projects

A collection of everything I'm working on.

research
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Einstein Telescope

The next generation of ground-based GW detection.
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Virgo

Working on the fourth observing run!
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Rehear

A continuously-updating pipeline for GW analysis.
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Fellowship of Clean Code

A group to discuss clean coding practices in!
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LGWA

Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna

hobbies
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Dungeons and Dragons
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Call of Cthulhu

Learning to be a Keeper for Call of Cthulhu.


Working on

At the moment

This is a list of things I’m currently working on, within a timescale around a month. It’s too many! I know.

  1. Working on the multiband paper (analysis of long signals in the SSB frame)
  2. Working on the inclination angle posterior feature and paper for BAYESTAR
  3. DMing a D&D campaign in the West Marches style with Lorenzo
  4. DMing Call of Cthulhu at GSSI (“Dockside Dogs”, start of November)
  5. DMing a D&D campaign based on Frozen Sick with Padova people (november-december 2024)
  6. Training by trail running + aerial silks + free body calisthenics-like strength (also climbing and cycling sometimes)

Will get to

This is a list of tasks that I plan to get to in a timescale of a couple of months.

  1. Helping in the supervision of master’s students about:
    1. upgrades to mlgw_bns
  2. rehear: injection studies with ASTRI + SWIFT
    1. Paper draft
    2. Implementing a simplified model for the IRF of ASTRI
    3. Testing it with a simple emission model
    4. Then, moving towards the full injection, yielding percentages of sources pre-localized well enough
    5. Running the same tests with the O3 replay MDC
  3. Helping as a reviewee of TEOBResumS-DALI
  4. Maintaining GWFish
    1. Making the small interface fixes requested
    2. Updating the pypi release of the code
  5. Cosmological coupling of Black Holes
  6. Working on some weird statistical methods for the BOAT
  7. O4 Virgo: participating in the Rapid Response Team
  8. Helping standardize waveform review tests for the LVK
  9. Improving the NWI’s approach to parameter checking
  10. Organizing sessions on data visualization for the Fellowship of Clean Code <!– 1. Consistent ephemeris computation for all detectors - time shift to implement from the atom interferometry paper, or from Wen+Chen 2010
    1. Enable simulation of DWD and other low-frequency-derivative signals –>
  11. Contributing to the LGWA whitepaper (deadline: end of November)
    1. Writing some preliminary info about localization
    2. Doing some Fisher runs on massive BBH, multiband
    3. Doing a full PE run for a BNS as seen by LGWA
  12. Improving the way early-warning signals are handled and sent to observatories (rehear)
    1. Comparing CTA slewing strategies with divergent pointing
  13. Working on NWI tests
    1. Implementing more of the v5 review tests as well as these ones
  14. Making a study about how Fisher matrix sky localization compares to BAYESTAR localization (for full signals and pre-alerts)
  15. Checking whether the placement of templates according to a greedy algorithm is a good choice for NR informativeness
  16. Checking how fast we can make a truncated template bank for updating inference (rehear)
  17. GWFish long-term things
    1. Making a PR with horizon-finding improvements
      1. Horizon-finding in the case of long-lived signals: when is the optimal time to detect them?
    2. New documentation for waveform generation
    3. Implementing antenna patterns (make tests with comparison to pycbc!)
    4. Implementing Markov chain network duty factor
  18. Making a fit for the phenomenology of hyperbolic encounters as a function of energy and angular momentum
  19. Writing a simple article detailing the science case for multimessenger observations; specifically focusing on what we can get from a combined PE
  20. DWD and NS-WD detectability studies with decihertz GW detectors
  21. Including higher order modes in BAYESTAR for Einstein Telescope
  22. Improving timing in mlgw_bns
  23. Working on cosmology with GWs
  24. Measuring $H(z)$
  25. Tracing small-scale $P(k)$ with BBH
  26. GRB intensity mapping classification
  27. Making a systematic study of the effect of the inclusion of high-order parameters in (BNS) waveforms
  28. Seeing whether the upgraded version of RES-NOVA can measure neutrino mass through delays with failed SNe
  29. Can we build a time-domain evidence integrand for GW inference?
    1. Is it somehow computable from to the SNR TD integrand with the waveform reconstruction?
    2. Can the methodology here be also applied to the hyperbolic analyses of GW190521?
  30. Learning to play bass
  31. Secret project with Filippo
  32. Make a page on this website with matplotlib tips and tricks
  33. Can we include the full-relativistic eleastic medium treatment from Belgacem+24 in a seismic simulation code?
Questions
  1. Can we incorporate modelling uncertainties in GW PE?
  2. What are the localization capabilities for a lunar detector? can we do a PE run for LGWA?
  3. How can we include the Earth’s motion in PE?
    1. Justin Janquart did it based on how it’s done in Iacovelli+22, but only for the 22 mode
  4. How can we train “instant-posterior” models (e.g. DINGO) on longer signals such as BNS ones?
  5. How does jax work?
  6. How does multi-task gaussian process regression work (Harisdau+2018)?
  7. How does DINGO-IS work exactly?
  8. How do the burst search efficiencies compare to matched-filtering SNRs?
  9. What causes the Virgo $1 / \sqrt{f}$ noise?
  10. How does one do injections with BAYESTAR?
  11. Does updating the prior each time fix the Bayes factor multiplication bias described by Isi, Farr and Chatziiannou?

  12. How does the center of the skymap move with time?

  13. How do we do Fisher matrix forecasting with coordinates in the SSB?
  14. What are the necessary improvements to the computing infrastructure to implement rehear?
  15. Real-time reanalysis,
  16. more EW frequency thresholds,
  17. a fast communication system for updates without “polluting” the environment with too many GCNs?
  18. timings

Already did

  1. Reviewing a section of the LGWA whitepaper
  2. Helping on a paper about Lunar gravitational wave detection
  3. Getting the mlgw_bns paper published
  4. Making a presentation on LGWA for the IFAE meeting
  5. Getting access to the Virgo data at EGOs
  6. Making a presentation for how GWFish works
  7. Re-starting the Fellowship of Clean Code
  8. Contributing to the Einstein Telescope Blue Book
  9. Graduating at the Galilean school with a thesis about clean coding practices
  10. Making visualizations for EOB orbits with eob-visualizer
  11. Roughly learning how Stable Diffusion works
  12. Making a presentation for the GSSI science fair about LGWA
  13. Doing peer review
  14. Running Call of Cthulhu at GSSI (so far, “The Haunting”)
  15. Running a TTRPG session with grandma over the holidays
  16. Races
    1. 14K trail race on the 8th of October
    2. Half-marathon on the 19th of November
    3. Rome Marathon on the 17th of March 2023
    4. Via degli Dei on the 13-14th of April