vcolizza - Vittoria Colizza

Research Scientist

email: vcolizza at isi dot it
phone: +39 011 6603555
fax: +39 011 6600049
mailing address: Viale S. Severo 65
10133 Torino, ITALY

Member of the CX-NETS
Complex Networks Collaboratory

projects

Projections for Mexican Flu spread

Jun 29 Jul 03

Post-Doc open position:
Interactive scientific information visualization developer/researcher/
designer (more info)

new paper in PNAS

WiFi networks and malware epidemiology
H. Hu. S. Myers, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 106, 1318-1323 (2009)

watch the videos!

Financial Times - Forscher simulieren WLan-Wurmepidemie (german) (Feb 4, 2009)

New Scientist - City WiFi networks vulnerable to virus attack(Jan 28, 2009)

Scientific American Podcast - Wireless networks are soft virus targets(Jan 29, 2009)

MIT Technology Review - Modeling malware over WiFi(Jan 28, 2009)

Red Orbit - Researchers expose WiFi network weaknesses (Jan 28, 2009)

BBC News - Alarm sounded over WiFi networks (Jan 27, 2009)

Radio 3 Scienza - interview (italian) (Jan 27, 2009)

La Vanguardia - Las redes wifi favorecen la difusion de virus informaticos (spanish) (Jan 27, 2009)

Galileo - Virus, WiFi a rischio (italian) (Jan 27, 2009)

eccellenze al femminile

Jan 17, 2009, 9.30am, Turin, Italy.
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new research on human dynamics

High resolution dynamical mapping of social interactions with active RFID
A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, V. Colizza, J.-F. Pinton, W. Van den Broeck, A. Vespignani
arXiv:0811.4170

influweb goes on TV

Influweb team appeared on the italian scientific TV news, TG Leonardo. Watch the video! (italian)

influweb: launch

On November 1, 2008 we launched the first season of influweb, an innovative surveillance system for influenza-like illness (ILI) in Italy, based on the cooperative participation of the population.

Do you live in Italy? check out www.influweb.it and participate to the project!

new article in PRL

Prominence and Control: The Weighted Rich-Club Effect
T. Opsahl, V. Colizza, P. Panzarasa, J.J. Ramasco
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 168702 (2008)

NAKFI 2008 tutorial

My tutorial on "Spreading Processes and Complexity" for the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative 2008 - Complex Systems is webcasted at 1pm ET. The webcast is available here.