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E-mail: mihai@theory.caltech.edu
Homepage: http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~mihai
Date of birth: 08/22/1979
Place of birth: Alexandria, Romania
Education:
- 1993-1997 Informatics High School of Timisoara
- 1997-2001 West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Physics
- 1997-1999 Politechnica University of Timisoara, Faculty of Control
Engineering and Computer Science
- 1999-2001 Freie Universitat Berlin, Faculty of Physics
- 1999-2001 Max Planck Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik, Albert
Einstein
Institute, Golm, Germany
- 2001-
California
Institute of Technology
Publications:
- Matei Stefan, Mihai Bondarescu, Glita Sebastian - Matemetici
Speciale,
Mirton Publishing House Timisoara 1998
- Mihai Bondarescu - Teoria Relativitatii din alta Prespectiva -
Evrika,
November 1999
- Mihai Bondarescu - Embeddings of black hole horizons in flat space
- Diploma Thesis [2001]
- Mihai Bondarescu, Miguel Alcubierre, Edward Seidel - Embeddings of
black hole horizons in flat space - published in Classical and Quantum
Gravity
- Kip S Thorne, Mihai Bondarescu, Yanbei Chen - Gravitational
Waves
- published as a DVD series
- Mihai Bondarescu, Kip S Thorne - A New Family of Light Beams and
Mirror
Shapes for Future LIGO Interferometers - Submitted to Phys Rev D.
- Mihai
Bondarescu, Simple solutions to the Einstein Equations in spaces
with unusual topology - hep-th 0505057 awarded an honourable mention at
the GRG essay contest and an invitation for publication in IJMPD.
Talks:
- EU Meeting, AEI Gom, Germany, December
1999
- Fruhjahrstagung der DPG, 26-29 March 2001, Bonn, Germany
- 2 hours talk at FU Berlin, Germany
- Talks at Universitatea de Vest Timosoara, Romania
- GR 16, 15-21 July 2001,
Durban, South Africa (prize
for the best student talk)
- NR2001, 24-27 July 2001 Ngonyama Lion Lodge and Conference
Centre, Krugersdorp South Africa
- TASC, 26 October 2001, Caltech
- 1 hour seminar at University of Parma, Italy, March
2003
- three 1 hour and longer seminars at AEI, March 2003
- 1 hour seminar at Astronomisches Rechen-Institut,
Heidelberg, 03/03
- August 2003 Timisoara, Romania - seminar on GR at West University
Timisoara
- 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
- PCGM, March 2004
- 90 minutes infornal seminar @ Cornell
University
- TASC, 15 October 2004, UC Irvine, CA
- EGM 8, March 18-19
2005, Wake forest, NC
- PCGM 21 , March
25-26 2005, Eugene OR
- String Theory Summer School, June 20 - July 8 2005, Perimeter
Institute, ON
also
innitiated, organized and chaired the student
sessions together with Carlos Hoyos
- STRINGS
2005, bv July 11-16 2005,
Toronto
- CAM, San Diego, CA
also
chaired a Theoretical Physics sessions
Courses Taught:
- August 2003 - 7 lectures on General Relativity at
undergraduate
level taught in Bucharest
- 10
graduate level lectures on Gravitational Waves taught at Louisiana
State
University 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
- Summer 2004 - Cosmos programm, UC Irvine - Taught a few lectures on
Modern Physics, including some String Theory for oustanding highschool
students.
- September 2004 - A few lectures on modern physics taught Grigore
Moisil
Informatics Highschool, Timisoara, Romania
Awards, Grants and Fellowships:
2002-present Tuition waiver and Various Summer Reading/Research Grants
awarded by
California Institute of Technology
Honourable Mention awarded by the GRG
foundation for hep-th 0505057 (May 2005)
Hartle award for the best student talk
in my section at GR16, South
Africa, 2001
HEREUS award for finishing a 5 years
German Diploma in Physics in less
than 3.5 years
ERASMUS fellowship 10/1999-10/2000
Rumanian merit based fellowships awarded by Universitatea de Vest
Timisoara,
Romania 1998-1999
Rumanian merit based fellowships awarded by Universiatea
PolitechnicaTimisoara,
Romania 1997-1998
Many prizes and awards at Romanian Mathematics Olympic Contests during
highschool
Work Experience:
01/2000 - 09/2001 Max Planck Institute fur Gravitationphysik, Albert
Einstein Institute - Research Assistant
10/2001- 01/2002 California Institute of Technology -
Teaching
Assistant for Ph1 - lab
with David Politzer [Nobel Prize 2004]
01/2002- 10/2002 California Institute of Tecnology, teaching
assistant for Ph237 Gravitational Waves with Kip S Thorne. Aside form
solving homeworks, office hours and grading my mission
here
was to provide the enthusiasm, motivation and part of the work required
for the publication of the course as a DVD
series
10/2002- present California Institute of Technology -
Teaching
Assistant for Ph1 - lab with David Politzer.
2/2005 - present California Institute of Technology -
Teaching
Assistant for Undergraduate
String Theory, with Tristan McLouglin and Michael Schulz
Hobbies:
Swimming, Skiing, Hiking, Camping, Rock
climbing,
organizing trips, teaching, advising students, making people go beyond
their limits and do things they wouldn't ever dream of.
Interantional Driver's License category B since 1997
California Driver's Licence since 2001
Attested as computer programmer since 1997.