Graduate School in Physics and Astrophysics ------------------------------------------- ANNUAL REPORT ------------------------------------------- Fill with a text editor (without TAB or formatting) Repeat fields for each course as necessary. ------------------------------------------- name: Luca Giacone email: giacone@to.infn.it ciclo: XXV year completed (1,2 or 3): 2 supervisor: Marialuisa Frau ------------------------------------------- GRADUATE SCHOOL COURSES (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) code: title: teacher: hours: ------------------------------------------- COURSES FROM OTHER GRADUATE SCHOOLS (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) school: title: teacher: hours: ------------------------------------------- UNDERGRADUATE COURSES (Laurea Magistrale) (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) title: teacher: hours: ------------------------------------------- SUMMER SCHOOLS, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS (only those attended in the current year) title: LACES 2011 place: GGI, Firenze webpage: http://laces.web.cern.ch/laces/LACES11/index11.html days: 28 November - 16 December 2011 talk or poster (Y/N): N ------------------------------------------- CONFERENCES, WORKSHOP (only those attended in the current year) title: From Dual Models to Strings and Branes place: Torino webpage: http://www.strings.to.infn.it/event.php days: 28 - 29 October 2011 talk or poster (Y/N): N ------------------------------------------- VISITS AND STAGES (only those done in the current year) institution: place: starting date: days: --------------------------------------------------- Research activity/Publications in the current year (max characters 2500) My main research interests are Supersymmetric Field Theories and String Theory. In particular I am working on D-instantons computations with localization techniques in connection with gauge/gravity duality as arising from open/closed string duality in D-brane systems in Type IIB Superstring Theory. Publications: Billo', Frau, Giacone, Lerda Holographic non-perturbative corrections to gauge couplings arXiv: 1105.1869, JHEP 1108 (2011) 007 BE AWARE: research activity and Pubs are not evaluated as didactic credits, but are requested to trace the PhD students' career