Prof. dr. Francesco
Giacosa
Emails: francesco.giacosa@gmail.com , fgiacosa@ujk.edu.pl, giacosa@itp.uni-frankfurt.de
Web-page: http://www.ujk.edu.pl/strony/Francesco.Giacosa/
Orcid:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7290-9366
Professor at the Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski
University
Head of the High Energy Physics department,
ul. Uniwersytecka
7, 25-406 Kielce, Poland.
Phone: 0048-41-3496448. Office: 207.
https://fizyka.ujk.edu.pl/pl/index.php?page=departments&option=high_energy
Director of the Doctoral School, Jan Kochanowski
University
Rector's offices, ul. ¯eromskiego 5,
25-369 Kielce, Poland.
Phone: 0048-41-3497373, Office: 107.
https://www.facebook.com/PhDSchoolUJK/
Private Lecturer at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, J.W. Goethe
University,
Max-von-Laue Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/66533451/Welcome_to_the_Institute_for_Theoretical_Physics
Research and links:
Scientific Interests Hadron physics in vacuum and in
medium. Fundaments of Quantum Mechanics.
Publications
(from Inspire)
Ph.D. Thesis (Subject:
Glueball within a nonlocal approach)
Habilitation (only
the summary in German: here) (Subject:
the extended Linear Sigma Model (eLSM))
Hadron
group at UJK Kielce (members, ongoing research, recent publications, etc)
Basic Info:
1995-2001: University
of Turin, Physics.
2001: Diploma Thesis
“Chiral phase transitions in the NJL model”
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wanda Alberico.
2001-2005: PhD
in Physics at Tuebingen University, Germany.
PhD thesis: “Glueball phenomenology within a nonlocal
approach”
supervisors: Prof. Dr. Amand Faessler and Prof. Dr.
Thomas Gutsche.
2005-2006:
Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg, work on nonperturbative
Yang-Mills Physics.
2006-2014:
Frankfurt am Main, work on hadron physics and quantum mechanics, various didactical
activities in the group of Prof. Dirk Rischke.
2013: Habilitation. Title: “An
effective chiral model of QCD with vector mesons, dilaton and tetraquark: physics in the vacuum and at nonzero
temperature and density”.
2012-2013: MainCampus
Educator fellow (Jan.
2012-Dec. 2013) of the ‘Foundation Polytechnical
Society –Frankfurt am Main’
2014-02.2020: UJK
Kielce, associate professor.
Since 03.2020: UJK Kielce,
full professor.
First supervisor of 4 concluded PhD theses:
1. Stanislaus Janowski, Phenomenology of glueballs and scalar-isoscalar quarkonia within an effective hadronic model of QCD, November 2015 (Goehte
U Frankfurt).
2. Thomas
Wolkanowski-Gans, Dynamical generation of hadronic resonances in
effective models with derivative interactions, August 2016 (Goethe U
Frankfurt).
3. Lisa Olbrich, Hyperons in a chiral approach, September 2018
(Goethe U Frankfurt).
4. Milena Piotrowska, Study of conventional and
non-conventional scalar and vector mesons March
2021 (UJK Kielce).
Second supervisor of 1 concluded PhD thesis: Achim
Heinz, QCD under extreme conditions: the inhomogeneous condensation, October
2014 (Goethe U Frankfurt).
Presently first supervisor of 3 ongoing PhD theses: Shahriyar
Jafarzade, Enrico Trotti, Arthur Vereijken.
Third-party projects in Kielce:
NCN OPUS project 2019/33/B/ST2/00613
Title:
Role of the symmetries and anomalies of QCD on the phenomenology of
mesons
Principal Investigator: Francesco
Giacosa
Duration:
17/2/2020-16/2/2024.
Postdoc: Dr. Vanamali C. Shastry
(up to 28/2/2023)
PhD student: Arthur Vereijken (ongoing)
Master student(s): Agata Pniak (ongoing)
NCN OPUS project 2015/17/B/ST2/01625
Title:
Decays and spectral functions of non-conventional mesons.
Principal Investigator: Francesco
Giacosa
Duration: 2/6/2016-1/6/2018.
Postdoc: Dr. Susana Coito (up to 31/5/2018)
PhD student: Milena Piotrowska (defended in 2021)
Master student: Tomasz Berlinski (defended in 2021)
NAWA (Polish
National Agency for Academic Exchange) ULAM program –responsible
for the staying at UJK:
Prof. D. Giorgio Torrieri, 1/7/2022-28/2/2023, agreement ULM/2021/1/00039
Dr. Subhasis Samata, 1/1/2020-31/12/2021, agreement ULM/2019/1/00093/U/00001
Activities in 2022/2023 at UJK
Kielce
Statistical methods for PhD
students of natural sciences, summer term 2023
General relativity for PhD
students, summer term 2023
Quantum Mechanics for PhD
students, winter term 2022/2023
Activity at Goethe U Frankfurt,
summer term 2022
Topological objects in (Q)FT, 11-15/9/2023 (block course, zoom)
Organized meetings:
Excited QCD 2016 (6-12
March 2016, Costa da Caparica,
Portugal)
Excited QCD 2015 (8-14 March 2015, Tatranska
Lomnica, Slovakia)
Excited
QCD 2014 (2-8 February
2014, Bjelasnica Mountain, Sarajevo)
Excited QCD
2013 (3-9 February
2013, Bjelasnica Mountain, Sarajevo)
Excited QCD
2012 (6-12 May 2012, Peniche, Portugal)
Excited QCD 2011
(20-25 February
2011, Les Houches, France)
Excited QCD 2010
(31 January-6
February 2010, Tatra National Park, Slovakia)
Excited QCD 2009 (8-14 February 2009, Zakopane,
Poland)
Previous activities in Kielce:
Quantum computing, for data
engineering, winter term 2021/2022
Advanced QM for PhD
students, winter term 2021/2022
Statistical methods for PhD
students, summer term 2022
General relativity for PhD
students, summer term 2022
Statistical physics (winter term 2019/2020 and
2020/2021, for PhD students)
Particle physics (summer term 2019 and 2020, for
master students)
Special and general relativity (for PhD students,
winter term 2018/2019)
Advanced Quantum Mechanics (winter term 2014/2015,
2015/2016, and 2017/2018 for PhD students, 1. year): link
Topics in Condensed Matter Physics (winter term
2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2014/2015, for PhD students, 3. year): link.
Seminar for Master Students (winter term 2017/2018,
2016/2017, summer term 2015).
Statistical methods (summer
term 2016, for Phd students, 2. year)
Introduction to QCD (summer term 2016, for PhD
students, 2. year)
Theory of many-body systems (winter
term 2015, for PhD students, 2. year)
Introduction to the Theory of Chaos (summer term 2015,
for PhD students, 3. year)
Topics in Nanophysics (winter term 2017/2018 and
summer term 2015 for PhD students, 3. year)
Previous activities in Frankfurt:
Decays in QM and QFT, August
2023.
The
chiral group of
Frankfurt (research topics, members, (some) publications; up to 2015 plus some theses
updates).
Interpretations
of QM (6-10/9/2021), (zoom/Frankfurt).
Effective hadronic theories, (12-16/10/2020) (zoom/Frankfurt).
Decays in QM and in QFT,
15-19/7/2019
Interpretation of Quantum
Mechanics, 17-21/9/2018, each day of the week from 10:00-13:00, Aquarium room
(2.114).
Videos at: http://electure.uni-frankfurt.de/index.php?cat=1&videolist=1109
Topological objects in (Quantum)
Field Theory" (Block-lecture for master and PhD students, 11-15/9/2017)
Video at: http://electure.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/index.php?cat=1&sem=15&videolist=1043
Effective Theories of Hadrons
(Block-lecture for master and PhD students, 18-22/8/2014 (So. Se. 2014) and 18-22/8/2016 (So.
Se. 2016)
Video of 2016:
http://electure.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/index.php?cat=1&sem=13&videolist=941
Blockvorlesung
(Block lecture) „Decays in Quantum Field Theory (Mo. 30/8 to Fr. 4/9/2015 , 12:00 - 15:00, Room: 2.114 hier)
Meetings of the chiral
group (up to Wi.
Se. 2014/2015)
Mathematische Ergaenzugnen
zur Vorlesung „Theoretische Physik 4 (für Bachelor-Studenten,
So. Se. 2014) (link)
Videos at: http://electure.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/index.php?cat=1&sem=0&videolist=699
Neue Entwicklungen der
Quantenmechanik (Proseminar für Bachelor-und
Master-Studenten, So. Se. 2014.
NEQM in So. Se. 2013 hier und
in So. Se. 2012 hier).
Topological objects in field
theory (für
Master-Studenten. So. Se.
2013)
Decays in Quantum Field Theory (für Master-Studenten; Wi. Se. 2012/2013 and 2013/2014)
Video of 2012/2013:
http://electure.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/index.php?cat=1&sem=6&videolist=342
Mathematik für Biophysiker (Vorlesung
für Bachelor-Studenten, Biophysik, So. Se. 2012)
Statistical Mechanics (Übungen;
Wi. Se. 2011/2012)
Palaver WS 2011/2012 (and older palavers)
Interpretation der Quantenmechanik (Seminar;
So. Se. 2011 and 2010)
Quantum mechanics (Übungen; So. Se. 2011)
E-Dynamik WS 2010/2011 and Mechanik II (SS2010) (and older exercises) (Übungen)
Seminar on chiral
theories (Wi.
Se. 2010/2011)
Contact: francesco.giacosa@gmail.com