Giordano Cattani ­ Curriculum Vitae
Personal details Date of Birth:
5th February 1983
Nationality: Italian
Office address:
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Department of Physics
Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 1 00133, Rome (Italy). GRID room, corridor C0.
Home address:
Via dei Monti di Primavalle, 262/A 00167 Rome (Italy).
Telephone: +39 06 7259 4036 (office)
+39 339 82.76.195 (mobile)
+39 06 61.47.102 (home)
E­mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Present education:
Master degree in Physics
Present work position: Ph.D. student in High Energy Physics at University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
Professional goal:
To work as a researcher in Physics, mainly in the area of experimental high energy physics.
Education •
Nov 2008 – Present PhD student in Physics at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Supervisor: Prof.ssa Anna Di Ciaccio.
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May 2008
Master degree (Laurea Specialistica) in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude.
Thesis: “L’esperimento ATLAS al collisore LHC del CERN: commissioning dei rivelatori RPCs con raggi cosmici e studi Monte Carlo di eventi supersimmetrici nel modello mSUGRA”, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Supervisor: Prof.ssa Anna Di Ciaccio.
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February 2006
First­level degree (Laurea Triennale) in Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Final Grade: 107/110. Thesis: “Equalizzazione e caratterizzazione di un settore di calorimetro elettromagnetico a campionamento in piombo e fibre ottiche scintillanti.” Supervisor: Prof.ssa Annalisa D’Angelo.
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July 2002
Secondary School Diploma in Science, I.T.I.S. A. Einstein, Rome (Italy)
Final Grade: 100/100.
Teaching activity •
June 2008 ­ July 2008
Contract teacher for a 10 hours course in Physics at the I.I.S. “Cartesio ­ Luxemburg”, Rome (Italy). Classes: I A, I B.
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June 2008 ­ July 2008 Contract teacher for a 10 hours course in Physics at the I.I.S. “Cartesio ­ Luxemburg”, Rome (Italy). Class: II B.
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June 2008 ­ July 2008 Contract teacher for a 10 hours course in Math at the I.I.S. “Cartesio ­ Luxemburg”, Rome (Italy). Classes: IV A, IV B, IV LB.
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June 2008 ­ July 2008 Contract teacher for a 8 hours course in Physics at the I.T.I.S. “A. Einstein”, Rome (Italy). Classes: II A, II B, II C, II D.
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July 2008 Contract teacher for a 10 hours course in Math at the L.L.S. “E. Torricelli”, Rome (Italy). Classes: III C, III D.
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July 2009
Contract teacher for a 8 hours course in Physics at the I.I.S. “Cartesio ­ Luxemburg”, Rome (Italy). Classes: II B.
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July 2009
Contract teacher for a 10 hours course in Physics at the I.I.S. “Cartesio ­ Luxemburg”, Rome (Italy). Classes: IV A, IV B.
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July 2009
Contract teacher for a 10 hours course in Physics at the I.I.S. “Cartesio ­ Luxemburg”, Rome (Italy). Classes: I A, I B.
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July 2009
Contract teacher for a 10 hours course in Math at the I.I.S. “Cartesio ­ Luxemburg”, Rome (Italy). Classes: IV A, IV B.
Publications and notes 1. G. Cattani, Large­scale performance studies of the Resistive Plate Chamber fast tracker for the ATLAS first­level muon trigger, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (2009), doi:10.1016/j.nima.2009.06.053.
2. G. Aad et al., Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment ­ Detector, Trigger and Physics, arXiv:0901.0512.
3. E. Solfaroli et al., First cosmic ray results of the RPC commissioning in the ATLAS cavern, Nucl. Phys. B Proc. Suppl. 177­178 (2008) 335.
Talks
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G. Cattani, The Resistive Plate Chambers of the ATLAS Experiment: Performance Studies, Roman Young Researchers Meeting 2009, Roma, Faculty of Science, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” , July 21st 2009
Posters
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G. Cattani, Large­scale performance studies of the Resistive Plate Chamber fast tracker for the ATLAS first­level muon trigger, Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, 11th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, La Biodola, Isola d’Elba (Italy), May 24th ­ 30th 2009.
Conferences and Workshops •
Workshop, SuperB IV, Villa Mondragone Congress Center, Monte Porzio Catone (Italy), November 13th ­ 15th 2006.
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RPC Week, Domus San Francesco, Tuscanica (Italy), March 5th ­ 6th 2007.
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II Physics Workshop ATLAS Italia, Udine (Italy), November 22nd ­ 23rd 2007.
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V Workshop Italiano sulla Fisica p­p ad LHC, Perugia (Italy), January 30th – February 2nd 2008.
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Workshop sui Monte Carlo, la Fisica e le Simulazioni ad LHC, Frascati National Laboratori , February 18th ­ 20th 2008.
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Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie (IFAE) 2009 ­ VIII Edizione, Bari ­ Italia, 15th ­ 17th April 2009.
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Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics ­ XI Pisa Meeting on advanced detectors, La Biodola, Isola D’Elba ­ Italia, 24th ­ 30th May 2009.
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III Physics Workshop ATLAS Italia, Bologna ­ Italia, 16th ­ 17th June 2009.
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Roman Young Researchers Meeting 2009, Roma ­ Italia, 21st July 2009.
Schools •
I Scuola per utenti INFN della GRID, CNAF, Bologna (Italy), November 26th ­ 29th 2007.
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The XIV LNF Spring School “Bruno Touschek” in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN, 11th ­ 15th May 2009.
Prizes •
Premio Studenti Meritevoli, 2004 ­ 2005, Faculty of Science, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
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Premio Studenti Meritevoli, 2006 ­ 2007, Faculty of Science, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
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Assegno per le Attività di Tutorato, 2007 ­ 2008, Faculty of Science, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
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Premio di Laurea Magistrale “Sebastiano e Rita Raeli” for the best 300 students of the University
of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 2008.
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PhD Studentship, MIUR.
Skills Computer:
Scientific analysis packages: PAW, ROOT
Languages and Applications: C, C++, FORTRAN, Turbo Pascal, LaTeX, HTML spreadsheets and presentation software.
Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows.
Certificates: European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL).
Languages:
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Italian ( mother tongue)
English:
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August 2001 ­ Scot­Ed Courses, Edinburgh ­ level: Upper Intermediate
August 2000 ­ Blackrock College, Dublin ­ level: Upper Intermediate
Personal Qualities Outgoing, self­critical and very self­motivated, capable of working in teams, extremely active.
Interested in Pure and Applied Natural Science, Technology, Computer Science, Languages, Music and Travelling.
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