vCardDr Nikolaos Proukakis

Dr Nikolaos Proukakis
Reader in Superfluids

  • Email: nikolaos.proukakis@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: 0191 222 8832
  • Fax: 0191 222 8020
  • Address: School of Mathematics & Statistics
    University of Newcastle
    Herschel Building
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
    United Kingdom

Research Interests

Quantum Fluids & Gases:

  • Bose-Einstein Condensation and Quasi-Condensation; Role of Density & Phase Fluctuations.

  • Non-Equilibrium Phenomena: Applications to Atom Chips, Atom Lasers & Atom Interferometers

  • Solitons & Vortices in Quantum Fluids: Analogies with Optical Systems; Quantum Turbulence

  • Quantum Many-Body Theories; Stochastic Approaches; Numerical Modelling.

    • Selected Publications

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    Postgraduate Supervision

    Mr Stuart Cockburn (Stage 4)
    Ms Joy Allen (Stage 2)
    Mr Donatello Gallucci (Stage 1)

    Esteem Indicators

    (I) INVITED CONFERENCE TALKS:

  • Annual Meeting of the UK Cold-Atom / Condensed-Matter Physics Network (Durham, UK - Sep 2009)

  • Ultracold Matter: Simulation and Modelling (Windsor, UK - August 2009)

  • LPHYS’09: 18th International Laser Physics Workshop (Barcelona, Spain - July 2009)

  • Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity: (Porto, Portugal - July 2008)

  • LPHYS’08: 17th International Laser Physics Workshop (Trondheim, Norway - July 2008): Unabel to attend due to PARTNERS Teaching

  • Non-equilibrium Behaviour in Superfluid Gases at Finite Temperature (Sandbjerg, Denmark - June 2007)

  • Ruperto Carola Symposion: Ultracold Quantum Gases (Heidelberg, Germany - July 2007)

  • UK Cold Matter Forum (Durham, UK - Apr 2007 )

  • LPHYS’06: 15th International Laser Physics Workshop (Lausanne, Switzerland - July 2006)

  • XXI Greek Condensed Matter & Materials Science Conference (Nicosia, Cyprus - Aug. 2005)

  • LPHYS'05: 14th International Laser Physics Workshop (Kyoto, Japan - July 2005)

  • SOLIBEC: Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates (Almagro, Spain - Feb 2005)

  • LPHYS'04: 13th International Laser Physics Workshop (Trieste, Italy - July 2004)

  • International Workshop on Atomic Physics (Dresden, Germany - Dec 2003)

  • LPHYS'03: 12th International Laser Physics Workshop (Hamburg, Germany - Aug 2003)

  • Semiconductor Microstructures and Atom Traps - Bose Condensation in Atomic & Solid State Systems, Institute of Physics (London - Presented Invited Talk of C.S. Adams - May 2003)

  • XVIII Greek Conference on Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science (Heraklion, Greece - Sep 2002)

  • LPHYS'02: 11th International Laser Physics Workshop (Bratislava, Slovakia - July 2002)

    • (II) CONTRIBUTED CONFERENCE TALKS:

  • Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute atomic gases and in condensed matter (Lausanne, Switzerland - Jan 2008): Spotlight Presentation

  • XXIII Greek Condensed Matter & Materials Science Conference (Athens, Greece - Sep 2007)

  • Mesoscopic Phenomena in Ultracold Matter: From Single Atoms to Coherent Ensembles (Dresden, Germany - Oct 2004)

  • XX Greek Conference on Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science (Ioannina, Greece - Sep. 2004)

  • Photon 04, QEP-16: Coherent Atom Manipulation (Glasgow, U.K. - Aug. 2004)

  • LMS Durham Symposium: Topological Solitons and their Applications (Durham, U.K. - Aug. 2004)

  • CMMP 04: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference (Warwick, U.K. - Apr. 2004)

  • QuAMP: Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics (Milton Keynes, U.K. - Sep. 2003)

  • QGLD 2003: Quantum Gases in Low Dimensions, Les Houches Ecole de Physique (Les Houches, France - Apr. 2003)

  • BEC Summer Workshop, European Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trento, Italy - Aug, 2002)

  • Physics of Ultracold Dilute Atomic Gases Workshop, Benasque Centre for Science (Benasque, Spain - Jun. 2002)

    • (III) INVITED SEMINARS IN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS:

  • Department of Physics, University of Nottingham (UK - July 2008)

  • Department of Physics, University of Durham (UK - Apr 2008)

  • Department of Physics, University of Crete (Greece - Mar 2008)

  • School of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, National Technical University of Athens (Greece - Sep 2007)

  • Theoretical Physical & Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation (Greece - Jan 2007)

  • The Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford (UK - Jul 2006)

  • Centre for Cold Matter, Imperial College London (UK - May 2006)

  • Department of Physics, University of Durham (UK - Feb 2006)

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands - Apr. 2005)

  • Department of Physics, University of Athens (Greece - Nov. 2004)

  • Institute of Materials Science, Demokritos (Greece - Nov. 2004)

  • Department of Physics, University of Ioannina (Greece - Oct. 2004)

  • The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (U.K. - Feb. 2003)

  • The Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford (U.K. - Nov. 2002)

  • Department of Physics, University of Crete (Greece - Dec. 2001)

  • Institute of Electronic Strucutre & Laser, Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Crete (Greece - Mar. 1997)

    • (IV) REFEREE FOR SUBMITTED EPSRC PROPOSALS

    (V) REFEREE FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS:
    Physics Reports, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review E, Europhysics Letters, New Journal of Physics, Journal of Physics A, Journal of Physics B, Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter, Journal of Optics B; Optics Communications; European Physical Journal D; Journal of Low Temperature Physics; International Journal of Modern Physics B; Computers and Simulations in Mathematics.
    (Total Number of Articles Reviewd to Date: 146).

    (VI) CONFERENCE ORGANISATION:

  • Co-organiser of 'FINESS 2009: Finite Temperature Non-Equilibrium Superfluid Systems workshop' (Durham, UK; 13-17 Sep 2009; massey.dur.ac.uk/finess/). Raised £33,000 for this workshop from various sources.

  • Member of Local Organising Committee, ‘QUAMP III: Third National Meeting on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular, and Plasma Physics (Collingwood College & Department of Physics, 18-22 Sep 2006 massey.dur.ac.uk/quamp ).

    • (VII) SESSION CHAIR:

  • Session Chair, LPHYS'09 (Barcelona, Spain - July 2009)

  • Chair of Panel Discussion, Non-equilibrium Behavior in Superfluid Gases at Finite Temperature (Sandbjerg, Denmark - Jun 2007)

  • Chair of the final session, Mesoscopic Phenomena in Ultracold Matter: From Single Atoms to Coherent Ensembles (Dresden, Germany - Oct. 2004)(Organized by J. Brand, P. Schmelcher and K. Burnett)

  • Co-chair (with N. Davidson) of one of the afternoon sessions

    • LPHYS'03: 12th International Laser Physics Workshop (Hamburg, Germany - Aug. 2003), Seminar 6: "Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms" (Organized by L.P. Pitaevskii, V.I. Yukalov & E. Zaremba)

    (VIII) CITATIONS: 503 (Hirsch Index: 13)

    Funding

    • EPSRC Grant EP/F055935/1. Amount: £259,229. Title: 'Ultracold gases far from equilibrium: fluctuations in time-dependent geometries': £259,229; Principal (and Sole) Investigator; Commneced: 1 March 2009
    • EPSRC Grant EP/H018093/1. Amount: £19286. Title: FINESS 2009 (Finite Temperature Non-Equilibrium Superfluid Systems). Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. S.A. Gardiner, Durham University). Commenced: 14 September 2009

    Languages

    Fluent in:
    Greek
    English
    Spanish
    German
    Also understand some Dutch & French

    Undergraduate Teaching

    Academic Year 2009/10:
    Lectures in
    MAS1001/MAS2001: Mathematical Methods (Module Leader)
    MAS3119/MAS8119: Variational Methods (Module Leader)

    Academic Year 2008/9:
    Lectures in
    MAS1001/MAS2001: Mathematical Methods (Module Leader)
    MAS3119/MAS4119: Differential Equations, Transform methods & Fields (Module Leader)

    Academic Year 2007/8:
    Lectures in
    MAS1001/MAS2001: Mathematical Methods (Module Leader)
    MAS3101/MAS4101: Variational Methods (Module Leader)

    Academic Year 2006/7:
    Lectures in:
    MAS1001/MAS2001: Mathematical Methods
    MAS3101/MAS4101: Variational Methods (Module Leader)
    MAS4114/MAs8114: Modern Topics in Applied Mathematics: Superfluids

    Academic Year 2005/6:
    Lectures in:
    MAS209/MAS609: Classical Fields (2Module Leader; 2nd Semester)
    MAS427/MAS827: Topics in Modern Applied Mathematics (1st Semester)
    Also Tutorials in the following modules:
    MAS111: Modelling with Differential Equations
    MAS145: Problem-Solving Technique