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Ignazio Licata

Ignazio Licata is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ignazio Licata rather than just read about it. In short: Ignazio Licata (born 1958) is an Italian theoretical physicist, professor and scientific director of the Institute for Scientific Methodology, Italy. Education and career Licata has studied with David Bohm, Jean-Pierre Vigier, Abdus Salam and Giuseppe Arcidiacono.

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Reference excerpt

Ignazio Licata (born 1958) is an Italian theoretical physicist, professor and scientific director of the Institute for Scientific Methodology, Italy.

Education and career Licata has studied with David Bohm, Jean-Pierre Vigier, Abdus Salam and Giuseppe Arcidiacono. Licata is editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics (EJTP) and scientific director of the interdisciplinary Institute for Scientific Methodology (ISEM), located in Bagheria, Province of Palermo, Italy. He has worked on quantum field theory, interpretation of quantum mechanics, and recently quantum cosmology. His further topics of research include the foundation of quantum mechanics, space-time at Planck scale, the group approach in quantum cosmology, systems theory, non-linear dynamics, as well as computation in physical, biological and cognitive systems (logical openness, sub and super Turing systems). Licata has developed a new approach to quantum cosmology ("Archaic Universe") based on de Sitter invariant special relativity.

Awards "Le Veneri per la Scienza" prize (Lecce, 2008) for "the high merit in research and cultural diffusion" "Targa Pirandello" (Agrigento, 2010) "International Prize Conference on Time" (Al Ain, 2012)

Publications

Books (as author) Ignazio Licata, Davide Fiscaletti: Quantum potential: Physics, Geometry and Algebra, AMC, Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-319-00332-0 (print) / ISBN 978-3-319-00333-7 (online) Ignazio Licata: Complessità. Un'introduzione semplice, :Duepunti, 2011, ISBN 978-8889987674 Ignazio Licata: La Logica Aperta della Mente, Codice Edizioni, Torino, 2008, ISBN 978-8875780906 Ignazio Licata: Osservando la Sfinge. La realtà virtuale della fisica quantistica, Di Renzo, Roma, 2003, ISBN 978-8883230639

Books (other) Ignazio Licata, Ammar Sakaji (eds.): Vision of Oneness, Aracne (2011), ISBN 978-88-548-44629 Ignazio Licata, Sara Felloni, Ammar J. Sakaji, Jatinder Singh (eds.): New Trends in Quantum Information, Aracne, 2010, ISBN 978-8854834118 Ignazio Licata, Ammar Sakaji (eds.): Crossing in Complexity: Interdisciplinary Application of Physics in Biological and Social Systems, Nova Science Publishers, 2010, ISBN 9781616680374 Ammar Sakaji, Ignazio Licata (eds.): Lev Davidovich Landau and His Impact on Contemporary Theoretical Physics (Horizons in World Physics), Nova Science Publishers, 2009, ISBN 978-1606929087 Unexpected Connections: Art–Science Crossing, Politi Publ., Milan, 2009 Ignazio Licata, Ammar Sakaji (eds.): Physics of Emergence and Organization, EJTP and World Scientific, 2008, ISBN 978-9812779946 Ignazio Licata: Majorana Legacy in Contemporary Physics, EJTP and Di Renzo, Roma 2006, ISBN 9788883231520 Informazione & Complessità, Edizioni Andromeda, Bologna, 1998

Articles (selection) Articles by Ignazio Licata at arXiv.org and at PhilPapers Ignazio Licata: Vision as Adaptive Epistemology, in G. Minati Ed., Methods, models, simulations and approaches. Towards a general theory of change, World Scientific, 2012 Ignazio Licata, Gianfranco Minati: "Meta-structural properties in collective behaviours", International Journal of General Systems, vol. 41, nr. 3, pp. 289–311 (2012) Ignazio Licata, Leonardo Chiatti: "Archaic universe and cosmological model: "big-bang" as nucleation by vacuum", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, vol. 49, nr. 10, pp. 2379–2402 (2010), DOI: 10.1007/s10773-010-0424-0 (abstract) Ignazio Licata: Almost-anywhere theories: reductionism and universality of emergence, Complexity, vol. 15, n. 6, pp. 11–19 (2010) Ignazio Licata, Leonardo Chiatti: The archaic universe: big bang, cosmological term and the quantum origin of time in projective cosmology, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, vol. 48, nr. 4 (2009), pp. 1003–1018, DOI: 10.1007/s10773-008-9874-z (abstract) Ignazio Licata: A dynamical model for information retrieval and emergence of scale-free clusters in a long term memory network, in Complexity: Emergence and Organization (E:CO), vol. 11, nr. 1, 2009, pp. 48-57, arXiv:0801.0887 (submitted 6 January 2008) Ignazio Licata: Logical openness in cognitive models, Epistemologia XXXVI (2008), pp. 177–192 (full text) Ignazio Licata, Luigi Lella: A new model for the organizational knowledge life cycle in G. Minati, E. Pessa (eds.): Processes of emergence of systems and systemic properties. Towards a general theory of emergence, World Scientific, 2008 Ignazio Licata, Luigi Lella: Evolutionary neural gas (ENG): A model of self-organising network from input categorization (2007) EJTP, vol. 4, nr. 14 Ignazio Licata: Universe without singularities. A group approach to de Sitter cosmology, EJTP, vol. 3 nr. 10 (2006), pp. 211-224

References

External links Ignazio Licata, curriculum Ignazio Licata, manifesto della scienza semplice (manifest of simple science)

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Applications of Ignazio Licata

In research: Ignazio Licata appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ignazio Licata in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ignazio Licata is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1958 births, 20th-century Italian physicists, 21st-century Italian physicists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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Ignazio Licata (born 1958) is an Italian theoretical physicist, professor and scientific director of the Institute for Scientific Methodology, Italy. Education and career Licata has studied with David Bohm, Jean-Pierre Vigier, Abdus Salam and Giuseppe Arcidiacono.

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