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Cesare Franchini

Professore ordinario

Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Augusto Righi"

Settore scientifico disciplinare: PHYS-04/A Fisica teorica della materia, modelli, metodi matematici e applicazioni

Didattica

Argomenti di tesi proposti dal docente.

- Machine Learning for Materials: on-the-fly Machine Learning Force Fields (MD), Bayesian optimization (Potential Energy surfaces), Neural Networks, Generative ML algorithms. Development and application to different area of materials science (charge dynamics, hydrogen diffusion, defects in solids, energy materials)

- High-throughput calculations of optical and magnetic properties

- Quantum Magnetism: prediction of unconventional non-collinear spin ordering using first principles methods, many body techniques and Machine Learning

- Correlated and spin-orbit coupled 2D magnets

- Diagrammatic Quantum Monte Carlo: fundamentals, code development,ML-augmented DiagMC

- Electron-phonon interaction: polaron physics, anharmonic effect in using first principles methods and machine learning force field: bulk and surfaces

- Computational Surface Science and computational single atom catalysis