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Olivera Miskovic

Full professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaiso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Black hole physics; Gauge/gravity duality and holography; (Super)Gravity theories in diverse dimensions.

Educación

  •  General Relativity and Field theory, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2004
  •  Quantum field theory, University of Belgrade. Serbia, 1998
  •  Hamiltonian formalism of degenerate systems, University of Belgrade. Serbia, 1994

Experiencia Académica

  •   Researcher Associate Full Time

    Institute of Nuclear Science "Vinca"

    Belgrade, Serbia

    1995 - 2002

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Faculty of Physics

    Santiago, Chile

    2004 - 2006

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2006 - 2008

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Faculty of Science

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2008 - 2011

  •   Adjoint Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Faculty of Science

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2011 - 2017

  •   Long-term visitor Full Time

    ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTE

    Potsdam, Alemania

    2009 - 2010

  •   Full-time professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Faculty of Science

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2018 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Full professor Full Time

    Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaíso

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2008 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


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)


Difusión y Transferencia


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



 

Article (41)

N = 2 AdS4 supergravity, holography and Ward identities
Counterterms, Kounterterms, and the variational problem in AdS gravity
Topological invariants and the definition of energy in quadratic gravity theory
Mass in Lovelock Unique Vacuum gravity theories
Non-Abelian gauge theories invariant under diffeomorphisms
Asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional Chern-Simons gravity for the Maxwell algebra
Energy in higher-derivative gravity via topological regularization
Extremal black holes, Stueckelberg scalars and phase transitions
Holography in Lovelock Chern-Simons AdS gravity
Thermal phase transitions of dimensionally continued AdS black holes
Vacuum degeneracy and Conformal Mass in Love lock AdS gravity
Vacuum energy in asymptotically flat 2+1 gravity
Dynamical structure of pure Lovelock gravity
Magnetic mass in 4D AdS gravity
Topological black holes in pure Gauss-Bonnet gravity and phase transitions
Conformal mass in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet AdS gravity
Black hole solutions in Chern-Simons AdS supergravity
Conformal mass in AdS gravity
Free energy of a Lovelock holographic superconductor
Renormalized AdS action and Critical Gravity
Holography in 3D AdS gravity with torsion
Attractor horizons in six-dimensional type IIB supergravity
Conserved charges for black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics in AdS space
Geometry and stability of spinning branes in AdS gravity
NAKED SINGULARITIES, TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS AND BRANE COUPLINGS
Quantum statistical relation for black holes in nonlinear electrodynamics coupled to Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet AdS gravity
Stable p-branes in Chern-Simons AdS supergravities
Background-independent charges in Topologically Massive Gravity
Couplings between Chern-Simons gravities and 2p-branes
Negative spectrum of the 2+1 black hole
Nonlinear electrodynamics in 3D gravity with torsion
Topological regularization and self-duality in four-dimensional anti-de Sitter gravity
Thermodynamics of Einstein-Born-Infeld black holes with negative cosmological constant
Counterterms in dimensionally continued AdS gravity
Dynamics and BPS states of AdS(5) supergravity with a Gauss-Bonnet term
Fluctuations around classical solutions for gauge theories in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approach
Holographic currents in first order gravity and finite Fefferman-Graham expansions
On boundary conditions in three-dimensional AdS gravity
Canonical sectors of five-dimensional Chern-Simons theories
Dynamical structure of irregular constrained systems
Canonical approach to 2D supersymmetric WZNW model coupled to supergravity

ConferencePaper (4)

Gravity with a non-Abelian gauge symmetry in a Hamiltonian way
Pontryagin Term and Magnetic Mass in 4D AdS Gravity
Quantum phase transition of the static extremal black hole coupled to a Stückelberg scalar
Thermodynamics of black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet AdS gravity coupled to Nonlinear Electrodynamics

Proyecto (18)

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
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Olivera Miskovic

Full professor

Institute of Physics

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaiso, Chile

19
Rodrigo Olea

Associate Professor

Departamento de Ciencias Físicas

UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

Santiago, Chile

9
Jorge Zanelli

Researcher

Theoretical Physics Laboratoy

CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTIFICOS

VALDIVIA, Chile

2
Omar Valdivia

Profesor Asistente

Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura

Universidad Arturo Prat

Iquique, Chile

2
Ricardo Troncoso

Researcher

CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTIFICOS (CECs)

Valdivia, Chile

2
Nelson Merino

Investigador Postdoctoral

Laboratoire APC

Universite Paris Diderot

Paris, Francia

2
Rodrigo Aros

Director de la licenciatura en fisica

Departarmento de ciencias fisicas

UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

Santiago, Chile

1
Dumitru Astefanesei

Profesor Adjunto

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Patrick Concha

Académico

Departamento de Matemática y Física aplicadas

Universidad Católica de la Santisima Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Roy Debraj

Investigador Postdoctorado

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

Mohanpur, Chile

1
Evelyn Rodríguez

Académica

Departamento de Matemática y Física Aplicadas

Universidad Católica de la Santisima Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Gabriel Arenas

Postdoctoral Researcher

Yau Mathematical Sciences Center

Tsinghua University

Beijing, China