Assistant University

CURRICULUM?VITAE:?ESFANDIAR?ALIZADEH?

Department of Physics e-mail: ********@********.***

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign phone: 217-***-****

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Urbana, IL 61801

EDUCATION?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ph.D. Candidate in Physics (Expected) April 2011

Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Wandelt

Thesis: Topics in Cosmology: Structure Formation, Dark Energy and

Recombination

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran

Master of Science in Physics May 2004

Bachelor of Science in Physics May 2002

PAPERS?

AWARDS?

Benjamin D.Wandelt (PI), NSF, AAG: Cosmic Voids as Dark Energy

Laboratories, 7/2009-7/2012: $397,728

Benjamin D. Wandelt (PI) and Esfandiar Alizadeh (Co-PI),

Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, Cosmological Voids as Dark Energy

Laboratories. research assistant funding for spring and summer 2008.

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Ranked 2 in the Iranian National Physics Masters Degree Entrance Exam

2002

Silver medal of National Physics Olympiad in Iran 1997

RESEARCH?

2005-2007, UIUC, with Benjamin Wandelt

Developed a novel method, based on the random walk formalism, to

describe the merger history of dark matter halos.

2007-present, UIUC, with Rahul Biswas, Guilhem Lavaux and

Benjamin Wandelt

Considering different methods to use the information contained in

cosmological voids properties to constrain the Dark Energy equaion of state.

2009-present, Caltech, with Christopher Hirata

Calculated the effect of the hydrogen molecule on the history of

recombination. (The scientific work has finished and it is in the writing

stage.)

TEACHING?

Teaching assistant for several undergraduate physics courses.

Ranked an excellent teacher by students three times.

TALKS?

Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern California (TASC) talk, 2010 at Caltech,

The Effect of Hydrogen Molecules on the Cosmological Recombination History.

Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity (TAPIR) talks given several

times a year to graduate students from various fields, Topics including:

Cosmological Perturbation Theory, Bell's Inequality Explained.

CTA Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics & General Relativity, UIUC,

Nov 15 2006, Brane World Gravity .

COMPUTER?SKILLS?

Coding: proficient in C and Mathematica

Plotting: working knowledge of Gnuplot and Super-Mongo

REFERENCES?

Dr. Benjamin D. Wandelt (Advisor)

Institut D' Astrophysique de Paris,

98 bis Boulevard Arago,

75014 Paris, France

Phone: +33 (0)1 44 32 81 43

E-mail: *******@***.**

Dr. Christopher M. Hirata

California Institute of Technology M/C 350-17

Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

Phone: 1-626-***-****

E-mail: *******@*****.*******.***

Dr. Andrew Benson

California Institute of Technology M/C 350-17

Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

Phone: 1-626-***-****

E-mail: *******@***.*******.***

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