Historical Background
I got my B.Sc. in Molecular Sciences (more about
my undergraduate can be found here; trust me, it's
not as simple as it sounds! ;-) - USP
(University of São Paulo), São
Paulo, Brazil - on August,
1998.
Then, I had to wait for 6 months, so that
I could take the GREs and the TOEFL (which were not being offered - in
Brazil - on that particular year).
After that, on the fall of 1999
(september, 1999) I started my graduate studies here at the Physics Department, Brown University. On the fall of 2001
(september, 2001), I started working under the guidance of Prof. Gerald
S. Guralnik.
Curriculum Vitæ and Resumé
Curriculum Vitæ: [ PostScript | PDF | HTML ]
Resumé: [ PostScript | PDF | PNG ]
Research Interests
[In no particular order...]
- Lattice Quantum Field Theory:
- Quantum Gravity (in its different incarnations):
- M-Theory, SuperString
Theory (NOVA), SUperGRAvity (2001 Les Houches
notes, 2001
Park City Math Institute, NAP),
[SUperSYmmetry
(1999 Les
Houches, Rigid
SUSY Theories, SUSY Primer,
Weinberg's vol 3, Freund's book,
Walk Through SuperSpace
and Encyclopaedia Britannica)];
- Loop
Quantum Gravity (further info at: WikiPedia,
or dialog on QG, or comparison between
Loops and Strings, or QGravity.org),
Spin Foam, Spin Networks,
Random
Surfaces/Geometries, Simplicial Quantum
Gravity; &
- Non-Commutative
Geometry [or DOC, as L. H. Kauffman calls
it; which, in turn, implies celular automata phenomena in
spacetime].
- Mathematics & Mathematical Physics:
- Quantum Field
Theory in Curved Spacetimes (Unruh effect, Hawking
radiation, pseudo-forms ([tensor] densities), etc...);
- Geometric
Calculus (Clifford
Algebras);
- Symmetry Breaking
(more info meaning
of SB,
SB,
SSB,
SB,
phase transitions and number theory,
symmetry and SB,
SSB in GT,
Brief SSB 1 and
Brief SSB 2,
SSB and the particle
physics and cosmology interface charade,
Stock Market Speculation and
SSB with Wilson
Renormalization Group);
- Non-Standard
Analysis (its uses in physics and
its relations to hyperreals);
- Deformation
Quantization;
-
Superanalysis (this subject [and that of supermanifolds]
is connected to what is known as Quantum Geometry; take a
look here for more
interesting information);
- Morse
Theory (and its applications to topology change in phase
transitions);
- Spectral Theory/Analysis (and its applications to boundary
conditions);
- Riemman
Hypothesis and its relations with Quantum Mechanics
(distribution of the eigenvalues of an Hermitian [random]
operator, GUE);
- Quantum Galois Theory (math
w/o math, quantum theory on a
Galois Field); &
- Twistor Theory.
Publications & Talks
- arXiv &
SPIRES HEP:
my EPrints;
- 2006:
- 2005:
- 2004:
- 2003:
- 2002:
- Daniel D. Ferrante, Geometric Calculus and
the Fibre Bundle description of Quantum Mechanics;
- Lattice 2002: Daniel D. Ferrante, "Stationary Phase Monte
Carlo Methods"; [ PS
(1.4Mb) | PDF
(569Kb) ];
- UFC (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brasil -
29Jul02/02Ago02): Daniel D. Ferrante, "Mollified Monte
Carlo (Parts I and II)"; [ PS
(2.9Mb) | PDF
(1.1Mb) ];
- UFC (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brasil -
29Jul02/02Ago02): Daniel D. Ferrante, "Branes: An Introduction
(Parts I and II)"; [ PS
(373Kb) | PDF (308Kb) ];
- Daniel D. Ferrante, J. D. Doll, D. Sabo, Gerald S. Guralnik;
Mollified Monte
Carlo;
- Gerald S. Guralnik, J. D. Doll, Richard Easther, Pinar
Emirdag, Daniel D. Ferrante, Stephen Hahn, Dmitri Petrov and
D. Sabo; Alternative Numerical
Techniques; &
- Daniel D. Ferrante: "Poster on the Mollifier Theory and its
Applications to 0-dim QFTs"; [ PS (1.4Mb) | PDF (729Kb) ].
- 2001:
- Daniel D. Ferrante: "Lattice Quantum Field Theory: A
Constructive Approach"; [ PS
(263Kb) | PDF
(338Kb) ]; &
- Astrophysical Journal Club: Daniel D. Ferrante, "The Effects of
Spacetime on Yang-Mills Theories"; [ PS (268Kb) | PDF (290Kb) ].
- 2000:
- 1999:
- Lattice Quantum Field Theory Group [LATT] of the Department of
Mathematical Physics [DFMA],
Institute of Physics [IF], USP - Brazil: "Teoria Quântica de
Campos - Uma Abordagem Radical na Rede"; [ PS (4.4Mb) | PDF (3.1Mb) ].
- 1998:
- 1997:
- 1996:
- Discussão sobre o Princípio de Mach e Quebra Espontânea de
Simetria (ocorrida na Lista-CECM): ASCII
(30Kb), PS (50Kb) and PDF (22Kb);
- Discussão sobre as Interpretações da Mecânica Quântica (discussão
ocorrida na Lista-CECM, a "mailing list" do Curso de Ciências
Moleculares): PS (144Kb) or PDF (29Kb) - e um adendo em ASCII (1.1Kb), PS (15Kb) ou PDF (2.3Kb);
- Brown
Summer '04 (the courses that I will be teaching);
-
sci.physics.research newsgroup 2-way-gateway - created by myself
hosted at Olympus (this is
the second official (dating from 15Mar02) online repository of the
sci.physics.research newsgroup; follow the link for more
information);
- selected papers... (mostly from the arXiv's,
but not limited to them);
- OpenMath;
- NOVA
(Physics & Math), (PBS, NOVA);
- Advanced Physics Forums;
- Physics Forums;
- The
Net Advance of Physics - a huge collection of tutorials and
reviews on various (mostly advanced) topics in physics;
- Ask Dr. Math (FAQ, College
and Beyond, Formulas
and Selected
Answers) - same as above but for math;
- The Mathematical Atlas;
- Roger Penrose; Princeton Public Lectures on "Fashion, Faith and
Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe": announcement/summary
and streaming
audio;
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change;
- "What do
astrophysics and the world's oldest profession have in
common?";
- "A Word from a
Black Female Relativistic Astrophysicist: Setting the Record
Straight on Black Holes";
- "Open source software
and peer review";
- Helena
M. Á. de Castro (the best math prof I have ever had);
- A. F. R. de
T. Piza (one of the best physics profs I had);
- Henrique
Fleming (the other one! >;-);
- Jorge
L. deLyra (my temporary advisor, right before I came to Brown);
- Elcio
Abdalla (very impressive physics prof);
- João
C. A. Barata (very informative);
- Luís
R. W. Abramo (a fellow brownzilian,
now a prof at USP);
- Maria Cristina
Batoni Abdalla (my undergraduate advisor);
- TIPTOP Jobs On-Line (Dynamic
job list for physicists);
- Theoretical
Particle Physics Jobs Rumor Mill ;
- Astrophysics
Jobs Rumour Mill;
- Ray F. Streater
(King's College) - His "Various Causes in Physics" may be of
some help >;-);
- John Baez (UC
Riverside) - He's got loOots of information dispersed in a
semi-chaotic way! Very worth reading;
- Gerard 't Hooft
(U. Utrecht) - some notes on general relativity that were recently
published by Rinton Press;
- Ben Simons
(Cambridge U.) - high-quality notes on critical/collective phenomena
and other topics in theoretical physics;
- Carlo
Rovelli (Les Universités à Marseille) - Quantum Gravitist (the
draft of his book is pretty good);
-
M. Tuckerman (NYU)
- Statistical Mechanics lectures;
- Chetan
Nayak (UCLA) - on solid-state and many-body theory;
- Mark
Trodden (Syracuse U.) - mathematical methods, including worked out
examples;
-
Paul Abbott (U. Western Australia) - computational physics with Mathematica®;
- The
Mechanical Universe;
-
Curve fitting made easy (The Industrial Physicist) - what's up
with these "chi-square" and "confidence interval" things? Find out
here;
- WebElements.com - an
interactive periodic table with high quality interface and
professional data for each element;
- Periodic
Chart - it also carries health and environmental effects for the
most important elements;
- The C
Book (by Banahan, Brady, and Doran) - a complete C book previously
published by Addison Wesley, now available online;
- Feynman videos -
watch Richard Feynman lecturing as well as giving his personal view on
the universe. pretty neat;
- AddAll.com - don't buy any
book without first comparing the price (over 40+ bookstores);
- MC Hawking's Crib;
- Brown Date;
- The Daily Jolt;
- The Brown Daily Herald;
- The DogEars Network;
- The Brown Star;
- InterActivist Network;
- Google News;
- New York Times;
- Financial Times;
- The Economist;
- The Independent;
- La Stampa;
- El País;
-
Associated Press;
- Fairness and Accuracy in Media; &
- New York Review of Books.
zeus at olympus dot
het dot brown dot edu
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