Umberto Barcaro        

        email addresses:
        umberto@di.unipi.it
        umberto.barcaro@isti.cnr.it

        phone numbers:
        +39 050 221 2779
        +39 050 315 3119
   


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RESEARCH INTERESTS


BOOKS

The subject of this book is the study of dreaming from a specific point of view, which provides useful and enlightening results: the analysis of the complex patterns of links among the memory sources of dreams. The significance of these patterns is logical and emotional at the same time. This approach is interdisciplinary: it directly involves the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, linguistics, computer science, mathematics (graph theory, neural networks), history of psychology, literature, and motion pictures. However, no specific advanced expertise in any of these fields is required for understanding the various contents.

Among the contents of The Interwoven Sources of Dreams:
  • The Dream with the Unicorn (reported by Leclaire)
  • Penelope's Dream in the Odyssey
  • Cameron's movie Titanic as an implicit metaphor of a dream
  • Cavallero & Foulkes's cognitive approach to dreaming
  • Freud's analysis of Dora's dream
  • Computer analysis of text files including dream reports
  • Multigraph representation of links among dream sources

  • Esercizi di Teoria dei Sistemi, Co-author: A. Starita, Servizio Editoriale Università di Pisa
    Contents: Fourier analysis of analog and digital signals; stability and causality of linear systems.

List of Contents

Galileo stated that, from the viewpoint of the Copernican System, the fall motion of a body towards the Earth center is uniform circular. He himself assessed this statement as “Bizzarria” (bizarreness). The book is dedicated to the study of this significant issue of Galileo’s physics.


TEACHING ACTIVITY

  • Course of Physics and course of Computer Science Laboratory at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Pisa University
  • Course of Signal Theory at the Faculty of Sciences of Pisa University
  • Seminars (about the history of Relativity, Quantum Physics, and Nuclear Physics, respectively) for Culture and Scientific Method (course teacher: Marco Massai) at the Faculty of Sciences of Pisa University


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