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EDUCATION

October 2005 - Present

Postdoctoral fellow, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Rutgers University

2002 - 2005

PHD in Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Université Paris VI, France (Advisor: Prof. Claire Lhuillier)

Symmetry breakings in classical and quantum Heisenberg models in two dimensions (French)

1998 - 2002

B.S. & M.S. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

2001 - Physics Teaching diploma [Agrégation]

january - july 2000 - Semester in Upsaala Universitet, Sweden

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journals

Parent Phases of Doped Mott Insulators: A Cluster DMFT Study
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. - arXiv:0808.2328

Thermal destruction of chiral order in a two-dimensional model of coupled trihedra
Phys. Rev. B, 78, 054435 (2008) - arXiv:0806.2259

Chirality and Z₂ vortices in a Heisenberg spin model on the kagomé lattice
Phys. Rev. B, 77, 172413 (2008) - arXiv:0711.1497

Two-step restoration of SU(2) symmetry in a frustrated ring-exchange magnet
Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 137206 (2005) - cond-mat/0412035

Twelve sublattice ordered phase in the J₁-J₂ model on the kagomé lattice
Phys. Rev. B, 72, 024433 (2005) - cond-mat/0502414

Observation of a transient magnetization plateau in a quantum antiferromagnet on the kagomé lattice
Europhys. Lett., 65 (5), 705 (2004) - cond-mat/0401288

Proceedings

A magnetization plateau in a quantum antiferromagnet
J. Magn. Magn. Mat., 272-276, 878 (2004)

Current works

Mott insulating phases in a frustrated Hubbard model

CONFERENCES - INVITED SEMINARS - WORKSHOPS

Talks

Chirality and Z₂ vortices in a Heisenberg spin model on the kagomé lattice

December 16 - 18, 2007 : 98^th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University

A new ordered phase in the J₁-J₂ model on the kagomé lattice

Invited seminar
- May 20, 2005 - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Strasbourg I, France
- January 11, 2005 - Laboratoire de Théorie de la matière Condensée, EPFL, Switzerland
- April 16, 2004 - Condensed Matter Theory Group, USC
August 30 - September 3, 2004 : IX^èmes Journées de la Matière Condensée, Nancy, France [SFP]
June 29 - July 2 2004 : GDR 1757, Nouveaux Etats Electroniques des Matériaux, Aspet, France [CNRS / CRISMAT]

Observation of a transient magnetization plateau in a quantum antiferromagnet on the kagomé lattice

October 1 - 4, 2003 : Japanese-French Symposium on Quantum Magnetism in Spin, Charge and Orbital Systems, Paris, France [CNRS / JSPS]
August 26 - 30, 2003 : Highly Frustrated Magnetism, Grenoble, France [CNRS / ILL / ENS Lyon]

Influence de l'échange cyclique à quatre corps sur la dispersions des magnaons dans La₂CuO₄

November 18 - 20, 2002 : GDR 2069, Oxydes à Propriétés Remarquables, Paris, France [CNRS / CEA]
August 27 - 30, 2002 : VIII^èmes Journées de la Matière Condensée, Marseille, France [SFP]

Workshops

March 29 - April 24, 2004 : Exotic Order and Criticality in Quantum Matter, Santa Barbara [KITP]

SKILLS

Dynamical Mean Field Theory, extension to impurity clusters

Exact Diagonalisations, Group Theory, Lanczos algorithm

Monte-Carlo simulations, cluster (Wolff, Swensen-Wang), parallel tempering and Wang-Landau algorithms

C, Fortran 90, C++, Perl, Maple

English, French (mother tongue), basic skills in German and Swedish

RESEARCH TRAINEESHIPS

April - July 2002

Etude de la frustration d'un antiferromagnétique sur le réseau carré par diagonalisation exacte (French)
Advisor: Prof. Claire Lhuillier, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique des Liquides, Université Paris VI, France

April - June 2000

Enquête sur la largeur anormale du bruit de fond dans les modules optiques de l'expérience AMANDA (French)
Advisor: Prof. Allan Hallgren, Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, Upsaala Universitet, Sweden

June - July 1999

Modélisation du flux UV dans l'atmosphère de Titan. Application à l'albedo et à une occultation solaire (French)
Advisor: Dr. Dominique Toublanc, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales des Rayonnements, Université Toulouse III, France

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2003 - 2005

Teaching Assistant, preparation for the competitive examination to enter 2^nd year of Medical School, CHU Saint-Antoine, Université Paris VI, France

2002 - 2003

Teaching Assistant, remedial courses for first-year Physics students, Université Paris VI, France

REFERENCES

Claire Lhuillier Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI Case Courrier 121 4, place Jussieu F-75252 Paris Cedex lhuilier@lptmc.jussieu.fr	Gabriel Kotliar Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers University 136 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA kotliar@physics.rutgers.edu
Peter Holdsworth Laboratoire de Physique Théorique Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon 46, allée d'Italie F-69364 Lyon Cedex 07 Peter.Holdsworth@ens-lyon.fr	Pascal Viot Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI Case Courrier 121 4, place Jussieu F-75252 Paris Cedex viot@lptmc.jussieu.fr