Ariel Amir - Harvard University Department of Physics

Ariel Amir - Curriculum Vitae and Publications List
Contact
Information
Department of Physics
Harvard University Tel: (617) 4953734
17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Fax: (617) 4950416
E-mail:
arielamir@physics.harvard.edu
Webpage:
www.physics.harvard.edu/~arielamir/
Research Disordered Systems, Non-equilibrium Phenomena, Glasses, Biophysics, Anderson Local-
Interests ization, Interplay of Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Anomalous Diffusion, Random
Matrix Theory, Quantum Open Systems.
Education
Additional
Research
Experience
Awards and
⋆ 2011, Junior Fellow, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Harvard University
⋆ 2010, Ph.D., Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of
Science
• Thesis Topic: Dynamics of the Electron Glass
• Advisers: Prof. Yuval Oreg, Prof. Yoseph Imry
⋆ 2005, M.Sc., Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of
Science
• Thesis Topic: Effect of Junction Geometry on Tunneling
• Advisers: Prof. Yuval Oreg, Prof. Yoseph Imry
• Thesis grade 98, Exam grade 95
⋆ 2000, B.Sc. (parallel to high school studies), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Summa cum Laude, in Physics and Mathematics, grade average 97.7
2000-2005 Military service, Ministry of Defense. Leader of several projects involving
physics and engineering. Research in algorithms and signal-processing.
Scholarships • 2012 Milton grant awarded for the project “Memory and relaxation phenomena in
material science”.
• 2011-2012 Rothschild Fellow (Yad Hanadiv foundation).
• 2011-2014 Harvard Junior Fellow.
• 2010 Recipient of the Pappalardo Fellowship, MIT (declined).
• 2010 Recipient of the PCTS Fellowship, Princeton (declined).
• 2010 Recipient of the Bikura Fellowship.
• 2010 Recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship.
• 2010 Recipient of the D. N. Chorafas international award.
• 2009 Menashe-Milo Memorial Prize, awarded by the Feinberg Graduate School of
the Weizmann Institute of Science, for academic excellence and scientific accom-
plishment.
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Academic
Experience
Voluntary,
Outreach and
Educational
Activity in the
Community
Conferences
and schools
• 2008 Levi Eshkol Scholarship for Excellence, awarded by the Israeli Ministry of
Science.
• 2005-2009 Weizmann Institute Ph.D. Scholarship.
• 2000 Rector’s prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• 2000 Amirim Scholarship for outstanding students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• 1999 Gold medal in the International Physics Olympiad, Italy.
• 1998 Bronze medal in International Physics Olympiad, Iceland. First place in
the Israeli National Physics Olympiad. First place in the Grosman Mathematics
Olympiad.
Teaching Assistant - The Weizmann Institute of Science
• 2011 Instructor for course ’Fluctuations and Noise’ (for Masters and Ph.D. students)
• 2006-2008 Instructor for course ’Quantum Mechanics I’ (for Masters students)
• 2007 Instructor for course ’Renormalization group’ (for Masters and Ph.D. students)
Instructor for undergraduate projects
• 2006-2009 Instructor in Ulpana de Shalit for undergraduate students, The Weizmann
Institute of Science.
• 2000-2011 Senior Instructor in Israeli National Physics Olympiad project. Com-
poser of entrance exams and instructor in preparation camps.
• 2010-2011 Member of the Academic Committee for the 12th Asian Physics Olympiad,
held in Israel in May 2011.
• 2009 Member of the International Board of the International Physics Olympiad.
• 2009 Leader of Israeli team to the International Physics Olympiad, Mexico.
• 2008 Leader of Israeli team to the Asian Physics Olympiad, Mongolia.
• 2006 Leader of Israeli team to the Asian Physics Olympiad, Kazakhstan.
• 2004 Leader of Israeli team to the Asian Physics Olympiad, Vietnam.
• Invited participant to workshop on “Modern Perspectives on Thin Sheets: Geometry,
Elasticity, and Statistical Physics”, at Lorentz Center, Leiden (September
2012).
• Invited participant to workshop on “Complex quantum systems: Nonergodicity,
glassiness and localization”, at ICTP, Italy (August 2012).
• Talk at the American Physical Society meeting, Boston. Title: ’Dislocation dynamics
and bacterial growth’, (2012).
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• Talk at the American Physical Society meeting, Boston. Title: ’Slow relaxations
in glasses: full aging and beyond’, (2012).
• Contributed speaker to conference on “Unifying concepts in glass physics”, Paris.
Title of lecture: ’Lessons on aging from electron glasses’, (2011).
• Contributed speaker to TIDS conference (Transport in Interacting Disordered Systems),
Israel. Title of lecture: ’Multiplicative processes, logarithmic relaxations
and the deviations from full aging’, (2011).
• Participant in Gordon conference on ’Soft Condensed Matter Physics’. Title of
poster presented: ’Slow relaxations and aging in glasses’ (2011).
• Talk at the Israeli Physical Society meeting, Tel-Aviv University. Title: ’Huge
(but finite) intrinsic timescales in porous silicon: a test-case for slow relaxations’,
(2010).
• Invited speaker to conference “Out of Equilibrium Quantum Systems” at KITP,
Santa Barbara. Title of talk: ’Slow relaxations and aging in electron Glasses’
(2010).
• Invited participant to workshop on electronic glasses, at KITP, Santa Barbara
(July and August 2010). Title of lecture: ’Localization, anomalous diffusion and
slow relaxations in disordered systems’.
• Invited speaker to workshop on electronic glasses at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. Title of lecture: ’Slow relaxations and aging in electron glasses and
exponential distance matrices’ (2010).
• Talk at the Israeli Physical Society meeting, Bar-Ilan University. Title: ’Exponential
distance matrices, anomalous diffusion and slow relaxations’, (2009).
• Invited speaker to TIDS conference (Transport in Interacting Disordered Systems),
Hungary. Title of lecture: ’Slow relaxation and aging in the electron glass’, (2009).
• Participant in Workshop on ’Many-body systems far from equilibrium: Fluctuations,
slow dynamics and long-range interactions’, Germany. Presentation of
poster and seminar. Title of lecture given: ’Aging in electron glasses’, (2009)
• Participant in DIP conference, Germany. Title of lecture given: ’Electron glass
dynamics’, (2008).
• Seminar given at the Correlated Electron Day, Technion. Title: ’Slow relaxations
in the electron glass’, (2008).
• Talk at the Israeli Physical Society meeting, Weizmann Institute of Science. Title:
’A mean-field model for the electron glass’, (2007).
• Participant in School on ’Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Information
with Cold Atoms’, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, poster presented: ’Decay in
Hierarchical Models’, (2007).
• Participant in Workshop on ’Mechanical behaviour of glassy materials’, UBC,
Canada, (2007).
• Talk at the Israeli Physical Society meeting, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Title: ’Decay in hierarchical models’, (2006).
• Participant with scholarship in the ’Les Houches Summer School’ on ’Complex
Systems’, France (2006).
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Publications
1. Dislocation dynamics and bacterial growth, Ariel Amir and David R. Nelson, to
appear in PNAS.
2. Dynamics of interacting topological defects on the surface of a cylinder, Ariel Amir
and David R. Nelson, in preparation.
3. Localization-delocalization transition of phonons in disordered media, Ariel Amir,
Jacob Krich, Vincenzo Vitelli, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry, in preparation.
4. Modelling structural colors in beetles, Ariel Amir and Peter Vukusic, to be submitted
to the American Journal of Physics.
5. On relaxations and memories of certain materials, Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and
Yoseph Imry, PNAS 109, 1850 (2012).
6. Huge (but finite) time scales in slow relaxations: beyond simple aging, Ariel Amir,
Stefano Borini, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186407 (2012).
7. Quantum anomaly in two-dimensional diffusion of coherent atoms, Rami Pugatch,
Dipankar Bhattacharyya, Ariel Amir, Yoav Sagi and Nir Davidson, to be submitted
to PRL.
8. Dynamics of electron glasses, Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry (invited
review), Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 2, 235-62 (2011).
9. Localization, Anomalous Diffusion, and Slow Relaxations: A Random Distance Matrix
Approach, Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105,
070601 (2010).
10. The localization transition at finite temperatures, Yoseph Imry and Ariel Amir,
chapter in book “50 years of Anderson Localization”, edited by E. Abrahams (World
Scientific, Singapore, 2010).
11. Variable range hopping in the Coulomb glass, Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph
Imry, Phys. Rev. B 80, 245214 (2009).
12. 1/f noise and slow relaxations in glasses, Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry,
Ann. Phys. (Berlin) 18, 12, 836 (2009), proceedings of the TIDS conference.
13. Slow Relaxations and Aging in the Electron Glass, Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and
Yoseph Imry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 126403 (2009).
14. Classical diffusion of a quantum particle in a noisy environment, Ariel Amir, Yoav
Lahini and Hagai B. Perets, Phys. Rev. E 79, 050105(R) (2009).
15. Mean-field model for electron-glass dynamics, Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph
Imry, Phys. Rev. B 77, 165207 (2008).
16. Decays in quantum hierarchical models, Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry,
Phys. Rev. A 77, 050101(R) (2008).
17. On the Mathematical and Biological Complexity of Honeybee Hives, Ariel Amir,
PhysicaPlus 4 (2005).
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