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1 CURRICULUM VITAE of Vadim Kaplunovsky PERSONAL DATA Date of birth: April 2, 1958 Place of birth: Leningrad, USSR (Presently St. Petersburg, Russia) Citizenship: Marital status: Current address: USA Single University of Texas Department of Physics 2515 Speedway, C1608 Austin, TX , USA Telephone: +1 (512) EDUCATION 10/78 6/83 Tel-Aviv University; Ph. D. in Physics; Thesis Advisor: Professor Thomas Banks. 1/78 9/78 Hebrew University in Jerusalem; B. Sc. with excellence in Mathematics and Physics. 9/75 6/77 Leningrad State University. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 9/01 present University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics; Professor. 9/95 8/01 University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics; Associate Professor. 1/89 9/95 University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics; Assistant Professor. 10/86 4/89 Stanford University, Department of Physics; Research Associate. 9/83 8/86 Princeton University, Department of Physics; Research Associate.

2 GRADUATE STUDENTS Jacob Claussen, Ph.D. in Muhammad Sohaib Alam, Ph. D. in Marcus André C. Torres, Ph. D. in Edoardo Di Napoli, Ph. D. in Maria Elisabeth Bell, M. Sc. in Elie Gorbatov, Ph. D. in José Maria Rodríguez, Ph. D. in Elena Caceres, Ph. D. in Isaak Michael Mandelberg, Ph. D. in PUBLICATIONS 1) Jacob Claussen and Vadim Kaplunovsky, Deconstructing the E 0 SCFT to Solve the Orbifold Paradox of the Heterotic M Theory, UTTG [hep th] 2) Vadim Kaplunovsky, Dmitry Melnikov, and Jacob Sonnenschein, Holographic Baryons and Instanton Crystals, Mod. Phys. Lett. B29 (2015), no. 16, [hep th] 3) Vadim Kaplunovsky and Jacob Sonnenschein, Dimension Changing Phase Transitions in Instanton Crystals, JHEP 1404 (2014) [hep th] 4) M. Sohaib Alam, Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, and Arnab Kundu, Chiral Symmetry Breaking and External Fields in the Kuperstein-Sonnenschein Model, JHEP 1204 (2012) [hep th] 5) Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, Dmitry Melnikov, and Jacob Sonnenschein, Baryonic Popcorn, JHEP 1211 (2012) [hep th] 6) Vadim S. Kaplunovsky and Jacob Sonnenschein, Searching for an Attractive Force in Holographic Nuclear Physics, JHEP 1105 (2011) [hep th] 7) Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, Meta Stable Supersymmetry Breaking in a Cooling Universe, AIP Conf. Proc. 957 (2007) [hep th] 8) Ben Burrington, Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, and Jacob Sonnenschein, Localized Backreacted Flavor Branes in Holographic QCD, JHEP 0802 (2008) [hep th] 9) Edoardo Di Napoli and Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, Quantum Deconstruction of 5D SQCD, JHEP 0703 (2007)

3 10) W. Fischler, V. Kaplunovsky, C. Krishnan, L. Manelli, M. Torres, Meta Stable Supersymmetry Breaking in a Cooling Universe, JHEP 0703 (2007) ) Edoardo Di Napoli and Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, Unitary Matrix Model of a Chiral [SU(N)] K Gauge Theory, JHEP 0510 (2005) ) Edoardo Di Napoli, Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, and Jacob Sonnenschein, Chiral Rings of Deconstructive [SU(n c )] N Quivers, JHEP 0406 (2004) ) Vadim S. Kaplunovsky and Amer Iqbal, Quantum Deconstruction of a 5D SYM and its Moduli Space, JHEP 0405 (2004) ) Elie Gorbatov, Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, Jacob Sonnenschein, Stefan Theisen, and Shimon Yankielowicz, On Heterotic Orbifolds, M Theory and Type I Brane Engineering, JHEP 0205 (2002) ) Yuwal Artstein, Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, and Jacob Sonnenschein, Domain Walls in the Large N Limit, JHEP 0102 (2001) ) V. Kaplunovsky, J. Sonnenschein, S. Theisen, and S. Yankielowicz, On the Duality Between Perturbative Heterotic Orbifolds and M theory on T 4 /Z N, Nuclear Physics B590 (2000) ) Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, Jacob Sonnenschein and Shimon Yankielowicz, Domain Walls in Supersymmetric Yang Mills Theories, Nuclear Physics B 552 (1999) ) Vadim Kaplunovsky and Jan Louis, Phenomenological Aspects of F Theory, Physics Letters B417 (1998) ) A. Brandhuber, N. Itzhaki, V. Kaplunovsky, J. Sonnenschein, and S. Yankielowicz, Comments on the M Theory Approach to N = 1 SQCD and Brane Dynamics, Physics Letters B410 (1997) ) Elena Caceres, Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, and I. Michael Mandelberg, Large Volume String Compactifications, Revisited, Nuclear Physics B493 (1997) ) Vadim Kaplunovsky, Jan Louis, and Stefan Theisen, Aspects of Duality in N = 2 String Vacua, Physics Letters 357B (1995) ) Bernard de Wit, Vadim Kaplunovsky, Jan Louis, and Dieter Lüst, Perturbative Couplings of Vector Multiplets in N = 2 Heterotic String Vacua, Nuclear Physics B451 (1995)

4 23) Vadim Kaplunovsky and Jan Louis, On Gauge Couplings in String Theory, Nuclear Physics B444 (1995) ) Vadim Kaplunovsky and Jan Louis, Field Dependent Gauge Couplings in Locally Supersymmetric Effective Quantum Field Theories, Nuclear Physics B422 (1994) ) Vadim S. Kaplunovsky and Jan Louis, Model-Independent Analysis of Soft Terms in Effective Supergravity and in String Theory, Physics Letters B306 (1993) ) Lance J. Dixon, Vadim Kaplunovsky, and Jan Louis, Moduli-Dependence of String Loop Corrections to Gauge Coupling Constants, Nuclear Physics B355 (1991) ) Lance J. Dixon, Vadim Kaplunovsky, and Jan Louis, On Effective Field Theories Describing (2,2) Vacua of the Heterotic String, Nuclear Physics B329 (1990) ) Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, One-loop Threshold Effects in String Unification, Nuclear Physics B307 (1988) ; erratum ibid. B382 (1992) ) Lance J. Dixon, Vadim Kaplunovsky, and Cumrun Vafa, On Four-Dimensional Gauge Theories from Type II Superstrings, Nuclear Physics B294 (1987) ) Vadim S. Kaplunovsky and Chiara R. Nappi, Phenomenological Implications of Superstring Theories, Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics 16 (1986) ) Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, Mass Scales of the String Unification, Physics Review Letters 55 (1985) ) M. Dine, V. Kaplunovsky, M. Mangano, C. Nappi and N. Seiberg, Superstring Model Building, Nuclear Physics B259 (1985) ) Vadim Kaplunovsky and Marvin Weinstein, Space Time: Arena or Illusion?, Physics Review D31 (1985) ) Vadim Kaplunovsky, Inverse Hierarchy Mechanism, Ph. D. thesis, PRINT (TEL AVIV), 1983, 90 pages. 35) Vadim Kaplunovsky, Nosonomy of an Upside Down Hierarchy Model (II), Nuclear Physics B233 (1984) ) T. Banks and V. Kaplunovsky, Nosonomy of an Upside Down Hierarchy Model (I), Nuclear Physics B211 (1983) ) V. Kaplunovsky, Absolute Asymptotic Freedom in SUSY gauge theories, Nuclear Physics B211 (1983) ) T. Banks and V. Kaplunovsky, Monopole Suppression and Baryon Production in Cosmologies Based on Witten s Upside Down Hierarchy Model, Nuclear Physics B206 (1982) ) T. Banks and V. Kaplunovsky, Composite Massless Fermions in Strongly Coupled Lattice Gauge Theories, Nuclear Physics B192 (1981)

5 INVITED LECTURES International Conferences, Workshops and Schools Deconstructing E0 SCFT to Solve the Orbifold Paradox. Planck 2015 conference; Ioannina, Greece, May Baryonic Popcorn, or Holographic Nuclear Matter at High Densities. Workshop on Applications of Gauge Gravity Dialities; Technion, Haifa, Israel; June Baryonic Popcorn. 3 rd Indian Israeli Meeting on String Theory: Holography and its Applications; Jerusalem, Israel, February Metastable SUSY Breaking in a Cooling Universe. Mitchell Institute Workshop on String Theory, LHC Physics, and Cosmology; College Station, Texas, March Metastable SUSY Breaking in a Cooling Universe. PASCOS 07 conference; London, England, July Orbifold Effects in Hořava Witten Brane Worlds. First International Conference On String Phenomenology; Oxford, England; July Heterotic Orbifolds in M Theory. 8 th International Conference On Supersymmetries in Physics (SUSY2K); CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; June Heterotic Orbifolds in M Theory. Workshop On Recent Development In String Theories, Conformal Field Theories And Integrable Models From The Previous Millennium; Tel Aviv, Israel; January Moduli Dilaton Mixing. SUSY 95 Workshop; Palaiseau, France; May Non Perturbative Superpotentials. SUSY 94 Workshop; Ann Arbor, Michigan; May Scenarios for the Superstring Unification. 31 st International School of Subnuclear Physics; Erice, Italy; July Scenarios for the Superstring Unification. Strings 93 Workshop; Berkeley, California; May Scenarios for the Superstring Unification. Superworld Workshop; Woodlands, Texas; April Gauge Couplings & Θ-Angles in Supersymmetric Quantum Effective Field Theories. Strings & Symmetries 1991 Workshop; Stony Brook, New-York; May Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking in String-Based Effective Field Theory. Strings 90 Workshop; College Station, Texas; March, Effective Field Theories Describing (2,2) Vacua of the Heterotic String. Strings 89 Workshop; College Station, Texas; March, Bosonic Lattices and Weird 3 Family Models. Strings 88 Workshop; College Park, Maryland; May, 1988.

6 Post-Mortem Analysis of the Type II Superstring. International Workshop on Superstrings, Composite Structures and Cosmology; College Park, Maryland; March, Other Invited Lectures (last 20 years only) Deconstructing E0 SCFT to Solve the Orbifold Paradox. Tel Aviv University, January Weizmann Institute, January Stanford University, October Instanton Crystals. Tel Aviv University, January Baryonic Popcorn, or Holographic Nuclear Matter at High Densities. École Normale Supérieure, Paris, December Baryonic Popcorn. Tel Aviv University, June Nuclear Forces in Holographic QCD. Joint Seminar of Israeli Universities, June Problems with Holographic Nuclear Physics. Tel Aviv University, July Cosmology of Metastable SUSY Breaking. IAS (Princeton), May Joint Seminar of Israeli Universities, January Quantum Deconstruction. Stanford University, May Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), May CERN, July Deconstruction, Chiral Rings, etc... Weizmann Institute (Israel), June Quantum Deconstruction. DESY (Hamburg), July Joint Seminar of Israeli Universities, March Extra Dimensions of Theoretical Physics. Tel Aviv University, February Orbifold Effects in Hořava-Witten Brane Worlds. SLAC, August 2002.

7 The Eleventh Dimension of Heterotic Orbifolds. Institute for Advance Study (Princeton), May Heterotic Orbifolds, M Theory, and Brane Engineering. Joint Seminar of Israeli Universities, January Heterotic Orbifolds in M Theory. Albert Einstein Institute (Potsdam), August Tel Aviv University, May Universität München, July Phenomenological Aspects of F Theory. Tel Aviv University, April SLAC, March ITP (UCSB), February UCLA, February Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), December Large Volume Compactifications, Revisited. University of München, July Tel-Aviv University, June Rutgers University, May EXTENDED VISITS TO OTHER UNIVERSITIES January June 2012: School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. January June 2003: School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. January June 2000: School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. January June 1998: Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara. (Workshop on Dualities in String Theory.) July October 1995: Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara. (Workshop on Unification: From the Weak Scale to the Planck Scale.)

8 RESEARCH GRANTS (since 1990) NSF grants: National Science Foundation, PHY /015/2014 to 06/30/2017, $50,000 per annum, for Research in String Theory and Holography. PI: Vadim Kaplunovsky. National Science Foundation, PHY /01/2010 to 07/31/2013, $230,000 per annum, for Research in the Quantum Field Theory of Elementary Particles. PIs: Drs. S. Weinberg, J. Distler, W. Fischler, V. Kaplunovsky, S. Paban. National Science Foundation, PHY /01/2005 to 07/31/2010, $280,000 per annum, for Research in the Quantum Field Theory of Elementary Particles. PIs: Drs. S. Weinberg, J. Distler, W. Fischler, V. Kaplunovsky, S. Paban. National Science Foundation, PHY /01/2000 to 07/31/2005, $334,000 per annum, for Research in the Quantum Field Theory of Elementary Particles. PIs: Drs. S. Weinberg, J. Distler, W. Fischler, V. Kaplunovsky, S. Paban. National Science Foundation, PHY /15/1995 to 07/31/2000 (extended to 07/31/2001), $1,541,535 total, for Research in the Quantum Field Theory of Elementary Particles. PIs: Drs. S. Weinberg, P. Candelas, J. Distler W. Fischler, V. Kaplunovsky. National Science Foundation, PHY /15/1990 to 07/31/1995 (extended to 07/31/1996), $1,541,535 total, for Research in the Quantum Field Theory of Elementary Particles. PIs: Drs. S. Weinberg, P. Candelas, W. Fischler, V. Kaplunovsky, J. Polchinski (until 1993). Other grants: US Israel Binational Science Foundation. 10/01/2013 to 09/30/2017, $31,720 per annum, for research in Aspects of gravity, gauge theories and hydrodynamics, and correspondence relations between them. PIs: Drs. Y. Oz, J. Sonnenschein, S. Yankielowicz, V. Kaplunovsky, A. Strominger, O. Ganor. US Israel Binational Science Foundation. 10/01/2007 to 09/30/2011, $24,500 per annum, for research in Field Theory and String Theory Aspects of Supersymmetry Breaking and Holography. PIs: Drs. Y. Oz, J. Sonnenschein, S. Yankielowicz, V. Kaplunovsky, C. Csaki, and J. Distler.

9 US Israel Binational Science Foundation. 10/01/1999 to 09/30/2002, $20,000 per annum, for research in Dualities Between Supergravity (String) Theories and Gauge Theories and Non-perturbative Phenomena in String and Gauge Theories. PIs: Drs. J. Sonnenschein and S. Yankielowicz; CI: Dr. V. Kaplunovsky. US Israel Binational Science Foundation. 10/01/1996 to 09/30/1999, $24,000 per annum, for research in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory. PIs: Drs. J. Sonnenschein and S. Yankielowicz; CI: Dr. V. Kaplunovsky. NATO, CRG /01/1996 to 12/31/1997, (extended to 12/31/1998) BFr 185,000 (approximately US$4,800), for research in Field Theoreticcal Aspects of String Unification. PIs: Drs. J. Louis and V. Kaplunovsky. NATO, CRG /01/1994 to 12/31/1995, BFr 185,000 (approximately US$5,200), for research in Field Theoreticcal Aspects of String Unification. PIs: Drs. J. Louis and V. Kaplunovsky.

Curriculum Vitae Markus Amadeus Luty

University of Maryland Department of Physics College Park, Maryland 20742 301-405-6018 e-mail: mluty@physics.umd.edu Curriculum Vitae Markus Amadeus Luty Education Ph.D. in physics, University of Chicago,