Personal

Born 18 July 1987, Zheleznodorozhny city, Moscow region, Russia.

Permanent residence: Moscow, Russia

Education

• 2009 - present, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Department of Theoretical Physics, postgraduate education
• 2003 - 2009, Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, Department of Quantum Theory and High Energy Physics M.S. in Physics, summa cum laude. Master thesis "High-frequency astrophysical electromagnetic sources as sources of weak gravitational waves".
• 2005 - 2010, Scientific and Educational Center, Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, certificate of mathematical education

Research interests

• Classical and quantum gravity
• Applied aspects of AdS/CFT (related to description of quantum chromodynamics and solid state physics)

Publications

• I.Ya. Aref'eva, A.A. Bagrov, L.V. Joukovskaya, Several aspects of application of distributions to analysis of gravitational shock waves in General Relativity, Saint-Peterburg Math. Journal, vol.21 (2010), №4 (to appear)
• I.Ya. Aref'eva, A.A. Bagrov, L.V. Joukovskaya, Critical trapped surfaces formation in the collision of ultrarelativistic charges in (A)dS, hep-th:0909.1294, JHEP 03(2010)02
• I.Ya. Aref'eva, A.A. Bagrov, Formation of trapped surfaces in the collision of nonexpanding gravitational shock waves in an AdS4 space-time, Theoretical and mathematical physics, vol. 161, №3, 1647-1662, December 2009
• I.Ya. Aref'eva, A.A. Bagrov, E.A. Guseva, Critical formation of trapped surfaces in the collision of non-expanding gravitational shock waves in de Sitter space-time; hep-th:0905.1087; JHEP 0912:009,2009

Training courses

• Cargese Summer school 2010, String Theory: Formal Developments and Applications (France, Cargese, 21 June 2010 - 03 July 2010)
• 7th Winter school on Theoretical Physics, "Introduction to theory of nanostructures" (Russia, Dubna, 25 January 2009 - 05 February 2009)
• 3rd Asian winter school on String Theory (China, Beijing, 07 January 2009 - 17 January 2009)
• 2008 CERN Summer Student Program (Switzerland, Geneva, 01 July 2008 - 31 August 2008)
• 6th Winter school on Theoretical Physics, "Introduction to theory of fundamental interactions" (Russia, Dubna, 26 January 2008 - 05 February 2008)
• 2007 Summer Student Program of Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) (Russia, Hamburg, Russia, 25 July 2007-18 September 2007)

Conferences and scientific programs

• Erwin Schroedinger Institute Programme on AdS Holography and the Quark-Gluon Plasma (Austria, Vienna, 02 August - 02 September 2010)
• International Bogolyubov conference "Theoretical and mathematical physics - 2009" (Russia, Dubna, 23 - 27 August 2009)
• 16th International Congress on Mathematical Physics (Czech Republic, Prague, 31 July - 9 August 2009)
• 2nd International Conference on String Field Theory and Related Aspects (Russia, Moscow, 12 - 19 April 2009)
• 5th Conference on Foundations of Probability and Physics (Sweden, Vaxjo, 23 - 27 August 2008)
• 26th General Assembly of International Astronomical Union (Czech Republic, Prague, 14 - 25 August 2006)
• Conference "Near-Earth astronomy 2005" (Russia, Kazan, 19 - 24 September 2005)
• 8th congress of Astronomical Community and International Symposium "Astronomy 2005 - status and prospects of development" (Russia, Moscow, 1 - 7 June 2005)
• International conference of students, PhD students and young scientist "Lomonosov 2005" (Russia, Moscow, 12-16 April 2005)

Special honors and awards

• The Fellowship of the non-profit Dynasty Foundation for young scientists (January - December 2010)
• Prize for the best talk given at the International conference "Theoretical and mathematical physics - 2009" (Russia, Dubna, 23 - 27 August 2009)
• The special Fellowship named after academician L.P. Feoktistov (September 2007 - December 2008)
• The special prize of the "Tokio Boeki" corporation (May, 2007) (as the best student of the Physics Faculty)
• The Fellowship of the Mayor of Moscow (February - December, 2007)