Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

	Name:	MONASTRA, Alejandro Gabriel
	Birth:	February 1971, Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Address:	Institut für Theoretische Physik TU Dresden 01062 Dresden Germany
	Telephones:	+49 351 463-36331 +49 351 463-37297 (fax)
	E-mail:	monastra@physik.tu-dresden.de
	Web Page:	http://www.comp-phys.tu-dresden.de/~monastra

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Academic Studies

• Undergraduate studies in Physical Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (1990-1996).
  Grade average: 9.34 / 10 grades
  
  
• Master Thesis: Exact and Semiclassical calculation of single eigenstates in Chaotic Systems
  Advisor: Prof. Marcos Saraceno
  Date: April 1996 - October 1997
  Place: Laboratorio Tandar, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Argentina.
  Obtained grade: 10 / 10 grades
  
  
• Ph.D in Physics, Université de Paris XI, Orsay, France (1998-2001).
  Doctoral Thesis: Quantum fluctuations in finite size fermionic systems (in french)
  Advisor: Dr. Patricio Leboeuf
  Date: November 1998 - November 2001
  Place: Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS), Orsay, France.
  Obtained mention: très honorable (possible mentions: honorable and très honorable)
  
  

Research experience

• April 2003 - present
  Institut für Theoretische Physik, Tecnische Universität Dresden, Germany.
  Position in the Computational Physics Group, leaded by Prof. Roland Ketzmerick.
  
  
• January 2002 - February 2003
  Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
  Granted by the European Network Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Chaos.
  Post-doctoral position hosted by Prof. Uzy Smilansky.
  Main research activity: nodal structure and critical points of quantum eigenfunctions, boundary effects, random wave ensembles.
  
  
• November 1998 - November 2001
  Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Orsay, France.
  Granted by the Academie de Versailles, Ministère de la Recherche, France.
  Doctoral studies advised by Prof. Patricio Leboeuf.
  Main research activity: thermodynamics of confined Fermi systems, semiclassical theory, applications to mesoscopic experiments, Random Matrix Theory, Riemann Zeta Function.
  
  
• March 1996 - October 1998
  Quantum Chaos Group, Laboratorio Tandar, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Argentina.
  Granted by the Department of Physics of CNEA since June 1998.
  Advised by Prof. Marcos Saraceno.
  Main research activity: quantum maps, semiclassical theory, coherent state representations.
  

Teaching experience

• October 2003 - February 2004
  Tecnische Universität Dresden, Germany.
  Tutorial groups on Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics.
  
  
• October 2004 - February 2005
  Tecnische Universität Dresden, Germany.
  Tutorial groups on Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics.
  

Publications

• E. Bogomolny, O. Bohigas, P. Leboeuf, and A. G. Monastra:
  On the spacing distribution of the Riemann zeros: corrections to the asymptotic result,
  submitted (2006). (math.NT/0602270)
  
  
• P. Leboeuf, A. G. Monastra, and A. Relaño:
  Fluctuations in the level density of a Fermi gas,
  Physical Review Letters 94, 102502 (2005). (nucl-th/0411068)
  
  
• A. Bäcker, R. Ketzmerick, and A. G. Monastra:
  Flooding of chaotic eigenstates into regular phase space islands,
  Physical Review Letters 94, 054102 (2005). (nlin.CD/0409029)
  
  
• P. Leboeuf and A. G. Monastra:
  Quantum thermodynamic fluctuations of a chaotic Fermi-gas model,
  Nuclear Physics A 724, 69-84 (2003). (nucl-th/0302083)
  
  
• A. G. Monastra, U. Smilansky, and S. Gnutzmann:
  Avoided intersections of nodal lines,
  Journal of Physics A 36, 1845-1853 (2003). (nlin.CD/0212006)
  
  
• J. P. Keating, F. Mezzadri, and A. G. Monastra:
  Nodal domain distribution for quantum maps,
  Journal of Physics A 36, L53-L59 (2003). (nlin.CD/0212008)
  
  
• P. Leboeuf and A. G. Monastra:
  Thermodynamics of small Fermi systems: Quantum Statistical Fluctuations,
  Annals of Physics 297, 127-156 (2002). (cond-mat/0110369)
  
  
• P. Leboeuf, A. G. Monastra and O. Bohigas:
  The Riemannium,
  Regular and Chaotic Dynamics Vol. 6 N. 2, 205-210 (2001). (nlin.CD/0101014)
  
  
• P. Leboeuf and A. G. Monastra:
  Correlations and fluctuations of a confined electron gas,
  Physical Review B 62, 12617-12620 (2000). (cond-mat/0009104)
  
  
• M. Saraceno and A. G. Monastra:
  Exact and semiclassical Husimi distributions of Quantum Map Eigenstates,
  (nlin.CD/0105006)
  
  

Conferences

• 5. Dresdner Herbstseminar des Arbeitskreises Nichtlineare Physik: Fluiddynamik
  Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany. November 8th. to 10th. 2004.
  Poster: Flooding of regular islands by chaotic states
  
  
• Workshop Recent Perspectives in Random Matrix Theory and Number Theory
  Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, England. March 29th. to April 8th. 2004.
  
  
• Workshop Resonances - from Physics to Mathematics and back
  Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany. January 26th. to 30th. 2003.
  
  
• 4. Dresdner Herbstseminar des Arbeitskreises Nichtlineare Physik: Dynamik auf Netzwerken
  Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany. November 9th. to 12th. 2003.
  Poster: Quantum thermodynamic fluctuations of a chaotic Fermi-gas model
  
  
• Workshop Random Matrices in Subatomic Physics
  ECT*, Trento, Italy. May 26th. to 30th. 2003.
  Lecture: Quantum fluctuations in Fermi systems
  
  
• Minerva Meeting of Young Researchers Semiclassics, Quantum Chaos and Mesoscopics
  Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany. January 29th. to February 2nd. 2003.
  Lecture: On nodal structures in chaotic wavefunctions
  
  
• Colloquium of the European Network Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Chaos
  Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France. October 3rd. to 5th. 2002.
  Lecture: Avoided intersections of nodal lines
  
  
• 7th. Gentner-Symposium on Quantum Chaos
  Ein Gedi, Israel. February 24th. to March 3rd. 2001.
  
  
• XXXVI Rencontres de Moriond Electronic correlations: from Meso to Nanophysics
  Les Arcs, France. January 20th. to 27th. 2001.
  Poster: Correlations and fluctuations of a confined electron gas
  
  
• Summer School Coherent atomic matter waves
  Les Houches, France. August 1999.
  
  
• Latin American Winter School Chaos and Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Applications
  Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. July 5th. to 17th. 1998.
  Poster: Semiclassical Projector on Single Husimi Eigenstates for Chaotic Systems
  
  

Seminars and research visits

• Laboratoire de Physique Théorique des Liquides, Paris, France. April 29th. 2004.
  Seminar: Fluctuations quantiques dans les systèmes fermioniques
  
  
• Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS), Orsay, France. February 2004.
  Collaboration with P. Leboeuf and O. Bohigas on dynamical interpretation of some mathematical problems. Collaboration with P. Leboeuf and A. Relano on statistic of excitations in atom nuclei. Collaboration with E. Bogomolny, P. Leboeuf and O. Bohigas on corrections to the statistics of Riemann's zeros.
  
  
• Department of Mathematical Physics, Lund University, Sweden, September 2003.
  Invited by Prof. Sven Åberg.
  Seminar: Quantum fluctuations in the Riemannium
  
  
• Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, England. September 2002.
  Invited by Prof. Jonathan Robbins.
  Collaboration with Prof. J. P. Keating and F. Mezzadri on nodal domains in quantum maps. Discussion with Jens Markloff about lattice problems. Discussion with Prof. Michael Berry and Dr. Mark Dennis (from the Physics Department) about nodal and critical point structure on wave-functions.
  Seminar: Avoided intersections of nodal lines in quantum eigenfunctions
  
  
• Department of Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, August 6th. 2002.
  Seminar: Avoided intersections of nodal lines in quantum eigenfunctions
  
  
• Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS), Orsay, France. April 2002
  Collaboration with P. Leboeuf and O. Bohigas on lattice problems and statistic of excitations in atom nuclei.
  
  
• Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, February 26th. 2002.
  Seminar: Quantum fluctuations of small Fermi systems
  
  
• Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 27th. 2001.
  Seminar: Spectral fluctuations in the Riemann zeros
  
  
• Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany. March 2001.
  Invited by Prof. Klaus Richter.
  Seminar: Fluctuations in a confined electron gas
  
  
• Department of Mathematics, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. February 8th. 2001.
  Invited by Prof. R.H. Cushman.
  Seminar: Quantum fluctuations in mesoscopic systems and the Riemann Zeta function
  
  
• Laboratorio Tandar, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Argentina. December 2000.
  Collaboration with Prof. M. Saraceno and E. Vergini.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Other research interests:
  Mesoscopic Physics (nanowires, Coulomb blockade, shot noise), Classical Chaos, Bose-Einstein condensation, Quantum computing, Acoustics.
  
  
• Language skills:
  Spanish (mother tongue), French and English (written and spoken), Italian (spoken), German (initial level).
  
  
• Musical studies and activities:
  
  • Diploma on Choral Conduction (1994) and Piano Professor (1998)
    Conservatorio Provincial J.J. Castro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    
  • Conduction of Coro Polifónico de Gral. Pacheco from 1992 to 1998
    Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina.