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Gian Mario Manca

Education
  • Bachelor degree (cum laude) in Physics, Pisa University (2003)
  • Master degree (cum laude) in Theoretical Physics, Pisa University (2004)
  • PhD in Physics, Parma University (2007)
Research Interests
  • Numerical Relativity
  • Analytical modeling (Post-Newtonian, Effective Field Theory) of astrophysical gravitational-wave sources
  • Gravitational-wave data analysis
Professional Experience
  • NASA ORAU Post-Doctoral Fellow - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (2007-present)
  • Guest Scientist as Della Riccia Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. Garching. Munich. Germany. (2007)
Selected Awards
  • Della Riccia Fellowship (2007)
Selected Publications
  1. Gian Mario Manca, Luca Baiotti, Roberto De Pietri, Luciano Rezzolla, 2007. Dynamical non-axisymmetric instabilities in rotating relativistic stars. Class.Quant.Grav. 24:S171-S186.
  2. Luigi Del Debbio, Gian Mario Manca, Haralambos Panagopoulos, Apostolos Skouroupathis, Ettore Vicari, 2006. The Spectrum of SU(N) gauge theories at theta not equal 0. PoS LAT2006:045. (Presented at 24th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2006), Tucson, Arizona, 23-28 Jul 2006.)
  3. Luca Baiotti, Roberto De Pietri, Gian Mario Manca, Luciano Rezzolla, 2007. Accurate simulations of the dynamical barmode instability in full General Relativity.Phys.Rev.D 75:044023.
  4. Luigi Del Debbio, Gian Mario Manca, Haralambos Panagopoulos, Apostolos Skouroupathis, Ettore Vicari, 2006. Theta-dependence of the spectrum of SU(N) gauge theories. JHEP 0606:005.
  5. Luigi Del Debbio (CERN) , Gian Mario Manca, Ettore Vicari (Pisa U.), 2004. Critical slowing down of topological modes. Phys.Lett.B 594:315-323.

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