About me

Hello:-) My name is Podist Kurashvili. I am a physicist. This page is devoted to my scientific activities.

I was born on January 18 1978 in Abasha, Georgia.

I was graduated from the school-gimnasium in Abasha in 1995 and entered the Department of Physics at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

In 1999 after obtaining the Bachelor's degree I specialized in the field of theoretical physics. I obtained the Master's degree at Tbilisi State University in 2001. The title of my master thesis was "The Quantum Hall Effect and Anomalies".

I have begun my Ph. D. course at Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies in February 2007.



My scientific interests

My earlier scientific activities were connected with the Solid State Physics, the Atmosphere Physics and the Quantum Field Theory.
 


 
My present interests are mainly concentrated around the hydrodynamical model of particle creation in high-energy collisions with focus on statistical correlations of pairs of identical particles.
 

Events

Presentations:

1 ."Introduction to intensity interferometry in particle physics" Apr 17 2007 presentation


2. “The hydrodynamical model and the comparison of its predictions with the experiment with particular emphasis on the RHIC data” Feb 26 2008 presentation


3. Reconstruction of Neutral Pion Momentum Distribution with the ALICE PHOS Spectrometer May 12 2009 presentation

Other:

Scientfic picnic in Warsaw - popular presentation and slides dedicated to the ALICE CERN experiment. Jun 14 2008 slide1, slide2.

Publications

Old (before the beginning of Ph.D. course):

1)P. Kurashvili, L. Chotorlishvili, G, Shergelashvili 'Non-linear linked oscillations of the Electronic and Nuclear Magnetization in Thin Ferromagnetic Plate.' Proceedings of Tbilisi State University, n 337, Vol. 35, p 50 (2000)

2)Kereselidzde Z., Ghurtskaya N., Kurashvili P. 'A Model of the Plasma Density Variation near the Critical Point of the Earth Magnetosphere', Georgia Engineering News, p 26 (2006)(in Russian) link

3)L.L. Chtorlishvili, I.M. Nadareishvili, P.A. Kurashvili "Two-pulse Spin Echo Inside Amorphous Ferromagnets" Acta Physica Slovaca vol 52 n2, 65-70 link

Recent ones:

1) H. Tori et al, "The ALICE PHOS calorimeter", accepted in Journal of Physics, CS 2008 link

2) P.T Hille et al, "The photon calorimeter of the ALICE experiment", sent to Nucl. Phys. A link

Year 2007/2008

Program of studies:

Seminar for High-Energy Physics link

Work with the ALICE PHOS detector in CERN

Exploring the hydrodynamical model of particle production in high energy collisions.

Subject: High energy and particle physics.

Ph. D. Students weekly seminar

Results:

Seminar for High-Energy Physics (accepted)

Modelling of the ALICe PHOS detector response to high energy photons, closer familiriarization with experimental equimpment and data processing techniques of the ALICE experiment.

Adapting of the hydrodynamical model code to LHC energies.

Subject: High-energy and particle physics (5)

Presentations at the Ph. D. students weekly seminar(See the section "Events" above)

Scientfic picnic in Warsaw - popular presentation and slides on the ALICE CERN experiment.

Year 2008/2009

Seminar for High-Energy Physics link

Event simulations and modelling using programs GEANT and HIJING

Running of the program for modelling of the PHOS spectrometer in Warsaw

Participation in the data taking and analysis in ALICE experiment

Subject: Simulation and physics analysis of experiment ALICE at LHC (Y. Kharlov)

Ph. D. Students weekly seminar

Future plans:

Further work on the hydrodynamical model

Participation in measurements at CERN

Favorite links

Quantum Hall Effect

Hanburry -Brown and Twiss Effect

ALICE Offline

PuTTy.exe