Paolo Cotta-Ramusino

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN, sezione di Milano

and also

Unione Scienziati per il Disarmo - USPID
Landau Network - Centro Volta, Como

photo Born 1948. Doctor Degree (Laurea) in Physics 1971 at Università degli Studi di Milano. Married in 1971 with two daughters.  

Professor in Mathematical Physics (Mathematical Methods of Physics).

Present teaching activities

(in Italiano: comprende dispense e note per studenti)

Previous Positions
Associate Professor in Mathematical Physics at Università degli Studi di Milano, 1993-2000 

Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics at Università degli Studi di Trento, 1988 - 1993.

 Visiting Professor in Mathematics at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, 1990/91.

 Research Associate at CERN, Geneva, 1988.

 Researcher in Theoretical Physics at Università degli Studi di Milano, 1981 - 1987.

Postdoctoral positions and fellowships: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 1980 and 1981; Freie Universität Berlin, 1979; Università degli Studi di Milano, 1971 - 1978. 

Research Activities
Topological Quantum Field Theories in any dimension, BF theories, Cohomology of imbedded loops, Higher dimensional knots.

 Links, knots and quantum groups.

 Differential geometrical aspects of string and field theories, Virasoro and Krichever-Novikov algebras.

 Anomalies in Quantum field theory and their differential geometrical interpretation.

 Foundational aspects of Quantum Mechanics.
 


List of selected publications

Past and Present Teaching Activities
Mathematical Methods of Physics: complex analysis and functional analysis.

Differential Geometry in Mathematical Physics: differentiable manifolds, Lie groups, principal bundles and their connections, Dirac operators.

Calculus.

Dipartimento di Fisca, Università degli Studi di Milano
Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano ITALY
Ph. + 39 02 58357 277
Fax: + 39 02 58357 480

and also

 Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Milano
 Via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano ITALY

email:cotta@mi.infn.it