Newcastle University

Donatello Gallucci - BSc in Physics and Advanced Technologies
Applied Mathematics

Contact Information

• Address:
  PhD 6
  School of Mathematics & Statistics
  Herschel Building
  Newcastle University
  Newcastle upon Tyne
  NE1 7RU
• Email: donatello.gallucci@ncl.ac.uk
• Telephone: 0191 222 8586
• Research Groups:

  Quantum Fluids

• My supervisors are Dr Nick Proukakis and Prof. Carlo Barenghi

Research Interests

Finite Temperature modelling of Bose Einstein Condensates.

Fluctuations in quasi-one-dimensional weakly interacting Bose gas.

Bose-Einstein condensates in disorder potentials.

Publications

Quantitative study of quasi-one-dimensional Bose gas experiments via the stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation S. P. Cockburn, D. Gallucci and N. P. Proukakis, Phys. Rev. A 84, 023613 (2011).

Talks

• Postgraduate Forum, Newcastle University - 12th October 2011: Introduction to BEC.
• Newcastle Superfluids Group Seminar - 29th July 2011: Bose-Einstein condensates in disorder potentials.
• 20th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'11), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Erzegovina - 14th July 2011: Fluctuations in quasi-one-dimensional Bose gases via the stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
• Durham-Newcastle Durham-Newcastle Postgraduate Afternoon of Talks 2011 - 31st March 2011.
• Applied Mathematics Internal Seminar, Newcastle University - 23rd March 2011: Stochastic Modelling of Bose-Einstein Condensation.
• Newcastle Superfluids Group Seminar - 24th January 2011 : GPE in the 1D-3D crossover regime (Informal Board Talk).
• Postgraduate Forum, Newcastle University - 10th November 2010: Optical laser vs. Atom laser.
• Newcastle Superfluids Group Seminar - 18th October 2010 : Quantum transport of impurity through a weakly interacting BEC (Informal Board Talk).
• Postgraduate Forum, Newcastle University - 19th May 2010: Weird things happen at very low temperatures.

Awards

• IOP - Student Travel grant: (July 2011)
• EPSRC grant for Ph.D. funding for 3 years (March 2009 - March 2012)

Conferences, Meetings and Workshops

• FINESS (Finite-Temperature Non-Equilibrium Superfluid Systems) held in Heidelberg September 2011 (Poster presented).
• 20th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'11), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Erzegovina - 14th July 2011 (Presentation)
• Quantum transport in dilute gases, Benasque, Spain - 4th-10th July 2011 (Poster Presented)
• 42nd Annual DAMOP Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia - 13th - 17th June 2011 (Poster presented).
• Durham-Newcastle Postgraduate Afternoon of Talks - 31st March 2011, Newcastle University (Presentation).
• LASERFEST - A National Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Laser - 2nd November 2010, Glasgow.
• UK Network at the Interface between Cold-atom and Condensed Matter Physics held at St Andrews 9th-10th September 2010 (Poster presented).
• UK Network at the Interface between Cold-atom and Condensed Matter Physics held at Durham 17th-18th September 2009.
• FINESS (Finite-Temperature Non-Equilibrium Superfluid Systems) held in Durham 14th-17th September 2009.

Summer Schools

• Physics By The Lake, UK Graduate Summer School in Condensed Matter Theory (Organised by EPSRC/IOP), July 2010 (Poster presented).

Membership and Academic Responsibilities

• Member of the American Physical Society (APS), 2011-2012, and the Institute of Physics (IOP), 2011-2012.
• Co-organiser Postgraduate Forum, Newcastle University, (2011)
• Tutorial Assistant: Maple Sessions and CBAs, Newcastle University (2010)
• Maths Aid Tutor, Newcastle University, (2011/12)