Research Topics

Quantum transport, applied quantum mechanics, nonlinear optics

  • Quantum mechanics in phase-space and Wigner equation

  • Charge and spin transport in semiconductors

  • Quantum and semiclassical fluid dynamics

  • Decoherence

  • Quantum control

  • Nano-electronics and nano-photonics

  • Bose-Einstein condensates

  • Inverse scattering transform and fibre optics


Staff: Barletti, Morandi, Rotundo

Fluid dynamics, free-boundary problems and industrial mathematics

  • Non-Newtonian fluids

  • Plastic fluids

  • Flows in porous media

  • Peristalsis and vasomotion

  • Acid water neutralization

  • Deposition in pipelines

  • Avalanche dynamics

  • Modeling of axial compressors


Staff: Calusi, Farina, Fusi,



General relativity and field theory

  • Mathematical relativity

  • Causality theory

  • Lorentzian and Finslerian geometries

  • Topological preordered spaces

  • 2-spinor geometry

  • Geometry in quantum field theories

  • Covariant quantum mechanics

  • Quantum mechanics over curved manifolds


Staff: Canarutto, Minguzzi, Modugno

Non-olonomous classical mechanics, coupled oscillations in mechanics and acoustics

  • Stability of bicycle

  • Classical models for oscillations in quantum phenomena (neutrino)

  • Vibrating and coupled strings

  • Setting up of in-phase or anti-phase oscillation

  • Beats, third sound, pitches and scales


Staff: Talamucci