PERSONAL DATA
Affiliation: Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, 91125
Email: bstoica@theory.caltech.edu
Webpage: http://theory.caltech.edu/~bstoica
EDUCATION
California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA
PhD, Physics, June 2016 (expected)
Advisor: Hirosi Ooguri
Princeton University , Princeton, NJ
AB in Physics, Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics, June 2010
Senior Thesis Advisor: Frans Pretorius
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Holography, String Theory, Quantum Field Theory.
Entanglement, Geometry, Black Holes.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Physical Review Letters Editors’ Suggestion
Locality of Gravitational Systems from Entanglement of Conformal Field Theories
Dominic Orr Graduate Fellowship , Caltech
Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics , Princeton University
Allen G. Shenstone Memorial Prize in Physics , Princeton University
PACM Summer Fellowship , Princeton University
George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize , Princeton University
Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence , Princeton University
Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics , Princeton University
Joseph Henry Summer Internship , Princeton University
Two Silver Medals in International Physics Olympiads
2015
2013
2010
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2007
2005, 2006
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS AND OUTREACH
Ph 229B , Advanced Mathematical Methods of Physics
Ph 129C , Mathematical Methods of Physics (Group Theory)
Ph 125AC , Quantum Mechanics
Ph 2AB , Waves, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics
Romanian Masters of Physics Committee Member
Winter 2013, Winter 2015
Spring 2013
Spring, Fall 2015
Fall 2011, Winter, Fall 2012
2010 – 2012, 2014

TALKS AND POSTER SESSIONS
The Holographic Entropy Cone
Simons Summer Workshop, Stony Brook, NY
Entropic Constraints from Holography
Intern. Conf. in Number Theory and Physics Poster Session, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tomography from Entanglement
SoCal Grad Strings and Fields, Los Angeles, CA
Limits of Holographic Entropy
Caltech High Energy Theory Informal Seminar, Pasadena, CA
Tomography from Entanglement
Caltech Noncommutative Geometry Seminar, Pasadena, CA
Entanglement and Geometry
Caltech Noncommutative Geometry Seminar, Pasadena, CA
Universal Spectrum of 2d Conformal Field Theory in the Large c Limit
Strings 2014 Gong Show, Princeton, NJ
Jul 2015
Jun 2015
May 2015
May 2015
Feb 2015
Jan 2015
Jun 2014
Spontaneous Generation of Angular Momentum in Holographic Theories Jul 2013
String Theory, Black Holes and Holography Poster Session, Kyoto, Japan
Spontaneous Generation of Angular Momentum in Holographic Theories Feb 2013
Caltech High Energy Theory Informal Seminar, Pasadena, CA
An Explicit Holographic Realization of Hall Viscosity
Caltech High Energy Theory Informal Seminar, Pasadena, CA
Mar 2012
Hall Viscosity and Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton Theory
6th Asian School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology Gong Show, Kusatsu, Japan
Jan 2012
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
The Holographic Entropy Cone
N. Bao, S. Nezami, H. Ooguri, B. Stoica, J. Sully, M. Walter, JHEP 09 (2015) 130, 1505.07839
Locality of Gravitational Systems from Entanglement of Conformal Field Theories
J. Lin, M. Marcolli, H. Ooguri, B. Stoica, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221601 (2015), 1412.1879
Universal Spectrum of 2d Conformal Field Theory in the Large c Limit
T. Hartman, C. A. Keller, B. Stoica, JHEP 09 (2014) 118, 1405.5137
Hall Viscosity and Angular Momentum in Gapless Holographic Models
H. Liu, H. Ooguri, B. Stoica, Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 086007, 1403.6047
Angular Momentum Generation by Parity Violation
H. Liu, H. Ooguri, B. Stoica, Phys. Rev. D 89 (2014) 106007, 1311.5879
Spontaneous Generation of Angular Momentum in Holographic Theories
H. Liu, H. Ooguri, B. Stoica, N. Yunes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 211601 (2013), 1212.3666