Diego Trancanelli

Associate Professor
Dept. of Mathematical Physics (DFMA)
Institute of Physics
University of São Paulo (USP)
São Paulo, Brazil

Email: dtrancan(at)fma.if.usp.br
Phone: +55 (11) 3091-6843

Brief CV

• 2015-2019: Junior member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
• 2013-present: University of São Paulo, Associate Professor (MS5)
• 2011-2013: University of São Paulo, Assistant Professor (MS3)
• 2010-2011: University of Wisconsin Madison, Postdoc
• 2007-2010: University of California Santa Barbara, Postdoc
• 2002-2007: Stony Brook University, PhD

Research interests

• String theory
• AdS/CFT correspondence
• Quantum field theory

My research focuses on various aspects of the gauge/gravity correspondence. I am interested both in more formal aspects (such as the study of supersymmetric observables like Wilson loops) and in more applied ones (such as the study of strongly coupled QFT systems).

Selected publications

• A. Faraggi, L. A. Pando Zayas, G. A. Silva and D. Trancanelli, Toward precision holography with supersymmetric Wilson loops, JHEP 1604 (2016) 053 [arXiv].
• D. Mateos and D. Trancanelli, The anisotropic N=4 super Yang-Mills plasma and its instabilities, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 101601 (2011) [arXiv].
• N. Drukker and D. Trancanelli, A Supermatrix model for N=6 super Chern-Simons-matter theory, JHEP 1002, 058 (2010) [arXiv].
• D. Berenstein and D. Trancanelli, Three-dimensional N=6 SCFT's and their membrane dynamics, Phys. Rev. D 78, 106009 (2008) [arXiv].
• N. Drukker, S. Giombi, R. Ricci and D. Trancanelli, Supersymmetric Wilson loops on S^3, JHEP 0805, 017 (2008) [arXiv].

Popular accounts here (in English, from phys.org) and here (in Portuguese, from Agencia FAPESP) of our recent paper with Pramod Padmanabhan, Soo-Jong Rey, and Daniel Teixeira.

Some local activities

Schools at the ICTP-SAIFR and other places

• Nonperturbative QCD, May 27-June 7, 2013
• Random Geometry and Random Matrices, August 25-September 4, 2014 (poster)
• XIX Swieca School on Particles and Fields, January 31-February 10, 2017
• School on AdS/CMT, March 27-April 7, 2017

Current postdocs

• Edoardo Vescovi, 2016 (FAPESP). Publications

Former postdocs

• Gabriel Weber, 2012 - 2014 (FAPESP) --> Assistant Professor at USP Lorena, Brazil. Publications
• Alberto Faraggi, 2012 - 2014 (FAPESP) --> Conicyt postdoc at PUC Santiago, Chile --> Assistant Professor at UNAB Santiago, Chile. Publications
• Andrea Prudenziati, 2013 - 2016 (FAPESP) --> Postdoc at IIP Natal, Brazil. Publications
• Ricardo Medina, 2016 (visiting professor from UNIFEI)

Current students

• Renato Sanchez Romero, PhD 2018 (CNPq/CAPES)
• Daniel Teixeira Lombelo, PhD 2019 (FAPESP). Publications
• Alexander Meinke, MSc 2019 (DAAD)
• Caio Tiedt, MSc 2019 (CNPq)
• Marcia Tenser, PhD 2020 (CNPq)
• Gabriel Nagaoka, PhD 2021 (CNPq/CAPES)
• Felipe Soares Sa, PhD 2021 (CNPq/CAPES)

Former students

• Dhyan Kuraoka, MSc 2013 (FAPESP) --> changed area.
• Eiser Portilla, MSc 2014 (FAPESP)
• Renato Sanchez Romero, MSc 2014 (CAPES) --> PhD student at USP.
• Anderson Seigo Misobuchi, MSc 2016 (FAPESP) Publications --> PhD student at UT Austin.
• Viktor Jahnke, PhD 2016 (FAPESP) Publications --> Postdoc at UNAM Mexico --> Postdoc at GIST South Korea.
• Gabriel Nagaoka, MSc 2018 (CNPq) --> Exchange student at Uppsala U. (Sweden) --> PhD student at USP
• Felipe Soares Sa, MSc 2018 (CNPq) --> Exchange student at Uppsala U. (Sweden) --> PhD student at USP
• Carlos Bercini, MSc 2018 (CNPq) --> Exchange student at Uppsala U. (Sweden) --> Back to USP --> PhD student at IFT-UNESP/Perimeter Inst. Publications

Iniciação Científica

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• Ciclo de 2013: Anderson Seigo Misobuchi, João Lucas Reis, Jorge de Alvarenga Nogueira, Levy Scalise
• Ciclo de 2014: Fabio Chibana, Henrique Rubira, João Lucas Reis, Levy Scalise, Ricardo Costa Almeida, Rodrigo Voidovic
• Ciclo de 2016: Bruno Murino
• Ciclo de 2017/2018: Marina Ansanelli
• Ciclo de 2018: Ruan Ribeiro

Teaching - Ensino

Undergraduate courses - Cursos de graduação

• 2/2012, 2/2017: Eletromagnetismo I (notas 2/2017)
• 1/2018: Eletromagnetismo II (listas 1/2018)
• 1/2013: Física II para Ciências Moleculares (notas de Lucas Simões da T22)
• 2/2013, 1/2016: Relatividade Geral (notas 1/2016)

Graduate courses - Cursos de pos-graduação

• 2/2014, 2/2015, 2/2016: Quantum Mechanics I
• 1/2012, 1/2013, 1/2015, 1/2016: Quantum Mechanics II
• 2/2011, 2/2017: Introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence (syllabus)
• 1/2017: Introduction to Conformal Field Theory (syllabus)

Outreach - Extensão

• O Mínimo Teórico (projeto da PRCEU-USP)
• Convite à Física: The Greatest Equation Ever, 2011
• Settimana della Lingua Italiana, Il ruolo dello scienziato e la finalità della scienza, Scuola Italiana E. Montale San Paolo, 2013
• Convite à Física: Os Garotos da Rua Panisperna, 2014
• Convite à Física: Grandezas físicas e análise dimensional: da mecânica à gravidade quântica, 2015
• Convite à Física: O Minimo Teorico: Mecanica Classica, 2017
• Convite à Física: O Minimo Teorico: Eletromagnetismo, 2017
• Papos de Fisica Simetria e Escala: a fisica das transições de fase, 2018
• Convite à Física: Simetria e Escala: a fisica das transições de fase, 2018

Updated: August 2018