I am an Italian scientist working in the US interested in simulating complex dynamical systems to uncover the deepest secrets of the Universe. I received my PhD from Boston College in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Gabor Kalman. The Thesis title was The Dynamic Structure Functions of Strongly Coupled Binary Charged Systems. This work lead to the important discovery of new features in plasmas composed by more than one species of the charge sign. My PhD research was mostly theoretical, but relied heavily on computer simulations thus, I decided to come to MSU to learn more about computational techniques in plasma physics.
Ongoing Research:
- Computational Plasma Physics: I am the lead developer of Sarkas a comprehensive open-source software suite for non-ideal plasmas aimed at satisfying the needs of the entire plasma community, from beginners in computational physics to experimentalists to seasoned theorists.
- Ultracold Plasmas: We are studying temperature relaxation phenomena in binary ionic mixtures. This work is conducted in collaboration with Prof. Scott Bergeson at Brigham Young University
Publications:
- Sound speed in Yukawa one-component plasmas across coupling regimes
Phys. Rev. E 100, 063206 (2019) arXiv
Luciano G. Silvestri, Gabor J. Kalman, Zoltan Donko, Peter Hartmann, Marlene Rosenberg, Kenneth I. Golden, and Stamatios Kyrkos - Is the Vlasov equation valid for Yukawa plasmas
Physical Sciences and Technology 4, 9-14 (2017) arXiv
Kenneth I. Golden, Gabor J. Kalman, Luciano G. Silvestri - The Dynamical Structure Function of the One-Component Plasma Revisited
Contributions to Plasma Physics 5, 421-427 (2015)
Ihor Korolov, Gabor J. Kalman, Luciano G. Silvestri, Zoltan Donko - Fano-like resonances in strongly coupled binary Coulomb systems
EPL (Europhysics Letters) 109, 15003 (2015) arXiv
Luciano Silvestri, Gabor J. Kalman, Zoltan Donko, Peter Hartmann, Hanno Kaehlert
Education:
- Bs, Physics University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, 2011
- PhD, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2019
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