Welcome to the AURORA Interns!

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.

Elena wins the UIBK Best Student Paper Award!

Congratulations to Elena for winning the UIBK Best Student Paper Award in the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics! This prize was awarded for her paper, “Glitches in Rotating Supersolids” published in the journal Physical Review Letters. You can find a general overview of this research about the connection between glitches in the supersolid and neutron stars in our writeup, and the press releases by UIBK and Phys.org.

The ceremony for this award took place on Friday, June 28, 2024 in the Auditorium, at Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck. You can find more details about the ceremony and the other award winners here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/events/info/2024/sommerfestakt-vizerektorat-fuer-forschung.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrea L. awarded PhD Thesis prize


Andrea Litvinov, postdoc in the Er-Dy lab,  has won the 2024 USPN Thesis Prize for his thesis “Manipulation of nuclear spins of strontium 87 in degenerate Fermi gases in SU(N) symmetry”. Andrea completed his PhD at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord under the direction of Bruno Laburthe-Tolra and Olivier Gorceix, and co-supervised by Martin Robert de Saint Vincent. Congratulations Andrea!

You can find more information about 2024 USPN Thesis Prizes here: https://erasme.univ-paris13.fr/laureats-des-prix-de-these-uspn-2024/