Curriculum Vitae Predrag Nikolić George Mason University, School of Physics, Astronomy and Computational Sciences Planetary Hall #209, MSN 3F3, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA Phone: 509-460-9066; E-Mail: [email protected]; www: http://physics.gmu.edu/~pnikolic/ Academic Positions George Mason University, Assistant Professor 08/25/2009 ± present Johns Hopkins University, Adjunct Assistant Professor 09/01/2009 ± present National Institute for Standards and Technology, Guest Researcher 09/01/2009 ± 07/01/2011 Rice University, Keck Postdoctoral Fellow 08/01/2007 ± 07/31/2009 Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow 09/01/2005 ± 07/31/2007 Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate 09/01/2004 ± 08/31/2005 Columbia University, Visiting Scientist 09/01/2004 ± 08/31/2005 Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics 2004 thesis: Geometrically Frustrated Quantum Magnets (advisor: T. Senthil) 09/01/2001 ± 09/15/2004 experimental physics research assistantship (advisor: R. Ashoori) 07/15/1998 ± 08/31/2001 University of Belgrade, Serbia, B.S. in Applied Physics 1998 thesis: Quantum Interference Transistors (advisor: K.Nikolić) 09/01/1993 ± 07/01/1998 Research Grants and Awards NSF Award #1205571 (PI): ªCollaborative Research: 2012 ± 2015 Correlated Superfluids and Insulators of Ultracold Fermionic Atomic Gasesº GMU part: $150,000 for 3 years Publication Award, George Mason University, College of Science November 2011 Johns Hopkins University, IQM summer researcher 2010 ± 2014 Rice University, Keck Fellowship 2007 ± 2009 Madlena Janković Foundation, Serbia, Undergraduate Fellowship 1995 ± 1998 Department of Education, Serbia, Undergraduate Fellowship 1995 ± 1998 Curriculum Vitae 2 Predrag Nikolić Travel Grants Nordita (Stockholm), Workshop: ªQuantum solids, liquids, and gasesº August 2010 Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop: ªSupersolid State of Matterº June 2006 Boulder Summer School of Physics, ªFrontiers of Magnetismº July 2003 American Physical Society, Centennial Meeting, Atlanta March 1999 Technical University of Bratislava, IAESTE Undergraduate Research Grant Summer 1997 Professional Service Journal referee: Phys. Rev. A, Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. Lett., J. of Low Temp. Phys., New J. of Phys. Grant proposal reviewer (ext., panel): National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Physics colloquium co-organizer at George Mason University (Fall 2010, Spring 2011) GMU Center for Quantum Science web-site maintainer and seminar co-organizer (2009 ± present) Thesis committee member (3 students at GMU, 5 students at Johns Hopkins, 1 student at Georgetown) Co-organizer of the symposium ªFrontiers of Quantum Matterº, George Mason University (June 2012) Co-organizer of the ªZlatko Tešanović Memorial Symposiumº, Johns Hopkins University (March 2013) Teaching Overall ratings (1.00-5.00) of the teaching for the class (C) and program (P) are shown whenever available. George Mason University University Physics I (PHYS 160) Lectures Fall 2014 Modern Physics (PHYS 308) Lectures (43 students; C: 4.00, P: 4.29) Spring 2014 Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures (28 students; C: 4.35, P: 4.19) Fall 2013 University Physics I (PHYS 160) Lectures (197 students; C: 3.61, P: 4.23) Spring 2013 Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures (25 students; C: 4.93, P: 4.13) Fall 2012 Modern Physics (PHYS 308) Lectures (22 students; C: 4.75, P: 4.32) Spring 2012 Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures (20 students; C: 4.83, P: 3.91) Fall 2011 Quantum Field Theory (PHYS 780) Lectures (8 students; C: 4.71, P: 4.24) Spring 2011 Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures (17 students; C: 4.14, P: 3.95) Fall 2010 Modern Physics (PHYS 308) Lectures (21 students; C: 4.60, P: 4.08) Spring 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Freshman course on Electromagnetism Tutoring and grading Spring 2002 Graduate course on Statistical Mechanics Grading Fall 2001 Graduate course on Statistical Mechanics Recitation Instructor Fall 1999 Curriculum Vitae 3 Predrag Nikolić Mentoring George Mason University Shahrzad Movafagh, Ph.D. graduate student 2013 ± present Michael DePrenger, Ph.D. graduate student 2012 ± present Steven Keeling, Ph.D. graduate student 2013 ± present Tanja Duric, postdoctoral associate 2010 ± 2011 Johns Hopkins University Miguel Sulangi, graduate student 2012 ± 2013 Harvard University Eun-Gook Moon, graduate student of S. Sachdev 2006 ± 2007 List of Publications GS: Google Scholar citation count (total # of citations: 592, h-index: 9, i10-index: 9) AR: arXiv citation count (http://lanl.arxiv.org) 1. W. T. Fuhrman and P. Nikolić, In-gap collective mode spectrum of the topological Kondo insulator SmB6, unpublished (2014). arXiv:1409.3220 [14 pages] 2. Predrag Nikolić, Two-dimensional heavy fermions on the strongly correlated boundaries of Kondo topological insulators, submitted to Physical Review B (2014). arXiv:1407.4482 [19 pages] 3. W. T. Fuhrman, J. Leiner, P. Nikolić, G. E. Granroth, M. B. Stone, M. D. Lumsden, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, P. A. Alekseev, J.-M. Mignot, S. M. Koohpayeh, P. Cottingham, W. Adam Phelan, L. Schoop, T. M. McQueen, C. Broholm, Spin-exciton and topology in SmB6, submitted to Physical Review Letters (2014). arXiv:1407.2647 [4+ pages] 4. Predrag Nikolić, Vortices and vortex states in Rashba spin-orbit-coupled condensates, Physical Review A 90, 023623 (2014). arXiv:1406.1198 [20 pages] 5. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Interaction proximity effect at the interface between a superconductor and a topological insulator quantum well, Physical Review B 87, 134511 (2013). arXiv:1210.7821 [25 pages] 6. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Pairing instabilities in topological insulator quantum wells, Physical Review B 87, 104514 (2013). arXiv:1208.0608 [13 pages, GS:2] 7. Predrag Nikolić, Effective theory of fractional topological insulators in two spatial dimensions, Physical Review B 87, 245120 (2013). arXiv:1206.1055 [32 pages, AR:2] Curriculum Vitae 4 Predrag Nikolić 8. Predrag Nikolić, Tanja Duric and Zlatko Tešanović, Fractional topological insulators of Cooper pairs induced by proximity effect, Physical Review Letters 110, 176804 (2013). arXiv:1109.0017 [4+6 pages, GS:2, AR:1] 9. Predrag Nikolić, Charge and spin fractionalization in strongly correlated topological insulators, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25, 025602 (2013). arXiv:1108.5388 [8 pages, GS:4, AR:2] 10.Rong Yu, Pallab Goswami, Qimiao Si, Predrag Nikolić and Jian-Xin Zhu, Superconductivity at the Border of Electron Localization and Itinerancy, Nature Communications 4, 2783 (2013). arXiv:1103.3259 [7+14 pages, GS:5, AR:41] 11.Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Cooper pair insulators and theory of correlated superconductors, Physical Review B 83, 064501 (2011). arXiv:1008.4369 [18 pages, editors© suggestion, GS:8, AR:1] 12.Predrag Nikolić, Unitarity in periodic potentials: a renormalization group analysis, Physical Review B 83, 064523 (2011). arXiv:1006.2378 [16 pages, GS:4, AR:1] 13.Valentin Stanev, Boian S. Alexandrov, Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Robust accidental nodes and zeroes and critical quasiparticle scaling in iron-based multiband superconductors, Physical Reviev B 84, 014505 (2011). arXiv:1006.0447 [7 pages, GS:7, AR:11] 14.N. Goldman, I. Satija, P. Nikolić, A. Bermudez, M. A. Martin-Delgado, M. Lewenstein and I. B. Spielman, Realistic Time-Reversal Invariant Topological Insulators With Neutral Atoms, Physical Review Letters 105, 255302 (2010). arXiv:1002.0219 [4 pages, GS:151, AR:134] 15.Predrag Nikolić, A. A. Burkov and Arun Paramekanti, Finite momentum pairing instability of band insulators with multiple bands, Physical Review B 81, 012504 (2010). arXiv:0906.2202 [4 pages, GS:8, AR:4] 16. Pallab Goswami, Predrag Nikolić and Qimiao Si, Superconductivity in Multi-orbital t-J1-J2 Model and its Implications for Iron Pnictides, Europhysics Letters 91, 37006 (2010). arXiv:0905.2634 [5 pages, GS:29, AR:24] 17. Predrag Nikolić, Phase diagram of two-dimensional fast-rotating ultracold fermionic atoms near unitarity, Physical Review A 81, 023601 (2010). arXiv:0904.2391 [10 pages, GS:1, AR:1] 18. Predrag Nikolić, Two-dimensional fermionic superfluids, pairing instability, and vortex liquids in the absence of time reversal symmetry, Physical Review B 79, 144507 (2009). arXiv:0901.2576 [11 pages, GS:7, AR:1] 19. Eun Gook Moon, Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Superfluid-insulator transitions of the Fermi gas with near-unitary interactions in a periodic potential, Physical Review Letters 99, 230403 (2007). arXiv:0707.2383 [4 pages, GS:34, AR:25] 20. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Renormalization group fixed points, universal phase diagram, and 1/N expansion for quantum liquids with interactions near the unitarity limit, Physical Review A 75, 033608 (2007). arXiv:cond-mat/0609106 [16 pages, GS:141, AR:111] Curriculum Vitae 5 Predrag Nikolić 21. Predrag Nikolić, Subir Sachdev and Lorenz Bartosch, Electronic states near a quantum fluctuating point vortex in a d-wave superconductor: Dirac fermion theory, Physical Review B 74, 144516 (2006). arXiv:cond-mat/0606001 [17 pages, GS:7, AR:6] 22. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Effective action for vortex dynamics in clean d-wave superconductors, Physical Review B 73, 134511 (2006). arXiv:cond-mat/0511298 [26 pages, GS:24, AR:12] 23. Predrag Nikolić, Disordered, spin liquid and valence-bond ordered phases of the Kagome lattice quantum Ising models with transverse field and XXZ dynamics, Physical Review B 72, 064423 (2005). arXiv:cond-mat/0403332 [24 pages, GS:11, AR:9] 24. Predrag