Giovanni Miniutti

Giovanni MINIUTTI Last update: 8th February 2002 Personal: Academic Qualification: PhD Student at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", with wide interests in General Relativity and Gravitational Wave Sources, Physics of Compact Objects, High Energy Astrophysics and Spacetime Splitting Techniques. Home Institution: Dipartimento di Fisica Universit� degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 2 - 00185 Roma - Italy   Phone: +39-06-49914350 Fax: e-mail: giovanni.miniutti@roma1.infn.it

Education:

1999	Admission to the PhD at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" to work on "Gravitational Radiation from Perturbed Compact Stars" in collaboration with Prof. Valeria Ferrari
1999	Degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Diploma thesis on "Electric Charge Distributions in Relativistic Magnetosphere" supervised by Prof. Remo Ruffini.Graduated with 110/110 cum laude.

 

Experience:

1998	Member of the International Center of Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA)
1999	Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the III Icra Network Workshop
2000	Member of the EU Network on Sources of Gravitational Radiation
2001	Member of the Specific Program OG51 (INFN) on Gravitational Waves.
2001	Member of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)

 

Research interest (keywords):
General Relativity, Gravitational Waves, Gravitoelectromagnetism, Neutron Satrs & White Dwarfs, Asteroseismology, Accretion

 

Conference Talks and Seminars:

• "Effects of Discontinuities on the Oscillation Spectrum of Neutron Stars", III EU Network Meeting, February 2002, Southampton, UK.
• "Density Discontinuity g-modes of Neutron Stars", meeting of the specific program OG51, INFN, University of Roma "La Sapienza", November 2001, Roma, Italy
• Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Compact Stars", University of Roma "La Sapienza", October 2001, Roma, Italy.
• "Stellar Oscillations in General Relativity and Emission of Gravitational Waves", University of Roma "La Sapienza", May 2001, Roma, Italy.
• The Cotton-York and Simon Tensors in Stationary Spacetimes, IX Marcel Grossman Meeting, July 2-8 2000, Roma, Italy.
• "A comment on the Collapse of a Charged Shell of Dust", IX Marcel Grossman Meeting, July 2-8 2000, Roma, Italy.
• "Kerr Black Hole Magnetosphere", IX Marcel Grossman Meeting, July 2-8 2000, Roma, Italy.

 

Publications