October 1-6, 2008
"12th Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (11IACMAG), Goa, India", with a presentation of the paper "Efficient block preconditioners for the numerical modelling of geological faults" by M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati and C. Janna, published in the Conference Proceedings.

July 6-10, 2008
"17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR2008), San Francisco, California", with two presentations entitled "Novel preconditioners for the iterative solution to 3D large FE models of coupled flow-deformation in porous media" and "A pilot test of CO2 sequestration in a depleted gas field in the Po plain, Italy: fluid-dynamical and geo-mechanical issues".

February 19-23, 2007
"SIAM Conference on Computational Engineering and Science, Costa Mesa, California", with a presentation entitled "Block preconditioners for FE coupled consolidation equations".

September 12-15, 2006
"8th International Conference on Computational Structures Technology and 5th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain", with presentation of the paper "Efficient preconditioners for Krylov subspace methods in the solution of coupled consolidation problems" by L. Bergamaschi, M. Ferronato and G. Gambolati, published in the Conference Proceedings.

June 19-22, 2006
"16th International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR2006), Copenhagen, Denmark", with presentation of the paper "A diffusion model for land subsidence" by M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati, M. Putti and P. Teatini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

February 26-March 1, 2006
"ASCE GeoCongress 2006, Atlanta, Georgia", with presentation of the paper "Modeling regional faults for land subsidence prediction" by M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati and P. Teatini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

September 16-20, 2005
"International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Rhodes, Greece", with presentation of the paper "Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Method and standard unstructured Finite Elements for the soluation of 2-D elastic problems" by M. Ferronato, A. Mazzia, G. Pini and G. Gambolati, published in the Conference Proceedings.

June 19-24, 2005
"11th Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (11IACMAG), Torino, Italy", with presentation of the paper "Computational issues in anthropogenic land subsidence prediction" by M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati, G. Pini and P. Teatini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

May 24-27, 2005
"3rd Biot Conference on Poromechanics (Biot05), Norman, Oklahoma", with presentation of the paper "A coupled model of anthropogenic Venice uplift" by A. Comerlati, M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati, M. Putti and P. Teatini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

April 4-7, 2005
"International Conference on High Order Non-oscillatory Methods for Wave Propagation: Algorithms and Applications, Trento, Italy", with a presentation entitled "Solution of 2-D elastic structural problems with Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Method and standard unstructured Finite Elements".

September 15-16, 2004
International workshop "Schlumberger Information System: Global Forum 2004, Paris, France", with a presentation entitled "CO2 sequestration below the Venice Lagoon can help fulfill the Kyoto requirements and mitigate land subsidence".

November 6-7, 2003
International workshop "Reservoir storage of CO2" at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Bergen, Norway, with a presentation entitled "Can CO2 help save Venice? Geomechanical aspects".

May 25-28, 2003
"11th International Symposium on Deformation Measurements (FIG03), Santorini Island, Greece", with presentation of the paper "Unloading-reloading uniaxial compressibility of deep reservoirs by marker measurements" by M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati and P. Teatini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

August 26-28, 2002
"2nd Biot Conference on Poromechanics (Biot02), Grenoble, France", with presentation of the paper "Poroelastic coupling in layered porous media" by M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati and P. Teatini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

July 31-August 2, 2002
"International Conference on Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES2002), Reno, Nevada", with presentation of the paper "Parallel block-diagonal preconditioning of Finite Element consolidation equations" by M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati and G. Pini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

June 23-28, 2002
"14th International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR2002), Delft, The Netherlands", with presentation of the paper "Efficient scaling algorithms for projection solvers in the Finite Element solution to coupled consolidation" by M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati and G. Pini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

June 17-20, 2002
"4th International Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Grounwater Modelling (ModelCARE2002), Prague, Czech Republic", with presentation of the paper "Direct and iterative methods in Finite Element consolidation models" by G. Pini, G. Gambolati and M. Ferronato, published in the Conference Proceedings.

May 27-30, 2002
"64th Conference & Exhibition of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE2002), Firenze, Italy", with presentation of the paper "Some preliminary Finite Element results of CO2 sequestration in a sedimentary basin" by A. Comerlati, M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati, M. Putti and P. Teatini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

May 15-16, 2002
"IBC's Carbon Sequestration Conference, London, UK".

March 25-30, 2001
"XXVI General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society (EGS01), Nice, France", with presentation of the paper "Iterative solvers for finite element consolidation models" by G. Gambolati, G. Pini and M. Ferronato, published in the Conference Proceedings.

January 6-12, 2001
"10th Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (10IACMAG), Tucson, Arizona", with presentation of the paper "Local rock expansion in non-homogeneous productive gas/oil fields" by D. Bał, M. Ferronato, G. Gambolati and P. Teatini, published in the Conference Proceedings.

September 25-29, 2000
"Sixth International Symposium on Land Subsidence (SISOLS2000), Ravenna, Italy".

September 13-17, 2000
"5th EUROCOAST Conference on Responsible Coastal Zone Management - The Challenge of the 21st century, Dubrovnik (Cavtat), Croatia", with presentation of the paper "Sensitivity Analysis on the Influence of Water Levels on Wave Numerical Models. An example for the Northern Adriatic Sea" by M. Ferronato, M. Gonella, P. Ruol and G. Tiani, published in the Conference Proceedings.

June 26-30, 2000
International course on "Advanced Numerical Applications and Plasticity in Geomechanics", organized by CISM, Udine, Italy, and supervised by Prof. D.V. Griffiths and Prof. G. Gioda.