file)

"Dal Big Bang al microcosmo: alla ricerca delle leggi di Natura", Presentazione divulgativa, Lecce, Giugno 2004,
-(pdf file)

"Measurements at the LHC ", IFAE meeting, Torino, April 2004,
-(pdf file)

"Physics Simulation tools for the LHC ", KEK International Workshop on Physics simulations for the LHC, Tsukuba, April 5-6 2004,
-(pdf file)

"ALPGEN ", KEK International Workshop on Physics simulations for the LHC, Tsukuba, April 5-6 2004,
-(pdf file)

"The 15-year saga of the B cross-section ", Wine and Cheese Seminar, Fermilab, Jan 2004,
Hadron Collider Workshop, KITP, Santa Barbara, Febr 2004
TH Division colloqium, Mar 2004
Presentation at the Hadron Collider Conference, East Lansing, June 2004 (Conference proceedings)
- (Seminar slides, pdf)

"Introduction to Hard Probes in hadron collisions" , Two lectures at the "School on the quark-gluon plasma and Heavy Ion collisions", Torino, Villa Gualino, Dec 2003
-Transparencies:
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
 

"Physics at the LHC: theory" , Four lectures at the Maria Laach Autumn School, Sept 2003
-Transparencies:
Lecture 1
Lecture 2&3
Lecture 4
 

"Monte Carlo Tools for the LHC", Seminar, TH Division, CERN, Nov 6 2002,
-(ppt file, pdf file)

"PHYSICS AT THE FRONT-END OF A NEUTRINO FACTORY: A QUANTITATIVE APPRAISAL", report of the DIS Working Group, ECFA/CERN Neutrino Factory Studies 2000,
-Postscript file: (ps file)

"Theoretical Challenges for QCD at the LHC" , NIKHEF, Landelijk Seminarium Theoretische Hoge Energie Fysica, Nov 23, 2001
-Transparencies: (ps.gz file)
 

"Heavy Quark Production in pp Collisions at 5.5 and 14 TeV , CERN Theory Workshop on Hard Probes in Heavy Ion collisions, Oct 10-13 2001
-Transparencies: (ps.gz file)
 

"Goals and potential of the LHC Physics programme , Laboratori Nazionali INFN, Frascati May 17, 2001
-Transparencies: (ps.gz file)
 

"pp Physics with ALICE", , Heavy Ion Physics at the LHC, November 9-11 2000, CERN
-Transparencies: (ps.gz file)
 
 "The Physics of Atlas and CMS (or: What will determine the success of the LHC?)", , Dubna Workshop on Detector and Physics at the LHC, June 28-30 2000, Dubna
-Transparencies: (ps.gz file)
 
"Top production at the LHC",  1st plen. meeting of the 1999 CERN Workshop on SM physics at the LHC (May25-26 1999)
-Transparencies: (ps.gz file)

"Results and perspectives in HEP phenomenology, vis-a-vis Lattice", plenary talk at LATTICE 99, Pisa (June 30 1999)
-Transparencies:  (ps.gz file)
-Proceedings: (ps.gz file)
 
 "Hard scattering in high-energy QCD", rapporteur talk at EPS 99, Tampere, Finland (July 16-21 1999)
-Transparencies: (ps.gz file)
 -Proceedings: (ps file)
 

"Heavy Quark Production at the LHC", given at the 1998 CERN Workshop on the Theory of LHC processes
-Transparencies: (ps.gz file)

QCD Lectures, given at the 1998 European School of High Energy Physics, St Andrews, Scotland.
-Lecture notes: (ps.gz file)
 

CODES and MC PROGRAMS:

"ALPGEN", a code for the generation of hard multiparton final states in hadronic collisions.
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HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS' PROGRAMME:
click here  for information relative to the programme.