Curriculum Vitae


Personal

Name: Ilya Gurwich.
Born: March 8th, 1986, Leningrad, USSR.
Immigration: Came to Israel November 5th, 1990.
Current address: Ha-Gilboa 25/29, 84746, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Education

2005 - present: PhD under the supervision of Prof. Aharon Davidson and Kreitman Fellow at Ben-Gurion University.
2002 – 2005: B.Sc. at Ben-Gurion University (Started Parallel to School, at the age of 16). Final average grade: 96

1998 – 2004: Amit High-School.

Competitions and Awards

Mathematics Olympiads
Twice, 5th place at the Amit Olympiad.
Honorable mention at the national school competition 2001.
3rd prize at the national school competition 2002.

Physics Olympiad
National team member of 2002 and 2003.
Honorable mention at the Asian physics Olympiad in Singapore 2002.
Silver Medal at the Asian physics Olympiad in Thailand 2003.
Bronze Medal at the International physics Olympiad in Taiwan 2003.

University
2006: Outstanding B.Sc. award.

2005 - present: Kreitman Fellowship Scholarship for PhD studies.

2005: Dean Award for outstanding achievements in B.Sc. studies.

2004: Rector Award for outstanding achievements in B.Sc. studies.

Other
2004: 2nd place award at the Israeli fair on technology for my work with Prof. Nathan Klioren et al. on Turbulent Thermo-Diffusion
2004: 1st place at the "Israeli young scientists competition" for my work with Prof. Michael Gedalin on Deviations from Isotropic and Homogeneous expansion of the universe.
2004: 2nd Place award from the American Mathematical society, in the Intel international physics and engineering fair (ISEF) 2004, Portland, Oregon.

Positions

2005 - present: PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Aharon Davidson and Kreitman Fellow at Ben-Gurion University.
2004 - present: Teaching assistant at BGU.

Research

Poster Presentations

• Ilya Gurwich and Michael Gedalin, "Deviations from an Isotropic and Homogeneous Expansion of the Universe", Intel international physics and engineering fair (ISEF) 2004, Portland, Oregon.

Conference Lectures

• Ilya Gurwich, "Quantum Gravity - A Novel Approach", Albert Einstein Century Conference, 2005, Paris, France.
• Ilya Gurwich and Aharon Davidson, "Unified Brane Theory", Workshop on Brane-World Gravity: Progress and Problems, 2006, Portsmouth, England.

Publication List (from spires):

1. Ilya Gurwich and Michael Gedalin, "Deviations from an Isotropic and Homogeneous Expansion of the Universe", proc. ISEF 2004.
2. Aharon Davidson and Ilya Gurwich, Spontaneously Induced Gravity: From Rippled Dark Matter to Einstein Corpuscles", PoS(HEP2005)010 and will appear in the proc. of Albert Einstein Century Conference. gr-qc/0606058.
3. Ilya Gurwich, "Quantum Gravity - A Novel Approach", to appear in the proc. of Albert Einstein Century Conference.
4. Aharon Davidson and Ilya Gurwich, "Dirac Relaxation of the Israel Junction Conditions: Unified Randall-Sundrum Brane Theory", Phys. Rev. D74, 044023 (2006). gr-qc/0606098.
5. Aharon Davidson and Ilya Gurwich "Phase Transition Near The Horizon", to appear soon

Ilya Gurwich
Physics Department
Ben-Gurion University