Stefano Forte

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Dipartimento di Fisica
Università di Milano
via Celoria 16
I-20133 Milano, Italy
forte@mi.infn.it
Phone: +39-02-50317276
Fax:   +39-02-50317480

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Piazza E.Ferravilla 3
I-20129 Milano, Italy
Phone:+39-02-36534846






Vita

I have been a graduate student at M.I.T, a postdoc in Saclay, and a CERN fellow. I have been a staff physicist with INFN from 1990 to 2002, in Torino and Rome. Since January 2003 I am full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Milan, where I currently serve as a member of the academic board. I have been a visiting professor in Barcelona, a visiting fellow in Edinburgh and at Ecole Polytechnique, and I am a visiting lecturer at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and a scientific associate of the Discovery Center of the Niels Bohr Institute. I have played some role in past particle physics facilities as a member of the SPS committee at CERN from 2001-2004 and as a convenor of the HERA-LHC workshop from 2004 to 2008; on present experiments as a member of the steering group of the PDF4LHC  workshop; and on possible future facilities as a member of the steering committee of the LHeC . My collaborators include Guido Altarelli in Rome and CERN, Richard Ball in Edinburgh, José Ignacio Latorre in Barcelona, and Giovanni Ridolfi in Genova.

Research Interests

My research is mostly focussed on the theory of  strong interactions, perturbative QCD, currently of great interest because of the needs of physics at the LHC. An extended effort has gone into small x resummation: the development of computational techniques needed to describe the interactions of nucleons at high energy. As a spokesperson of the NNPDF collaboration, I am pursuing a novel approach to the determination of the parton distributions which encode the structure of the nucleon.
I have also worked on various non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theory: on `anomalies', i.e. the quantum breaking of a classical symmetry; on  `fractional statistics', i.e. 2+1 dimensional particles which are neither bosons nor fermions; and on the structure of renormalization flows for four-dimensional quantum field theories.
A full list of publications can be obtained from SPIRES.

Teaching

Fisica Moderna, Meccanica Quantistica    (Quantum Mechanics I,II)
Teoria delle Interazioni Fondamentali    (Theoretical Particle Physics)



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