Pavel Kovtun
Position
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Victoria
Contact
Office:
Elliott 110
Credentials
PhD (Washington)
Area of expertise
Theoretical physics
I work on theoretical physics, doing research in the theory of elementary particles and quantum fields, and in string theory. Recently, I was working on relating collective excitations in quantum many-body systems to physics of black holes, a connection which comes through string theory.
Publications
See arxiv.org.
Graduate students
Current:
- Raphael Hoult (PhD)
- Ruochuan Liu (PhD)
Former:
- Juan Hernandez (MSc)
- Michael Harder (MSc)
- James Babb (MSc)
Postdoctorial researchers
Current:
- Eric Mefford
Former:
- Akash Jain
- Ashish Shukla
- Stefan Janiszewski
- Matthias Kaminski
- Kristan Jensen
- David McKeen
- John Ward
- Touko Tahkokallio