Ramis Movassagh – CV
IBM T. J. Watson, Herman Goldstine Fellow in Mathematical Sciences
Room. 32-244, 1101 Route 134 Kitchawan Rd, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
q.eigenman@gmail.com ;
math.mit.edu/∼ramis ;
Tel: 617-792-6246
Citizenship and residency: Canadian citizen and permanent resident of the US.
Research Interests
Primary :
Applied mathematics. Eigenvalue problems, many-body systems, quantum information theory.
Secondary :
Theoretical and numerical (multi) linear algebra, random matrix theory, mathematical physics,
eigenanalysis and modeling of physical problems, physical mathematics, quantum chemistry.
Education
2007-12
M ASSACHUSETTS I NSTITUTE OF T ECHNOLOGY (MIT)
Ph.D. in Mathematics
Thesis: “Eigenvalues and low energy eigenvectors of quantum many-body systems”
Advisor: Peter W. Shor
Committee: Alan Edelman, Peter W. Shor, Jeffrey Goldstone
2005-07
ETH AND C OLLEGIUM H ELVETICUM , Z ÜRICH , S WITZERLAND
Researcher in theoretical neuroscience and mathematical physics
Advisors: Professors Reinhard Nesper 2005-(mid) 2007, Jürg Fröhlich 2007
2001-04
C ORNELL U NIVERSITY
B.Sc. in Applied and Engineering Physics
Academic Employment
2015-
IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
2012-2015 Northeastern University and MIT, Departments of Mathematics
S UM -2013 James Franck Institute, University of Chicago and the Perimeter Institute, Canada. Visiting scientist
collaborating with Prof. L. P. Kadanoff, Statistical physics and Toeplitz matrices
S UM -2012 MIT, Post-Doc with Prof. P. W. Shor, Entanglement entropy and criticality
S UM -2007 MIT, Supervisor: Prof. P. W. Shor, Matrix product states
2007-08
MIT, Supervisor: Prof. J.W. Bush, Experimental fluid mechanics and deformable bodies
2007
ETH-Zürich Supervisor: Prof. J. Fröhlich, Mathematical physics
2005-07
ETH-Zürich and Collegium Helveticum, Supervisor: Prof. R. Nesper.
Human visual system, brain categorization, first levels of visual processing and the optics of human eye
2002-04
Cornell University, Undergraduate Research: Atmospheric plasma physics (Prof. M. Kelley, 2002); Theoretical crystallography (Prof. S. Lee, 2003); Experimental micro-fluids (Prof. H. Craighead, 2004)
2002
Princeton University, Experimental particle physics (Undergraduate Research, Prof. D. Marlow)
2001
University of Calgary, Oil-sand permeability and Darcy’s law, (Undergraduate Research, Prof. R.C.K. Wong)
Selected Honors and Awards
2015
AMS-Simons Travel Grant (2015-2017)
2015
IBM Watson Herman Goldstine Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences
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2013
NSF-DMS Grant No. 1312831, “Applied free probability theory” ($ 109,786.00)
Aug. 2013- Aug. 2015 (Nominal PI: Alan Edelman).
2012
Biruni Graduate Student Research Award. Presented at the March meeting of APS (2012)
2011
Best Poster Award at Quantum Information Processing conference (QIP 2012)
2007
Akamai Presidential Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007
MIT Applied Mathematics Fellowship
2006
Selected with full grant to attend the 18th meeting of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany
2002
Research for Undergraduates (REU) Fellowship, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA
2000
NSERC fellow for summer research at University of Calgary
2000
Canadian Physics Olympiad Finalist
Publications
Journals and preprints
23.
R. Movassagh, “Eigenvalue attraction”, arXiv:1404.4113 [math.SP], Submitted to SIAM Review (2015)
22. R. Movassagh, (with E. Cuervo-Reyes) “Non-affine geometrization can lead to nonphysical instabilities”,
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48, 075101 (2015)
Featured on the Cover of issue 7, volume 48
21. Y. Tsuji, R. Movassagh , S. Datta, and R. Hoffmann “Exponential Attenuation of Through-Bond Transmission
in a Polyene: Theory and Potential Realizations”, Accepted in ACS Nano (2015)
20. R. Movassagh and Peter W. Shor “Power law violation of the area laws in quantum critical spin chains”,
arXiv:1408.1657 [quant-ph]), Presented at QIP 2015 (2014)
19. R. Movassagh, G. Strang, Y. Tsuji, R. Hoffmann, “The Green’s Function for the Hückel (Tight Binding) Model”,
arXiv:1407.4780 [math-ph] , Submitted (2015)
18. L. Chang, M. Cheng, S. Cui, Y. Hu, W. Jin, R. Movassagh, P. Naaijkens, Z. Wang, A. Young “On Enriching the
Levin-Wen Model with Symmetry”, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48, 12, 12FT01 (2015)
17. Y. Tsuji, R. Hoffmann, R. Movassagh and S. Datta “Quantum Interference in Polyenes”,
The Journal of Chem. Phys. 141, 224311 (2014)
16. R. Movassagh, S. G. Johnson, “Optical ’Bernoulli’ forces”, Phys. Rev. A 88, 023829 (2013)
Editor’s suggestion. Featured in MIT Tech Review Sept. 19, 2013.
15. R. Movassagh, (with M. Coudron) “Unfrustration condition and degeneracy of qudits on trees,”
arXiv:1209.4395 [quant-ph], (2013)
14. R. Movassagh, A. Edelman, “Condition numbers of indefinite rank 2 ghost wishart matrices,”
arXiv:1207.3062v1 [math.ST] , Linear Algebra and Its Applications 483, 342–351 (2015)
13. R. Movassagh (with S. Bravyi, L. Caha, , D. Nagaj, P.W. Shor), “Criticality without frustration for quantum
spin-1 chains”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 207202 (2012)
Featured in MIT News. Nov. 27, 2012
12. R. Movassagh (with J. Chen, A. Edelman, E. Hontz, J. Moix, A. Suárez, M. Welborn, T. Van Voorhis) “Error
analysis of free probability approximations to the density of states of disordered systems”,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 036403 (2012)
Featured in MIT News June 22, 2012, Space Mart, Science Daily.
11. R. Movassagh, A. Edelman, “Density of states of quantum spin systems from isotropic entanglement”,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 097205 (2011)
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9.
R. Movassagh, “A time-asymmetric process in central force scatterings”, arXiv:1008.0875 [physics.class-ph]
R. Movassagh, A. Edelman, “Isotropic entanglement”, arXiv:1012.5039 Presented at QIP 2011 (2010)
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8. R. Movassagh, E. Farhi, J. Goldstone, D. Nagaj, T. Osborne, P.W. Shor, “Unfrustrated qudit chains and their
ground states”, Phys. Rev. A 82, 012318 (2010)
7. O.E. Rössler, D. Fröhlich, R. Movassagh and A. Moore, “Hubble-expansion in static space time”,
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 33, 770-775 (2007)
6. O.E. Rössler and R. Movassagh, “Bitemporal Sinai divergence: an energetic analog to Boltzmann’s entropy?”
International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation 6(4), 349-350 (2005)
5. R. C. K. Wong, L. G. Ko, R. Movassagh, “A study of flow tortuosity in locked oil sand”,
Canadian Journal of Petroleum and Technology Volume 43, Number 1 (2004)
Refereed Conference proceedings
4.
R. Movassagh and P. W. Shor, “Criticality without frustration”, AQIS, Suzhou, China, (August 2012).
3. C. Richmond, R. Movassagh, A. Edelman, R. Geddes, “Performance of sample covariance based capon bearing
only tracker”, IEEE 45th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Nov. 7 – 10 (2011)
2. C. Richmond, R. Movassagh, A. Edelman, R. Geddes, “Sample covariance based estimation of capon algorithm
error probabilities”, IEEE 44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Nov. 7 – 10 (2010)
1. L. Ko, R. Movassagh, R.C. K Wong, “Study of flow tortuosity in locked oil sand”, Canadian International
Petroleum conference, 53 Annual Technical Conference, June (2002)
Selected Posters (not included on my website)
• S. Bravyi, L. Caha, R. Movassagh, D. Nagaj, P.W. Shor, “Quantum 2−SAT in 1D with qutrits”, QIP 2012, Montreal, Canada (December 2011). Won best poster award.
• E. Cuervo-Reyes, R. Movassagh, “On geometrical description of dynamical stability”, Complex Systems and
Non-extensive Statistical Mechanics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, July 21-Aug 8, (2006)
• R. Movassagh, J. Edel, H. Craighead, “Single molecule detection using confocal microscopy”, Complex Motion
in Fluids, Humlebæk, Denmark, August (2004)
In preparation (drafts available upon request)
• R. Movassagh and L. P. Kadanoff, “Eigenpairs of disordered Toeplitz matrices with a Fisher-Hartwig symbol”
• R. Movassagh, “Frequency shift as a probe of the motion of celestial bodies”
Invited Talks (selected)
• Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics, Feb-Apr. (2016)
• Yale, Particle Physics Seminar, (2015)
• CN Yang Institute Stony Brook, Condensed Matter Seminar, Nov. (2015)
• University of Virginia, Condensed Matter Seminar, Oct. (2015)
• “New Directions in Numerical Linear Algebra”, Oxford University, August (2015)
• Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) seminar, Caltech July (2015)
• KITP, UC Santa Barbara, June (2015)
• Aspen Center For Physics, Aspen CO. June (2015)
• Boston University, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, May (2015)
• “Aspects of non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum computation”, CUNY New York, April (2015)
• MIT, Department of Physics, Quantum Info. Seminar, February (2015)
• Northeastern University, Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, February (2015)
• University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics, February (2015)
• Harvard University, Widely Applied Mathematics (WAM) seminar, December (2014)
• The Courant Institute of Mathematics, Probability and mathematical physics seminar, December (2014)
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• Boston University, Probability and statistics seminar, December (2014)
• Dartmouth College, Department of physics, December (2014)
• IICQI, Kish Island, Iran , September (2014)
• UMass Boston, theoretical physics seminar April (2014)
• MIT, physical mathematics seminar, November (2013)
• Northwestern University, theoretical physics seminar, August (2013)
• “Distributions in Free Probability Theory”, The Fields’ institute, Toronto, Canada, July (2013)
• “No Time at All”, interdisciplinary conference on “time”, Cortona, Italy September (2012)
• Zhejiang University, department of physics, Hangzhou, China (2012)
• Harvard University, random matrix theory seminar March (2012)
• C.N. Yang Institute Stony Brook, department of physics February (2012)
• “Random Matrix Techniques in Quantum Information Theory”, The Perimeter Institute, Canada, July (2010)
• “Density Matrix and Quantum Marginals”, The Fields’ Institute, Toronto, Canada July (2009)
Teaching
Northeastern
Spr. 2015
Dynamical Systems, Math 3341
University
Spr. 2015
Honors Calculus II, Math 1342
( LECTURER )
Fall 2014
Mathematical Reasoning (Problem Solving in Discrete Math), Math 1365
Spr. 2014
Probability and Statistics, Math 3081
Fall 2013
Linear Algebra and Applications, Math 2331 (2 CLASSES )
Spr. 2013
Calculus 1, Math 1341 (A LSO THE COURSE COORDINATOR )
Spr. 2013
Differential Equations and Linear Algebra, Math 2341 (2 CLASSES )
MIT
Fall 2011
Vector Calculus, Prof. P. Etingof, Math 18.022
(T.A.)
Fall 2009
Advanced Analytical Methods, Prof. H. Cheng, Math 18.305
2008-09
Methods of Applied Mathematics, Prof. G. Strang, Math 18.085
ETH-Zurich (T.A.)
Spr. 2007
Freshman Physics, Prof. G. Dissertori, Physik II
Cornell
Sum. 2004
Classical Mechanics, Prof. E. Kirkland, A&EP 333
Classical Electrodynamics, Prof. D. Heinekam, A&EP 351
University
Applied and Eng.
Mathematical Physics, Prof. T. Stiadle, A&EP 321
Physics (A&EP)
Sum. 2004
(T.A.)
Fall 2003
Sum. 2003
Graduate Applied Solid State Physics, Prof. C. Xu, A&EP 550
Classical Mechanics, Prof. R. V. Lovelace, A&EP 333
Classical Mechanics, Prof. H. Fleischmann, A&EP 333
Other Selected Contributed Talks
• Colorado University Boulder, condensed matter seminar June (2015)
• University of Maryland, joint quantum institute August (2014)
• “StatPhys25”, Seoul South Korea July (2013)
• University of Chicago, hard condensed matter seminar in theoretical physics, May (2013)
• AQIS, Suzhou, China Aug. (2012)
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• University of Calgary, department of physics, Canada December (2011)
• The Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada December (2011)
• “QIP 2011”, Singapore, January (2011)
• “On The Human Eye” Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, Switzerland January (2005)
Selected Workshops/Conference Invitation and Attendance
07-2014
“Quantum Information and Computation”, Princeton Summer School of Condensed Matter Physics
06-2014
Selected “Mathematics of Quantum Phases of Matter”, AMS meeting, Snowbird, Utah
04-2014
“Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity”, Simons center for theory of computing, Berkeley, CA
02-2014
Invited “Quantum Networks”, University of Oxford, Oxford UK
10-2013
Invited “Quantum Marginals”, Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
05-2011
“Difficult Problems in Quantum Computation, xQIT, MIT
06-2010
Invited “Emergence and Entanglement”, Perimeter Institute, Canada
11-2008
“Difficult Problems in Quantum Computation”, xQIT, MIT
07-2007
“StatPhys23: XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics”, Genova, Italy
05-2007
Invited “Wolfgang Pauli’s Ideas and Contemporary Science”, Ascona, Switzerland
08-2006
“Non-linear Partial Differential Equations”, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy
07-2006
“Complex Systems and Non-extensive Statistical Mechanics”, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
06-2006
Invited “Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates”, Lindau, Germany
09-2005
“XX International Union of Crystallography Congress”, Florence, Italy
07-2005
Invited “Psychology and Neuroscience of Emotions”, Swiss Re, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
08-2004
Invited “Complex Motion in Fluids”. Humlebæk, Denmark
Languages and Coding
Languages:
English (fluent), Persian (fluent), German (intermediate)
Coding:
MatLab, C++, Maple, Mathematica, LabView, Scheme
Mentoring and Services
(Spr. 2013-4)
Reviewing committee member for Biruni graduate research award
(Sum. 2012)
Research supervision MIT-wide undergraduate summer research program MSRP
(Jan. 2012)
Mentorship in Directed Reading Program (DRP), MIT
(Sum. 2011)
Research supervision UROP, MIT
(2009-2010)
President of Canadians’ Club at MIT
(2008-2012)
(2007-2008)
Associate of iQuise at MIT
MIT graduate officer (Ashdown housing)
References
P ROFESSOR A-L. B ARABÁSI (N ORTHEASTERN ),
P ROFESSOR J.W.M. B USH (MIT),
barabasi@gmail.com, Tel: +1 (617) 373-2355
bush@math.mit.edu, Tel: +1 (617) 253-4387
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edelman@math.mit.edu, Tel: +1 (617) 253-7770
P ROFESSOR A. E DELMAN (MIT),
P ROFESSOR J. G OLDSTONE (MIT),
goldston@mit.edu, Tel: +1 (617) 253-6263
P ROFESSOR R. H OFFMANN (C ORNELL ),
P ROFESSOR S. G. J OHNSON (MIT),
P ROFESSOR R. N ESPER (ETH-Z),
P ROFESSOR P.W. S HOR (MIT),
rh34@cornell.edu, Tel: +1 (607) 255-3419
stevenj@math.mit.edu, Tel: +1 (617) 253-4073
reinhard.nesper@inorg.chem.ethz.ch, Tel: +41 (0)44-632 2854
shor@math.mit.edu, Tel: +1 (617) 253-4362
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