Dr. Mihai Bondarescu Address: 1028 E Del Mar Apt 307 91106 Pasadena, CA  Home Phone: 1-626-584-1964 Cell 1-626-628-4992   Office:         E-mail: 1-626-395-2497       mihai@theory.caltech.edu Graeme    Disa     Kip    Iuli     Ed       My sister   CV     fun    FREE stuff     My deepest secrets Where I grew up - people and places Caltech   theory  and Tapir                Kip  and Anton Kapustin AEI group now at LSU                Ed Seidel, Miguel Alcubierre, Curt Cuttler, Manuela Campanelli Freie Universitat Berlin West University of Timisoara                 Mitica Vulcanov Politehnica University Timisoara Grigore Moisil Highschool Research To make a  long story  short,  I'm a 2nd year grad student. I hope I will understand physics one day. That's why at the moment I am focusing more on what people have donne in the past instead of trying to change the world on my own. Theese days I'm palying with Dark Matter.   Where do you want to go tomorrow? Teaching & TA-ing  Ph237 - Gravitational Waves  with  Kip S Thorne and Yanbei Chen.  It's worth seeing this web page. We have high resolution movies of every class and all the reading & homework we used. All lectures are also published on DVDs.  I pushed Kip to do this at the very beginning and he opened this TA positon for me and  made me the 2nd autor.  Ph 1 Lab with David Politzer  [Nobel Prize 2004] and Paul Skerritt Summer school in General Relativity organized and taught in August 2003 Bucharest, Romania Gravitational Waves - a series of 14 graduate level lectures organized and taught jointly with my little sister and Greg Daues at Louisiana State University December 2003- January 2004. String Theory for High-School Students with Anton Kapustin. This lecture series was part of UCI's Cosmos Program Ph 135c - Undergraduate String Theory, with Tristan McLauglin and Michael Schulz Publications:  Science -- Mihai Bondarescu, Miguel Alcubierre, Edward Seidel,  Embeddings of BH surfaces in flat 3D space   gr-qc  0109093 (2001) accepted by Calssical and Quantum Gravity -- Kip S. Thorne, Mihai Bondarescu, Yanbei Chen - Gravitational Waves published at http://elmer.tapir.caltech.edu/ph237  and as a DVD series. -- Mihai Bondarescu, Kip S. Thorne, A New Family of Light Beams and Mirror Shapes for Future LIGO Interferometers Submitted to Physical Review D and gr-qc/0409083 -- NEW!! Mihai Bondarescu,  Simple solutions to the Einstein Equations in spaces with unusual topology - hep-th 0505057 awarded an honorable mention at the GRG essay contest and an invitation for publication in IJMPD. Here are the other winners. Science Popularization & Miscellaneous -- Mihai Bondarescu - Teoria Relativitatii din alta perspectiva,   Evrika, 1999 -- Matei Stefan, Mihai Bondarescu, Glita Sebastian - Matematici Speciale, Mirton 1999 -- Mihai Bondarescu, Iuliana Vatui, Elena Caraba - Relativitate si mai departe to appear in 'Stiinta si Tehnica'  -- A few words on Quantum Teleportation    psdvitex Conferences & Talks:  -- EU Meeting, AEI, December 1999.....................................................................AEI Talk.ps -- Fruhjahrstagung der DPG, 26-29 March 2001, Bonn, Germany   ..............ConferenceTalk -- 2 hours talk at FU Berlin, Germany (the longer presentation I have)  ......FU Berlin Talk -- Talks at Universitatea de Vest Timosoara, Romania .....................................UVTTalk.ps -- GR 16, 15-21 July 2001,  Durban, South Africa  ............................................ConferenceTalk                           (price for the best student talk) -- NR2001, 24-27 July 2001, Krugersdorp South Africa .................................. ConferenceTalk                          (Ngonyama Lion Lodge and Conference Centre) -- TASC, 26 October 2001, Caltech, USA        ....................................................Conferencetalk -- John Archibald Wheeler's 90th birdthday, 13-15 March 2001, Princeton, NJ, USA -- PCGM, UC Davies, CA USA -- PCGM, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA -- 1 hour seminar at University of Parma, Italy, March 2003..........................hosts, talk not online -- 1 hour and longer seminars at AEI, March 2003 .........................................AEI,talk1,talk2,talk3 -- 1 hour seminar at  Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg,  03/03 .place,people, talk not online -- August 2003 Timisoara, Romania - seminar on GR at West University Timisoara,  talk not online -- August 21 2003 Timisoara, Romania, Politechnica University -- over 2 hours invited talk at a press conference with about 50 students and reporters from TV and several newspapers organized by Liga AC following the summerschool I taught in Bucharest -- CGWA inaugural meeting, UTB, December 2003...................................poster1, poster2 -- 10 lectures on Gravitational Waves taught at LSU during the 2003-2004 winter holiday -- March 2004, 8 three-hours lectures on General Relativity and String Theory - Lecture series organized by LIGA AC at Politehnica University, Timisoara -- PCGM, March 2004 - An Alternative Design for LIGO's Mirrors..............................Talk -- 90 minutes infornal seminar @ Cornell University.......................................................Talk  Fun -- Cosmos - 4 three-hour lectures on Modern Physics slightly touching on String Theory at University of California Irvine [got in really great trouble for this one! ] -- September 2004, 13 lectures on Modern Physics at Grigore Moisil highschool Timisoara -- EGM 8, March 18-19 2005, Wake forest, NC ..............................................................Talk -- PCGM 21 , March 25-26 2005, Eugene Or ..................................................................Talk        This was quite an adventure. I drove the Super-Car all the way from LA to Oregon and back. -- String Theory Summer School, June 20 - July 8 2005, Perimeter Institute,  ON.............Talk      also innitiated, organized and chaired the student sessions together with Carlos Hoyos -- STRINGS 2005,  July 11-16 2005, Toronto.................................................................Poster -- CAM, San Diego, CA ..................................................................................................Poster      also chaired a Theoretical Physics sessions