Fabrizio Nesti

Coordinate

University of L'Aquila

Office:	First floor (Physics Department)
Phone:	+39 0532 437065
Email:	nesti-at-aquila-dot-infn-dot-it
GPS:	42°2.10'N 13°21.05'E

Education

Degree in Physics, 1992	-	University of Pisa, Italy
Ph.D. Physics, 1996	-	SISSA, Trieste, Italy

Research Interests

• High Energy Physics, Beyond the Standard Model.
  • Unification: GUT - Flavour symmetry
  • LHC: Low scale Left-Right symmetry
• Gravity:
  • Large distance modifications - Exact solutions - Dark Matter
• Together: enlarging the gauge group of gravity
  • Graviweak unification(s) - Larger groups - Algebraic spinors

Most of my papers are available from the Spires HEP Database. You may also check my CV.

Other activities and info

• I worked at the startup of the JHEP scientific journal, designing the typographical style, setting up the publising procedure and later working as system administrator.
• I participated in the grant application and then coordinated some of the development of the european projects TIPS and InDiCo, of which the CERN conference subsystem is the most notable product. These aimed at going beyond the current scenario of scholarly publishing by developing integrated systems to manage publications, conference announcements and seminar recordings. The Torii portal is sometimes still online. The InDiCo conference subsystem, backed up by CERN, has succedeed in estabilishing a good centralized repository of conferences.

• Programming: TeX (JHEP style), object-oriented Perl (rewriting of the JHEP journal), JAVA (TIPS and INDICO), UML (for analysis).
• System administration: mainly Linux, OSX, Solaris, HP-UX; Database administration: Postgres, MySQL; Version control: CVS.
• Numerical analysis: Monte-carlo (mainly simulated annealing), Mathematica (symbolic calculus for gravity, data fitting for GUT, collider data analysis).