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1 Evgeny Sorkin Contact Information Physics and Astronomy Department Voice: University of British Columbia Fax: Agricultural Road, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada URL: laplace.phas.ubc.ca/people/evgeny/ Employment National CITA Fellow, Research Associate and Instructor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Postdoctoral researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany Postdoctoral researcher, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa-Barbara, USA Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Education The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 2006 Ph.D., Physics Thesis: Higher-dimensional black holes Advisors: Prof. Tsvi Piran and Prof. Barak Kol 2000 M.Sc., Physics, Magna Cum Laude Thesis: Effects of pair-creation on charged gravitational collapse Advisor: Prof. Tsvi Piran 1998 B.Sc., Major in Mathematics, and Physics, Magna Cum Laude Teaching Experience Research Interests Instructor for the Thermal Physics, PHYS 203, UBC, Spring 2012 Instructor for the Laboratory section of Thermodynamics for Engineering Physics, PHYS 257, UBC, Summer 2011 Teaching Assistant for the following courses: Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism for medical and biology students, Physics Lab I for medical and biology students, Numerical analysis, Computational physics, Plasma physics, Statistical physics, Equations of mathematical physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology. Mathematical and computational relativity, generalized harmonic methods for Einstein s equations, classical and quantum black holes, scientific computing. Aspects of AdS/CFT. Professional Experience and Service 2006 Member of American physical society 2003 Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Classical and Quantum Gravity, American Journal of Physics, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Reviewer for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK 2007, 2010 Organizer of Gravity Seminars at UBC

2 Honors, Awards 2010 CITA National Fellowship and Fellowships 2005 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta (turned down, in favour of the offer from UBC) 2005 Finalist of the Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship competition 2004 Racah prize for outstanding PhD students (Hebrew University) 2004 Honorable mention in Gravitational Research Foundation essay competition (USA) Hebrew University scholarship for outstanding graduate students 2000 Arnold Rosenblum prize for outstanding MSc students (Hebrew University) 1999,1997 Rector s and Dean s lists of excellence Talks and Posters Invited talks at conferences and workshops Critical dimensions and order of gravitational black branes phase transition at The Dark Side of the Extra Dimensions, May, 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada Critical collapse in dimensions greater than 4 at Black Holes V, May 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada Numerical black strings at Einstein s Gravity in Higher Dimensions, workshop, Feb 2007 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Numerical methods in higher-dimensional gravity at CIFAR Annual Cosmology and Gravity Programme Meeting, 9-13 May 2007, Whistler, BC, Canada Critical collapse of gravitational waves in axial symmetry, at Dynamics of General Relativity: Numerical and Analytical Approaches, 4-11 July 2011, ESI, Wien, Austria Critical collapse of axisymmetric gravitational waves, at Numerical relativity beyond astrophysics,11-16 July 2011, ICMS, Edinburgh, UK Invited seminar talks Initial data for black holes and strings in 5D Racah Institute theory seminar, October 2003 Critical dimension in the black string phase transition Joint Israeli HEP seminar, Neve Shalom, May 2004 Issues in Black-hole black-string phase transition UBC Gravity seminar, September 2005 Higher-dimensional black holes and the Critical collapse Scientific Computing and Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SCAIM) Seminar, UBC, November 2005 Pinching black strings Theoretical Physics seminar, Simon Fraser University, April 2007 Landau-Ginzburg perspective on Gregory-Laflamme instability Perimeter Institute, January 2007 The black-hole black-string phase transition Max-Planck institute for gravitational physics, May, 2009 Numerical methods for higher-dimensional black objects Bremen-Oldenburg Relativity Seminar, June, 2009 A new axisymmetric generalized harmonic evolution code Max-Planck institute for gravitational physics, November, 2009 An axisymmetric generalized harmonic code and some applications UBC Gravity seminar, June, 2010

3 Critical collapse of gravitational waves Max-Planck institute for gravitational physics, September, 2010 Critical collapse of gravitational waves UBC, September, 2011 Contributed conference talks Formation and evaporation of charged black holes Black Holes III, May 2001, Banff, Canada Critical dimension in the black string phase transition GR17, July 2004, Dublin, Ireland Landau-Ginzburg perspective on Gregory-Laflamme instability MG11 - XI Marcel Grossmann meeting, July 2006, Berlin, Germany Cosmic censorship and the pinching black string RusGrav-13, 13th Russian Gravitational conference, June 2008, Moscow, Russia Critical collapse of gravitational waves 27th Pacific Gravity Meeting, March, 2011, Caltech, Pasadena, USA Scientific posters Caged Black Holes GR17, July 2004, Dublin, Ireland Meetings attended Black Holes III, Theory and mathematical aspects, May 2001 Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada International school of cosmology and gravitation, May 2003, Erice Sicily, Italy 54th Meeting of the Nobel Prize in Physics winners and the Students, July 2004, Lindau, Germany GR17, July 2004, Dublin, Ireland A Mini-School on Quantum Black Holes, January 2005, Technion, Haifa, Israel The Dark Side of Extra Dimensions, May, 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada Black Holes V, Theory and mathematical aspects, May 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada 11th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics, May 19-21, 2005, UBC, Vancouver, Canada Scanning new horizons: GR beyond 4 dimensions, KITP workshop, Santa- Barbara, USA, Gravitational physics APS meeting, April, 2006 Dallas, TX, USA, New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity, July 2006, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany. MG11 - XI Marcel Grossmann meeting, July, 2006, Berlin, Germany Summer School on Strings, Gravity and Cosmology, 7-18 August 2006, UBC, Vancouver, Canada. Einstein s Gravity in Higher Dimensions, workshop, Feb 2007 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel CIFAR, Annual Cosmology and Gravity Programme Meeting, 9-13 May 2007, Whistler, BC, Canada RusGrav-13, 13th Russian Gravitational conference, June 2008, Moscow, Russia Black Holes: A Landscape of Theoretical Physics Problems, CERN workshop, September 2008, CERN, Geneva

4 24th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, December 8-12, 2008,Vancouver,Canada NRDA-2009, Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis meeting, 7-13 July, 2009, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany. Space, Time and Beyond, October 8-9, 2009, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany PDEs, relativity & nonlinear waves, April 5-9, 2010, Granada, Spain BIRS workshop on Geometric Analysis and General Relativity, June 20-25, 2010, Banff, Canada Workshop on unstructured meshes, August 25-27, 2010, Jena, Germany 27th Pacific Gravity Meeting, March, 2011, Caltech, Pasadena, USA Dynamics of General Relativity: Numerical and Analytical Approaches, 4-11 July 2011, ESI, Wien, Austria Numerical relativity beyond astrophysics,11-16 July 2011, ICMS, Edinburgh, UK References Prof. Matthew W. Choptuik Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UBC Voice: Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada Prof. Moshe Rozali Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UBC Voice: Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada Prof. Tsvi Piran Racah Institute of Physics Voice: The Hebrew University Fax: Jerusalem, 91904, Israel Prof. Barak Kol Racah Institute of Physics Voice: The Hebrew University Fax: Jerusalem, 91904, Israel barak

5 Publications in refereed journal articles 1. Modification of late time phase structure by quantum quenches L. -Y. Hung, M. Smolkin and, arxiv: [cond-mat.str-el] (2012) to appear in Physical Review Letters. 2. Holographic Higgs phases M. Rozali, D. Smyth and JHEP 1208, 118 (2012) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 3. On critical collapse of gravitational waves Class. Quant. Grav. 28 (2011) , [arxiv: [gr-qc]] Cited 3 times 1 4. An axisymmetric generalized harmonic evolution code,, Phys. Rev. D 81, (2010) [arxiv: [gr-qc]] Cited 18 times 5. Generalized harmonic formulation in spherical symmetry and M. W. Choptuik, Gen. Rel. Grav. 42, 1239 (2010) [arxiv: [gr-qc]] Cited 11 times 6. Non-uniform black strings in various dimensions Phys. Rev. D 74, (2006) [arxiv:gr-qc/ ] Cited 22 times 7. LG (Landau-Ginzburg) in GL (Gregory-Laflamme) B. Kol and Class. Quant. Grav. 23, 4563 (2006) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] Cited 16 times 8. On Choptuik s scaling in higher dimensions and Y. Oren Phys. Rev. D 71, (2005) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] Cited 21 times 9. On black-brane instability in an arbitrary dimension B. Kol and Class. Quant. Grav. 21, 4793 (2004) [arxiv:gr-qc/ ] Cited 41 times 10. A critical dimension in the black-string phase transition Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, (2004) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] Cited 71 times 11. Caged black holes: Black holes in compactified spacetimes. II: 5d numerical implementation, B. Kol and T. Piran Phys. Rev. D 69, (2004) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] Cited 51 times 1 Citation count is based on the Spires database, as of

6 12. Caged black holes: Black holes in compactified spacetimes. I: Theory B. Kol, and T. Piran Phys. Rev. D 69, (2004) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] Cited 54 times 13. Initial data for black holes and black strings in 5d and T. Piran Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, (2003) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] Cited 20 times 14. Formation and evaporation of charged black holes and T. Piran Phys. Rev. D 63, (2001) [arxiv:gr-qc/ ] Cited 19 times 15. Effects of pair creation on charged gravitational collapse and T. Piran Phys. Rev. D 63, (2001) [arxiv:gr-qc/ ] Cited 28 times Preprints and papers in preparation Conference proceedings, refereed Other papers, refereed 1. Gravitational duals to the striped phases M. Rozali, J. Stang, D. Smyth and in progress 2. Quantum effects in gravitational collapse M. Chandra, G.M. Manca, E. Mottola, in progress 3. Collapse of extremely prolate Brill-waves in preparation 1. LG (Landau-Ginzburg) in GL (Gregory-Laflamme), B. Kol and in Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by H. Kleinert, R.T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, Critical collapse of scalar field in higher dimensions, and Y. Oren. in Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by H. Kleinert, R.T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, Critical dimension in the black string phase transition, Book of Abstracts of the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation GR17, Dublin, Ireland, July 2004 An essay Multi-dimensional black objects, (unpublished), earned a honorable mention in the Gravitational Research Foundation essay competition in 2004.

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