Constantly under construction... (Updated: November 26, 2012)

Contact

Research

Interests

• Holographic Principle & Gauge/Gravity Correspondence (AdS/CFT)
• Strongly Correlated Many-Body-Systems in and out of equilibrium
• Quark-Gluon-Plasma and Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Thermal QFT at Strong Coupling & non-zero Charge Densities
• Topological Phases & Transport Phenomena
• String Theory, Condensed Matter Physics, Mathematical Physics

Publications

• on INSPIRE
• on the arXiv

Selected invited talks

• Parity-Violating Hydrodynamics & Replacing the Entropy Argument at Mextrings 2012 (Mexico City, Mexico, 2012)
• Hydrodynamics, AdS/CFT Correspondence, and the Ridge at the INT workshop The "Ridge" Correlation in High-Energy Collisions at RHIC and LHC (Seattle, WA, 2012).
• Strongly coupled field theories through the holographic lense in the INT Special Seminar at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, 2011)
• Sum rules from an extra dimension within the KITPC program: AdS/CFT and Novel Approaches to Hadron and Heavy Ion Physics (Beijing, China, 2010)
• Fermions in a holographic p-wave superfluid at the Imperial College String Seminar (London, UK, 2010)
• Lectures on flavor superfluidity & superconductivity at the Fifth Aegean Summer School (Adamas, Milos Island, Greece, 2009)
• AdS/CFT overview talk at the EMMI-workshop: Quarks, Hadrons & Phases of QCD (St.Goar, Germany, 2009)
• Hydrodynamics, quasinormal modes & spontaneous symmetry breaking at the Fluid/Gravity Workshop (Munich, Germany, 2009)

Teaching

• recent Lectures & Exercises
• KITP tutorial on Thermal Green's functions from AdS/CFT
• co-supervision of PhD students, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (2011-present)
• co-supervision of two diploma students, LMU Munich, Germany (2005-2008)
• tutorials on "Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers IV" (one semester, two groups), University of Wuerzburg, Germany (2005)
• tutor for mechanics lab (two semesters, three groups each semester), UNM Albuquerque, NM, USA (2002/2003)
• designed a lab experiment and tutorial for astrophysics course, University of Wuerzburg, Germany (2001/2002)

Resources

Here are some files and links I find useful and want to share.

Physics