Dr Cesare Tronci

Biography

2012 - present: Lecturer at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

2008 - 2011: Postdoc in Geometric Analysis at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH

2005 - 2008: PhD in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London, UK

1998 - 2004 Laurea in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, IT

Research Interests

Lie symmetry methods for collisionless kinetic equations and their moments;

Geometric modeling in plasma physics and soft matter;

Hamiltonian/Lagrangian systems on Lie groups;

Inviscid fluid flows and hybrid kinetic-fluid models

Publications

Geometric dynamics on the automorphism group of principal bundles, F. Gay-Balmaz, C. Vizman, C. Tronci, J. Geom. Mech., to appear

A Lagrangian kinetic model for collisionless magnetic reconnection, C. Tronci, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, 55 (2013), no. 3, 035001

Collisionless kinetic theory of rolling molecules, D.D. Holm, V. Putkaradze, C. Tronci, Kinet. Relat. Models, 6 (2013), no. 2, 429–458

Vlasov moment flows and geodesics on the Jacobi group, F. Gay-Balmaz, C. Tronci, J. Math. Phys., 43 (2012), no. 12, 123502

Hybrid models for perfect complex fluids with multipolar interactions, C. Tronci, J. Geom. Mech., 4 (2012), no. 3, 333–363

Multiscale turbulence models based on convected fluid microstructure, D.D. Holm, C. Tronci, J. Math. Phys., 53 (2012), no. 11, 115614

Euler-Poincaré approaches to nematodynamics, F. Gay-Balmaz, T.S. Ratiu, C. Tronci, Acta Appl. Math. 120 (2012), no. 1, 127–151

Euler-Poincaré formulation of hybrid plasma models, D.D. Holm, C. Tronci, Comm. Math. Sci. 10 (2012), no.1, 191–222

The helicity and vorticity of liquid-crystal flows, F. Gay-Balmaz, C. Tronci, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A 467 (2011), no. 2128, 1197–1213

Reduction theory for symmetry breaking with applications to nematic systems, F. Gay-Balmaz, C. Tronci, Phys. D 239 (2010), no. 20-22, 1929-1947

Hamiltonian approach to hybrid plasma models, C. Tronci, J. Phys. A 43 (2010), no. 37, 375501

Double bracket dissipation in kinetic theory for particles with anisotropic interactions, D.D. Holm, V. Putkaradze, C. Tronci, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A 466 (2010), no. 2122, 2991-3012

Geodesic Vlasov equations and their integrable moment closures, D.D. Holm, C. Tronci, J. Geom. Mech. 1 (2009), no.2, 181-208

Singular solutions of a modified two-component Camassa-Holm equation, D.D. Holm, L. Ó Náraigh, C. Tronci, Phys. Rev. E 79 (2009), no. 1, 016601

Geodesic flows on semidirect-product Lie groups: geometry of singular measure-valued solutions, D.D. Holm, C. Tronci, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A 465 (2009), no. 2102, 457–476

Emergent singular solutions of nonlocal density-magnetization equations in one dimension, D.D. Holm, L. Ó Náraigh, C. Tronci, Phys. Rev. E 77 (2008), no. 3, 036211

Geometry of Vlasov kinetic moments: a bosonic Fock space for the Schouten concomitant, J. Gibbons, D.D. Holm, C. Tronci, Phys. Lett. A 408 (2008), no. 23, 4184-4196

Kinetic models of oriented self-assembly, D.D. Holm, V. Putkaradze, C. Tronci, J. Phys. A 41 (2008), no. 34,  344010

Geometric gradient-flow dynamics with singular solutions, D.D. Holm, V. Putkaradze, C. Tronci, Phys. D 237 (2008), no. 22, 2952-2965

Vlasov moments, integrable systems and singular solutions, J. Gibbons, D.D. Holm, C. Tronci, Phys. Lett. A 372 (2008), no. 7, 1024–1033

Singular solutions for geodesic flows of Vlasov moments, J. Gibbons, D.D. Holm, C. Tronci, Math. Sci. Res. Inst. Publ. 55 (2008) 199–220

Geometric dissipation in kinetic equations, D.D. Holm, V. Putkaradze, C. Tronci, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sér. I 345 (2007), no. 5, 297–302

Formulation of the relativistic moment implicit particle-in-cell method, K. Noguchi, C. Tronci, G. Zuccaro, G. Lapenta, Phys. Plasmas 14 (2007), no. 4, 042308

A high frequency H-mode coupled cavity linac for low and medium energies, U. Amaldi, A. Citterio, M. Crescenti, A. Giuliacci, C. Tronci, R. Zennaro, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 579 (2007), no. 3, 924-936

Concept study and design of a low-medium β accelerating structure, U. Amaldi, A. Citterio, M. Crescenti, A. Giuliacci, C. Tronci, R. Zennaro, Nucl. Phys. B Proc. Supp. 172 (2007) 277-279

Teaching

Geometric Mechanics (MATM032)

Geometric Mechanics (MAGIC080)

Submitted papers