Curriculum Vitae. Predrag Nikolić

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1 Curriculum Vitae Predrag Nikolić George Mason University, Department of Physics and Astronomy Planetary Hall #209, MSN 3F3, Fairfax, VA USA Phone: ; E Mail: pnikolic@gmu.edu; www: Academic Positions George Mason University, Associate Professor 09/01/2015 present Johns Hopkins University, Adjunct Associate Professor 09/01/2016 present George Mason University, Assistant Professor 08/25/ /31/2015 Johns Hopkins University, Adjunct Assistant Professor 09/01/ /31/2016 National Institute for Standards and Technology, Guest Researcher 09/01/ /01/2011 Rice University, Keck Postdoctoral Fellow 08/01/ /31/2009 Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow 09/01/ /31/2007 Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate 09/01/ /31/2005 Columbia University, Visiting Scientist 09/01/ /31/2005 Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics 2004 thesis: Geometrically Frustrated Quantum Magnets (advisor: T. Senthil) 09/01/ /15/2004 experimental physics research assistantship (advisor: R. Ashoori) 07/15/ /31/2001 University of Belgrade, Serbia, B.S. in Applied Physics 1998 thesis: Quantum Interference Transistors (advisor: K.Nikolić) 09/01/ /01/1998 Research Grants and Awards NSF Award # (PI): Collaborative Research: Correlated Superfluids and Insulators of Ultracold Fermionic Atomic Gases Publication Award, George Mason University, College of Science November 2011 Johns Hopkins University, IQM summer researcher Rice University, Keck Fellowship Madlena Janković Foundation, Serbia, Undergraduate Fellowship Department of Education, Serbia, Undergraduate Fellowship

2 Curriculum Vitae 2 Predrag Nikolić Travel Grants Nordita (Stockholm), Workshop: Quantum solids, liquids, and gases 2010, 2016 Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop: Supersolid State of Matter June 2006 Boulder Summer School of Physics, Frontiers of Magnetism July 2003 American Physical Society, Centennial Meeting, Atlanta March 1999 Technical University of Bratislava, IAESTE Undergraduate Research Grant Summer 1997 Professional Service Co organizer of the symposium Frontiers of Quantum Matter, George Mason University (June 2012) Co organizer of the Zlatko Tešanović Memorial Symposium, Johns Hopkins University (March 2013) Journal referee: Phys. Rev. A, Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. Lett., J. of Low Temp. Phys., New J. of Phys. Grant proposal reviewer (ext., panel): National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Physics colloquium co organiser at George Mason University (Fall 2010, Spring 2011) GMU Center for Quantum Science seminar co organiser and web site maintainer (2009 present) Thesis committee member (3 students at GMU, 5 students at Johns Hopkins, 1 student at Georgetown) Teaching George Mason University Statistical (Thermal) Physics (PHYS 307) Lectures 2016 University Physics I (PHYS 160) Lectures 2013, 2014 Quantum Field Theory (PHYS 780) Lectures 2011, 2015 Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures Modern Physics (PHYS 302) Lectures Massachusetts Institute of Technology Freshman course on Electromagnetism Tutoring and grading Spring 2002 Graduate course on Statistical Mechanics Grading Fall 2001 Graduate course on Statistical Mechanics Recitation Instructor Fall 1999 Mentoring George Mason University Stephen Keeling graduate student 2011 present Tanja Duric postdoctoral associate S.Movafagh, M.DePrenger, R.Mays part time graduate students

3 Curriculum Vitae 3 Predrag Nikolić Johns Hopkins University Miguel Sulangi, graduate student Harvard University Eun Gook Moon, graduate student of S. Sachdev List of Publications 1. Predrag Nikolić, Vortex states in a non Abelian magnetic field, Physical Review B 94, (2016). arxiv: Rubem Mondaini, Predrag Nikolić and Marcos Rigol, Mott Insulator to Superconductor Transition in a Two Dimensional Superlattice, Physical Review A 92, (2015). arxiv: W. T. Fuhrman and P. Nikolić, In gap collective mode spectrum of the topological Kondo insulator SmB 6, Physical Review B 90, (2014). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić, Two dimensional heavy fermions on the strongly correlated boundaries of Kondo topological insulators, Physical Review B 90, (2014). arxiv: W. T. Fuhrman, J. Leiner, P. Nikolić, G. E. Granroth, M. B. Stone, M. D. Lumsden, L. DeBeer Schmitt, P. A. Alekseev, J. M. Mignot, S. M. Koohpayeh, P. Cottingham, W. Adam Phelan, L. Schoop, T. M. McQueen, C. Broholm, Interaction Driven Subgap Spin Exciton in the Kondo Insulator SmB 6, Physical Review Letters 114, (2015). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić, Vortices and vortex states in Rashba spin orbit coupled condensates, Physical Review A 90, (2014). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Interaction proximity effect at the interface between a superconductor and a topological insulator quantum well, Physical Review B 87, (2013). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Pairing instabilities in topological insulator quantum wells, Physical Review B 87, (2013). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić, Effective theory of fractional topological insulators in two spatial dimensions, Physical Review B 87, (2013). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić, Tanja Duric and Zlatko Tešanović, Fractional topological insulators of Cooper pairs induced by proximity effect, Physical Review Letters 110, (2013). arxiv:

4 Curriculum Vitae 4 Predrag Nikolić 11. Predrag Nikolić, Charge and spin fractionalization in strongly correlated topological insulators, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25, (2013). arxiv: Rong Yu, Pallab Goswami, Qimiao Si, Predrag Nikolić and Jian Xin Zhu, Superconductivity at the Border of Electron Localization and Itinerancy, Nature Communications 4, 2783 (2013). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Cooper pair insulators and theory of correlated superconductors, Physical Review B 83, (2011). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić, Unitarity in periodic potentials: a renormalization group analysis, Physical Review B 83, (2011). arxiv: Valentin Stanev, Boian S. Alexandrov, Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Robust accidental nodes and zeroes and critical quasiparticle scaling in iron based multiband superconductors, Physical Reviev B 84, (2011). arxiv: N. Goldman, I. Satija, P. Nikolić, A. Bermudez, M. A. Martin Delgado, M. Lewenstein and I. B. Spielman, Realistic Time Reversal Invariant Topological Insulators With Neutral Atoms, Physical Review Letters 105, (2010). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić, A. A. Burkov and Arun Paramekanti, Finite momentum pairing instability of band insulators with multiple bands, Physical Review B 81, (2010). arxiv: Pallab Goswami, Predrag Nikolić and Qimiao Si, Superconductivity in Multi orbital t J 1 J 2 Model and its Implications for Iron Pnictides, Europhysics Letters 91, (2010). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić, Phase diagram of two dimensional fast rotating ultracold fermionic atoms near unitarity, Physical Review A 81, (2010). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić, Two dimensional fermionic superfluids, pairing instability, and vortex liquids in the absence of time reversal symmetry, Physical Review B 79, (2009). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić, Pairing instability driven by macroscopically degenerate collective modes in twodimensional rotating fermion liquids near unitarity, unpublished (2008). arxiv: Eun Gook Moon, Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Superfluid insulator transitions of the Fermi gas with near unitary interactions in a periodic potential, Physical Review Letters 99, (2007). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Renormalization group fixed points, universal phase diagram, and 1/N expansion for quantum liquids with interactions near the unitarity limit, Physical Review A 75, (2007). arxiv:cond mat/ Predrag Nikolić, Subir Sachdev and Lorenz Bartosch, Electronic states near a quantum fluctuating point vortex in a d wave superconductor: Dirac fermion theory, Physical Review B 74, (2006). arxiv:cond mat/

5 Curriculum Vitae 5 Predrag Nikolić 25. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Effective action for vortex dynamics in clean d wave superconductors, Physical Review B 73, (2006). arxiv:cond mat/ Predrag Nikolić, Disordered, spin liquid and valence bond ordered phases of the Kagome lattice quantum Ising models with transverse field and XXZ dynamics, Physical Review B 72, (2005). arxiv:condmat/ Predrag Nikolić and T. Senthil, Theory of the Kagome lattice Ising antiferromagnet in weak transverse field, Physical Review B 71, (2005). arxiv:cond mat/ Predrag Nikolić and T. Senthil, Physics of low energy singlet states of the Kagome lattice quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet, Physical Review B 68, (2003). arxiv:cond mat/ Dejan M. Gvozdić, Predrag L. Nikolić and Jovan B. Radunović, Optimization of a resonant cavity enhanced metal semiconductor metal photodetector, IOP Semiconductor Science Techn. 15, 630 (2000). 30. Konstantin Nikolić, Predrag Nikolić and Roman Šorđan, Conductance of quantum interference transistors in parallel and in series, Superlattices and Microstructures 26, 47 (1999). Conference Proceedings 31. Predrag Nikolić, A. A. Burkov and Arun Paramekanti, Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems, International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Santa Fe, June 2010; Journal of Physics: Conference Series 273, (2011). arxiv: Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Low energy theory of a single vortex and electronic quasiparticles in a d wave superconductor, 8th International Conference on Materials and Mechanics of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors, Dresden, Germany, July 2006; Physica C 460, 256 (2007). arxiv:condmat/ Predrag L. Nikolić, Dejan M. Gvozdić and Jovan B. Radunović, Pulse response of a resonant cavity enhanced metal semiconductor metal photodetector, International Conference MIEL97, Niš, Serbia, Selected Presentations Invited talks and seminars 1. SESAPS 2016 Conference, Charlottesville VA, November 2016 Vortex states in a non Abelian magnetic field

6 Curriculum Vitae 6 Predrag Nikolić 2. Nordita workshop Multi Component and Strongly Correlated Superconductors (Stockholm, Sweden), July 2016; Strongly correlated topological insulators 3. University of Delaware, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, May 2016 Kondo Topological Insulators 4. The 19 th Symposium on Condensed Matter Physics, Belgrade, Serbia, September 2015 Kondo Topological Insulators 5. University of Maryland, College Park, seminar of the Condensed Matter Theory Center, February 2015 Topological Kondo Insulators 6. College of William and Mary, Physics Colloquium, September 2014 The rise of topological quantum entanglement 7. Rice University, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, August 2014 Two dimensional heavy fermions in Kondo topological insulators 8. Energy, Materials, Nanotechnology Summer Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, June 2014 Strongly correlated electrons with Rashba spin orbit coupling: a journey to fractional topological insulators 9. Aspen Center for Physics, informal talk in the Workshop "Optical lattice emulators and beyond, Aspen, CO, July Johns Hopkins University, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, October 2011 Charge and spin fractionalization in strongly correlated topological insulators 11.George Mason University, Colloquium of the Computational Materials Science Center, February 2011 Theory of correlated superconductors: s vs. d wave 12.Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Quantum Matter (Advisory Committee event), December 2010 Theory of correlated superconductors: s vs. d wave 13. Nordita workshop Quantum solids, liquids, and gases (Stockholm, Sweden), August 2010 Unitarity in periodic potentials and Cooper pair insulators 14. University of Maryland, Condensed Matter Theory Center, February 2010 Strongly correlated Cooper pair insulators and superfluids 15. Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Quantum Matter Seminar, October 2009 Superconductivity in strongly coupled multi band systems 16. Aspen Center for Physics, discussion leader in the Workshop "Quantum Vortices and Fluctuations in Superconductors and Superfluids, Aspen, July George Mason University, Colloquium, March 2009 Strongly Correlated Physics With Ultra Cold Atoms

7 Curriculum Vitae 7 Predrag Nikolić 18. National Institute for Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, March 2009 Two dimensional fermionic superfluids, vortex lattices and vortex liquids 19. California Institute of Technology, Condensed Matter Seminar, August 2008 University of Waterloo, Condensed Matter Seminar, September 2008 University of Toronto, Condensed Matter Seminar, September 2008 Vortex liquids in rotating fermion systems near unitarity 20. Aspen Center for Physics, discussion leader in the Workshop "Novel Aspects of Superconductivity", August 2007; The role of vortices in unconventional properties of d wave superconductors 21. Rice University, Condensed Matter Seminar, February 2007 Universal phase diagram of interacting quantum liquids near the unitarity limit 22. University of Virginia, Colloquium, February 2007 University of New Hampshire, Colloquium, February 2007 Mutual influence of vortices and quasiparticles in d wave superconductors 23. Johns Hopkins University, Condensed Matter Seminar, October 2006 Mutual influence of vortices and quasiparticles in d wave superconductors 24. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Informal Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, March 2006 Harvard University, Informal Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, October 2005 Columbia University, Condensed Matter Seminar, May 2005 Microscopic theory of vortex dynamics in clean d wave superconductors 25. Brookhaven National Laboratory conference Frustrated Magnetism, invited talk, Montauk 2004 Paramagnetic phases of Kagome lattice quantum Ising models 26. Yale University, Condensed Matter Seminar, February 2004 Kagome lattice quantum antiferromagnets: a quest for unconventional quantum phases Contributed talks and presentations 26. APS March Meeting, Baltimore, March 2016 Strong correlations in Kondo topological insulators: Two dimensional heavy fermions, and beyond 27. APS March Meeting, Denver, March 2014 Vortices and vortex states of Rashba spin orbit coupled condensates 28. APS March Meeting, Baltimore, March 2013 An effective theory of two dimensional fractional topological insulators 29. APS March Meeting, Boston, March 2012 Charge and spin fractionalization in strongly correlated topological insulators

8 Curriculum Vitae 8 Predrag Nikolić 30. APS March Meeting, Dallas, March 2011 Unitarity in periodic potentials and correlated s wave Cooper pair insulators 31. SCES Conference, Santa Fe, June 2010 Poster presentation: Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems 32. Gordon conference on strongly correlated electrons, South Hadley, June 2010 Poster presentation: Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems 33. APS DAMOP Meeting, Charlottesville, May 2009 Two dimensional FFLO vortex lattices and vortex liquids 34. APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, March 2009 Pairing Instability in 2D Rotating Fermion Liquids Near Unitarity 35. APS March Meeting, New Orleans 2008 Superfluid insulator transitions of the Fermi gas with near unitary interactions in a periodic potential 36. The International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Houston, May 2007 Poster presentation: Mutual influence of vortices and quasiparticles in d wave superconductors 37. Conference: "Correlated States in Degenerate Atomic Gases", Santa Barbara, April 2007 Poster presentation: Superfluid insulator transition of the Fermi gas with near unitary interactions in a periodic potential 38. APS March Meeting, Denver 2007 Universal phase diagram of fermionic quantum liquids near the unitarity limit 39. Gordon Research Conference on Correlated Electron Systems, South Hadley, June 2006 Poster presentation: Electronic density of states near a quantum vortex and vortex dynamics in d wave superconductors 40. APS March Meeting, Baltimore 2006 Effective vortex action in clean d wave superconductors 41. APS March Meeting, Montreal 2004 Kagome lattice quantum antiferromagnets with easy axis anisotropy Other Information Graduated from Josip Slavenski School of Classical Music, Belgrade, Serbia Playing the classical guitar, and composing for the piano