Prof. dr. Francesco Giacosa
Email: fgiacosa@ujk.edu.pl
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: Shahryjar 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
PhD student: Arthur
Vereijken
Master student(s): vacant
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
PhD student: Milena
Piotrowska
Master student: Tomasz
Berlinski
Activities in summer winter term
2021/2022 and summer term 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
Future activity in Frankfurt summer
term 2022
Decays in QM and QFT,
planned between July-September 2022.
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:
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:
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: fgiacosa@ujk.edu.pl