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Dr. Alejandro Jenkins Villalobos

Dr. Alejandro Jenkins Villalobos

Puesto: Profesor

Oficina: 109A FM

Teléfono: 2511-6574

Correo: alejandro.jenkins@ucr.ac.cr

Especialización/Intereses de investigación: Teoría cuántica de los campos, teorías efectivas, Física de partículas y Cosmología más allá del modelo estándar, sistemas dinámicos, Termodinámica lejos de equilibrio.
 

Estudios Universitarios: 

- Post-doctoral, Florida State University (FSU), High Energy Physics Group (2012).

- Post-doctoral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP) (2009).

- Doctorado (Ph.D.) en Física Teórica, Caltech (2006).

- Mágister (M.S.) en Física, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (2002).

- Bachiller (A.B) en Física y Matemáticas, Harvard University (2001).

- Estudios universitarios en matemáticas, Universidad de Costa Rica (1997).

 

Publicaciones: 

- A. Jenkins, "Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance", Physical Review D 69, 105007 (2004) [arXiv:hep-th/0311127]
- A. Jenkins, "An elementary treatment of the reverse sprinkler”, American Journal of Physics 72, 1276 (2004) [arXiv:physics/0312087]
- S. D. H. Hsu, A. Jenkins y M.B. Wise, "Gradient instability for w < -1”, Physics Letters B 597, 270 (2004) [arXiv:astro-ph/0406043]
- M. L. Graesser, S. D. H. Hsu, A. Jenkins y M. B. Wise, "Anthropic distribution for the cosmological constant and primordial density perturbations”, Physics Letters B 600, 15 (2004) [arXiv:hep-th/0407174]
- A. Jenkins, "Composite mediators and Lorentz violation," in Proceedings of the Third Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Invariance, ed. V. A. Kostelecky (Singapore: World Scientific, 2005), pp. 277--281 [arXiv:hep-th/0409189]
- M. L. Graesser, A. Jenkins y M. B. Wise, "Spontaneous Lorentz Violation and the Long-Range Gravitational Preferred-Frame Effect”, Physics Letters B 613, 5 (2005) [arXiv:hep-th/0501223]
- A. Jenkins y D. O'Connell, "The Story of O: Positivity constraints in effective field theories", arXiv:hep-th/0609159
- A. Jenkins, "Reglas de divisibilidad”, Revista digital: Matemática, educación e Internet 7(1) (2006)
- A. Adams, A. Jenkins y D. O'Connell,  "Signs of Analyticity in Fermion Scattering”, arXiv:0802.4081 [hep-ph]
- R. L. Jaffe, A. Jenkins e I. Kimchi, "Quark Masses: An Environmental Impact Statement”, Physical Review D 79, 065014 (2009) [arXiv:0809.1647 [hep-ph]].  Artículo resaltado en G. Perez, "A Guided Tour Through the Wild Nuclear Landscape”, Physics 2, 21 (2009).
- A. Jenkins, "Constraints on emergent gravity”, International Journal of Modern Physics D 18, 2249 (2009) [arXiv:0904.0453 [gr-qc]].  Artículo ganador de una mención honorífica del Gravity Research Foundation 2009 Awards for Essays on Gravitation.
- A. Jenkins, "Anthropic constraints on fermion masses”, Acta Physica Polonica B, Proc. Supp. 2, 283 (2009) [arXiv:0906.0029 [hep-th]]
- A. Jenkins y G. Perez, "Looking for Life in the Multiverse”, Scientific American 302(1), 42 (2010).  Artículo de portada.  Trabajo resaltado en el programa Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, Discovery Science Channel, est. 6, ep. 5.
- A. Jenkins, "Sprinkler head revisited: Momentum, forces, and flows in Machian propulsion,” European Journal of Physics 32, 1213 (2011) [arXiv:0908.3190 [physics.flu-dyn]]  Artículo resaltado en L. Phillips, ¨The never-ending conundrums of classical physics”, Ars Technica, 4 ago. 2014
- O. Gedalia, A. Jenkins y G. Perez, "Why do we observe a weak force? The hierarchy problem in the multiverse,” Physical Review D 83, 115020 (2011) [arXiv:1010.2626 [hep-ph]]
- A. Jenkins, "Max Weber y la 'economía austriaca’”, Laissez-Faire, no. 35, 65 (2011)
- A. Jenkins y T. Okui, "Gyroscopic inflation", arXiv:1208.5040 [hep-ph]
- A. Jenkins, "The mechanical career of Councillor Orffyreus, confidence man”, American Journal of Physics 81, 421 (2013) [arXiv:1301.3097 [physics.hist-ph]]
- A. Jenkins, "On the title of Moriarty's Dynamics of an Asteroid”, arXiv:1302.5855 [physics.pop-ph].  Resaltado en J. Ouellette, "Sherlock Holmes and the Dynamics of an Asteroid", Scientific American blogs
- A. Jenkins, "Self-oscillation”, Physics Reports 525, 167 (2013) [arXiv:1109.6640 [physics.class-ph]]
- A. Jenkins, "The Sun's position in the sky”, European Journal of Physics 34, 633 (2013) [arXiv:1208.1043 [physics.pop-ph]]
- A. Jenkins, "Isaac Newton's sinister heraldry", arXiv:1310.7494 [physics.hist-ph]
- A. Jenkins, "Towards a microeconomic theory of the finance-driven business cycle”, Laissez-Faire, no. 42, 12 (2015) [arXiv:1312.0323 [q-fin.GN]].  Presentado en el 1st International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, Bogotá, Colombia, 20 jun. 2014
- A. Jenkins, "Irreversibility in an ideal fluid”, American Journal of Physics 82, 1040 (2014) [arXiv:1301.3915 [physics.flu-dyn]].  Resaltado como selección del editor.
- A. Jenkins, "Chandler wobble: Stochastic and deterministic dynamics", en Dynamical Systems: Theoretical and Experimental Analysis, ed. J. Awrejcewicz, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics 182, pp. 177-186 (2016) [arXiv:1506.02810 [physics.geo-ph]]
- R. Alicki, D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky y A. Jenkins, "A thermodynamic cycle for the solar cell”, Annals of Physics 378, 71 (2017) [arXiv:1606.03819 [cond-mat.stat-mech]]
- R. Alicki y A. Jenkins, "Interaction of a quantum field with a rotating heat bath”, Annals of Physics 395, 69 (2018) [arXiv:1702.06231 [quant-ph]]
- C. D. Díaz Marín y A. Jenkins, "Irreversibility of mechanical and hydrodynamic instabilities", en Vibration, Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems, eds. J. Awrejcewicz et al. (Lodz: DSTA, (2017), pp. 127-138 [arXiv:1709.07120 [physics.class-ph]]
- C. D. Díaz-Marín y A. Jenkins, "A physical approach to dissipation-induced instabilities", arXiv:1806.01527 [physics.class-ph]
- R. Alicki, D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, A. Jenkins y E. von Hauff, "A dynamic picture of energy conversion in photovoltaic devices", arXiv:1901.10873 [physics.app-ph]
- R. Alicki y A. Jenkins, "A quantum theory of triboelectricity", arXiv:1904.11997 [cond-mat.mes-hall]

Departamento o Sección: 

Física Teórica

Contacto:

  (+506) 2511-6600

 

  escuela.fisica@ucr.ac.cr

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