| Personal Details |
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| Name: | Martin Weigel |
| Date of birth: | September 6, 1972 |
| Place of birth: | Neustadt a.d. Weinstr. |
| Nationality: | German |
| Marital status: | married, no children |
| Address: | Mathematics Department, School of Mathematical and
Computer Sciences, Colin Maclaurin Building,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland,
UK |
| Telephone: | +44-131-4518270 |
| Email: | M.Weigel@ma.hw.ac.uk |
| WWW: | http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~weigel |
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| Education |
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| 08.1979-06.1983 |
basic school Bornheim/Dammheim |
| 08.1983-06.1992 |
high-school "Max-Slevogt" Landau,
degree "Abitur" with overall grade 1.0 |
| 10.1992-03.1998 |
study of physics at the University "Johannes-Gutenberg" Mainz |
| 03.1997-03.1998 |
diploma thesis on "Numerical tests of conjectures of conformal field
theory for three-dimensional systems" in the
condensed matter theory group
supervisor: Prof. Dr. K. Binder |
| 03.1998 |
finals with overall grade "sehr gut" (excellent) |
| 03.1995-03.1998 |
philosophy and business science studies at Mainz University |
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| Ph.D. study |
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| since 05.1998 |
graduate studies at the University of Leipzig,
Ph.D. thesis on "Vertex models on random graphs" in the Computer-Oriented
Quantum-Field Theory Group
supervisor: Prof. Dr. W. Janke |
| 05.2002 |
turned in thesis to the University of Leipzig |
| 10.2002 |
defended thesis and received degree "dr. rer. nat." with first class
honours (summa cum laude) |
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| Professional experience |
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| 10.1998-10.2001 |
fellow of the DFG graduate studies programme "Quantum field theory"
at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Leipzig |
| 01.2002-09.2002 |
teaching assistant and computer systems administrator at the Institute for Theoretical
Physics of the University of Leipzig
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| 11.2002-10.2003 |
post-doctoral fellow of the DFG graduate studies programme "Quantum field theory" at the
Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Leipzig
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| 11.2003-08.2005 |
post-doctoral fellow in the Condensed Matter Theory group of the University of Waterloo with Prof. Dr. Michel Gingras
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| since 09.2005 |
Individual Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow of the 6th Framework Programme of the
European Commission with Prof. D. A. Johnston,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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| Teaching experience |
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| 03.1997-07.1997 |
teaching assistant of the physics introductory laboratory course at Mainz University |
| 10.1997-02.1998 |
teaching assistant of the lecture "Physics of atoms and molecules" at Mainz University,
led weekly seminars |
| 10.2000-02.2001 |
teaching assistant of the lecture "Statistical physics" at Leipzig University,
led weekly seminars |
| 05.2000-04.2003 |
co-supervision of two diploma students
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| International exchange |
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| 07.1998-07.2001 |
participant of the DAAD-ARC exchange project "Vertex Models on Random Graphs"
with Prof. Dr. D. A. Johnston, Edinburgh, UK |
| 01.1999-12.2000 |
participant of the DAAD-NSC exchange project "Multicanonical Monte Carlo Approach
to Spin Models" with Prof. Dr. C.-K. Hu, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 04.2000-04.2004 |
participant of the EC research network EUROGRID "Discrete Random Geometries: from solid
state physics to quantum gravity" |
| since 09.2005 |
participant of the EC research network ENRAGE, "Random Geometry and Random Matrices:
From Quantum Gravity to Econophysics"
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| Organizational activities |
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| 05.2000-06.2000 |
scientific secretary of the Workshop LEILAT00, "10th Workshop on Lattice Field Theory", University of Leipzig, June 1-3, 2000
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| 12.2000 |
scientific secretary of the Workshop CompPhys00 Workshop on Computational Physics,
University of Leipzig, December 16, 2000
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| 09.2001-03.2002 |
technical advisor for the 66th spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), March 18-22, 2002
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| Related experience |
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| 05.1998-10.2003 |
co-administrator of the cluster of about 50 PCs and workstations as well as a 40 CPU Beowulf cluster at the Institute for Theoretical
Physics, University of Leipzig
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| 01.2004-08.2005 |
software planning and setup, administration of the 162 CPU Beowulf cluster "Hydra" at the Physics Department of the University of Waterloo
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| Scientific experience and skills |
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- Spin glasses and other frustrated magnetic systems
- The dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity
- Conformal field theory in the context of lattice models
- Annealed and quenched disorder in statistical mechanics and lattice field theory
- The analysis of fluctuating geometries and their effect on coupled matter
- Monte Carlo simulations of spin models and percolation problems, cluster
algorithms, histogram techniques, generalized ensemble simulations
- Analysis of restricted geometries, finite-size scaling methods
- Statistical data analysis: resampling schemes, jackknife method
- Optimization problems in statistical physics, combinatorial optimization,
genetic algorithms
- Holstein-Primakoff spin-wave approach for disordered spin systems and related methods
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| Computer skills |
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- Comprehensive experience with C/C++ and Fortran application programming
- Practical UNIX/Linux system administration, systems design and maintenance
- Experience with programming for massively parallel architectures
- Programming experience with data visualization (OpenGL, vtk)
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| Foreign languages |
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- Fluent in English
- Basic competence in French
- A-level in Latin
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