Anatoli Polkovnikov

Curriculum Vitae

Employment:

09/01/11 – onwards Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Boston University

09/01/05 – 08/31/11 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Boston University

07/01/03 – 08/31/05 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University

Education:

• 1999-2003 Graduate student at Yale University.
• 2003 Ph.D. thesis: Manifestation of Quantum Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Systems. Scientific advisor Subir Sachdev.

· 1998-1999 Post graduate student at A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

· 1992-1998 Undergraduate and graduate student at St. Petersburg State Technical University:

• 1996 Bachelor degree in physics.
• 1998 Master of Physics with honors (Thesis on Auger recombination in semiconductor quantum wells).
• 1990-1992 Physical Technical School #566 (St. Petersburg, Russia). Graduated with honors.

Teaching

  2000-2003 - Math and science tutor at Yale College.

Courses taught at Boston University:

• PY 410 “Statistical and thermal physics”
  
• PY452, “Quantum Physics II”
  
• PY541, “Statistical Mechanics 1”
  
• PY741, “Solid state physics I”
  
• PY896, “Many-body physics in cold atom systems”
  
• PY742, “Solid state physics II”

Member of the American Physical Society since 2000.

Organization of conferences:

Dynamics and thermodynamics of isolated quantum systems, Organizing committee, KITP, Santa-Barbara, California, Aug. 20th – Aug. 24th 2012

Quantum dynamics in far from equilibrium thermally isolated systems, Coordinator, KITP, Santa-Barbara, California, Aug. 13th  – Oct. 19th 2012

Frontiers of quantum condensed matter physics: light, matter and unusual devices out of equilibrium, Organizing Committee, CUNY, New York, Mar 5th-9th 2012

Dynamics of strongly correlated quantum systems, Director, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, June 21-25, 2010.

Non-equilibrium phenomena in strongly correlated quantum systems, Organizing Committee, ITAMP, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Feb. 10-12 2006.

Awards

Simons Fellowship - 07/2012

Sloan Research Fellowship – 09/2009

US AFOSR Young Investigator Program award 12/2006

Funding

AFOSR YIP: “Dynamics and thermodynamics of many-particle cold atom systems” 12/2006-11/2009

AFOSR “Dynamics and thermodynamics of many-particle cold atom systems” 03/2010-05/2013

ISAT linkages fund grant (joint grant with University of Otago, NZ), 12/06-06/09

Sloan Research Fellowship – 09/2009 – 09/2011

NSF “Non-equilibrium dynamics in closed interacting quantum systems”: 09/2009-09/2012

BSF “Statistical properties of driven thermally isolated systems” (joint grant with Technion, Israel): 09/2011-09/2013

Simons Foundation: Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics (07/2012 - 06/2013)

Students and PostDocs

Luca D’Alessio student (2008 – 2013)

Claudia De Grandi student (2007 – 2011), PostDoc at Yale University since 09/2011

Rafael Hipolito student (2006 – 2010), PostDoc at CUNY Staten Island since 09/2010

Roman Barankov PostDoc (2007 – 2010)

Ippei Danshita PostDoc (2008-2009) PostDoc at Riken Foundation, Japan since 01/2010