We bade farewell to the Theory group‘s visiting PhD student Silvia Trabucco on the 21st of October, 2024! Silvia joined us in the first week of September from Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy, to work with our PhD student, Elena Poli, on an already successful collaboration regarding vortices in a dipolar supersolid and their connection to glitches in neutron stars.
It was a pleasure to have you join us, Silvia, and we wish you the best with the rest of your PhD back in Gran Sasso!
Members of the Theory team at the start of September 2024. From left to right: Tanausú Hernández Yanes, Pramodh Senarath Yapa, Silvia Trabucco, Elena Poli, Leonardo Bellinato Giacomelli and Thomas Bland.
On the 4th of October, we said goodbye to the Theory group‘s visiting PhD student Tanausú Hernández Yanes! Tana joined us almost a year ago from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFPAN), where he obtained the scholarship NAWA PRELUDIUM BIS 1 from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange to work with us.
During his visit, Tana worked on many projects such as investigating the expansion of a dipolar gas on the lattice alongside our longtime collaborator Prof. Luca Barbiero. Tana also completed his PhD thesis during his time with our group – good luck with your defense and we wish you the best in the next stage of your career, Tana!
From left to right: Leonardo Bellinato Giacomelli, Pramodh Senarath Yapa, Giuseppe Puca, Gianlorenzo De Filippo, Matteo Olimpo, Elena Poli, Francesca Ferlaino and Silvia Trabucco.
The first week of September 2024 marked the end of the 3 weeks of the Aurora Excellence Fellowship program and the beginning of a visit by Silvia Trabucco, who is a PhD student at Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy. Silvia is visiting to build upon an already successful collaboration regarding vortices in a dipolar supersolid and their connection to glitches in neutron stars.
Silvia Trabucco graduated in theoretical physics in Pisa in 2021 with a thesis about thermal properties of acoustic horizons realised with Bose-Einstein condensates. She joined the PhD program at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy. Her research interests include quantum simulation of gravitational black holes and their beyond-equilibrium properties, as well as phases of matter realised in compact stars. She worked with the University of Innsbruck to investigate the glitch mechanism of neutron stars employing dipolar supersolids.
The Aurora interns Gianlorenzo De Filippo, Matteo Olimpo and Giuseppe Puca made remarkable progress in their projects with the Theory team over the last 3 weeks, and we wish them the best of luck with their research at University of Naples Federico II!
From left to right: Gianlorenzo De Filippo, Matteo Olimpo and Giuseppe Puca.
On the 19th of August 2024, we welcomed three Masters’ interns to the Theory team under the Aurora Excellence Fellowship program!Gianlorenzo De Filippo, Matteo Olimpo and Giuseppe Puca will be with us for 3 weeks working on projects about supersolidity and lattice physics.
Gianlorenzo is from Formia in Italy and he is a Master degree student in astrophysics at the University of Naples Federico II. For the AURORA project he will be studying the supersolid phase transition in quantum gases and its relation to neutron star glitches.
Matteo was born on December 1, 2001, in Naples, Italy. He began his studies in physics in 2020 at the University of Naples Federico II, where he graduated in 2023 with a thesis on percolation theory. He is currently studying for a master’s degree in theoretical physics at the same university.
Giuseppe was born on October 19, 2001, in Naples, Italy. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II on October 2, 2023, with a thesis on the derivation of the Unruh effect using Feynman’s path integral formulation. He continued his studies in Naples, where he is currently enrolled in the Master’s degree program in Physics with a specialization in Theoretical Physics. Since 2020, he has been a student in the Ordinary Course in “Cosmology, Space Science, and Space Technologies” at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples. His current interests include statistical mechanics, complex systems, quantum many-body systems, quantum field theory and numerical methods.
