CURRICULUM VITAE
October 2000

Personal Data

Name and surname: Federico Farchioni.
Sex: male.
Citizenship: Italian.
Date and place of birth: 18/3/1967, Amatrice (Rieti, Italy).
Marital status: married.

Present academic position:
post-Doc position at DESY theory division, Hamburg, Germany.

Office address:
DESY, theory division, Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 - Hamburg (Germany).

Office telephone number: +49 (40) 8998-3447
FAX number: +49 (40) 8998-2777

Electronic mail:
farchion@mail.desy.de

Home address:
Goosacker 11, D-22549 Hamburg (Germany).
 
 

I. Education and Academic Degrees
 

i) Education

• Undergraduate studies in Physics,

University of Pisa, 1985 - 1991.
• PhD studies:

University of Pisa, 1992 - 1995.
Supervisor: Professor A. Di Giacomo.

ii) Languages

• Italian (mother tongue), English (good level), German (elementary level).

iii) Academic Degrees

• Graduate cum laude in Physics,

University of Pisa, March 1992.
Thesis supervised by Professor A. Di Giacomo; title: ``Topological properties of 2-d $CP^{N-1}$ models on the lattice''
• Ph. D., University of Pisa, November 1995.

Supervisor: Professor A. Di Giacomo; title: ``Perfect actions and operators on the lattice''.

II. Previous Positions, Grants and Funds

• Postdoctoral position at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, February 1996 - September 1997, grant from the Foundation ``Angelo della Riccia'' (Italy).
• Hilf-Assistent contract at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Bern (March 1996 - August 1997).
• Postdoctoral position at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, October 1997 - March 1998, grant from the Fund for the the promotion of scientific research in Austria (project P11502-PHY).
• Postdoctoral position (fellowship) at DESY, theory division, Hamburg, October 1999 - September 2001.

 

 
 
 

III. Teaching Experiences

• Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Bern (Switzerland): exercise lectures of Quantum Theory I (March 96 - August 96).
• Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Bern (Switzerland): exercise lectures of Quantum Field Theory II (September 96 - February 97).
• Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Bern (Switzerland): exercise lectures of Quantum Field Theory I (March 97 - August 97).

IV. Main Research Field

Lattice Quantum Field Theory. Topological properties of 2d models and SU(N) gauge theories on the lattice, topological structure of the QCD vacuum. Perfect actions of gauge theories with interacting fermions: the Schwinger model, QCD. Chiral symmetry on the lattice. Spectrum of the Dirac operator. Super-symmetric Yang-Mills gauge theory on the lattice. Monte Carlo numerical simulations of lattice quantum field models.
 
 

V. Publications

1. A. Di Giacomo, F. Farchioni, A. Papa and E. Vicari, ``The topological susceptibility of the 2-d O(3) sigma model'', Phys. Lett. B 276 (1992) 148.
2. A. Di Giacomo, F. Farchioni, A. Papa and E. Vicari, ``Topological susceptibility on the lattice: the 2-d O(3) sigma model'', Phys. Rev. D 46 (1992) 4630.
3. F. Farchioni and A. Papa, ``Topological charge on the lattice: the 2-d CP$^{N-1}$ model'', Phys. Lett. B 306 (1993) 108.
4. F. Farchioni and A. Papa, ``Heating and small-size instantons in the O(3)-$\sigma$ model on the lattice'', Nucl. Phys. B 431 (1994) 686.
5. M. D'Elia, F. Farchioni and A. Papa, ``Scaling and topology in the 2-d

O(3)-$\sigma$ model on the lattice with the fixed point action'', Nucl. Phys. B 456 (1995) 313.
6. F. Farchioni, P. Hasenfratz, F. Niedermayer and A. Papa, ``The absence

of cut-off effects for the fixed point action in 1-loop perturbation theory'', Nucl. Phys. B 454 (1995) 638.
7. B. Allés, M. Beccaria and F. Farchioni, ``Testing the heating method with perturbation theory'', Phys. Rev. D 54 (1996) 1044.
8. M. D'Elia, F. Farchioni and A. Papa, ``Renormalization group flow and fixed point of the lattice topological charge in the 2-d O(3) sigma-model'', Phys. Rev. D 55 (1997) 2274.
9. M. Beccaria, B. Allés and F. Farchioni, ``Coherent State path-integral simulation of many particle systems'', Phys. Rev. E 55 (1997) 3870.
10. F. Farchioni and V. Laliena, ``The fixed point action for the Schwinger model: a perturbative approach'', Nucl. Phys. B 521 (1998) 337.
11. F. Farchioni and V. Laliena, ``Properties of the fixed point lattice Dirac operator in the Schwinger model'', Phys. Rev. D 58 (1998) 054501-1.
12. F. Farchioni and A. Papa, ``Instanton classical solutions of SU(3) fixed point actions on open lattices'', Phys. Rev. D 58 (1998) 054502-1.
13. F. Farchioni, C.B. Lang and M. Wohlgenannt, `` Chiral properties of the fixed point action of the Schwinger model'', Phys. Lett. B 433 (1998) 377.
14. F. Farchioni, I. Hip and C.B. Lang, ``Wilson, fixed point and Neuberger's lattice Dirac operator for the Schwinger model'', Phys. Lett. B 443 (1998) 214.
15. F. Farchioni, I. Hip, C.B. Lang and M. Wohlgenannt, ``Eigenvalue spectrum of massless Dirac operators on the lattice'', Nucl. Phys. B 549 (1999) 364.
16. F. Farchioni, I. Hip and C.B. Lang, ``Effects of topology in the Dirac spectrum of staggered fermions'', Phys. Lett. B 471 (1999) 58.
17. F. Farchioni, Ph. de Forcrand, I. Hip, C.B. Lang and K. Splittorff, ``Microscopic universality and the chiral phase transition in two flavor QCD'', Phys. Rev. D 62 (2000) 014503.

VI. Preprints

1. F. Farchioni, ``Leutwyler Smilga sum rules for Ginsparg-Wilson lattice fermions'', hep-lat/9902029.

 

VII. Proceedings

1. F. Farchioni and V. Laliena, ``The fixed point action of the Schwinger model'', Lattice '97, Nucl. Phys.  B (Proc. Suppl.) 63 (1998) 907.
2. F. Farchioni and A. Papa, ``Fixed point actions in SU(3) gauge theory: surface tension and topology'', Lattice '97, Nucl. Phys.  B (Proc. Suppl.) 63 (1998) 910.
3. F. Farchioni, I. Hip, C.B. Lang and M. Wohlgenannt, ``Spectrum of the fixed point Dirac operator in the Schwinger model'', Lattice '98, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 73 (1999) 939.
4. F. Farchioni, I. Hip and C.B. Lang, `` Comparing lattice Dirac operators with Random Matrix Theory'', Lattice '99, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 83 (2000) 482.

VIII. Attendance to International Seminars and Schools

• The Forty Second Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews (Scotland), ``High Energy Phenomenology'', August 1993.
• Italian Meeting of Theoretical Physics of Elementary Particles ,

Cortona (Italy), June 1994.
• Italian Meeting of Theoretical Physics of Elementary Particles ,

Cortona (Italy), June 1995.
• Italian Meeting of Theoretical Physics of Elementary Particles ,

Cortona (Italy), May 1996.
• Lattice '97, XV International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory,

Edinburgh (Scotland), July 1997.
• 37th International Week for Nuclear and Particle Physics, Schladming (Austria), ``Broken symmetry'', March 1998.
• Lattice '98, XVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory,

Boulder (Colorado), July 1998.
• VIELAT98, 8th Workshop on Lattice Field Theory, Vienna (Austria), September 1998.
• 38th International Week for Nuclear and Particle Physics, Schladming (Austria), ``Geometry and Quantum Physics'', January 1999.
• Lattice '99, XVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory,

Pisa (Italy), July 1999.
• Lattice 2000, XVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory,

Bangalore (India), August 2000.
 
 

IX. Seminars
 

• ``Scaling properties and topological aspects in the 2-d $\sigma$ model on the lattice with the fixed point action''; Italian Meeting of Theoretical Physics of Elementary Particles, Cortona (Italy), June 1995.
• ``Perfect actions and operators on the lattice'', Ph. D. thesis seminar, Institute of Physics of the University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy), November 1995.
• ``The fixed point action of the Schwinger model''; Lattice '97, XV International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Edinburgh (Scotland), July 1997.
• ``Renormalization group fixed point action for the Schwinger model''; Institute for theoretical Physics, University of Graz (Austria), December 1997.
• ``The fixed point action for lattice gauge theories''; 37th International Week for Nuclear and Particle Physics, Schladming (Austria), March 1998.
• ``Chiral properties of the fixed point action for lattice gauge theories'; Physics Department of the Boston University, Boston (USA), July 1998.
• ``Spectrum of the fixed point Dirac operator in the Schwinger model''; Lattice '98, XVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Boulder (Colorado), July 1998.
• `` Fixed Point and Neuberger's Lattice Dirac Operator for the Schwinger Model: Spectrum and Fluctuations''; VIELAT98, 8th Workshop on Lattice Field Theory, Vienna (Austria), September 1998.
• ``Chiral symmetry in lattice gauge theories''; Institute for theoretical Physics, University of Graz (Austria), January 1999.
• ``Applications of random matrix models to lattice gauge theories''; Institute for theoretical Physics, University of Bern (Switzerland), June 1999.
• ``Ginsparg-Wilson fermions and Random Matrix Theory'', John von Neumann Institute for Computing, Jülich (Germany), May 2000.
• ``Random Matrix Theory and QCD'', DESY, Hamburg (Germany), July 2000.
• ``Verifying the SUSY Ward identities on the lattice''; Lattice 2000, XVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Bangalore (India), August 2000.