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Nir Bar-­Gill – ­Curriculum Vitae

 

July 4, 2008

 

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1.       Personal Information

Name:              Nir Bar-­Gill

Date of Birth:   October 12th, 1977

Address:          21 Ovadia Mibertenura st.

                       apartment 13

Tel Aviv, 62282

Israel

Tel #:               972-­3-­5443012

                        972-­52-­2478372

e­mail:               nir.bar-gill@weizmann.ac.il

 

 

2.       Education

 

2005 -          :    Ph.D degree
               Physics of Complex Systems - Weizmann Institute of Science

                       Advisors: Prof. N. Davidson & Prof. G. Kurizki
 

1998 - ­2003:    M.Sc. degree

Physics Dept., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Advisor: Prof. A. Ron

Thesis topic: "Dynamics of a Lasing Atom in Hot Plasma”

Grade point average: 97

 

1994 - ­1998:    B.A.degree

Summa Cum Laude

Physics Dept., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Grade point average: 93

 

1994 - ­1997:    B.Sc.degree

Summa Cum Laude

Electrical Engineering Dept., Technion­ - Israel Institute of Technology

Grade point average: 93

 

3.       Work Experience

 

1998 - 2004:    Research physicist at Rafael.

Research areas:

Hydrodynamics

Algorithms

Numerical schemes and simulations

1996 - ­1998:    Software developer at IBM’s Haifa Research Laboratory

(as a student)

1996 - ­1998:    Physics and Computers Teacher at Ort High-School

(as a student)

 

4.       Professional Activities 

May 2007:       CLEO/QELS 2007

                       Talk: “Ultra Cold Bosons in Incommensurate Optical Lattices”

                       Talk: “Changes in Excitation Line Shapes due to Beliaev Damping in a BEC”

June 2006:       ICAP 2006 – 20th International Conference on Atomic Physics

                       Poster: “Localization Transition for a BEC in 1D Incommensurate Optical Lattices”

May 2006:       GRC on Quantum Information Science
                        Poster: “Localization Transition for a BEC in 1D Incommensurate Optical Lattices”
                        Poster: “Interferometry and Momentum Localization via Translational-Internal Entanglement”

Feb. 2006:       DEICS/QUDAL 2006
                        3rd Workshop on Decoherence, Entanglement and Information in Complex Systems
                        Workshop on Quantum Dynamics of Cold Atoms and Light
                        Talk: "Unusual Interferometry via Translational-Internal Entanglement"
                        Poster: "Localization Transition for a BEC in 1D Incommensurate Optical Lattices"
 

Nov 2003:       Moving Boundaries 2003

7th International Conference on Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems

Paper presented: "A 3D Collision Scheme for Compressible Media in a General Connectivity Lagrangian Formulation"

 

Oct. 2002:       Plasma Physics

6th International Conference of the Israeli Plasma Society

                        Paper presented: "A Lasing Atom in Hot Plasma"

 

June 2002:       X-Ray Lasers 2002

                        8th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers

                        Paper presented: "A Lasing Atom in Hot Plasma"

 

Oct. 2000:       Meshing Roundtable 2000

                        9th International Conference on Mesh Generation

                         

5.        Professional Associations

2005 - : Member of the Optical Society of America
2003:   Member of the Israeli Plasma Society

 

6.        Honors

  • Awarded the Auto Schwartz fellowship for excellence in research during Ph.D. studies.
  • Awarded Fulbright fellowship (due to acceptance to Yale University. Declined in favor of studying at the Weizmann Institute).
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering.
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude in Physics.
  • Received highest excellence award for each semester of undergraduate studies.

 

7.        Community Activity

2005 - 2006:   Academic advisor for undergraduate electrical engineering project
                       Won excellent project award.

1998 – 2004:   Member of the Technion Alumni Association

2000:               Teach army veterans for the math matriculation exam

                        (as part of the Technion Alumni Association community program)

Part of 1998:   Assist students in Ort High-School in physics

 

 

 

     

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