Olivera Miskovic
Full professor
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaiso, Chile
Black hole physics; Gauge/gravity duality and holography; (Super)Gravity theories in diverse dimensions.
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General Relativity and Field theory, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2004
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Quantum field theory, University of Belgrade. Serbia, 1998
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Hamiltonian formalism of degenerate systems, University of Belgrade. Serbia, 1994
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Researcher Associate Full Time
Institute of Nuclear Science "Vinca"
Belgrade, Serbia
1995 - 2002
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Postdoctoral researcher Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Faculty of Physics
Santiago, Chile
2004 - 2006
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Postdoctoral researcher Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
Valparaiso, Chile
2006 - 2008
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Associate Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
Faculty of Science
Valparaíso, Chile
2008 - 2011
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Adjoint Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
Faculty of Science
Valparaíso, Chile
2011 - 2017
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Long-term visitor Full Time
ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTE
Potsdam, Alemania
2009 - 2010
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Full-time professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
Faculty of Science
Valparaiso, Chile
2018 - At present
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Full professor Full Time
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaíso
Valparaiso, Chile
2008 - At present
Personal web page: https://fis.ucv.cl/omiskovic/
* BSc students
2013 Diego Teca
BSc Thesis: Numerical evidence of holographic superconductivity in AdS gravity.
2014 Paula Quezada
BSc Thesis: Entropy of extreme black holes
2015 Danilo Tapia
BSc Thesis: Black hole stability in gravity with the Gauss-Bonnet term.
2015 Constanza Callender
BSc Thesis: Phase trabsitions of black holes in AdS space.
2016 Gabriel Arenas (co-advisor)
BSc Thesis: Conformal mass in Lovelock AdS gravity.
2019 Alejandro Varas
BSc Thesis: Asymptotic symmetries of flat spacetime
2020 Matias Zamorano
BSc Thesis: Minisuperspace approximation in Einstein-Maxwell gravity
* MSc students:
2016-2019 Danilo Tapía, Co-advisor: Rodrigo Olea
MSc Thesis: Finite Lovelock gravity with the unique anti-de Sitter vacuum
2019 Alejandro Varas
MSc Thesis: Asymptotic symmetries in flat spacetime (in progress)
* PhD students
2011-2016 Ligeia Aranguiz
PhD Thesis: Lovelock holographic superconductors
2017- ... Paula Quezada (in progress) - Thermodynamic stability of extremal black holes
2018- ... Darío Lopez (in progress) - Black holes in AdS gravity and supersymmetry
2018- ... Francisco Javier Moreno (Co-advisor: Rodrigo Olea, in progress) - Entanglement entropy in higher curvature gravity
* Postdoctoral reserachers
FONDECYT postdoc (2019-2022) Georgios Anastasiou
FONDECYT postdoc (2018-2021) Arindam Lala
FONDECYT postdoc (2016-2019) Roy Debraj
FONDECYT postdoc (2016-2019) Omar Valdivia
FONDECYT postdoc (2014-2017) Xiao-Mei Kuang
FONDECYT postdoc (2013-2016) Remigiusz Ryszard Durka
FONDECYT postdoc (2012-2015) Nelson Ruben Merino Moncada
VRIEA PUCV postdoc Debraj Roy
VRIEA PUCV postdoc Arindam Lala
VRIEA PUCV postdoc Diego Sebastian Molina Peñafiel
* PhD exam committee member
2011 Marco Astorino (PUCV-CECs)
2013 Fiorenza de Micheli (PUCV-CECs)
2015 Adolfo Toloza (PUCV-CECs)
2016 Simón del Pino (PUCV)
2016 Israel Ramirez (USM-UNAB)
2016 David Choque (USM)
2018 Giorgios Anastasiou (UNAB)
2020 Milko Estrada (UA)
* MSc exam committee member
2013 René Araneda (UNAB)
2018 Pablo Guilleminot (UNAB)
2019 David Rivera-Betancour (UNAB)
2019 Gabriel Arenas Henríquez (UNAB)
2019 Carlos Pizarro (PUCV)
2021 Sergio Aburto (PUCV)
2021 Paula Hermosilla (PUCV)
* Qualifying exam committee member (last 5 years)
2012 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Quantum Mechanics
2014 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Electrodynamics
2017 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Quantum Mechanics
2018 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Quantum Mechanics
2019 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Quantum Mechanics
* Minicourses
2017, Minicourse "Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality",The Fourth Afro-Franco-Brazilian Meeting on Mathematics and Physics, Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques, Dangbo, Bénin
2018, Minicourse "Holography", “Winter School: Topics on Gravitículas”, PUC Chile
2018, Minicourse “Differential geometry in a nutshell with applications, PUCV, Chile
2019, Minicourse “Holography in anti de Sitter gravity", Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics (MCTP),&
Faculty of Science in Physics and Mathematics, U. Autonoma de Chiapas (UNACH), Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico
(Minicourse joined with Rodrigo Olea)
* Undergraduate courses teaching
2011, General Physics: Electromagnetism
2011, Mathematical Methods in Physics I
2012, Modern Physics
2012, Quantum Mechanics II
2013, Quantum Mechanics II
2013, Quantum Mechanics III
2014, Quantum Mechanics III
2015, Quantum Field Theory I
2016, Quantum Mechanics III
2017, Mathematical Methods in Physics
2018, Mathematical Methods in Physics
2018, Introduction to General Relativity
2019, Quantum Field Theory I
2020, Quantum Mechanics II
2021, Mathematical Methods in Physics
2021, Classical Field Theory
* Postgraduate courses teaching
2011, Conformal Field Theory (PhD)
2012, General Relativity (PhD)
2013, Quantum Mechanics II (PhD)
2014, Quantum Mechanics I (PhD)
2016, Classical Mechanics (PhD)
2016, Specialization seminr (MSc)
2017, Mathematical Methods in Physics (MSc)
2017, General Relativity (PhD)
2018, Mathematical methods in physics (MSc)
2019, Conformal Field Theory (PhD)
2020, Quantum mechanics I (PhD)
2020, Quantum mechanics (MSc)
2021, Classical Field Theory (MSc)
* Other relevant data
- Referee for the Program of Advanced Human Capital Training, CONICYT(from 2013)
- Member of the Study Group FONDECYT (Astronomy, Cosmology and Particles) (from 2019)
2020 Presentation (Zoom) "Black holes, wormholes and other secrets of the Universe" at the High School Liceo José Cortés Brown, Viña del Mar
2019 IV Congreso Nacional de Ciencias Físicas y Astronómicas, U de Concepción. Charla magistral: “Holograma de un agujero negro”;
2019 Event "Congreso Futuro" in the Valparaiso region, Discussion “How the scientific world faces permanent challenge of need to explain reality and find paths to know the unknown”, with Michael Kosterlitz, U. de Oxford, Nobel Prize in physics in 2016.
2019 Colloquium "Holographic world dual to gravity", Physics Department, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV),
Mexico City, Mexico
2018, “Life and work of a singular genius”, Special colloquium of the Faculty of Science PUCV, Dedicated to Stephen Hawking
2017 Presentation "Black holes,the most mysterious objects in the Universe" at the Astronomy Olympiad, School El Sauce, Los Andes
2016 Discussion about Universe and black holes, Radio Valentín Letelier
2016 Presentation "Gravity, geometry and space-time" at the High School Patricio Lynch, Valparaiso
2015 Presentation "Fundamental concepts of the String Theory" at the High School Monjas Francesas, Viña del Mar
2014 Presentation "What is the String Theory and why it is so successful?" at the High School San Rafael, Valparaiso
2104 Plenary talk and the II national congress of the students of science in physics and astronomy, with the tite "Holographic world dual to gravity"
2013 Presentation "Mission Impossible: Theory of everything" at the High School Santa Clara, Placilla, Valparaiso
2012 Presentation "An alternative Universe" at the Technical High School Andres Bello Lopez E-431, Quilpue
2012 Member of the evaluation committee of the primary and high school projects presented at the VI Scientific and Technologic Fair, at the Technical High School Andres Bello Lopez E-431, Quilpue
2011 Presentaion "Geometry of the Universe and fundamental forces", at the High School Ruben Castro, Viña del Mar
Black holes and asymptotic symmetries |
Holographic Complexity from AdS gravity |
Study of general aspects of non-conformal gauge theories using holographic duality |
Boundary dynamics in anti-de Sitter gravity and gauge/gravity duality |
Higher spin gravity and dualities |
Aspectos dinámicos de la Teoría de Gauge de Poincaré |
Gauge symmetries in gravity with applications in non-relativistic physics and holography |
Physical properties of gravity theories with S-expanded symmetry algebras and their holographic duals |
APPLICATIONS OF HOLOGRAPHIC GRAVITY TO STRONGLY COUPLED SYSTEMS VIA GAUGE/GRAVITY DUALITIES |
ASPECTS OF GAUGE/GRAVITY DUALITIES |
TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS IN ADS GRAVITY AND GAUGE/GRAVITY DUALITIES |
EXPANSION METHODS AND ITS PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS |
DUALITIES AND HIGHER-ORDER GRAVITIES |
QUANTUM MECHANICS OF GEOMETRIC SYSTEMS |
SCALAR FIELD AND ANTI-DE SITTER GRAVITY |
PHYSICAL CONTENT OF HIGHER DIMENSIONAL CHERN-SIMONS SUPERGRAVITIES |
Teorías de gauge de gravedad |
STUDY OF SUPER CHERN-SIMONS-ADS THEORY IN FIVE DIMENSIONS |