Curriculum Vitae October 2014 Tudor Dan Dimofte Institute for

Curriculum Vitae
October 2014
Tudor Dan Dimofte
Institute for Advanced Study
School of Natural Sciences
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
[email protected]
Phone: +1 440 454-2166
Personal
Date of Birth: 28 September, 1982
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Nationality: United States & Romania
Research Interests
String theory, quantum field theory, topology, and physical mathematics.
Employment
Dec. 2013 Long-term member, Institute for Advanced Study
Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2013 Member, Institute for Advanced Study
Oct. 2010 Junior Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge
Sept. 2010
Postdoc, Max Planck Institut f¨
ur Mathematik
Education
Ph.D. Physics, Caltech, 2010
Thesis: Refined BPS Invariants, Chern-Simons Theory, and the Quantum Dilogarithm
MASt Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, 2005
Essay: Inflation and String Theory
A.B.
Mathematics, Princeton, 2004
Thesis: Bilinear Estimates and the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon Equations
Honors and Awards
2010
Caltech Clauser Prize for doctoral thesis
2009Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge
2006-09 U.S. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
2004-05 Studentship in Mathematics, Trinity College Cambridge
2004
P.A. Greenberg ’77 Prize for outstanding accomplishments in mathematics, Princeton
2003
George Wood Legacy Junior Prize (top academic honor), Princeton
2000
U.S. Presidential Scholar
Grants
2014-18
ERC Support for Frontier Research: Quantum Fields and Knot Homologies
(project no. 335739, PI: Piotr Sulkowski)
Selected Talks
8/2014
6/2014
7/2013
8/2012
7/2012
7/2012
6/2012
6/2011
7/2010
8/2009
5/2008
A Spectral Perspective on Neumann-Zagier, MFO, Oberwolfach
3d N=4 theories, symplectic duality, and knot homology, String-Math 2014, Edmonton
BPS domain walls in 4d N = 2 theories, Aspen Center for Physics
Holomorphic Blocks for 3d SCFT’s, Simons Workshop, Stony Brook
Class R: A User’s Guide, Strings 2012, Munich
Holomorphic Blocks and Stokes Phenomena, String-Math 2012, Bonn
Holomorphic Blocks in 3d, Aspen Center for Theoretical Physics
Chern-Simons Theory with Complex Gauge Group Arbeitstagung, MPIM, Bonn
From 2d to 3d and Wall Crossing to Chern-Simons, Aspen Center for Physics
Refined and Motivic BPS Invariants, Simons Workshop, SUNY, Stony Brook
A hyperbolic state sum model for SL(2, C) Chern-Simons theory, UC Santa Barbara
Teaching and Related
2013-2015 Seminar organizer, IAS
2009-2010 TA, advanced particle theory, Caltech
2008-2009 Graduate seminar organizer, Caltech
2006
TA, Freshman Summer Institute, Caltech
2005-06
TA and head TA, classical mechanics and electromagnetism, Caltech
Other Skills and Interests
Programming: Mathematica, C, C++
Languages: English, Romanian, French; some German and Spanish
Publications
1. Complex Chern-Simons theory at level k via the 3d-3d correspondence, arXiv:1409.0857.
2. 3d-3d Correspondence Revisited, with H.J. Chung, S. Gukov, and P. Sulkowski, arXiv:1405.3663.
3. A Spectral Perspective on Neumann-Zagier, with R .v.d.Veen, arXiv:1403.5215.
4. 3d Superconformal Theories from 3-Manifolds (review article), contribution to special volume of Lett. Math. Phys, to appear.
5. RG Domain Walls and Hybrid Triangulations, with D. Gaiotto and R. v.d.Veen, Adv.
Theor. Math. Phys. 19 (1) (2015), arXiv:1304.6721.
6. 3d Superconformal Theories from 3-Manifolds, contribution to special volume of Lett.
Math. Phys, to appear.
7. K-Decompositions and 3d Gauge Theories, with M. Gabella and A.B. Goncharov, arXiv:1301.0192.
8. Holomorphic Blocks in Three Dimensions, with C. Beem and S. Pasquetti, arXiv:1211.1986.
9. An E7 Surprise, with D. Gaiotto, JHEP 1210 (2012) 129, arXiv:1209.1404.
10. The Quantum Content of the Gluing Equations, with S. Garoufalidis, Geom. Topol. 17
(2013) 1253-1315, arXiv:1202.6268.
11. 3-Manifolds and 3d Indices, with D. Gaiotto and S. Gukov, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys 17
(5) (2013), arXiv:1112.5179.
12. Gauge Theories Labelled by Three-Manifolds, with D. Gaiotto and S. Gukov, Comm. Math.
Phys. 325 (2014), arXiv:1108.4389.
13. Chern-Simons Theory and S-Duality, with S. Gukov, JHEP 1305 (2013) 109, arXiv:1106.4550.
14. Quantum Riemann Surfaces in Chern-Simons Theory, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 17 (3)
(2013), arXiv:1102.4847.
15. Vortex Counting and Lagrangian 3-manifolds, with S. Gukov and L. Hollands, Lett. Math.
Phys. 98 (2011) 225-287, arXiv:1006.0977.
16. Quantum Field Theory and the Volume Conjecture, with S. Gukov, Contemp. Math. 541
(2011), arXiv:1003.4808.
17. Quantum Wall Crossing in N = 2 Gauge Theories, with S. Gukov, Y. Soibelman, Lett.
Math. Phys., Vol. 95, No. 1 (2011) arXiv:0912.1346.
18. Refined, Motivic, and Quantum, with S. Gukov, Lett. Math. Phys., Vol. 91, No. 1 (2010),
arXiv:0904.1420.
19. Exact Results for Perturbative Chern-Simons Theory with Complex Gauge Group, with
S. Gukov, J. Lenells, and D. Zagier, Comm. Num. Thy. and Phys., Vol. 3, No. 2 (2009),
arXiv:0903.2472.
20. Noncompact quantum knot invariants, in Proceedings of the Carg`ese Summer School 2008,
Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Supp.) 136-137 (2009).
21. Type IIB Flux Vacua at Large Complex Structure, JHEP Vol. 9, 064 (2008), arXiv:0806.0001.

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