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Professor

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi and INFN
via Celoria 16, 20133 MILANO (Italy)
e-mail: gianluca.colo@unimi.it, colo@mi.infn.it
Editor of European Physical Journal A
Editor of International Journal of Modern Physics E

Visiting YITP, Kyoto, 12/22-2/23

 "[...] Yes, the fight
Against the false and the unfair
Was always worth it. So was gardening. Civilise."
W.H. Auden, Voltaire at Ferney

"I should never be able to fulfil what is, I understand, the first duty of a lecturer -- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebook [...]"
V. Woolf, A room of one's own

One poem a week 


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My research interests include the application of quantum many-body theories, mainly to the atomic nuclei but also to other finite Fermi systems: 


    

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Nuclear Energy Density Functionals (EDFs) and link
with ab initio nuclear theory.

  •  Nuclear collective states. 
Giant resonances and low-energy spectroscopy.
The nuclear Equation of State (EoS): 
incompressibility, symmetry energy.  

  •  Magnetic excitations and spin-isospin excitations in nuclei. 
Isospin symmetry. Electromagnetic and weak processes. 
Astrophysical applications: neutron stars. 

  •  Exotic nuclei. Particle-vibration coupling. Cross sections for 
elastic and inelastic excitations. 

  •  Application of nuclear methods to 
electronic systems. 
Orbital-free DFT. 
Phonons and electron-phonon coupling.













 
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  G. Colò