Dr Rodolfo Russo
Reader in Theoretical Physics
Email: r.russo@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: 020 7882 5810Room Number: G. O. Jones Building, Room 613Website: http://www.strings.ph.qmul.ac.uk/~russo/
Profile
I did my undergraduate studies at the universities of Pavia and Torino, Italy and obtained my PhD from Politecnico di Torino. I was a postdoc at the university of Neuchâtel (1998-200), École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2000-2003) and CERN, Geneva (2004-2005) before joining QMUL in 2006.
My research focuses on String Theory, Quantum Field Theory and the relation between the two. In particular I am currently working on various aspects of the AdS/CFT duality in presence of heavy states and on the eikonal limit of gravitational scattering. Both problems provide interesting insights on black hole dynamics, which has been at centre of my interests in the past few years.
Teaching
I teach the modules "Functional methods in Quantum Field Theory" SPA7024. I am the programme director of the postgraduate taught programmes MSc physics and MSc Euromasters. I am coordinating the master projects modules SPA7012 and SPA7026.
I also offer 3rd year, 4th year and master research projects in the areas of black hole physics, AdS/CFT and string amplitudes.
Research
Research Interests:
My current research focuses on the study of holographic correlators in the AdS/CFT context and in particular on the analysis of the heavy operators representing the microstates of supersymmetric black hole. I have also been systematically finding new exact and smooth supergravity solutions dual to these microstates in the context of the Strominger-Vafa black hole.
More generally, I am interested in how black hole physics can be described within a string or QFT approach, including the study of the gravitational eikonal limit as a tool to describe black hole inspiral in the post-Minkowksian approximation, as well as a way to probe the high energy regime of consistent gravitational theories. I am exploring how amplitude based techniques can help in describing the radiation emitted by black hole binaries.
I have a longstanding interest in perturbative string theory and the mathematical structure of higher loop string diagrams, both in the bosonic and the supersymmetric cases.
Examples of research funding:
Current Grants
- Science and Technology Facilities Council: Amplitudes, string theory and duality, Brandhuber, Buican, Green, Monteiro, Papageorgakis, Perry, Ramgoolam, Russo, White, £890,210 (2020-2023)
- I was the director of BUSSTEPP@50 which was supported by the STFC grant, £105,808 (held at QMUL, Jan-Feb 2021)
Past grants
- INFN (Italy): grant supporting the 2-month programme "String Theory from a Worldsheet Perspective" at the Galileo Galilei institute (2019)
- INFN (Italy): grant supporting the conference "50 Years of the Veneziano Model:
From Dual Models to Strings, M-theory and Beyond" (2018) - Science and Technology Facilities Council: String theory, gauge theory and duality, Berman, Brandhuber, Buican, Papageorgakis, Ramgoolam, Russo, Shigemori, White, £710,337 (2017-2020)
- U.K. coordinator for the "Projet International de Coopération Scientifique” (2009-2012) with the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies at Sorbonne Université in Paris.
- Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (2010-12) “Matrix Models Recursions in Topological Strings and Beyond” to host Sara Pasquetti
- Grant of the Foundation Boncompagni-Ludovisi to host Valeria Gili (2007-2010)
Publications
The list of my publication is available here
- Di Vecchia P, Heissenberg C, Russo R et al. (2022), The eikonal operator at arbitrary velocities I: the soft-radiation limit $nameOfConference
- Ganchev B, Giusto S, Houppe A et al. (2022), AdS
3 holography for non-BPS geometries $nameOfConference
- Čeplak N, Giusto S, Hughes MRR et al. (2021), Holographic correlators with multi-particle states $nameOfConference
- Di Vecchia P, Heissenberg C, Russo R et al. (2021), The eikonal approach to gravitational scattering and radiation at O (G 3) $nameOfConference
- Di Vecchia P, Heissenberg C, Russo R et al. (2021), Radiation reaction from soft theorems $nameOfConference
- Di Vecchia P, Heissenberg C, Russo R et al. (2020), Universality of ultra-relativistic gravitational scattering $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Hughes MRR, Russo R (2020), The Regge limit of AdS
3 holographic correlators $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Russo R, Tyukov A et al. (2020), The CFT6 origin of all tree-level 4-point correlators in AdS3 x S3 $nameOfConference
- Di Vecchia P, Naculich SG, Russo R et al. (2020), A tale of two exponentiations in N = 8 supergravity at subleading level $nameOfConference
- Collado AK, Di Vecchia P, Russo R (2019), Revisiting the second post-Minkowskian eikonal and the dynamics of binary black holes $nameOfConference
- Di Vecchia P, Luna A, Naculich SG et al. (2019), A tale of two exponentiations in N=8 supergravity $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Russo R, Tyukov A et al. (2019), Holographic correlators in AdS3 without Witten diagrams $nameOfConference
- WEN C, Giusto S, RUSSO R (2019), Holographic correlators in AdS3 $nameOfConference
- Čeplak N, Russo R, Shigemori M (2019), Supercharging superstrata $nameOfConference
- Bombini A, Giusto S, Russo R (2019), A note on the Virasoro blocks at order 1/c $nameOfConference
- KOEMANS COLLADO A, Di Vecchia P, RUSSO R et al. (2018), The subleading eikonal in supergravity theories $nameOfConference
- Bena I, Giusto S, Martinec EJ et al. (2018), Asymptotically-flat supergravity solutions deep inside the black-hole regime $nameOfConference
- Bombini A, Galliani A, Giusto S et al. (2018), Unitary 4-point correlators from classical geometries $nameOfConference
- Galliani A, Giusto S, Russo R (2017), Holographic 4-point correlators with heavy states $nameOfConference
- SHIGEMORI M, Bena I, Giusto S et al. (2016), Smooth horizonless geometries deep inside the black-hole regime $nameOfConference
- Galliani A, Giusto S, Moscato E et al. (2016), Correlators at large c without information loss $nameOfConference
- D Appollonio G, Di Vecchia P, Russo R et al. (2016), A microscopic description of absorption in high-energy string-brane collisions $nameOfConference
- Pioline B, Russo R (2015), Infrared divergences and harmonic anomalies in the two-loop superstring effective action $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Moscato E, Russo R (2015), AdS3 holography for 1/4 and 1/8 BPS geometries $nameOfConference
- Magnea L, Playle S, Russo R et al. (2015), Two-loop Yang-Mills diagrams from superstring amplitudes $nameOfConference
- D’Appollonio G, Di Vecchia P, Russo R et al. (2015), Regge behavior saves string theory from causality violations $nameOfConference
- Bena I, Giusto S, Russo R et al. (2015), Habemus superstratum! A constructive proof of the existence of superstrata $nameOfConference
- D’Hoker E, Green MB, Pioline B et al. (2015), Matching the D 6ℛ4 interaction at two-loops $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Russo R (2014), Entanglement entropy and D1-D5 geometries $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Russo R (2014), Superdescendants of the D1D5 CFT and their dual 3-charge geometries $nameOfConference
- D Appollonio G, Di Vecchia P, Russo R et al. (2014), The leading eikonal operator in string-brane scattering at high energy Breaking of supersymmetry and ultraviolet divergences in extended supergravity
- D'Appollonio G, Di Vecchia P, Russo R et al. (2013), Microscopic unitary description of tidal excitations in high-energy string-brane collisions $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Martucci L, Petrini M et al. (2013), 6D microstate geometries from 10D structures $nameOfConference
- Magnea L, Playle S, Russo R et al. (2013), Multi-loop open string amplitudes and their field theory limit $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Russo R (2013), Perturbative superstrata $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Russo R (2012), Adding new hair to the 3-charge black ring $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Russo R, Turton D (2011), New D1-D5-P geometries from string amplitudes $nameOfConference
- Black W, Russo R, Turton D (2010), The supergravity fields for a D-brane with a travelling wave from string amplitudes $nameOfConference
- D'Appollonio G, Di Vecchia P, Russo R et al. (2010), High-energy string-brane scattering leading eikonal and beyond $nameOfConference
- McGarrie M, Russo R (2010), General gauge mediation in five dimensions $nameOfConference
- Giusto S, Morales JF, Russo R (2010), D1D5 microstate geometries from string amplitudes $nameOfConference
- Georgiou G, Gili VL, Russo R (2009), Operator mixing and three-point functions in N=4 SYM $nameOfConference
- Del Debbio L, Kerrane E, Russo R (2009), Mass corrections in string theory and lattice field theory $nameOfConference
- Georgiou G, Gili VL, Russo R (2009), Operator Mixing and the AdS/CFT correspondence. $nameOfConference
- Duo D, Russo R, Sciuto S (2007), New twist field couplings from the partition function for multiply wrapped D-branes $nameOfConference
- Russo R, Sciuto S (2007), The twisted open string partition function and Yukawa couplings $nameOfConference
- Bertolini M, Billo M, Lerda A et al. (2006), Brane world effective actions for D-branes with fluxes $nameOfConference
- Magnea L, Russo R, Sciuto S (2006), Two-loop Euler-Heisenberg effective actions from charged open strings $nameOfConference
- Lee S, Russo R (2005), Holographic cubic vertex in the pp-wave $nameOfConference
- Petrini M, Russo R, Tanzini A (2004), The AdS/CFT correspondence in the PP-wave limit $nameOfConference
- Russo R, Tanzini A (2004), The duality between IIB string theory on PP-wave and N=4 SYM: a status report $nameOfConference
- RUSSO R, Di Vecchia P, Tanzini A et al. (2004), The three-string vertex and the AdS / CFT duality in the PP-wave limit $nameOfConference
- Chu CS, Khoze VV, Petrini M et al. (2004), A note on string interaction on the pp-wave background $nameOfConference
- Russo R, Sciuto S (2003), Twisted determinants on higher genus Riemann surfaces $nameOfConference
- Chu CS, Petrini M, Russo R et al. (2003), String interactions and discrete symmetries of the pp-wave background $nameOfConference
- Chu CS, Petrini M, Russo R et al. (2003), String interactions and discrete symmetries of the pp-wave background $nameOfConference
- Chu CS, Russo R, Sciuto S (2002), Remarks on the calculations of charged open string amplitudes: the 1-loop tadpole $nameOfConference
- Armoni A, Russo R (2001), Noncommutative gauge theories and the cosmological constant $nameOfConference
- Chu CS, Russo R (2001), Multiloop noncommutative open string theory $nameOfConferenceDOI: 10.1063/1.1419324
- RUSSO R, Zaffaroni A, Petrini M (2001), N=2 Gauge Theories and Systems with Fractional Branes $nameOfConference
- Frizzo A, Magnea L, Russo R (2001), Systematics of one-loop Yang-Mills diagrams from bosonic string amplitudes $nameOfConference
- Chu CS, Russo R (2001), Multiloop noncommutative open string theory and their QFT limit $nameOfConference
- Chu CS, Russo R (2001), Multiloop noncommutative open string theory and their QFT limit $nameOfConference
- Armoni A, Russo R (2001), Noncommutative gauge theories and the cosmological constant $nameOfConference
Supervision
This is not an exhaustive list and I would be happy to discuss other project possibilities.
| Project Title |
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| Black holes in String theory |
I'm currently the PhD advisor of Marcel Hughes and supervised the PhD projects of
- Dario Duò (graduated in 2009)
- William Black (graduated in 2012)
- Sam Playle (graduated in 2014)
- Emanuele Moscato (graduated in 2017)
- Nejc Ceplak (graduated in 2020)
I co-supervised the work of Arnau Koemans Collado (graduated in 2020), Moritz McGarrie and David Turton (graduated in 2011)