Research and Teaching
Active collaborations: Brown University: R. McNees,Charles University: A. Iorio,ESA:L. Ber- gamin, MIT: R. Jackiw, MPI Munich: R. Meyer, Pamukkale University: M. Adak,Sao Paulo Uni- versity: D. Vassilevich, Stockholm University: J. Aman, I. Bengtsson, N. Pidokrajt, TU Vienna:
H. Balasin, W. Kummer,University of Canterbury: D. Ahluwalia-Khalilova
Teaching: Oct. 1993-Feb. 1997: teaching tutor at the Institute for Experimental Physics and the Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Vienna; 1996-2004: supervision of 20 student projects at TU Vienna on “Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics” and “Quantum Field Theory”; Oct. 2004- Feb. 2006: lectures on “Black Holes” at the University of Leipzig; Nov. 2007-May 2007: lectures on lower-dimensional gravity in seminars at MIT
(Co-)supervison of master and PhD theses: Master: Daniel Hofmann (1999), Wolfgang Wal- tenberger (2001), Peter Fischer (2001), Daniel Mayerhofer (2004), Rene Meyer (2006),PhD:Christian B¨ohmer (2004)
Co-organization of workshops: Sep.–Dec. 2003: workshop and ESI program “Gravity in two dimensions” at the Erwin Schr¨odinger Institute in Vienna, Austria (with W. Kummer, H. Nicolai and D. Vassilevich; workshop: 2 weeks, whole program: 4 months),Jun. 2004: spring workshop in Leipzig, Germany (with M. Bordag, 2 days)
Co-editorship: December Special Issues 2005 (“Thirring-Lense”) and 2006 (“Dark Matter and Dark Energy”) of Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Referee for following journals: Class. Quant. Grav., Gen. Rel. Grav., Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D, Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Phys. Lett. B, Phys. Rev. D, Rep. Math. Phys.
Invited scientific visits: Jul.-Aug. 1997, CERN, Switzerland, 2 months (invited by HEPHY of the Austrian Academy of Sciences),Nov. 2003: MIT, Boston, 1 week (invited by R. Jackiw), Dec. 2003:
University of Zacatecas, Mexico, 1 week (invited by D. Ahluwalia-Khalilova and G. Mercado Sanchez), May 2004: ESI, Vienna, 1 week (invited by W. Kummer), Oct. 2004: TU, Vienna, 2 weeks (invited by L. Bergamin), Dec. 2004: MIT, Boston, 1 week (invited by A. Iorio and C. Nu˜nez), Jan. 2005:
TU, Vienna, 1 week (invited by L. Bergamin), Mar. 2005: MPI Golm, Berlin, 1 week (invited by M. Bojowald), Apr. 2005: HU Berlin, 0.5 week (invited by H. Dorn), May 2005: FSU Jena, 0.5 week (invited by T. Strobl and A. Wipf),Jun. and Oct. 2005: TU, Vienna, 2 weeks each (invited by L. Bergamin and W. Kummer),Nov. 2005: Charles University, Prague, 1 week (invited by A. Iorio), Feb. 2006: TU, Vienna, 1 week (invited by H. Balasin), Apr. 2006: University of Bielefeld, 1 week (invited by D. Schwarz), May-Jun. 2006: MIT, 1 month (invited by R. Jackiw), Jun. 2006: ESA, 1 week (invited by L. Bergamin), Jul.-Aug. 2006: TU, Vienna, 1 month (invited by W. Kummer), Mar. 2007: University of Stockholm, 1 week (invited by J. Aman, I. Bengtsson and N. Pidokrajt),May 2007: Penn State University, 1 week (invited by M. Bojowald),Jun. 2007: University of Washington, 1 week (invited by P. Romatschke),Jul. 2007: TU, Vienna, 1 week (invited by A. Rebhan),Aug. 2007:
University of Crete, 1 week (invited by V. Onemli), Aug. 2007: ESI, Vienna, 2 weeks (invited by T. Strobl)
Invited talks/lectures at conferences: Sep. 2001: “Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions”, Leipzig,Oct. 2002: 5h lectures at “Mathematical Theories and their Physical
& Technical Applications”, Cernivtsi, Ucraine, Jul. 2003: “Tenth Marcel Grossmann meeting on recent developments in theoretical and experimental general relativity, gravitation, and relativistic field theories”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sep. 2003: “Gravity in two dimensions”, Erwin Schr¨odinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, Oct. 2003: Fock School for Advances in Physics, St. Petersburg, Russia, Jun. 2005: “Path integrals. From Quantum Information to Cosmology,” Prague, Czech, Jul. 2005:
“Quantum Simulations via Analogues,” ESF Program COSLAB, Dresden, Germany,Jan. 2006: “5th Workshop on Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems,” Denizli, Turkey
Miscellaneous schools, invited seminar talks and conferences: cf. the webpage http://quark.itp.tuwien.ac.at/∼grumil/cv.shtml
