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1 Ido Kaminer November 2015 Contact Information Research Interests Positions Held Education Department of Physics Phone: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cell: Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Quantum Electrodynamics, Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, Electromagnetism, Electron Beam Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Complex Networks MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Department of Physics, Postdoctoral mentors: Professor Marin Soljačić, Professor John Joannopoulos Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Ph.D., Physics, Dissertation Topic: Shaping Light in Complex Settings Advisor: Professor Mordechai Segev In parallel to my army service; the army allowed me to work on my PhD research one day every week. All my graduate studies were carried out in this capacity of one day a week. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude February, B.Sc., Physics, summa cum laude February, Technion s Excellence program for gifted students. Psagot (joint Technion and military) excellence program. GPA: 98/100 Military service Military service in the Israeli Defense Force Officer, Team Leader. Outstanding scientist status. Top student of the Psagot excellence program. Honors and Awards Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Laser Science, Technion-MIT Fellowship, Marie Curie IOF Fellowship, project MC BSiCS (Beam Shaping in Complex Systems), Rothschild Fellowship, The Jacobs Prize for outstanding publication, awarded by the Technion Graduate School, Rothschild fellowship for postdoctoral studies, The 2012 IPS (Israel Physical Society) Prize for a Graduate Student in Theoretical Physics, for achievements during my PhD research, and in particular for work on nonlinear optics and the discovery of peculiar properties of accelerating beams, The Knesset (Israeli parliament) award for outstanding undergraduate student achievements, The Finchi fellowship of the Electrical Engineering departments, President s list for academic achievement, every semester,

2 Organization Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science Conference, San Jose, California 2015 Laser Science Program Committee Session Organizer: Accelerating Beams in Optics and Beyond. Academic Experience Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Teaching Assistant TA in the math department of the Technion. Courses taught include complex functions and modern algebra. Revised and edited the booklet of the course Introduction to Circuits Theory of the Electrical Engineering department. Research Projects Design of Photonic Crystals, in the group of Prof. Gadi Eisenstein. Nonlocal Solitons in Resonator Systems, in the group of Prof. Mordechai Segev. The Interaction of Electromagnetic Radiation with Biological Tissues, under the supervision of Prof. Levi Schachter. Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel Supervisor and commander of Arazim (joint Tel Aviv University and military) excellence program. Publications equal contribution 26. I. Kaminer, M. Mutzafi, A. Levy, G. Harari, H. Herzig Sheinfux, S. Skirlo, J. Nemirovsky, J. D. Joannopoulos, M. Segev, M. Soljačić, Quantum Čerenkov Radiation: Spectral Cutoffs and the Role of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum, recently accepted to PRX. (arxiv: v2, 2015). 25. L. J. Wong*, I. Kaminer*, O. Ilic, J. D. Joannopoulos, and M. Soljačić, Toward Graphene Plasmon-Based Free-Electron IR to X-ray Sources, just appeared in advanced online publication in Nature Photon. (2015). (** The article was featured on the MIT News home page) 24. B. Zhen*, C. W. Hsu*, Y. Igarashi*, L. Ling, I. Kaminer, A. Pick, S.-L. Chua, J. D. Joannopoulos, and M. Soljačić, Spawning rings of exceptional points out of Dirac cones, Nature 525, 354 (2015). 23. Y. Lumer, Y. Liang, R. Schley, I. Kaminer, E. Greenfield, D. Song, X. Zhang, J. Xu, Z. Chen, and M. Segev, Incoherent self-accelerating beams, Optica 2, 886 (2015). 22. I. Kaminer, J. Nemirovsky, M. Rechtsman, R. Bekenstein, and M. Segev, Self-accelerating Dirac particles and prolonging the lifetime of relativistic fermions, Nature Phys (2015). (** The article was selected for News and Views in Nature Physics, and was covered in many popular science websites) 21. Y. Hadad, E. Cohen, I. Kaminer, and A. C. Elitzur, The hidden geometry of electromagnetism, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser (2015). 20. H. Herzig Sheinfux, I. Kaminer, Y. Plotnik, G. Bartal, and M. Segev, Subwavelength Multilayer Dielectrics: Ultrasensitive Transmission and Breakdown of Effective-Medium Theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, (2014). 19. R. Schley*, I. Kaminer*, E. Greenfield*, R. Bekenstein, Y. Lumer, and M. Segev, Loss-proof self-accelerating beams and their use in non-paraxial manipulation of particles trajectories, Nature Comm. 5, 5189 (2014). 18. L., Oren, L. Levi, I. Orr, R. A. Nemirovsky, J. Nemirovsky, I. Kaminer, M. Segev, and O. Cohen Long-lived waveguides and sound-wave generation by laser filamentation, Phys. Rev. A (Rapid

3 Communication) 90, (2014). 17. H. Koren, I. Kaminer, and D. R. Raban, Exploring the Effect of Reinvention on Critical Mass Formation and the Diffusion of Information in Social Networks, Social Network Analysis and Mining 4(1), 185 (2014). 16. K. G. Makris, I. Kaminer, R. El-Ganainy, N.K. Efremidis, Z. Chen, M. Segev, and D.N. Christodoulides, Accelerating diffraction-free beams in photonic lattices, Opt. Lett. 39, 2129 (2014). 15. R. Bekenstein, J. Nemirovsky, I. Kaminer, and M. Segev, Shape-preserving accelerating electromagnetic wavepackets in curved space, Phys. Rev. X 4, (2014). 14. I. Kaminer*, J. Nemirovsky*, and M. Segev, Optimizing 3D multiphoton florescence microscopy, Opt. Lett. 38, 3945 (2013). 13. M. A. Bandres, M.A. Alonso, I. Kaminer, and M. Segev, Three dimensional accelerating electromagnetic waves, Opt. Express 21, (2013). 12. M. A. Bandres, I. Kaminer, M. Mills, B.M. Rodrigez-Lara, E. Greenfield, M. Segev, and D.N. Christodoulides, Accelerating optical beams (review), Optics and Photonics News, 24(6), 30 (2013). 11. I. Kaminer, J. Nemirovsky, K. G. Makris, and M. Segev, Self-accelerating beams in photonic crystals, Opt. Express 21, 8886 (2013). 10. I. Kaminer, E. Greenfield, R. Bekenstein, J. Nemirovsky, M. Segev, A. Mathis, L. Froehly, F. Courvoisier, and J. M. Dudley, Accelerating Beyond the Horizon, Optics and Photonics News 23(12), 26 (2012). (December special issue Optics in 2012 ) 9. P. Aleahmad, M.-A. Miri, M. S. Mills, I. Kaminer, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides, Fully vectorial accelerating diffraction-free Helmholtz beams, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, (2012). (** The article was selected for Viewpoint in Physics) 8. I. Kaminer, J. Nemirovsky, and M. Segev, Self-accelerating self-trapped nonlinear beams of Maxwell s equations, Opt. Express 20, (2012). 7. I. Kaminer, R. Bekenstein, J. Nemirovsky, and M. Segev, Nondiffracting accelerating wave packets of Maxwell s equations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, (2012). (** The article was selected for Editors Suggestion at PRL, and for Viewpoint in Physics) 6. I. Dolev, I. Kaminer, A. Shapira, M. Segev, and A. Arie, Experimental Observation of Self- Accelerating Beams in Quadratic Nonlinear Media, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, (2012). 5. I. Kaminer, Y. Lumer, M. Segev and D.N. Christodoulides, Causality effects on accelerating light pulses, Opt. Express 19, (2011). 4. I. Kaminer, M. Segev and D.N. Christodoulides, Self-accelerating self-trapped optical beams, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, (2011). 3. I. Kaminer, M. Segev, and A.M. Bruckstein, Stochastic recurrent dynamics of complex systems of solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, (2010). 2. I. Kaminer, M. Segev, Y.C. Eldar, and A.M. Bruckstein, Solitonets: complex networks of interacting fields, Proc. R. Soc. A 465, 1093 (2009). 1. I. Kaminer, C. Rotschild, O. Manela, and M. Segev, Periodic solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media, Opt. Lett. 32, 3209 (2007).

4 Submitted I. Kaminer, Y. Tenenbaum Katan, H. Buljan, Y. Shen, O. Ilic, J. J. Lopez, L. J. Wong, J. D. Joannopoulos, M. Soljačić, Quantum Čerenkov Effect from Hot Carriers in Graphene: An Efficient Plasmonic Source, under review in Nature Phys (arxiv: , 2015). M. Mutzafi*, I. Kaminer*, G. Harari and M. Segev, Non-Diffracting Electron Vortex Beams Balancing Their Electron-Electron Interactions, under review in PRX (arxiv: , 2015). X. Lin, X. Shi, F. Gao, I. Kaminer, Z. Yang, Z. Gao, H. Buljan, J. D. Joannopoulos, M. Soljačić, H. Chen, B. Zhang, Dynamical Mechanism of Two-Dimensional Plasmon Launching by Swift Electrons, under review in PRL (arxiv: , 2015). H. Herzig Sheinfux, I. Kaminer, A. Z. Genack, and M. Segev, Interplay between evanescence and disorder in deep subwavelength structures, under review in Nature Comm. O. Ilic, I. Kaminer, Y. Lahini, H. Buljan,and M. Soljačić, Exploiting optical asymmetry for controlled guiding of nanoparticles with light, under review in ACS Photon. L. J. Wong, K.-H. Hong, S. Carbajo, A. Fallahi, F. X. Kaertner, and I. Kaminer, Efficient laserdriven monoenergetic linear acceleration of electron bunches in free space, in preparation. N. Rivera*, I. Kaminer*, B. Zhen, J. D. Joannopoulos, and M. Soljačić, 2D Plasmonics for Enabling New Light Matter Interactions, in preparation. E. C. Regan*, Y. Igarashi*, B. Zhen, I. Kaminer, C. W. Hsu, Y. Shen, J. D. Joannopoulos, and M. Soljačić, Coherent Photon Scattering and Direct Imaging of the Iso-frequency Contours in Large-area Photonic Crystal Slabs, in preparation (arxiv: , 2015). O. Ilic, I. Kaminer, Y. Lahini, H. Buljan, and M. Soljačić, All-optical control of position and orientation of metal-dielectric nanoparticles, in preparation. Conferences - Invited Talks I. Kaminer, Toward Graphene Plasmon-Based Free-Electron IR to X-ray Sources, Review of the MIT/MTL Center of Graphene Devices and 2D Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, October M. Segev, I. Kaminer, E. Greenfield, Y. Lumer, R. Bekenstein, J. Nemirovsky, and U. Bar-Ziv, Accelerating Wavepackets, Laser Science (LS), FiO LS, San Jose, California, October I. Kaminer, Controlling the radiation and lifetime of relativistic particles by shaping their wavepackets, The 9th IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, Athens, Georgia, April I. Kaminer, Shaping Light in Complex Settings, Laser Science (LS), FiO LS, Tucson, Arizona, October (** in the 2014 APS-DLS Session for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Laser Science) I. Kaminer, J. Nemirovsky, K. G. Makris, and M. Segev, Self-Accelerating Beams in Photonic Crystal Slabs, Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS), CLEO QELS, San Jose, California, June (and additional 41 contributed oral presentations and 2 posters in refereed conferences) Seminars Seminars on Monoenergetic laser-driven linear acceleration of electron bunches in free space, Stanford SLAC and Berkeley LBNL (California), October Seminar on Self-Accelerating Beams in Optics and Beyond, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (Singapore), July 2015.

5 Seminars on Shaping the wavepackets of relativistic particles: altering their lifetime and radiation, KAIST and Institute for Basic Science (Korea); NTU (Singapore), July Seminars on Controlling the radiation and lifetime of relativistic particles by shaping their wavepackets, AMOLF and University of Twente (Netherlands); University of Antwerp (Belgium); and Research Centre Juelich (Germany), April Seminars on Quantum Theory of Čerenkov Radiation, Spectral Cutoff and Resonances, Weizmann Institute of Science, Technion, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), January Seminar on Quantum Theory of Čerenkov Radiation, Spectral Cutoff and Resonances, Tel Aviv University (Israel), December Seminar on Self-accelerating wavepackets: from Maxwell to Dirac, Weizmann (Israel), May Seminar on Self-accelerating wavepackets: from Maxwell to Dirac, JILA, (Colorado), April Peer-review activities Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Applied Physics Letters, Optica, Optics Letters, Optics Express, JOSA B, IEEE Photonics Journal.

Photonic crystals, graphene, and new effects in Čerenkov radiation

April 2016 Photonic crystals, graphene, and new effects in Čerenkov radiation Ido Kaminer Postdoc with John D. Joannopoulos and Marin Soljačić, MIT Ph.D. with Moti Segev, Technion Marie Curie IOF project