Curriculum Vitæ of Jorge V. Rocha January 4, 2013 Home Address Av. Alexandre Herculano, 18, 6 Dto. 2900-205 Setúbal, PORTUGAL Phone #: +351-936-646-147 Work Address CENTRA Edifício Ciência, 4 Piso - IST Av. Rovisco Pais 1 1049-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL Phone #: +351-218-419-655 E-mail: jorge.v.rocha@ist.utl.pt Full Name Jorge Miguel Cruz Pereira Varelas da Rocha Born January 29 th, 1979;. Education University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, USA September 2003 August 2008. Doctor in Physics, August 2008. Ph.D. advisor: Prof. Joseph Polchinski. September 1997 June 2002. Licenciado in Technological Physics Engineering, June 2002. Final Average: 18/20. Current Situation October 2008 present date. Post-doctoral researcher at Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofísica (CENTRA). Professional Activities September 2012 January 2013. Prepared and lectured one-third of an undergraduate course on Methods in Mathematical Physics at the Department of Physics. University of California, Santa Barbara January 2008 August 2008. Graduate Student Researcher at the Department of Physics. Santa Barbara, USA
University of California, Santa Barbara Fall of 2003, Fall of 2004 and Fall of 2007. Teaching Assistant at the Department of Physics. September 2002 July 2003. Teaching Assistant at the Department of Mathematics. Santa Barbara, USA September 2000 July 2002. Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at the Department of Mathematics. Publications [1] Analytic study of small scale structure on cosmic strings, published in Phys.Rev.D74:083504,2006, e-print: hep-ph/0606205 (with Joseph Polchinski). [2] Cosmic string structure at the gravitational radiation scale, published in Phys.Rev.D75:123503,2007, e-print: gr-qc/0702055 (with Joseph Polchinski). [3] Periodic gravitational waves from small cosmic string loops, published in Phys.Rev.D76:024001,2007, e-print: gr-qc/0703109 (with Florian Dubath). [4] Scaling solution for small cosmic string loops, published in Phys.Rev.Lett.100:071601,2008, e-print: arxiv:0709.3284 [gr-qc]. [5] Cosmic String Loops, Large and Small, published in Phys.Rev.D77:123528,2008, e-print: arxiv:0711.0994 [astro-ph] (with Florian Dubath and Joseph Polchinski). [6] Evaporation of large black holes in AdS: coupling to the evaporon, published in JHEP08(2008)075, e-print: arxiv:0804.0055 [hep-th]. [7] Evaporation of large black holes in AdS: greybody factor and decay rate, published in JHEP08(2009)027, e-print: arxiv:0905.4373 [hep-th]. [8] Phase diagram for non-axisymmetric plasma balls, published in JHEP01(2010)021, e-print: arxiv:0910.0020 [hep-th] (with Vitor Cardoso and Óscar J. C. Dias). [9] Integrability of Five Dimensional Minimal Supergravity and Charged Rotating Black Holes, published in Class.Quant.Grav.27:135011,2010, e-print: arxiv:0912.3199 [hep-th] (with Pau Figueras, Ella Jamsin and Amitabh Virmani). Note: this article was selected as a 2010 2011 highlight of CQG by the editorial board.
[10] Evaporation of large black holes in AdS, published in J.Phys.:Conf.Ser.222(2010)012005, proceedings of the First Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity, Kolymbari (Crete, Greece), 14-18 September, 2009. [11] Black holes die hard: Can one spin up a black hole past extremality?, published in Phys.Rev.D81:084051,2010, e-print: arxiv:1003.4295 [gr-qc] (with Mariam Bouhmadi-López, Vitor Cardoso and Andrea Nerozzi). [12] Gravitational perturbation of the BTZ black hole induced by test particles and weak cosmic censorship in AdS spacetime, published in Phys.Rev.D83:104037,2011, e-print: arxiv:1102.4352 [gr-qc] (with Vitor Cardoso). [13] Inverse scattering construction of a dipole black ring, published in JHEP11(2011)008, e-print: arxiv:1108.3527 [hep-th] (with Maria J. Rodriguez and Amitabh Virmani). [14] An electrically charged doubly spinning dipole black ring, published in JHEP12(2012)121, e-print: arxiv:1205.0527 [hep-th] (with Maria J. Rodriguez and Oscar Varela). Fellowships Doctoral fellowship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) between November 2003 and October 2007. Broida fellowship award from University of California, Santa Barbara during the 2003/4 and 2004/5 academic years. Post-doctoral fellowship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) since January 2009. Doctoral Dissertation Analytic Approaches to the Study of Small Scale Structure on Cosmic String Networks, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), August 2008, under the orientation of Prof. Joseph Polchinski. Graduation Thesis An Introduction to Superstring Theory, T-duality and D-branes, Department of Physics, (Portugal), July 2002, under the orientation of Prof. João Pimentel Nunes. Expository Seminars and Presentations at Conferences Fascinating connections between gravity and other branches of physics, invited lecture at Physics Meeting in Amazonia 2012, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém (Brazil),
September 2012. Recent developments in the construction of charged black rings, invited seminar at Centro de Física do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Oporto (Portugal), September 2012. A brief introduction to the AdS/CFT conjecture, invited lecture at the summer school 6 a Escola de Astrofísica e Gravitação,, Lisbon (Portugal), September 2012. Inverse scattering construction of dipole black rings, plenary talk at the Spanish Relativity Meeting in Portugal ERE2012, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães (Portugal), September 2012. Recent developments in the construction of charged black rings, talk at the 1st Numerical Relativity/ High Energy Physics Network Meeting, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro (Portugal), July 2012. Inverse scattering construction of dipole black rings, poster at the Relativity and Gravitation 100 Years after Einstein in Prague, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), June 2012. Inverse scattering construction of dipole black rings, talk at the IV Black Holes Workshop, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro (Portugal), December 2011. Integrability of five dimensional gravity theories and inverse scattering construction of dipole black rings, invited seminar at Gr@v, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro (Portugal), November 2011. Integrability of five dimensional gravity theories and inverse scattering construction of dipole black rings, seminar at CENTRA, Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal), November 2011. Black holes die hard: can one spin-up a black hole past extremality?, talk at the III Black Holes Workshop, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal), December 2010. Black holes die hard: can one spin-up a black hole past extremality?, talk at the conference GR19, Mexico City (Mexico), July 2010. Phase diagram for non-axisymmetric plasma balls and their dual black holes, talk at the conference GR19, Mexico City (Mexico), July 2010. Phase diagram for non-axisymmetric plasma balls and black holes, talk at the II Black Holes Workshop,, Lisbon (Portugal), December 2009. Phase diagram for non-axisymmetric plasma balls, invited seminar at Centro de Física do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Oporto (Portugal), December 2009.
Phase diagram for non-axisymmetric plasma balls, invited seminar at Département de Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium), November 2009. Evaporation of Large Black Holes in AdS, talk at the First Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity, Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari (Crete, Greece), September 2009. Evaporation of Large Black Holes in AdS, talk at the Black Holes Workshop, Centro de Física do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Oporto (Portugal), December 2008. Evaporating large black holes in anti-de Sitter spacetimes, talk at the Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology 2008 Winter School (PASC 2008), Sesimbra (Portugal), December 2008. Evaporation of Large Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter, invited seminar at CAMGSD, Departamento de Matemática,, Lisbon (Portugal), November 2008. Small Scale Structure on Cosmic String Networks, seminar at CENTRA, Departamento de Física,, Lisbon (Portugal), October 2008. Evaporation of Large Black Holes in AdS, talk at the CFP Week on AdS/CFT, Centro de Física do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Oporto (Portugal), September 2008. Large Black Holes in AdS and the Information Paradox, talk at the 24th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, University of California Santa Barbara, CA (USA) March 2008. Periodic Gravitational Waves from Small Cosmic String Loops, talk at the 23rd Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, California Institute of Technology, CA (USA) March 2007. Small Scale Structure on Cosmic Strings, invited seminar at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, Stanford University, CA (USA), March 2007. Conferences and Workshops Attended V Black Holes Workshop,, Lisbon (Portugal), December 2012. Physics Meeting in Amazonia 2012, Belém (Brazil), September 2012. Spanish Relativity Meeting in Portugal ERE2012, Guimarães (Portugal), September 2012. 1st Numerical Relativity/High Energy Physics Network Meeting, Aveiro (Portugal), July 2012.
Relativity and Gravitation 100 Years after Einstein in Prague, Prague (Czech Republic), June 2012. IV Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro (Portugal), December 2011. Numerical Relativity & High Energy Physics, Madeira (Portugal), August 2011. Gravity New perspectives from strings and higher dimensions, Benasque (Spain), July 2011. III Black Holes Workshop, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal), December 2010. GR19, Mexico City (Mexico), July 2010. Iberian Strings 2010, Centro de Física do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Oporto (Portugal), February 2010. II Black Holes Workshop,, Lisbon (Portugal), December 2009. First Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity, Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari (Crete, Greece), September 2009. IST String Fest, Perspectives from a Younger Generation,, Lisbon (Portugal), June 2009. Mathematical Relativity in Lisbon,, Lisbon (Portugal), June 2009. Black Holes Workshop, Centro de Física do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Oporto (Portugal), December 2008. Particle physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology 2008 (PASC 2008) winter school, Sesimbra (Portugal), December 2008. CFP Week on AdS/CFT, Centro de Física do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Oporto (Portugal), September 2008. 24th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, University of California Santa Barbara, CA (USA), March 2008. Summer School on Particle Physics, Cosmology and Strings 2007, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo (Canada), August 2007. 23rd Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, California Institute of Technology, CA (USA), March 2007. XIV Oporto Meeting on Geometry, Topology and Physics, Oporto (Portugal), July 2005.
XIV International Congress on Mathematical Physics, Lisbon (Portugal), July 2003. Young Researchers Symposium 2003, Lisbon (Portugal), July 2003. XII Oporto Meeting on Geometry, Topology and Physics, Oporto (Portugal), July 2003. Third Meeting of the strings@pt Network, Oeiras (Portugal), December 2002. Second Meeting of the strings@pt Network, Lisbon (Portugal), December 2001. Modern Trends in String Theory Lisbon School on Superstrings II, Lisbon (Portugal), July 2001. Participations in Research & Development Projects Student Supervision Participated as a team member researcher in the following FCT projects: 1. PTDC/FIS/098025/2008 Numerical Relativity and the AdS/CFT correspondence (PI: Vitor Cardoso) from 01-04-2010 until 30-11-2012. 2. PTDC/FIS/099293/2008 Gauge/Gravity duality and QCD (PI: Miguel Costa) from 01-04-2010 until 31-03-2013. 3. CERN/FP/123609/2011 String effects in black holes and particle physics (PI: Filipe Moura), from 11-07-2012 until 10-07-2014. Co-supervisor of PhD student Raphael Santarelli during a six-month exchange program, from January until July of 2012. Other Activities Organizer of CENTRA s seminars during the 2012/2013 academic year. Local organizer of the V Workshop on Black Holes, held at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal), December 2012. Local organizer of the II Workshop on Black Holes, held at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal), December 2009. Languages Portuguese Mother tongue. English Fluent. French Some knowledge. Extra-curricular Activities Study of classical guitar since 1988. Enrolled at Escolas de Guitarra de Duarte Costa in Lisbon, from 1995 until 2003, during which I was an apprentice of the late Master José Duarte Costa. Continued study of classical guitar with renowned (and member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet) Prof. John Dearman at UCSB, during 2005 and 2006.