BIMSA > Nicolo Piazzalunga
Postdoc Nicolo Piazzalunga

Group: Algebraic Geometry

Office: A3-4-103

Email: npiazza@bimsa.cn

Research Field: Mathemaical Physics, Algebraic Geometry

Education Experience

  • 2012 - 2016      International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)      Mathematical Physics      Ph.D      Dissertation: Real topological string theory      (Supervisor: Angel Uranga)
  • 2010 - 2012      Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)      Theoretical Physics      M.Sc.      Dissertation: Discrete gauge symmetries from D-brane models in String Theory      (Supervisor: Angel Uranga)
  • 2007 - 2010      Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)      Physics      B.Sc.      Dissertation: Minimizing states for interacting gases      (Supervisor: Matteo Novaga)

Work Experience

  • 2025 -      Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications      Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 2022 - 2025      Rutgers The State University of New Jersey      Postdoctoral Associate      New High Energy Theory Center
  • 2019 - 2022      Uppsala University      Postdoctoral Fellow      Division of Theoretical Physics
  • 2016 - 2019      The State University of New York at Stony Brook      Research Assistant Professor      Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

Publication

  • [1] DE Diaconescu, N Piazzalunga, Coulomb branch localization, quasimaps, and surface counting in Calabi--Yau fourfolds, arXiv, 2508.11512 (2025)
  • [2] N Nekrasov, N Piazzalunga, Global magni4icence, or: 4G Networks, SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications, 20, 106 (2024)
  • [3] N Piazzalunga, The one-legged K-theoretic vertex of fourfolds from 3d gauge theory, arXiv, 2306.12405 (2023)
  • [4] L Cassia, N Piazzalunga, M Zabzine, From equivariant volumes to equivariant periods, Adv.Theor.Math.Phys., 27(4), 961-1064 (2023)
  • [5] M Del Zotto, N Nekrasov, N Piazzalunga, M Zabzine, Playing with the index of M-theory, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 396(2), 817-865 (2022)
  • [6] N Nekrasov, N Piazzalunga, M Zabzine, Shifts of prepotentials (with an appendix by Michele Vergne), SciPost Physics, 12(5), 177 (2022)
  • [7] N Nekrasov, N Piazzalunga, Magnificent four with colors, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 372(2), 573-597 (2019)
  • [8] KS Narain, N Piazzalunga, A Tanzini, Real topological string amplitudes, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(3), 1-23 (2017)
  • [9] H Hayashi, N Piazzalunga, AM Uranga, Towards a gauge theory interpretation of the real topological string, Physical Review D, 93(6), 066001 (2016)
  • [10] N Piazzalunga, AM Uranga, M-theory interpretation of the real topological string, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(8), 1-24 (2014)

 

Update Time: 2025-11-26 17:00:09