CURRICULUM VITAE SONIA PABAN Address: Department of Physics University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1081 Phone: (512) 794-8010 (Home) (512) 471-7773 (Work) E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION 1988 Ph.D., Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (Advisor: Rolf Tarrach) 1985 M.A., Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (Advisor: Pere Pascual) 1984 B.S., Universitat de Barcelona, Spain PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Spring 2015 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Fall 2014 Visiting Researcher, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT 2006{ Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin 2000{2006 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin 1999{2000 Research Associate, University of Texas at Austin 1998{1999 Postdoc, University of Texas at Austin 1996{1998 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Et´e'95,´ '99 Visitor, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques 1994{1996 Postdoc, University of Texas at Austin 1992{1994 Postdoc, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis 1991{1992 Postdoc, University of Texas at Austin HONORS 2014{2015 Simons Fellow in Physics 2013 University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award 2005 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 8/15- National Science Foundation 9/05{8/13 National Science Foundation 9/99{8/01 POWRE grant, National Science Foundation 9/89{8/91 Fulbright Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin 9/84{8/89 Predoctoral Grant, Spanish Government PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2014{ Member, STEM task force, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities 2013{ Liason, American Physical Society Bridge Program 1 UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE 2016- Co-chair CNS 21st century Graduate Education Implementation Task Force 2016- Chair, Physics Graduate Studies Sub-Committee 2015-2016 Co-chair CNS 21st century Graduate Education Task Force 2015-2016 Chair, Teaching Excellence Committee 2015-2016 Undergraduate Affairs Course Committee 2011{2014 Budget Council Advisory Committee (Chair, '13{'14) 2011{2014 Chair, Graduate Welfare Committee 2009{2014 Library Liason 2008{2013 Undergraduate Advisor 2008{2012 Graduate Recruitment Committee Spring 2008 Hamilton Book Award Committee 2003-2007 Organizer, Distinguished Women in Physics lecture series Ph. 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STUDENTS Aditya Aravind 2016 Dustin Lorshbough 2016 (with Willy Fischler) Dan Carney 2014 Matthias Ihl 2008 Marija Zanic 2007 RECENT INVITED TALKS • Invited speaker, COSMO-16, August 2016 • Seminar at Oxford University, February 2016 • Invited lecturer at \Escuela Peruana de F´ısica de Altas Energ´ıas y Cosmolog´ıa”,Lima, Peru, June 2015 • Invited speaker at \Conference on String Theory and Cosmology", Hong Kong, May 2015 • Seminar at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, May 2015 • Colloquium, University of Texas at Dallas, April 2015 • University of Notre Dame High Energy seminar, February 2015 • Tufts/MIT cosmology seminar, October 2014 • Colloquium, Notre Dame University, April 2014 • Invited speaker at “Inflationary Theory and Its Confrontation with Data in the Planck Era"; Aspen Center for Physics, February 2012 • Invited speaker at \Dark Conference", Copenhagen, August 2011 2 • Invited speaker at \PASCOS conference", Cambridge, UK, July 2011 • Invited speaker at \Aspects of Inflation Conference", Texas A & M University, April 2011 3 PUBLICATIONS 1. (with K. Clough, E. Lim, B. DiNunno, W. Fischler and R. Flauger)Robustness of Inflation to Inhomogeneous Initial Conditions. (arXiv:1608.044408) 2. (with A. Aravind and D. Lorshbough) Primordial Equation of State Transitions Phys. Rev. D93(2016) 123519, (arXiv:1604.03516) 3. (A. Masoumi amd E. Weinberg) Tunneling from a Minkowski vacuum to an AdS vacuum: A new thin-wall regime. Phys.Rev. D94 (2016) 025023. (1603.07679) 4. (with M. Dine)Tunneling in Theories with Many Fields.. JHEP. 1510 (2015) 088, (arXiv:1506.06428) 5. (with A. Aravind, B. DiNunno and D. Lorshbough) Analyzing Multi- Field Tunneling With Exact Bounce Solutions. Phys. Rev. D91(2015) 2,025026, (arXiv:1412.3160). 6. (with A. Aravind and D. Lorshbough) Bogoliubov Excited States and the Lyth Bound. JCAP 1408 (2014) 058, (arXiv:1403.6216). 7. (with A. Aravind and D. Lorshbough) Lower Bound for the Multi-Field Action. Phys.Rev. D89 (2014) 103535, (arXiv:1401.1230). 8. (with A. Dey and E. Kovetz) Power Spectrum and Non-Gaussianities in Anisotropic Inflation. JCAP 1406 (2014) 025, (arXiv:1311.5606). 9. (with A. Aravind and D. Lorshbough) Non-Gaussianity from Excited Initial Inflationary States. JHEP 1307 (2013) 076, (arXiv:1303.1440). 10. (with J. Distler) On Uncertainties in Successive Measurements. Phys. Rev. A87 (2013) 062112, (arXiv:1211.4169). 11. (with D. Carney, W. Fischler, E. Kovetz and D. Lorshbough) Rapid Field Excursions and the Inflationary Tensor Spectrum. JHEP 1211 (2012) 042, (arXiv:1209.3848). 12. (with A. Dey and E. Kovetz) Non-gaussianities in the Cosmological Perturbation Spectrum Due to Primordial Anisotropy II. JCAP 1210 (2012) 055, (arXiv:1205.2758). 13. (with D. Carney, W. Fischler and N. Sivanandam) The Inflationary Wavefunctions and its Initial Conditions. JCAP 1212 (2012) 012, (arXiv:1109.6566). 14. (with A. Dey) Non-gaussianities in the Cosmological Perturbation Spec- trum Due to Primordial Anisotropy JCAP 1204 (2012) 039, (arXiv:1106.5840). 15. (with R. Flauger, D. Robbins and T. Wrase) On Slow-roll Moduli In- flation in Massive IIA Supergravity with Metric Fluxes. Phys. Rev. D79 (2009) 886011, (arXiv:0812.3886). 4 16. (with E. Dimastrogiovanni and W. Fischler) Perturbation Growth in Anisotropic Cosmologies. JHEP 0807 (2008) 045, (arXiv:0803.2490). 17. (with W. Fischler, C. Krishnan and M. Zanic) Vacuum Bubble in an In- homogeneous Cosmology. JHEP 0805 (2008) 041, (arXiv:0711.3417). 18. (with W. Fischler) Leptogenesis from Pseudo-Scalar Driven Inflation. JHEP 0710 (2007)066, (arXiv:0708.3828). 19. (with C. Krishnan and M. Zanic) Evolution of Gravitationally Unstable de Sitter Compactifications. JHEP 0505 (2005) 045, (hep-th/0503025). 20. (with W. Fischler and M. Zanic) The energy density of \wound" fields in a toroidal universe. JHEP 0410 (2004) 041, (astro-ph 0407349). 21. (with W. Fischler and A. Loewy) The Entropy of the Microwave Back- ground and the Acceleration of the Universe. JHEP 0309 (2003) 024, (hep-th/0307031). 22. (with T. Banks and W. Fischler) Recurrent nightmares? Measurement Theory in de Sitter Space. JHEP 0212 (2002) 062, (hep-th/0210160). 23. (with T. Banks, W. Fischler, A. Kashani-Poor and R. McNees)Entropy of the Stiffest Stars. Class. and Quantum Grav.19 (2002) 4717-4728, (hep-th 0206096). 24. (with S. Sethi and M. Stern)Non-commutativity and Supersymmetry. JHEP03(2002)012, (hep-th 0201259). 25. (with W. Fischler, A. Kahani-Poor and R. McNees)The Acceleration of the Universe, a Challenge for String Theory. JHEP 0107 (2001) 003, (hep-th 0104181). 26. (with W.Fischler, E. Gorbatov, A. Kashani-Poor, R. McNees and P. Pouliot) The Interplay Between Theta and T. JHEP0006 (2000) 032, (hep-th 0003216). 27. (with W.Fischler, Joaquim Gomis, E. Gorbatov, A. Kashani-Poor and P. Pouliot) Evidence for Winding States in Noncommutative Quan- tum Field Theory. J. High Energy Phys. 05 (2000) 024, (hep-th 0002067 ) 28. (with S.Sethi and M. Stern) Summing Up Instantons in Three-Dimensional Yang-Mills Teories. ATMP 3 (1999) 343, (hep-th 9808119) 29. (with S. Sethi and M. Stern) Supersymmetry and Higher Derivative Terms in the Effective Action of Yang-Mills Theories. J. High Energy Phys. 06 (1998) 012, ( hep-th 9806028) 30. (with S. Sethi and M.Stern) Constraints From Extended Supersymmetry in Quantum Mechanics. Nucl. Phys. B534 137-154 (1998), (hep-th 9805018) 5 31. (with D. Berenstein, R. Corrado, W. Fischler and M. Rozali) Virtual D-branes. Phys. Lett. B384, 93 (1996) 32. (with W. Fischler and M. Rozali) Collective coordiantes for D-branes. Phys. Lett. B381, 62 (1996) 33. (with W. Fischler and M. Rozali) Collective coordinates in string the- ory. Phys. Lett. B352, 298 (1995). 34. (with J. M. Cline and K. Kainulainen) Stability of neutrinos in the singlet majoron model. Phys. Lett. B319, 513 (1993). 35. (with J. M. Cline) Is induced QCD really QCD? The preservation of asymptotic freedom by matter interactions. Phys. Lett. B316, 158 (1993). 36. (with W. Fischler and S. Thomas) Bounds on Microscopic Physics from P and T Violation in Atoms and Molecules. Phys. Lett. B289, 373 (1992). 37. (with W. Fischler, G. F. Giudice, R. G. Leigh and S. Thomas) The invisible Majoron. Phys. Lett. B266, 408 (1991). 38. (with W. Fischler, G. F. Giudice and R. G. Leigh) Neutrino masses and Baryogenesis. Proceedings of \Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems III", Santiago de Chile. January, 1990. 39. (with W.Fischler, G. F. Giudice and R. G. Leigh) Constraints on the Baryogenesis Scale from Neutrino Masses. Phys. Lett. B258, 45 (1991). 40. (with R. G. Leigh and R. M. Xu) Electric Dipole Moment of Electron. Nucl Phys. B352, 45 (1991). 41. (with J. Dai, H. Dykstra, R. G. Leigh and D. A. Dicus) CP viola- tion from three gluon operators in the Supersymmetric Standard Model. Phys.Lett. B237, 216 (1990); Erratum B242, 547 (1990). 42. (with R. Tarrach) On the effective action and field renormalization for variational λφ4. Phys Lett. B213, 48 (1988). 4 43. (with R. Tarrach) A chance for interaction in λφ3+1; λ > 0. Phys. Lett. B197, 383 (1987); Erratum B199, 596 (1987). 44. (with R. Tarrach and E. Verdaguer) Casimir effect between a plate and a straight line. Phys. Lett. B195, 240 (1987). 45. (with J. I. Latorre and S. Narison) O++ Trigluonium sum rules. Phys. Lett. B191, 437 (1987). 46. (with J. Taron and R. Tarrach) On the existence of interacting pertur- batively nonrenormalizable quantum field theories. Z. Phys. C34, 85 (1987). 6.