Associate Professor
Piero Giovanni Luca Porta-Mana
Field of work
If you're a student and have questions or curiosities about physics, maths, or probability theory; or if you're interested in cutting-edge methods in these disciplines, and maybe work on some project on them – then let's have a chat! Drop me a line.
Please see https://portamana.org for research areas, CV, publications, teaching material.
- Undergraduate physics: trying a new approach to give students a broader understanding of modern physics, and at the same time prepare them for an easier transition into specialized fields like continuum thermomechanics and fluid dynamics, relativity theory, nuclear physics, numerical-simulation methods.
Draft of lectures notes: The Seven Wonders of the World
- MSc course: ADA511: Data Science and data-driven engineering
Draft of lecture notes: Foundations of Data Science
Research interests and activities in:
- general relativity
- continuum mechanics & thermodynamics
- quantum theory
- Bayesian probability theory, decision theory, machine learning
- statistical mechanics
- differential geometry (especially visual approaches to it)
Please see https://portamana.org for research areas, CV, publications, teaching material.