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Marco Falcioni

Professional experience
	1999 - Present: Symyx Technologies Santa Clara, CA Senior Scientific Programmer n Development and implementation of new statistical models for the advancement of combinatorial material synthesis 1997 - 1999 Chemical Engineering, UCLA Los Angeles, CA Postdoctoral Fellow n Implemented a new optimization method that solves the structure of all published zeolites from X-Ray diffraction data. n Successfully solved the structure of a previously unknown zeolite. n Applied Monte Carlo methods for the improvement of combinatorial material synthesis. 1992 - 1994 Northeast Parallel Architecture Center Syracuse, NY Research Assistant n Designed, developed and supported applications for the even load distribution of jobs on a computer cluster. n Studied the relative performance of several types of parallel computers (Intel Delta, Connection Machine 5, DEC Maspar).
Education
	1994 - 1997 Syracuse University Syracuse, NY Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics n Characterized the phase diagram and elastic properties of 2-dimensional symmetric and asymmetric membranes with large-scale Monte Carlo simulations n Studied the second order phase transition of Ising models coupled to 2-dimensional quantum gravity. n Teaching Assistant 1991 - 1994 Syracuse University Syracuse, NY Master of Science in Theoretical Physics n Teaching Assistant 1986 - 1992 Universit` di Roma, Tor Vergata Rome, Italy B.S. in Physics (Laurea with honors)
Patents and publications
	Symyx Technologies, Invention Disclosure, Symyx Case No. 2000-039. M.W. Deem and M. Falcioni, Library Design in Combinatorial Chemistry by Monte Carlo Methods, U.S. Patent application, 28 claims, 30 December 1999. A. Burton, R.J. Accardi, R.F. Lobo, M Falcioni and M.W. Deem, MCM-47: a highly crystalline Silicate Composed of Hydrogen-Bonded Ferrierite Layers, Chemistry of Materials, in print. L. Chen, M. Falcioni and M.W. Deem, Disorder-induced Time-dependent Diffusion in Zeolites, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Volume 104, Number 25, June 2000, 7 pages. M.Falcioni and M.W. Deem, Library Design in Combinatorial Chemistry by Monte Carlo Methods, Physical Review E, May 2000, Volume 61(5B), 5 pages. M. Falcioni and M.W. Deem, A Biased Monte Carlo Scheme for Zeolite Structure Solution, Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 110, Number 3, 1999, 13 pages. M. Bowick, S. Catterall, S. Warner, G. Thorleiffson, and M. Falcioni, Anisotropic Membranes, Nuclear Physics B (Proceeding Supplement), Volume 73, 1999, 3 pages. G. Thorleiffson and M. Falcioni, Improved Algorithms for Simulating Crystalline Membranes, Computer Physics Communication, Volume 109, 1998, 9 pages. M. Bowick, M. Falcioni and G. Thorleiffson, Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes, Physical Review Letters, Volume 79, 1997, 4 pages. M. Falcioni, M. Bowick, E. Guitter and G. Thorleiffson, The Poisson Ration of Crystalline Surfaces, Europhysics Letters, Volume 38(1), 1997, 6 pages. M. Bowick, S. Catterall, M. Falcioni, G. Thorleiffson and K. Anagnostopoulos, The Flat Phase of Fixed-Connectivity Membranes, Nuclear Physics, Proceeding Supplement, Volume 53, 1997, 7 pages. M. Bowick, S. Catterall, M. Falcioni, G. Thorleiffson and K. Anagnostopoulos, The Flat Phase of Crystalline Membranes, Journal of Physics I (France), Volume 6, 1996, 25 pages. K. Anagnostopoulos, M. Bowick, S. Catterall, M. Falcioni and G. Thorleiffson, The Phase Diagram of Crystalline Surfaces, Nuclear Physics B, Proceeding Supplement, Volume 47, 1996, 4 pages. M. Falcioni, K. Anagnostopoulos, M. Bowick, S. Catterall and G. Thorleiffson, The Elastic Properties of a Flat Crystalline Membrane, in Current Ideas in Theoretical Physics, ODonnel and Smith Editors, 1996, World Scientific. M. Bowick, M. Falcioni, G. Harris and E. Marinari, Critical Slowing Down of Cluster Algorithms for Ising Models Coupled to 2-d Gravity, Physics Letters B, Volume 322, 1994, 6 pages. M. Bowick, M. Falcioni, G. Harris and E. Marinari, Two Ising Models, Coupled to 2-dimensional Gravity, Nuclear Physics B, Volume 419, 1994, 20 pages. K. Anagnostopoulos, M. Bowick, P. Coddington, M. Falcioni, L. Han, H. Harris and E. Marinari, Fluid Random Surfaces with Extrinsic Curvature: II, Physics Letters B, Volume 317, 1993, 4 pages.
Lectures, Seminars and Contributed Talks
	1999, Molecular Simulations Inc., Catalysis Consortium Meeting, San Diego, CA. 1999, University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Research Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA. 1999, California Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, CA 1999, Harvard University, Department of Physics, Cambridge, MA 1998, Cornell University, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Ithaca, NY 1998, Syracuse University, Department of Physics, Syracuse, NY
Conferences
	The 15^th Annual MRST Meeting, Syracuse, NY, May 1993 Lattice 93, International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Dallas, TX, October 1993 PASCOS 94, Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Syracuse, NY, May 1994 APS Physics Computing 95, Pittsburgh PA, June 1995 Lattice 95, International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Melbourne, Australia, July 1995 The Josh Goldberg Symposium, Syracuse, NY, December 1985 Recent Developments in Statistical Field Theory, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, March 1996 The 18^th Annual MRST Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 1996 Lattice 96, International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Washington University, St. Louis, MI, June 1996 DIMACS Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization and Disordered Materials, Rutgers University, May 1997 77^th Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Rutgers University, May 1997 American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, Los Angeles, March 1998 79^th Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Rutgers University, May 1998 Applications of Field Theory to Statistical Physics, Bonn, Germany, July 1998 20^th International Symposium on Statistical Physics, Paris, France, July 1998 6^th International Conference on Path Integrals, Florence, Italy, August 1998 Molecular Simulations Inc, Catalysis Consortium Meeting, San Diego, November 1998 AIChE 1998, Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, November 1998 Combinatorial Materials Science: A National Dialogue, NIST Gaithersburg, MD, May 2000
Workshops
	1994: NATO/ASI Summer School, Fluctuating Geometries in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory, Les Houches, France 1996: Cornell Theory Center, Parallel Programming on the SP2, Ithaca, NY 2000: Developmentor, Guerrilla VB, Torrance, CA
Awards received
	1997 1999: Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCLA 1996: Graduate Scholarship, Syracuse University 1995: Henry Levinstein Teaching Award 1994: NATO-ASI Fellowship for the participation to the Les Houches Summer School on Fluctuating Geometries in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory, Les Houches, France