Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Institute of High Technologies
IHT KYIV PHYSICS FEST
SPEAKERS
Meet LEONID LEVITOV
Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Leonid Levitov studied problems of symmetry and local order in quasicrystals under the supervision of Prof. G.M. Eliashberg. After obtaining his PhD degree in 1988, he worked a few years at the Landau Institute, spent a year at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie in Paris, and since 1992 he has been working at MIT in Boston. His research interests are very broad and include quantum transport, solid-state quantum computing, physics of cold atoms, quantum noise, growth and pattern formation. Recent work of Prof. Levitov is focused on the physics of graphene. Visit Leonid's web page
Meet GREGORY FALKOVICH
Professor of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Graduated from the Novosibirsk State University in 1981, obtained his PhD in 1984 from the Novosibirsk Nuclear Physics Institute. Since 1991 works at the Weizmann Institute. Research of Prof. Falkovich is devoted to the statistical physics and fluid theory. Particularly, he works on fundamental problems of turbulence theory (in fluids as well as optical turbulence), closely collaborating with experimentalists. Visit Gregory's web page
Meet ULF LEONHARDT
Professor of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Studied at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, at Moscow State University and at Humboldt University Berlin where he received his PhD in 1993. From 2000 until his appointment at the Weizmann Institute in 2012, he was the Chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of St Andrews, UK. He was one of the first authors who discovered invisibility cloaking with metamaterials (work published at the same time as the rivaling paper by Pendry's group). His other research interests include connections between quantum optics and general relativity, used, particularly, to create analogues of the event horizon in the lab. In 2012, Prof. Leonhardt received a European Research Council grant to support his research on “Transformation optics: cloaking, perfect imaging and horizons”. Visit Ulf's web page or his old web page
Meet ANDREY SHYTOV
Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK. Obtained his PhD in 1999 from the Landau Institute. Before his appointment at Exeter in 2009, he had worked at the Kavli Institute (2000-2003), at Harvard University (2003-2004), at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2004-2008) and at the University of Utah (2008-2009). Research interests of Andrey lie in the domain of condensed matter theory, with the focus on nanoscale quantum phenomena, particularly, in graphene and graphene-related materials. Visit Andrey's web page