Filippo Colomo

Theoretical Physics Group
c/o INFN, and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze

Research interests:

• Theoretical/mathematical physics:
  
  • Quantum field theory methods in statistical mechanics
    
  • Quantum integrable models; exactly solvable models
    
  • Applications to combinatorics
    
  • `Limit shape' phenomena
    

Research activity:

• Referred papers
  
• Other works (books, proceedings, etc.)
  
• Selected talks
  

GGI activity:

• GGI post-graduate school, SFT - Lectures on Statistical Field Theories, February 6-17, 2023.
  
• GGI Workshop, Randomness, Integrability and Universality, April 18-June 3, 2022.
  
• SFT-Paris-2019, post-graduate school, Lectures on Statistical and Condensed Matter Field Theory, September 16-27, 2019.
  
• GGI Workshop, Statistical Mechanics, Integrability and Combinatorics, May 11-July 3, 2015.
  
• GGI Conference, Lattice models: exact methods and combinatorics, May 18-22, 2015.
  
• GGI Conference, Random Interfaces and Integrable Probability, June 22-26, 2015.
  

Special Issue of J. Phys. A:

• Limit Shapes and Fluctuations in Statistical Physics
  

INFN Colloquia:

• Past events
  
• Next event
  

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Philosophy and Physics:

• Past events
  
• The Birth of String Theory, Conference, Florence, May 18-19, 2007
  
• The Birth of String Theory, Historical book, Cambridge University Press (2012)
  
• The Birth of String Theory, Miscellanea (Collected material, articles, reviews, related books, etc.)
  
• Next event
  

Teaching:

• Complementi di Metodi Matematici per la Fisica (a partire dal 2019-20)
  
• Metodi Matematici per la Fisica Teorica (fino al 2019)
  
• Dottorato in Fisica:
  
  • "Introduzione ai modelli di matrici aleatorie"
    
  • "Introduzione ai modelli integrabili"
    
• Argomenti di tesi (Laurea e Dottorato)
  
• Studenti
  

National and international grants and research networks:

• INFN Scientific Initiative SFT (Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory)
  
• FP7-IRSES programme QICFT (Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Quantum Computation)

Upcoming events:

• The multiple facets of the six-vertex model
  ENS de Lyon, October 31-November 4, 2022
  
• DIMERS closing conference
  Sorbonne Université, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie (Jussieu), July 10-13, 2023
  
• Geometry, Statistical Mechanics, and Integrability
  IPAM, UCLA, Los Angeles, March 11- June 14, 2024
  
• Correlation functions of quantum integrable systems, in honor of A. G. Izergin, on occasion of its 75th aniversary
  Euler International Mathematical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, first scheduled on June 2020, and then postponed to better times...
  

Info:

• How to reach the Department of Physics
  

Miscellanea:

• Sign and publicize the petition No First Use, Never Any Use of Nuclear Weapons
  
• Ben Wieland data and pictures on the limit shape of large Alternating Sign Matrices
  
• Updates and errata web page for the book The Birth of String Theory, by A. Cappelli, E. Castellani, F. Colomo, P. Di Vecchia (eds.), Cambridge University Press (2012) [further info]
  
• My personal forecast on the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy
  
• An artist I like: Fernando Cucci
  

Filippo Colomo
INFN, Sezione di Firenze
Via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto F.no (FI), Italy

Phone: +39-055-4572 325
Fax: +39-055-4572 364
e-mail: filippo.colomo (at) fi.infn.it
webpage: http://theory.fi.infn.it/colomo

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