Andrea Velenich

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Interests:

	o Why Condensed Matter Physics is wicked cool
	o My Research

	"If you're not worrying that something you're making will come out badly, 
	or that you won't be able to understand something you're studying, 
	then it isn't hard enough. There has to be suspense."
								o Paul Graham





Papers:
	o "On the Brownian gas: a field theory with a Poissonian ground state", 
	   A.Velenich, C.Chamon, L.F.Cugliandolo, D.Kreimer, 
			o J.Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 235002
			o arXiv:0802.3212

	o "Dynamical arrest and replica symmetry breaking in attractive colloids", 
	   A.Velenich, A.Parola, L.Reatto, 
			o Physical Review E 74, 021410 (2006) 
			o arXiv:cond-mat/0605466






Academic tourism:
	o Motives, Quantum Field Theory and Pseudodifferential Operators 
	  (Boston University, USA; June 2-13 2008)
	o 2008 APS March Meeting (New Orleans, USA; March 10-14 2008)
		o Spanning trees and the dynamics of compact polymers 
		o Brownian gas: a field theory with a Poissonian ground state
				
	o Visitor at I.H.E.S. (Bures-sur-Yvette, France; May 6-31 2007)
	o Marie Curie Workshop (Lugano, Switzerland; April 6-8 2006)




Teaching:
	o PY212: "General Physics II" (TF) (Boston University, Summer II 2008)
	o PY542: "Statistical Mechanics II" (Grader) (Boston University, Fall 2007)
	o PY212: "General Physics II" (TF) (Boston University, Summer II 2007)
	o PY106: "Elementary Physics II" (TF) (Boston University, Summer II 2006)
	o PY105: "Elementary Physics I"  (TF) (Boston University, Summer I 2006)
	o PY106: "Elementary Physics II" (TF) (Boston University, Spring 2006)
	o PY105: "Elementary Physics I"  (TF) (Boston University, Fall 2005)

	"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." -- George Bernard Shaw




Links:
	People:
		Overlords:
		o Dirk Kreimer
		o Claudio Chamon


		Collaborators:
		o Leticia F. Cugliandolo


		Previous Advisors:
		o Alberto Parola
		o Luciano Reatto	


		Friends&Wizards:
		o Daniele Wiz Signori
		o Kipton Barros
		o Pascal Degiovanni


	Places:
		o Boston University
			o Physics Department
			o Mathematics Department
			o Center for Mathematical Physics

		o I.H.E.S. (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)

		o Universita' degli Studi di Milano
			o Physics Department
			o Theory Group


	Ideas:
		o TED Talks
		o John Baez's Stuff 
		o American Scientist Online
		o Quantum Field Theory Links

		o Daniele Luttazzi
		o Beppe Grillo

		o La dura legge del gol 





last modified: May 23, 2008