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Dr. Mihai Bondarescu
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My home in Romania
My
deepest secrets
Research
To make a long story
short,
I'm a physics grad student applying for jobs worldwide. During my Ph.D
years, I've been playing with black holes and string theory while
mentoring and helping several several students get fellowships on the
side. I like both teaching and independent research and tend to be more
independent them my peers both in science and personal life.
Teaching & TA-ing
-- Ph237
- Gravitational Waves with Kip S Thorne .
It's worth seeing this web page. We have high resolution
movies of every class and all the reading & homework we used. All
lectures are also published on DVDs.
I pushed Kip to do this at the very beginning and he opened this TA
positon for me and made me the 2nd autor.
--Ph 1 Lab with David Politzer [Nobel Prize 2004] and Paul Skerritt
-- Summer
school in
General Relativity organized and taught in August 2003 Bucharest,
Romania
-- Gravitational
Waves - a series of 14 graduate level lectures organized and taught
jointly with my little
sister and Greg Daues at Louisiana State University December 2003-
January 2004.
-- 8 three-hours lectures on General Relativity and String Theory - Lecture series organized by LIGA AC at
Politehnica University, Timisoara in March 2004
-- String Theory for High-School Students with Anton Kapustin. This
lecture series was part of UCI's Cosmos Program
-- A few lectures on modern physics taught Grigore Moisil Informatics Highschool, Timisoara, Romania - September 2004
--Ph 135c
- Undergraduate Sting Theory, with Tristan McLauglin and Michael Schulz
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Publications:
Science
-- Mihai Bondarescu, Miguel Alcubierre, Edward Seidel,
Embeddings of BH surfaces in flat 3D space -
Class.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 375-392
-- Kip S. Thorne,
Mihai Bondarescu, Yanbei Chen - Gravitational Waves published at http://elmer.tapir.caltech.edu/ph237
and as a DVD
series.
-- Mihai
Bondarescu, Kip
S. Thorne, A New Family of Light Beams and Mirror Shapes for Future
LIGO Interferometers Phys.Rev. D74 (2006)
-- Mihai
Bondarescu, Simple solutions to the Einstein Equations in spaces
with unusial topology - hep-th 0505057 awarded an honorable mention at
the GRG essay contest and an invitation for publication in IJMPD. Here
are the other winners.
-- Mihai
Bondarescu, Orbifolds in Numerical Relativity - gr-qc 0603047 - Submitted. I was very pleased to
receive 4 emails about this paper and be invited to give a talk about
it - all within 22 hours of publication.
-- Mihai
Bondarescu, Oleg Kogan, Yanbei Chen - Optimal mirrors for Advanced
Ligo Interferometers
-- Jayashree Balakrishna,
Ruxandra Bondarescu, Gregory Daues, Mihai Bondarescu, Numerical
Simulations of Oscillating Soliton Stars: Excited States in Spherical
Symmetry and Ground State Evolutions in 3D - accepted by Phys.Rev.D
-- Andrew P.
Lundgren, Ruxandra Bondarescu, David Tsang, Mihai Bondarescu ,
Finite Mirror Effects in Advanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave
Detectors - accepted by Phys.Rev.D
Science Popularization &
Miscellaneous
-- Mihai Bondarescu - Teoria Relativitatii din alta
perspectiva, Evrika, 1999
-- Matei Stefan, Mihai Bondarescu, Glita Sebastian - Matematici
Speciale, Mirton 1999
-- Mihai Bondarescu, Iuliana Vatui, Elena Caraba - Relativitate si mai
departe 'Archimede', accepted
Conferences & Talks:
-- EU Meeting, AEI, December
1999
-- Fruhjahrstagung der DPG, 26-29 March 2001, Bonn, Germany
-- 2 hours talk at FU Berlin, Germany
-- Talks at Universitatea de Vest Timisoara, Romania
-- GR 16, 15-21 July 2001, Durban, South Africa
(prize for the best student
talk.)
[GR16 was the most important GR conference worldwide in 2001]
-- NR2001, 24-27 July 2001, Krugersdorp South Africa
(Ngonyama Lion Lodge and Conference Centre)
-- TASC, 26 October 2001, Caltech,
USA
--
John Archibald Wheeler's 90th birdthday, 13-15 March 2001, Princeton,
NJ, USA
-- PCGM, UC Davies,
CA USA
-- PCGM, Salt Lake City,
Utah, USA
-- 1 hour seminar at University of Parma, Italy, March
2003
-- 1 hour and longer seminars at AEI, March 2003
-- 1 hour seminar at Astronomisches Rechen-Institut,
Heidelberg, 03/03 .place,people
-- August 2003 Timisoara, Romania - seminar on GR at West University
Timisoara
-- August 21 2003 Timisoara, Romania, Politechnica
University -- over 2 hours invited talk at a press conference with
about 50 students and reporters from TV and several newspapers
organized by Liga AC
following the summerschool I taught in Bucharest
-- CGWA inaugural meeting, UTB, December
2003
-- 10
lectures on Gravitational Waves taught at LSU during the 2003-2004
winter holiday
-- March 2004, 8 three-hours lectures on General Relativity and String
Theory - Lecture series organized by LIGA AC at Politehnica University,
Timisoara
-- PCGM, March 2004
- An Alternative Design for LIGO's Mirrors
-- 90 minutes infornal seminar @ Cornell
University
-- Cosmos - 4 three-hour lectures on Modern Physics slightly touching
on String Theory at University of California Irvine
-- September 2004, 13 lectures on Modern Physics at Grigore Moisil
highschool Timisoara
-- EGM 8, March 18-19
2005, Wake forest, NC
-- PCGM 21 , March
25-26 2005, Eugene Or
This was quite an adventure. I
drove the Super-Car
all the way
from LA to Oregon and back.
-- SCSS
, USC May 20-21
20050 -- No Talk
-- String Theory Summer School, June 20 - July 8 2005, Perimeter
Institute, ON
also
innitiated, organized and chaired the student
sessions together with Carlos Hoyos
-- STRINGS
2005, July 11-16 2005,
Toronto (Poster)
-- CAM, San Diego, CA (Poster)
also
chaired a Theoretical Physics sessions
-- Informal talk about "Orbifolds in Numerical Relativity" ,
March 14, 2006, Caltech
-- Strings on Orbifolds, part of Ph 235, Caltech, May 25, 2006
-- Seeing further with LIGO - one hour Seminar at Victoria
University, Wellington, New Zealand, December 27 2006
-- Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting 23, 2007
-- 10th East Coast Gravity Meeting, Cornell, 2007
-- Using Conical Mirrors to see further with LIGO, One hour talk at a
Workshop on Gravitational Waves, Perth Australia, 2007
-- Poster at GR18 in Sydney, Australia, 2007
-- Informal 2 hours seminar at Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany,
2007
-- Poster and talk at CAM Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2007
-- Beams of The Future, LSC/Virgo meeting, Hannover, Germany, 2007
-- Future Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detection, TASC, Los
Angeles, CA, 2007
-- Beams of The Future, 2 hours seminar in Beneveto, Italy, 2007
-- Reducing Thermal Noise in Future GW Interferonmeters, 2 hour seminar in
Salerno, Italy , 2007
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