Nadir El Ariny

MSc Physics (HET) @ EPFL | UniMI | Perimeter Institute | LTF

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

About

Physics, F1, Tennis - In that order. Special mentions: Differential Geometry, Football and Chess!

Experience

  • Teaching Assistant at EPFL

    Teaching assistant for the course Quantum Physics I (PHYS-207) & Analysis IV (MATH-207(d))

  • Core Team - Outreach & Events at Lead The Future Mentorship

    - Developing and implementing strategies to increase program applications; supervising outreach efforts carried out by fellow mentees - Building relationships with universities and professors to promote the program and expand its reach - Overseeing the organization of events in Italy, coordinating other mentees in speaker outreach and event planning

  • Teaching Assistant at EPFL

    Teaching assistant for the course Classical electrodynamics (PHYS-324)

  • Visiting Student at Perimeter Institute

    - Application of the Leave-One-Out Probability Integral Transform (LOO-PIT) to validate posterior models on Planck CMB data in order to investigate the statistical origin of the optical-depth (τ) tension arising from inclusion vs. exclusion of low-ℓ multipole measurements. - Conducted independent study on Bayesian inference, with a focus on Bayesian model evaluation, posterior predictive checks and advanced Monte Carlo sampling techniques. - Supervisors: Prof. Will Percival (Perimeter Institute), Dr. Marco Bonici (University of Waterloo)

  • Hamburg International Summer School – Particles, Strings and Cosmology 2025 at DESY

    - Intensive program for advanced undergraduate and graduate physics students, co-hosted by DESY and the University of Hamburg - Coursework on QCD, Higgs mechanism, BSM physics, Bosonic string theory, Cosmology

  • UNIVERSE+ School on Positive Geometry at Ecole de physique des Houches

    - Selected as a first year master student with complete funding from the Institute of Advanced Technology (Princeton) for a doctoral training on positive geometry and it’s application to particle physics and cosmology. - Lectures, and interactive sessions led by the four UNIVERSE+ principal investigators: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Daniel Baumann, Johannes Henn, and Bernd Sturmfels. Additional contributions from Clément Dupont, Claudia Fevola, Carolina Figueiredo, and Guilherme Pimentel. - Main topics: Cosmological Correlators during Inflation, Spinor-Helicity formalism, Special functions in QFT, Euler Integrals, Algebraic geometry, Homology and Cohomology, Projective Geometry.