Address: Boston University, Physics Department

590 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215

Phone: 617-358-4393

Employment:

· 09/01/11-Current 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 Yale University, PhD in Theoretical Physics
Thesis: Manifestation of Quantum Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Systems. Advisor: Subir Sachdev

· 1998-1999 A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, Post Graduate Student

· 1992-1998 St. Petersburg State Technical University B.S. in Physics; M.S. in Physics (with honors)

· 1990-1992 Physical Technical School #566, St. Petersburg, Russia, Graduate with honors

Awards:

· Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics-07/2012

· Sloan Research Fellowship-09/2009

· US AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award-2/2006

Grant Funding:

Active

1. ARO “Microscopic approaches to non-equilibrium thermodynamics and information”, joint with Marcos Rigol (PennState), 09/2014-08/2017.

2. AFOSR “Dynamics and thermodynamics of many-particle cold atom systems” 05/2013-04/2016

3. NSF “Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Interacting Quantum Many-Body Systems”, together with Anders Sandvik: 08/2012-07/2015

4. NSF “Non-equilibrium dynamics in closed interacting quantum systems”: 09/2012-08/2015

5. BSF “Statistical properties of driven thermally isolated systems” (joint grant with Technion, Israel): 09/2011-09/2015

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6. Simons Foundation: Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics: 07/2012-06/2013

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

8. Sloan Research Fellowship: 09/2009-09/2011

9. International Sciences and Technology linkages fund grant (joint grant with University of Otago, New Zealand), 12/2006-06/2009

10. AFOSR “Dynamics and thermodynamics of many-particle cold atom systems” 03/2010-04/2013

11. AFOSR Young Investor Program (YIP): “Dynamics and thermodynamics of many-particle cold atom systems” 12/2006-11/2009

Presentations: Over 100 invited talks, seminars, colloquia at domestic and international conferences and research institutions. Over 10 short term courses and tutorials at international schools.

Selected recent presentations:

· Out of equilibrium physics. Five lecture course, Les Houches pre-doctorate school on manipulation of degenerate quantum gases, Les Houches, France 09/2013

· Phase space representation of quantum dynamics. Three lecture course in Boulder Summer School on disorder and quantum dynamics, Boulder, CO, 07/2013

· Quantum ergodicity. Three lecture course in a school on thermalization: from glasses to black holes, ICTS, Bangalore, India, 06/2013

· Kibble-Zurek Mechanism and Universality of Quantum and Classical Dynamics Near Continuous Phase Transitions. Invited talk, International Conference on Statistical Mechanics: StatPhys25, Seoul, Korea, 07/2013

· Non-equilibrium thermodynamic relations in driven systems. Invited talk, APS March meeting, Baltimore, 03/2013

· Thermalization, Universal Dynamics and Dynamical Phase Transitions in Non-equilibrium Systems. Blackboard lunch seminar, Program on non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in thermally isolated systems, KITP, UCSB, 08/2012

· Dynamics and thermodynamics in low dimensional interacting cold atom systems. Tutorial, APS March meeting, Boston, 02/2012

· Geometric response and universality of slow quantum dynamics. Invited talk, “New directions in ultracold atoms”, Aspen, Colorado 01/2012

· Quantum quenches in thermally isolated systems. Tutorial, Many-body dynamics in closed systems. Satellite workshop of BEC 2011, Barcelona, Spain 09//2011

· Universal energy fluctuations in driven thermally isolated systems. Invited talk, International workshop on integrability and its breaking in strongly correlated and disordered systems, ICTP, Trieste 05/2011

Publications: Over 80 publications in refereed journals.

Students:

Luca D’Alessio, Graduate Student (PhD 2013)
Claudia De Grandi Graduate Student (PhD 2011)
Rafael Hipolito Graduate Student (PhD 2010)
Tiago Souza Graduate Student (current)
Marin Bukov Graduate Student (current)
Shainen Davidson Graduate Student (current)
Peters Grisins Visiting Graduate Student from Univ. of Vienna (2013)
Tatsuhiko Ikeda Visiting Graduate Student, Univ. of Tokyo (2012-2013)
Clemens Neuenhahn Visiting Graduate Student, LMU Munich (2011)

Postdoctoral Fellows:

M. Tomka (2014 - )
Luca D’Alessio (2013 - ) joint with M. Rigol (PennState)
Michael Kolodrubetz (2012 -)
Ippei Danshita (2008-2009) now Assistant Professor, Yukawa Institute, Japan
Roman Barankov (2007-2010)

Organization of conferences:

Frontiers of quantum condensed matter physics: light, matter and unusual devices out of equilibrium, Organizing committee, CUNY, New York Mar. 25-28, 2013
Dynamics and thermodynamics of isolated quantum systems, Organizing committee, KITP, Santa-Barbara, California, Aug. 20-24, 2012
Quantum dynamics in far from equilibrium thermally isolated systems, Coordinator, KITP, Santa-Barbara, California, Aug. 13-Oct. 19, 2012
Frontiers of quantum condensed matter physics: light, matter and unusual devices out of equilibrium, Organizing Committee, CUNY, New York, Mar 5-9, 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

Referee for: Science, Nature (including Nature Physics, and Nature Communications), Physical Review (A, B, Letters), Review of Modern Physics, Advances in Physics, Annals of Physics, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Statistical Mechanics

Grant Reviewer for: National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Army Research Office (ARO), Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), European Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK)