Lazaroiu, Calin Iuliu

Biography

Education PhD (awarded with Distinction) from Columbia University in the City of New York, 17 May 2000. Thesis advisor: Prof. Brian R. Greene. Awarded by joint Physics/Mathematics committee, presided by Profs. Eric Weinberg (physics) and John Morgan (mathematics). Thesis: “Quantum effects in D-brane geometry”. M. Phil. and M. A. from Columbia University in the city of New York, Oct. 15, 1997. Diploma from University of Bucharest, Romania, 1994. Chief of promotion. Thesis: “Adiabatic vacua in quantum field theories on curved space-times”, supervised by Profs. G. Nenciu and R. Purice of the Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. Research experience Feb. 2013 – present: Senior Research Fellow, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics, Pohang, Republic of Korea Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2013: Senior Researcher, Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest, Romania. Oct. 2010 – Oct. 2011: Research Associate, Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest, Romania. 2004 – Research associate, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (supervisor: Prof. Edward Witten) 2003 – 2004 Research Associate, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison (supervisor: Prof. Albrecht Klemm) 2002 – 2003 Post-doctoral research associate, Institute for Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Supervised by Prof. Albrecht Klemm 2000 – 2002 Post-doctoral research associate, C.N.Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Supervised by Prof. Martin Rocek 1997 – 2000 Research Assistant, Columbia University, New York. Work on Calabi-Yau compactifications with D-branes, (0,2) sigma models and F-theory. Supervised by Prof. Brian R. Greene. 1995 – 1996 Summer Research associate of the Lattice QCD Group of Columbia University (supervised by Prof. Norman Christ). Other research experience and skills Research in functional-analytic aspects of field theory (supervised by Radu Purice and Gheorghe Nenciu, Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy). 1 Symbolic (Macaulay, Singular/Plural, Sage, Maple, Mathematica, Cadabra), linear (polytopes/toric geometry) and numerical modeling. Knowledge of Unix/Linux at administrator level. Proficient in several general purpose programming languages (C, Common Lisp etc.). Teaching Experience Lecturer in Trinity College Dublin Jan 2005-Sept 2010: taught classes on: 1st year level: - Mathematics for Students of Natural Science (1 year course) - Methods of Mathematical Physics (1 year course); 3rd-4th year level: - General Relativity (1 year course) - Statistical Physics (½ year course) - Differential Topology (1 year curse), course created and developed by me. - Algebraic Geometry (½ year course), course created and developed by me. Teaching Assistant at Columbia University 1996-1997. Participated in the University's Honors Physics Program and held a full Summer Teaching position. Mentorship Academic supervisor for two graduate students who completed their M.Sc. degrees in 2009. Conference and seminar organization Geometry and Physics XIII - Derived Geometry, July 6 – 10, 2015, Pohang, Korea Series of lectures on open-closed Landau-Ginzburg B-models, Spring 2015, IBS-CGP, Pohang, Korea Conference on Derived Categories, Non-commutative Geometry and Strings, 2007, Dublin, Ireland Weekly Colloquium, Trinity college Dublin, Ireland 2006 12th Irish Conference on Quantum Field Theory, Dublin, Ireland 2005 Academic honors Pfister Fellowship (US), 1997 – 1999. Referee for JHEP, Journal of Geometry and Physics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Sigma, Advances in High Energy Physics etc. 2 External Referee for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom, 2007. Grants and funding October 2014 – present: IBS Senior Scientist grant “Constructive string field theory of open-closed topological B-type strings” Feb. 2013 – onwards: supported by the research grant IBS-R003-G1 2011 - Apr. 2013: supported by the grants PN-II-ID-PCE (contract number 50/2011) and PN 09370102/2009 2007 - 2009: Two awards from the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) supporting my former graduate students with me as Principal Investigator. 2005 - 2008: member and administrative manager of the Trinity College, Dublin node of the Marie Curie Network “Constituents, Fundamental Symmetries and Forces of the Universe” (MRTNCT-2004-005104) 2005 - 2006: Trinity College Start-up grant 2003: supported by DFG grant (Germany) 1997 - 2000, 2000 - 2002, 2003 - 2004: supported by group DOE grant (USA)

Research Interest

Symplectic and algebraic geometry, category theory