Astroparticle Physics PhD Defenses

Friday 26 Jul 2019, 09:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Ex-ISEF/Building-Library (GSSI)

Ivan De Mitri (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) and INFN)

Public Defense of Doctoral Dissertations

2019 Summer Session

09:00 → 10:00 First simultaneous measurement of low-energy pp-chain solar neutrinos and prospects for CNO neutrino detection in Borexino

Speaker: Daniele Guffanti (GSSI)

gff-Borexino-defence.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Discussion

Defense Committee:
Ivan De Mitri (GSSI-L'Aquila), Andrea De Simone (SISSA-Trieste), Fernando Ferroni (GSSI-L'Aquila), Francesco Fidecaro (Univ. Pisa), Francesco Vissani (GSSI-L'Aquila)

Substitutes: Elisabetta Baracchini (GSSI-L'Aquila), Pasquale Blasi (GSSI-L'Aquila), Giulia Pagliaroli (GSSI-L'Aquila)

External Reviewers:
Carlos Peña Garay (Canfranc Laboratory, Spain),
Riccardo Brugnera (Università di Padova)

Advisors: Matteo Agostini (Technical University Munchen, Germany), Nicola Rossi (INFN LNGS)

11:00 → 12:00 Squeezed states of light generation for shot noise limited interferometric measurements in the next generation of gravitational waves detectors

Speaker: Imran Khan (GSSI)

PhDDefense_Imran.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Discussion

Defense Committee:
Ivan De Mitri (GSSI-L'Aquila), Andrea De Simone (SISSA-Trieste), Fernando Ferroni (GSSI-L'Aquila), Francesco Fidecaro (Univ. Pisa), Francesco Vissani (GSSI-L'Aquila)

Substitutes: Elisabetta Baracchini (GSSI-L'Aquila), Pasquale Blasi (GSSI-L'Aquila), Giulia Pagliaroli (GSSI-L'Aquila)

External Reviewers:
Matteo Barsuglia (Université Paris Diderot - APC, France), Gianluca Gemme (INFN Genova), Fulvio Ricci (Università di Roma "La Sapienza")

Advisor: Viviana Fafone (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")

14:00 → 15:00 Development of new approaches for optical aberrations control in gravitational wave interferometers

Speaker: Lorenzo Aiello (GSSI)

Slides_defence_Aiello.pptx

15:00 → 16:00 Discussion

Defense Committee:
Ivan De Mitri (GSSI-L'Aquila), Andrea De Simone (SISSA-Trieste), Fernando Ferroni (GSSI-L'Aquila), Francesco Fidecaro (Univ. Pisa), Francesco Vissani (GSSI-L'Aquila)

Substitutes: Elisabetta Baracchini (GSSI-L'Aquila), Pasquale Blasi (GSSI-L'Aquila), Giulia Pagliaroli (GSSI-L'Aquila)

External Reviewers:
Giampietro Cagnoli (ILM Lyon - France) , Francesco Fidecaro (Università di Pisa) , Ettore Majorana (INFN Rome)

Advisor: Viviana Fafone (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")
Co-advisor: Alessio Rocchi (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)