Curriculum Vitae for A. Niki Tahvildar-Zadeh

Education

• Ph. D., Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, August 1998
  Thesis subject: Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Strongly Correlated Electronic Models ;
  Advisor: Mark Jarrell.
• M.S., Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1992
  Thesis: Statistical Mechanics of the Hopfield Model of Neural Networks;
  Advisor: Shaahin Rouhani.
• B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1989

Research and Teaching experiance

• 9/98 to present: Postdoctoral assistant, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati. Supervisor: Professor Mark Jarrell.
• 9/94 to 8/98: Graduate research assistant, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati. Supervisor: Professor Mark Jarrell.
• February 97: American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund Fellow, Department of Physics, Georgetown University. Supervisor: Professor Jim Freericks.
• 9/96 to 12/96: Co-operative Learning Recitation Instructor, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati.
• 9/88 to 9/94: Teaching assistant, Department of Physics, Sharif U. of Tech. and University of Cincinnati.

Brief Research Description

Publications

• A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. Jarrell and J. K. Freericks, Low-temperature coherence in the periodic Anderson model: Predictions for photoemission of heavy Fermions, Phys. Rev. Lett., bf 80, 5168 (1998).
• A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. Jarrell and J. K. Freericks, Protracted screening in the periodic Anderson model, Rapid Communications, Phys. Rev. B 55, 3332 (1997).
• A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. H. Hettler, M. Jarrell, Superconducting Instability in the Periodic Anderson Model, Phil. Mag. B 78, No. 4, 365 (1998).
• A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, J. K. Freericks and M. Jarrell, Magnetic phase diagram of the Hubbard model in three dimensions: the second-order local approximation, Phys. Rev. B 55, 942 (1997).
• M. H. Hettler, A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. Jarrell, T. Pruschke, and H. R. Krishnamurthy, Nonlocal Dynamical Correlations of Strongly Interacting Electron Systems, Rapid Communications, Phys. Rev. B 58, 7475 (1998).
• N. S. Vidhyadhiraja,A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. Jarrell, and H. R. Krishnamurthy, ``Exhaustion'' Physics in the Periodic Anderson Model from Iterated Perturbation Theory., submitted to Europhysics Letters.
• A. J. Arko, J. J. Joyce, L. E. Cox, L. Morales, J. L. Smith, Z. Fisk, A. Menovsky, A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. Jarrell, ARPES in Strongly Correlated 4f and 5f Systems: Comparison to the Periodic Anderson Model, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 271-273 826-830 (1998).
• A.J. Arko, J.J. Joyce, J.L. Sarrao, Z. Fisk, J.L. Smith, J.D. Thompson, M.F. Hundley, A. Menovsky, A. Tahvildar-Zadeh, and M. Jarrell, to appear in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Electron Correlations and Materials Properties, Heraklion, Crete, June 28-July3, 1998.
• A. J. Arko, P. S. Riseborough, A. B. Andrews, J. J. Joyce, A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. Jarrell, Photoelectron Spectroscopy in Heavy Fermion Systems: Emphasis on Single Crystals, to appear in Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths, vol 26, Elsavier (1998).

Presentations

• A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. Jarrell, J. K. Freericks, Protracted Screening in Heavy Fermion Systems: A Theoretical Perspective of the Photoemission Controversies, The American Physical Society, 1998 March Meeting.
• A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. Jarrell, J. K. Freericks, Protracted Screening in Heavy Fermion Systems: A Theoretical Perspective of the Photoemission Controversies, University of Cincinnati, condensed matter seminar, Feb 1998.
• A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, M. Jarrell, J. K. Freericks, Protracted screening in the periodic Anderson model, The American Physical Society, 1997 March Meeting.
• A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, J. K. Freericks, M. Jarrell, Magnetic phase diagram of the Hubbard model in three dimensions: the second-order local approximation,The American Physical Society, 1996 March Meeting.
• A. N. Tahvildar-Zadeh, S. Rouhani, Hopfield Model in the presence of an external source, 1992 Seminar of Neural Networks, Institute for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Tehran, Iran.

References

• Professor Mark Jarrell, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, Phone: (513) 556-0515, e-mail: jarrell@physunc.phy.uc.edu
• Professor Jim Freericks, Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057-0995, Phone: (202) 687-6159, e-mail: jkf@magus.physics.georgetown.edu
• Professor Fu Chun Zhang, Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, Phone: (513) 556-0639, e-mail: zhang@physunc.phy.uc.edu