Luca D'Alessio

Luca D'Alessio

Graduate Student (Fall '09 - present: Research Assistent)
Office: SCI, Room 314. 617-358-5333
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Research Interests:

My research field is Condensed Matter Theory. At the moment I am engaged into two projects: 1) I am working with Prof. Polkovnikov on non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. We are trying to understand how the energy distribution of a closed system evolves when the environment can perform work on the system. Right now we are using classical models but soon we will address the quantum counterpart. This is a hot field in the scientific community nowadays. We use results from sudden quenches, adiabatic theorem, Jarzynski equality, Crooks theorem and many others to try to investigate our questions. 2) I am collaborating with Prof. Castro Neto. I am studying the properties of curved, SP2 carbon structures, mainly graphite and schwarzites. This work is the natural continuation of my thesis work in which I performed a topological study of the smallest genus-2 schwarzites.

Education:

2005: Bachelor Degree in Physics (110/110 cum laude) Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Italy 2007: Master Degree in Physics (110/110 cum laude) Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Italy

JOURNAL CLUB:

I am the organizer of the graduate student Journal Club.

Visit our web-page: http://physics.bu.edu/pages/show/journal-club

 

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