Andrej Mesaros: Curriculum Vitae

Andrej Mesaros
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics
Cornell University
526 Clark Hall
142 Sciences Dr
Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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+1 607 255 9684
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Personal Information
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: February 16th 1982.
Citizenship: Serbian
Employment and Education
September 2014, postdoc position with Prof. Eun-Ah Kim at LASSP, Cornell University.
May 2011 - September 2014, postdoc position with Dr. Ying Ran at Department of Physics, Boston
College.
October 2010 - April 2011, postdoc position with Prof. Jan Zaanen at Lorentz Institute for Theoretical
Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
September 2006 - October 2010, PhD studies with Prof. Jan Zaanen — Lorentz Institute for Theoretical
Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Graduated on the 6th of October 2010. Ph.D. thesis:
Dislocations in Stripes and Lattice Dirac Fermions
October 2001- July 2006, Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia, M.S. Physics. Diplomathesis: Full Symmetry Implementation in Multi-Orbit Single-Particle Models, advisor Prof. M. Damnjanovi´c.
Presentations
Talks
Correlated Phases in quarter doped Honeycomb Lattice, contributing talk APS March Meeting, March 2014.
A classification of symmetry enriched topological phases with exactly solvable models, contributing talk APS
March Meeting, March 2013.
Changing topology by knotting in the three-dimensional Toric Code, contributing talk APS March Meeting,
March 2013.
Dislocations and their braiding in topological insulators, contributing talk APS March Meeting, March 2012.
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Dislocations in Graphene, Cuprates and Topological Insulators, seminar at Department of Physics, Boston
College, March 2011.
Electronic states of graphene grain boundaries, contributing talk APS March Meeting, March 2011.
Local electronic liquid crystallinity and topological defects, application to high Tc cuprate STM data, contributing talk APS March Meeting, March 2010.
Magnetism in Graphite, invited talk at Applied Physics department of Eindhoven University of Technology, April 2011.
Quantum liquid crystals in high-Tc superconductors, invited talk “Discovery of the Week”, Leiden University, December 2010.
Gravitational parallel transport and Berry phases of Dirac fermions in graphene containing dislocations and
disclinations, FOM Veldhoven Meeting, The Netherlands, January 2010.
Defects in Graphene, seminar at Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University,
November 2009.
Posters
Changing topology by knotting in the three-dimensional Toric Code, Correlated Electron Systems, Gordon
Research Conference and Seminar, Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, June 2012.
Defects in Graphene, Trends in Theory, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, May 2009.
Dislocations in Graphene, FOM Veldhoven Meeting, The Netherlands, January 2009.
Magnetoconductance in Graphene Rings with Dislocations, FOM Veldhoven Meeting, The Netherlands,
May 2007.
Teaching Experience
Advanced Theory of Quantum Mechanics, Master course by Prof. Peter Denteneer, semesters: summer
2009, and winter 2008, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Theory of Condensed Matter, Master course by Prof. Jan Zaanen and Dr. David Santiago, semesters:
summer 2008, winter 2007, and summer 2007, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Astronomy Program at Science Center Petnica, university level lectures in physics and mathematics to
gifted highscool pupils, seminars from 2001. to 2006., Petnica, Serbia.
Relevant Activities
August 2009 - November 2009, Three-month visit to the group of Prof. Eun-Ah Kim, Laboratory of
Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
September 2006 - October 2010, participated in several national conferences in the Netherlands (FOM@Veldhoven
meetings, DRSTP Trends in Theory symposiums)
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International Conferences and workshops
March 2014, APS March Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
January 2014, Theory Winter School: Topological Phases of Condensed Matter, National High Magnetic
Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida.
March 2013, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
August 2012, Innovations in Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems: School and Workshop, ICTP
Trieste, Italy.
June 2012, Correlated Electron Systems, Gordon Research Conference and Seminar, Mount Holyoke,
Massachusetts.
March 2012, APS March Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
April 2011, 100th Anniversary of Superconductivity, Lorentz Center workshop, Leiden.
March 2011, APS March Meeting, Dallas, Texas.
March 2010, APS March Meeting, Portland, Oregon.
August 2008, 25th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Amsterdam.
July 2007, Low-D Quantum Condensed Matter, Amsterdam Summer Workshop.
February 2007, Graphene, Lorentz Center, Leiden.
International Summer Schools
August 2007, Participated in The INSTANS Summer School, Interdisciplinary Statistical and Field Theory
Approaches to Nanophysics and Low-dimensional Systems, University of Oxford, UK.
July 2005, Participated in The European Summer University, The Challenge of Quantum Mechanics, Strasbourg, France.
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December 2003, Finished the course “The Physics of Quantum Information”, by Dr. Caslav
Brukner,
Prof. at University of Vienna, Austria (given in Belgrade).
August 2002, Participated in The Gamow’s Odessa Astronomical Summer School for Young Scientist “Astronomy and Beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Astrobiology”, Odessa, Ukraine.
Honors and Awards
December 2004, The Award and one year Scholarship of the “Dr. Djordje Živanovi´c” fund for the best
two students of Faculty of Physics, Belgrade.
December 2003, The Scholarship of The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade, “15 Million Dinars for
the Best 500 Students in Serbia and Montenegro”.
October 2003 - July 2006, The Scholarship of Foundation for Development of Youth in Science and Arts.
June 1997, First Prize at the National Serbian Chemistry Competition “Science to the Young”.
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References
Prof. Ying Ran
Department of Physics
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Ave
02467 MA, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
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+1 617 552 6397
+1 617 552 8478
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www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/people/ying_ran
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+416 978 5193
+416 978 2537
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www.physics.utoronto.ca/∼ybkim
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+31 (0)71 527 5506
+31 (0)71 527 5511
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http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/∼jan
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+1 (607) 254 5340
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http://eunahkim.ccmr.cornell.edu/
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+7 495 638 4506
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http://www.mp.msisa.ru/
Prof. Yong-Baek Kim
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
60 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A7
Prof. Jan Zaanen
Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Leiden
Niels Bohrweg 2
2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
Prof. Eun-Ah Kim
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics
Cornell University
507 Clark Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Prof. Sergei I. Mukhin
Department for Theoretical Physics and
Quantum Technologies
Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloys
Moscow 119049, Russia
Last updated: September 28, 2014