Oreste Piro is a dynamical systems theorist and biophysicist. He is at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) in Palma de Mallorca.
Oreste Piro | |
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 Oreste Piro | |
| Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
| Citizenship | Argentinean, Spanish |
| Alma mater | Universidad Nacional de La Plata |
| Known for | PiroGon relaxation oscillator, dynamics of chaotic advection, bailout embedding, vertebrate left-right asymmetry, self-tuned critical network model |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | dynamical systems, biophysics |
| Institutions | Universitat de les Illes Balears |
| Doctoral advisor | Huner Fanchiotti |
| Other academic advisors | Leo P. Kadanoff |
| Notable students | Marcelo Magnasco |
Piro is known for work including his studies of forced relaxation oscillators such as the exactly-solvable PiroGon oscillator,[1] the dynamics of passive scalars in chaotic advection of fluids,[2][3][4] bailout embeddings,[5] the influence of fluid mechanics on the development of vertebrate left-right asymmetry,[6] and the self-tuned critical network model[7]
References
edit- ^ Gonzalez, Diego L.; Piro, Oreste (1983-03-21). "Chaos in a Nonlinear Driven Oscillator with Exact Solution". Physical Review Letters. 50 (12). American Physical Society (APS): 870–872. Bibcode:1983PhRvL..50..870G. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.50.870. ISSN 0031-9007.
- ^ Feingold, Mario; Kadanoff, Leo P.; Piro, Oreste (1988). "Passive scalars, three-dimensional volume-preserving maps, and chaos". Journal of Statistical Physics. 50 (3–4). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 529–565. Bibcode:1988JSP....50..529F. doi:10.1007/bf01026490. ISSN 0022-4715. S2CID 120852538.
- ^ Cartwright, Julyan H. E.; Feingold, Mario; Piro, Oreste (1996-06-10). "Chaotic advection in three-dimensional unsteady incompressible laminar flow". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 316. Cambridge University Press (CUP): 259–284. arXiv:chao-dyn/9504012. doi:10.1017/s0022112096000535. ISSN 0022-1120. S2CID 930710.
- ^ Babiano, Armando; Cartwright, Julyan H. E.; Piro, Oreste; Provenzale, Antonello (2000-06-19). "Dynamics of a Small Neutrally Buoyant Sphere in a Fluid and Targeting in Hamiltonian Systems". Physical Review Letters. 84 (25). American Physical Society (APS): 5764–5767. arXiv:nlin/0007033. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..84.5764B. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.84.5764. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10991049. S2CID 35884368.
- ^ Cartwright, Julyan H. E.; Magnasco, Marcelo O.; Piro, Oreste (2002-04-03). "Bailout embeddings, targeting of invariant tori, and the control of Hamiltonian chaos". Physical Review E. 65 (4). American Physical Society (APS): 045203(R). arXiv:nlin/0111005. Bibcode:2002PhRvE..65d5203C. doi:10.1103/physreve.65.045203. ISSN 1063-651X. PMID 12005907. S2CID 23498762.
- ^ Cartwright, J. H. E.; Piro, O.; Tuval, I. (2004-04-26). "Fluid-dynamical basis of the embryonic development of left-right asymmetry in vertebrates". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (19): 7234–7239. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.7234C. doi:10.1073/pnas.0402001101. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 409902. PMID 15118088.
- ^ Magnasco, Marcelo O.; Piro, Oreste; Cecchi, Guillermo A. (2009-06-22). "Self-Tuned Critical Anti-Hebbian Networks". Physical Review Letters. 102 (25). American Physical Society (APS): 258102. arXiv:0808.3996. Bibcode:2009PhRvL.102y8102M. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.258102. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 19659122.