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Curriculum Vitae Sorkin Viacheslav, PhD. University of Minnesota 107 Akerman Hall 110 Union St SE., Minneapolis, MN, 55455 Phone: 612-625-6053, Cell phone: 952-261-6379 E-MAIL: [email protected], [email protected] WEB-SITE: http://www.aem.umn.edu/people/others/phsorkin

RESEARCH INTERESTS Multi-scale Modeling of Materials, Quantum Monte Carlo methods, Computational Statistical Mechanics and Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics EDUCATION PhD. : Physics Department, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2006 Topic: Computer simulations of excitations of a quantum solid and of the melting transition at high pressure Advisers: Dr. Joan Adler and Prof. Emil Polturak

M.Sc.: Physics Department, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2003 Topic: Point defects, lattice structure and melting Advisers: Dr. Joan Adler and Prof. Emil Polturak Diploma: Physics Department, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, 1999 Topic: The investigation of orientation ordering of stiff polymer chains in the course of their adsorption from semi-dilute solution onto a plane attractive surface Advisory: Dr. E. Yu. Kramarenko RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Postdoctoral Research Associate: 2006-present Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Advisers: Prof. Ellad B. Tadmor and Prof. Ryan Elliot

· Theoretical development and mathematical analysis of the state-of-the-art multi-scale method.

· Algorithm and code development for hybrid ab-initio and quasicontinuum techniques.

· Application quasicontinuum method to the design of new advanced materials

· Application quasicontinuum method to study fracture and plasticity

· Finite Elements, Conjugate Gradient Minimization Graduate Research Assistant: 2000-2006

Department of Physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Advisers: Dr. Joan Adler and Prof. Emil Polturak

· Phonon excitations in solid helium

· Dynamic structure factor of solid helium

· Phase diagram of argon in area of high pressures and high temperatures.

· Mechanical melting, thermodynamic melting, surface premelting

· Path Integral Monte Carlo, Maximum Entropy method, Bayseian analysis

· Classical Monte-Carlo simulations, NVT and NPT Molecular Dynamics, Simulated Annealing, Simulated tempering

Graduate Research Assistant: 1995-1999

Department of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Adviser: Dr. E. Yu. Kramarenko

· Polymer adsorption

· Classical Molecular Dynamics simulations

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

· Languages: Fortran 90, Fortran 77, C, C++

· Basic knowledge: MPI, OpenMPI, python, java, shell scripts

· Computational physics packages: QC, NWChem, ABINIT, Espresso, CPMD, PIMC UPI. Other software: MATLAB, LATEX, HTML, Tecplot, Gnuplot, Grace, Aviz, XcrysDen,VMD

· Operation systems: Linux, Windows

PUBLICATIONS 1. V. Sorkin, R. S. Elliott, and E. B. Tadmor, `À Local Quasicontinuum for 3D Multilattice Materials: Application to Shape-Memory Alloys'', in preparation 2. M. Arndt, V. Sorkin and E. B. Tadmor, `Èfficient Algorithms for Discrete Lattice Calculations'', submitted to Journal of Computational Physics 3. O. Pelleg, J. Bossy, E. Farhi, M. Shay, V. Sorkin and E. Polturak,`Ànharmonic Effects in Neutron Scattering Studies of Lattice Excitations in BCC He'', Vol. 151, 1164 (2008) 4. V. Sorkin, E. Polturak and Joan Adler, "Influence of boundaries on high pressure melting experiments", Europhys. Lett., 76, No 4, 623 (2006) 5. V. Sorkin, E. Polturak and Joan Adler," Path Integral Monte Carlo study of phonons in the bcc phase of He-3", Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 143, 141 (2006) 6. O. Pelleg, J. Bossy, E. Farhi, M. Shay, V. Sorkin, and E. Polturak, `Òptic-like excitations in bcc He-4: An inelastic neutron scattering study'', Phys. Rev. B 73, 180301 (2006) 7. V. Sorkin, E. Polturak and Joan Adler, " Path Integral Monte Carlo study of phonons in the bcc phase of He-4", Phys. Rev. B 71, 214304 (2005) 8. J. Adler, V. Sorkin and E. Polturak, ``Visualization of Melting Simulations'' in ``Recent Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics, XVI'', (2003), edited by D. Landau, S. P. Lewis and B. Schuttler, p.177-80

9. V. Sorkin, E. Polturak, and J. Adler, ``Molecular dynamics study of melting of the bcc metal vanadium. II. Thermodynamic melting'', Phys. Rev. B 68, 174103 (2003) 10. V. Sorkin, E. Polturak and Joan Adler, ``Molecular dynamics study of melting of a bcc metal-vanadium I : mechanical melting'', Phys. Rev. B 68, 174102 (2003) 11. V. Sorkin, A. Sorkin , I. Leizerson,"Salt Fingers in Double Diffusive Systems", Physica A, 1, 67 (2002) 12. J. Adler, A. Hashibon, N. Schreiber, A. Sorkin, V. Sorkin and G. Wagner, ``Visualization of MD and MC Simulations for Atomistic Modeling'', Computer Physics Communications, 147, 665 (2002)

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

1. R. Elliott, V. Sorkin and E. Tadmor, "A Quasicontinuum for multiscale crystals exhibiting martensite phase transformations: Cascading Cauchy-Born", Multiscale Materials Modeling, October 27-31, Tallahassee, Florida, USA 2. E. Tadmor, V. Sorkin, N. Bernstein, and G. Csanyi, “Coupling Quasicontinuum and Quantum Mechanics”, Society of Engineering Science, 45th Annual Technical Meeting, October 12-15, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA 3. E. Tadmor, V. Sorkin, and R. Elliott, “A Quasicontinuum for Multilattice Phase Transforming Materials”,Mechanics”, Society of Engineering Science, 45th Annual Technical Meeting, October 12-15, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA 4. V. Sorkin, Ryan S. Elliott, and Ellad B. Tadmor, "A Quasicontinuum for multiscale crystals exhibiting martensite phase transformations", International Conference on Martensite Transformations, June 29-July 5, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 5. N. Bernstein, V. Sorkin, Ellad. B. Tadmor and G. Csanyi, "Coupled quantum mechanics and finite-element simulations of mechanical properties of defects", Conference on Molecular Simulations in Biosystems and Material Science, April 2-5, 2008, University of Konstanz, Germany.

3. O. Pelleg, J. Bossy, E. Farhi, M. Shay, V. Sorkin, and Emil Polturak,``New excitations in bcc He-4 - an inelastic neutron scattering study'', American Physical Society Meeting, March 5-9, 2007, Denver, Colorado, USA

4. V. Sorkin, J. Adler and E. Polturak, "Path Integral Monte Carlo study of phonons in solid helium ", ``What exactly is measured in high pressure melting experiments?'', The 51th Meeting of the Israel Physical Society (IPS2005), December 17th 2005, Carmiel, Israel

5. V. Sorkin, J. Adler and E. Polturak, "PIMC simulations of phonons and vacancies in solid He- 4 ", The 50th Meeting of the Israel Physical Society (IPS2004), December 17th 2004, Haifa, Israel

6. V. Sorkin, J. Adler and E. Polturak, "Computer simulations of excitations in solid He-4 ", The 49th Meeting of the Israel Physical Society (IPS2003), December 17th 2003, Bar-Ilan, Israel

7. V. Sorkin, J. Adler and E. Polturak, " Point Defects, Lattice Stucture and Surface and Bulk Melting ", NATO-ASI, Interdisciplinary School on Advanced Theoretical and Simulations methods, "Computer Simulations of Surfaces and Interfaces", 9-21 September 2002, Albena, Bulgaria

8. J. Adler, A. Hashibon, N. Schreiber, A. Sorkin, V. Sorkin and G. Wagner,"Visualisation of MD and MC Simulations for Atomistic Modeling", Conference on "Quantum Simulations of Complex Many-Body Systems: From Theory to Algorithms", Rolduc Conference Centre, 25 February - 1 March 2002, Kerkrade, Netherlands

9. V. Sorkin, J. Adler and E. Polturak, "Point Defects, Lattice Stucture and Bulk Melting of Vanadium ", The 47th Meeting of the Israel Physical Society (IPS2001), December 17th 2001, Tel-Aviv, Israel

10. V. Sorkin, J. Adler and E. Polturak, "Influence of point defects on the shear elastic coefficients and on the melting temperature of vanadium", Conference on Computational Physics 2001, 5-8 September 2001, Aachen, Germany

11. V. Sorkin, E. Yu. Kramarenko and A. R. Khokhlov, ``Adsorption of semiflexible polymer chains onto a plane attractive surface from semi-dilute solution '', Conference on Computational Physics 2001, 5-8 September 2001, Aachen, Germany 12. V. Sorkin, E. Yu. Kramarenko and A. R. Khokhlov, ``Orientation ordering of stiff polymer chains in the course of their adsorption from semi-dilute solution onto a attractive surface'',Conference on Physics of Polymer Macromolecules and Liquid Crystals CPC, 11-17 January 1999 , Moscow, Russia SUMMER SCHOOLS 1. July 23-August 3, 2007, “Classical and Quantum Approaches in Molecular Modeling”,Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, USA 2. June 23-July 4, 2007,” Multi-scale modeling of materials”, CEA/DAM Ile de France, DIF/UCAP, Paris, France 3. 12 January - 23 January 2004, Joint DEMOCRITOS-ICTP School on Continuum Quantum Monte Carlo Methods, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

HONORS

2006 Permanent Excellent Instructor Scholarships, Technion

2005 Excellent Instructor of Physics Department Scholarships, Technion

2004 Vivian Konigsberg Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Technion

2004 Arthur M. Sills Doctoral Fellowship, Technion

2003 Wolf prize, Technion

2001-2002 Outstanding Student Scholarship, Technion

1996-1999 Moscow Municipal Council Scholarship, Moscow

TEACHING AND WORK EXPERIENCE

2001-2006 Teaching assistant, home and class work manager: “Electromagnetism”

2000-2001 Advanced Lab Teaching Assistant: “Electromagnetism”

1999-2000 Physicist, Research and Development Division, Duma Optronics, Haifa

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

· American Physical Society

· Israel Physical Society · Referee: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B

LANGUAGES:

English, Russian, Hebrew