Evan Berkowitz

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Education

• University of Maryland, College Park, 2008-2013, College Park MD
  • Ph.D. in physics. Defended 8 April 2013, awarded 19 May 2013.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004-2008, Cambridge MA
  • S.B. in physics, GPA 4.8/5.0.
• Hunter College High School, 1998-2004, New York NY
  • Graduated with honors in mathematics and physics.

Current Position

Postdoctoral Researcher: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

L-415
7000 East Avenue
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94550
(925) 423-9212

I am postdoctoral researcher in the lattice group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I use a mind-bogglingly gigantic, absolutely stupendous computer to study QCD, the theory of the strong nuclear force.

Positions Held

• Graduate Research Assistant: TQHN, Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park

  • June 2009 - May 2013

  • Studied topological solitons in color-flavor-locked quark matter.
  • Characterized a phase of condensed nuclei with possible applications for helium white dwarfs.
  • Pointed out certain constraining aspects of finite-volume simulations.
• Undergraduate Researcher: Waves and Beams, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT
  • Summer 2007
  • Modeled and simulated an image-free cavity for a 20:1 elliptical beam to determine eigenfrequencies.
  • Developed and experimented with a photonic band gap cavity solid model in HFSS.
  • Modeled and simulated TESLA accelerator cavities to find field features and dispersion relations of TM modes, including beam-breakup modes.
• Undergraduate Researcher: Applied Mathematics Fluids Laboratory, MIT
  • Summer 2006
  • Developed scripts to analyze videos of fluid motion experiments.
  • Investigated the nibbling frequency in the tears of wine phenomenon.
  • Designed and built an experiment to investigate the natural frequency of a two dimensional “balloon” in a vertical soap film.

Grants, Honors & Awards

• Fall 2014: 10,000,000 CPU-Hours as co-PI for Lattice QCD Investigation of Hadronic Parity Violation, NERSC 2014 Allocation #88503
• Spring 2013: Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland
• 2011-2012: JSA/Jefferson Lab Graduate Fellow
• 2009-2013: Research Assistantship, Theoretical Quarks, Hadrons, and Nuclei Group of the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland
• 2008-2010: Departmental Fellowship, Physics Department, University of Maryland
• 2008 Class: ΣΠΣ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2007-2008: ΦΚΣ Foundation Scholarship Winner

Publications

1. Appelquist et alia (The LSD Collaboration). Composite Bosonic Baryon Dark Matter on the Lattice: SU(4) Baryon Spectrum and the Effective Higgs Interaction. 2014, Phys. Rev. D, 89:094508 2014, hep-lat/1402.6656
2. Evan Berkowitz. Some Novel Phenomena at High Density. PhD thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2013.
3. Evan Berkowitz, Thomas D. Cohen, and Patrick Jefferson. Multi-channel S-Matrices From Energy Levels in Finite Boxes. Submitted to Phys. Rev. C, 2012, hep-lat/1211.2261.
4. Paulo F. Bedaque, Evan Berkowitz, and Srimoyee Sen. Thermodynamics of Nuclear Condensates and Phase Transitions in White Dwarfs. Phys. Rev. D, 89:045010 2014, astro-ph/1206.1059.
5. Paulo F. Bedaque, Evan Berkowitz, and Aleksey Cherman. Neutrino Emission from Helium White Dwarfs with Condensed Cores. Submitted to JCAP, 2012, nucl-th/1203.0969.
6. Paulo F. Bedaque, Evan Berkowitz, Geoffrey Ji, and Nathan Ng. Electron Shielding of Vortons in High-Density Quark Matter. Phys. Rev. D, 85:043008, February 2012, nucl-th/1112.1386.
7. Paulo F. Bedaque, Evan Berkowitz, and Srimoyee Sen. Stable Vortex Loops in Two-Species BECs. J. Physics B, 45(22):225301, 2012, cond-mat.quant-gas/1111.4507.
8. Paulo F. Bedaque, Evan Berkowitz, and Aleksey Cherman. Nuclear Condensate and Helium White Dwarfs. The Astrophysical Journal, 749(1):5, 2012, nucl-th/1111.1343.
9. Paulo F. Bedaque, Evan Berkowitz, and Aleksey Cherman. Vortons in Dense Quark Matter. Phys. Rev. D, 84(2):023006, July 2011, nucl-th/1102.4795.

Talks

• Nuclear Physics from First Principles
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics Section Seminar, 13 August 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA.
  • with Thorsten Kurth at the 2014 SciDAC PI Meeting, 31 July 2014, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Washington DC.
• Scattering Observables from Finite Volumes – A Gentle Introduction to Lüscher’s Method
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics Section Seminar, 12 February 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA.
• Nuclear condensation of dense helium.
  • Triangle Nuclear Theory (TNT) Colloquium, 23 April 2013, NC State, Raleigh NC.
  • Nuclear Physics Seminar & thesis defense, 8 April 2013, University of Maryland, College Park MD.
  • Nuclear Physics Seminar, 24 December 2012, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY.
  • Nuclear Physics Seminar, 7 December 2012, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle WA.
  • Nuclear & High Energy Physics Seminar, 5 December 2012, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA.
  • Nuclear Theory Seminar, 4 December 2012, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA.
• Vortons: Stable Vortex Loops
  • High Energy Seminar, 7 February 2012, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv Israel.
• Vortons at High Density
  • Nuclear Physics Seminar, 26 January 2011, University of Maryland, College Park MD.

Teaching

• Substitute Lecturer, 2009-2013
  • Prepared and delivered lectures to introductory graduate classes in electrodynamics and quantum mechanics during advisor’s absence.
• Research Mentor, Summer 2011
  • Provided daily guidance, technical and conceptual assistance for two high school students in the Montgomery Blair Magnet Summer Research Program, ultimately leading to a publication.
• Teaching Assistant: Mechanics and Particle Dynamics, Spring 2009
  • Taught one section of introductory physics for engineers.
• Teaching Assistant: Inquiry into Physics, Spring 2009
  • In-class teaching assistant for a laboratory-based introductory physics course for elementary educators. Eight tables of four students studied circuits, heat and temperature, and kinematics.
• Teaching Assistant: Fundamentals of Physics I, Fall 2008
  • Facilitated two tutorial-style peer discussion sections of introductory physics primarily for pre-med students.
• Instructor and certifier of record: PADI Open Water Diver Course, Summer 2005
  • Taught and certified 31 Open Water and Junior Open Water Divers, teaching academic and practical SCUBA diving knowledge.

Conferences, Meetings & Workshops

• 2014 SciDAC Meeting, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Washington DC, July 2014.
  • Wick Contractions for Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering and Matrix Elements. E. Berkowitz, T. Kurth, M. Strother.
  • Nuclear Parity Violation from Lattice QCD. E. Berkowitz, T. Kurth, A. Walker-Loud.
  • Bootstrap Algebraic Multigrid and Lattice QCD. E. Berkowitz, R. Falgout, C. Schroeder.
• Lattice Meets Experiment 2013: Beyond the Standard Model, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven NY, December 2013.
• Nuclear Reactions from Lattice QCD INT-13-53W, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle WA, March 2013.
• International Nuclear Physics Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, July 2010.
• National Nuclear Physics Summer School and TRIUMF Summer Institute, TRIUMF, Vancouver BC, June 2010.
• Workshop on Large N Gauge Theories, University of Maryland, College Park MD, May 2010.

Service

• Information Booth Volunteer, Bay Area Science Festival, 1 November 2014.
  • Helping attendees navigate and otherwise enjoy the festival.
• Judge and Team Leader, Contra Costa County Science and Engineering Fair, 21 March 2014.
  • Judging awards for 7th and 8th grade students with projects regarding the physical sciences.
• Judge, Northern Virginia Science and Engineering Fair, Spring 2013.
  • Decided awards for 11th and 12th grade students on behalf of the MIT Club of DC.
• Seminar Organizer, Fall 2010
  • Planned and organized the joint seminar for the nuclear theory and experimental groups.
• Judge, Montgomery County Science Fair, Spring 2010.
  • Decided awards on behalf of the MIT Alumni Association.
• Volunteer, Physics is Phun, 2008-2009.
  • Set up and guided hands-on demos before the main lecture of the UMD outreach program targeted at middle- and high-school students.
• Volunteer, Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament.
  • Prepared classrooms, guided participants to rooms, and provided other logistical support for the joint Harvard-MIT math tournament for high school students.