Yevgeny Kats - Physics

April 2009: Unparticle self-interactions (with Howard Georgi)

Education

present		Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics, Harvard University High energy theoretical physics (Advisors: Nima Arkani-Hamed and Howard Georgi)
2007		A.M. in Physics, Harvard University
2004		M.Sc. in Physics (Summa Cum Laude), Bar-Ilan University, Israel Thesis: "Extraordinary Hall effect in SrRuO₃" (Advisor: Lior Klein)
2001		B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude), Bar-Ilan University, Israel
1998		Graduated from "Handesaim" high school (affiliated to Tel Aviv University) and HEMDA Reached the final stage of the Israeli National Physics Olympiad (1996-1997, 1997-1998) Member of the Israeli team to the 29th International Physics Olympiad (1998)

Publications

Experimental (past)

Domain wall resistivity in SrRuO₃
L. Klein, Y. Kats, A. F. Marshall, J. W. Reiner, T. H. Geballe, M. R. Beasley, and A. Kapitulnik
Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 6090 (2000) [arXiv:cond-mat/9912404]

Magnetic resistivity in SrRuO₃ and the ferromagnetic phase transition
Y. Kats, L. Klein, J. W. Reiner, T. H. Geballe, M. R. Beasley, and A. Kapitulnik
Phys. Rev. B 63, 054435 (2001)

Negative deviations from Matthiessen's rule in SrRuO₃ and CaRuO₃
L. Klein, Y. Kats, N. Wiser, M. Konczykowski, J. W. Reiner, T. H. Geballe, M. R. Beasley, and A. Kapitulnik
Europhys. Lett. 55, 532 (2001) [arXiv:cond-mat/0011376]

Testing the Berry phase model for extraordinary Hall effect in SrRuO₃
Y. Kats, I. Genish, L. Klein, J. W. Reiner, and M. R. Beasley
Phys. Rev. B 70, 180407(R) (2004) [arXiv:cond-mat/0405645]

Large anisotropy in the paramagnetic susceptibility of SrRuO₃ films
Y. Kats, I. Genish, L. Klein, J. W. Reiner, and M. R. Beasley
Phys. Rev. B 71, 100403(R) (2005) [arXiv:cond-mat/0311341]

M. Sc. Thesis: Extraordinary Hall effect in SrRuO₃
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University (2004). Advisor: Lior Klein.

Theoretical

Frenet algorithm for simulations of fluctuating continuous elastic filaments
Yevgeny Kats, David A. Kessler, and Yitzhak Rabin
Phys. Rev. E 65 (2002) 020801(R) [arXiv:cond-mat/0108038]

Higher-order corrections to mass-charge relation of extremal black holes [SPIRES]
Yevgeny Kats, Luboš Motl, and Megha Padi
JHEP 12 (2007) 068 [arXiv:hep-th/0606100]

Effect of curvature squared corrections in AdS on the viscosity of the dual gauge theory [SPIRES]
Yevgeny Kats and Pavel Petrov
JHEP 01 (2009) 044 [arXiv:0712.0743 [hep-th]]

Unparticle example in 2D [SPIRES]
Howard Georgi and Yevgeny Kats
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 131603 [arXiv:0805.3953 [hep-ph]]

Unparticle self-interactions [SPIRES]
Howard Georgi and Yevgeny Kats
arXiv:0904.1962 [hep-ph]

Teaching

I have served as a Teaching Fellow in the following courses at Harvard:

Physics 15b	Introductory Electromagnetism (Spring 2006 \| Lecturers: Nima Arkani-Hamed and Markus Greiner) awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
Physics 16	Mechanics and Special Relativity (Fall 2005 and Fall 2007 \| Lecturer: Howard Georgi) awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching in Fall 2007
Physics 151	Mechanics (Fall 2006 \| Lecturer: Arthur Jaffe) awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
Physics 253c	Quantum Field Theory III (Spring 2008 \| Lecturer: Howard Georgi)

And at Harvard Summer School:

Physics 1a

Principles of Physics (Summer 2005 and Summer 2006 | Lecturer: John Wills)

Other

All the links to the IPhO - my website about physics olympiads

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