Harold Erbin Address: 68, avenue Paul Vaillant–Couturier 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine France E-mail:
[email protected] Phone number: +336 174 076 83 Nationality: French. Birth date: October 5., 1989 (France).
Education and Academic Degrees • January 2012–February 2012: PSI Lectures: Quantum Gravity, Gravitational Physics, String Theory, Beyond the Standard Model. • 2011–2012: Second year of M.Sc. in theoretical physics (Concepts Fondamentaux, parcours physique théorique) with highest honors (rank: 9th), École Normale Supérieure de Paris. • 2010–2011: First year of M.Sc. in theoretical physics (Magistère de physique fondamentale) with highest honors (rank: 2nd), Paris 7–Paris Diderot University. • 2009–2010: B.Sc. in theoretical physics (Magistère de physique fondamentale) with honors (rank: 6th), Paris 7–Paris Diderot University. • 2007–2009: Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles (classes to prepare competitive exams for engineering schools) with a 2-year university level in physics, chemistry and mathematics (lycée Roosevelt, Reims). • 2007: French baccalauréat with high honors, science major (lycée Jules Verne, Château-Thierry).
Work experiences • January 2012–February 2012: Critical behaviors of random tensor models in the large N limit.; supervisor: Valentin Bonzom (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada). • May 2011–August 2011: Classical supersymmetry; supervisors: Francesco Nitti, Jihad Mourad (APC, Paris 7, France). • June 2010: Magnetohydrodynamics, jets and stellar winds: theory and search for new solutions; supervisor: Nektarios Vlahakis (Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Faculty of Physics, University of Athens, Greece). • January 2010–May 2010: Numerical physics project: Simulation of hydrodynamic flows; supervisor: Edouard Boulat (MPQ, Paris 7, France). • October 2009–December 2009: Experimental physics project: Reversible/irreversible transition in non-brownian Couette flow; supervisor: Denis Bartolo (ESPCI, Paris, France).
Professional background • October 2011–present: teacher at the "Cours Thalès" (tuition agency). • September 2011–May 2012: Academic tutoring in physics, Paris 7–Paris Diderot university (46h). • September 2011–December 2011: Oral examinations of first-year students in physics, Paris 7–Paris Diderot university (18h). • October 2010–October 2011: Educational assistant in sciences in the lycée Jean Macé (Vitry-sur-Seine), part-time job (803h). • September 2010–May 2011: Academic tutoring in physics, Paris 7–Paris Diderot university (64h). • 2009–2010: in-home tutoring in mathematics and physics to middle and high school pupils.
Informatique • Programming languages: Python, C, Bash, PHP. • Markup languages: LaTeX, XHTML. • Network and system administration. • Tools: Django, Mercurial, Linux, Inkscape, Mathematica. . .
Languages skills French (mothertongue), fluent English and German, Esperanto and Greek beginner, Latin and Ancient Greek notions.
Projects • Participation on the sympy project (computer algebra system in Python). • Management software for writers: Azur. • Exercise database software. • Multidisciplinary web journal: L’hibou’k. • Manuals on mathematics (middle school) and Python. • Writing: novels (fantasy), poems, theatre, etc. (several awards).
Other interests • Mathematics, chemistry, biology, geology. • Reading: poetry, fantasy, science-fiction, mythologies. • Linguistics, rhetoric, typography, languages. • Social and human science: philosophy, epistemology, political philosophie, geopolitics, military strategy, history, social psychology. . . . • Traditional dances and waltz, tin whistle. • Travels: Germany, Finland, Greece. . . • Associations: Synescent (founding president), Mensa, April, MinD-HochschulNetzwerk, Étudiants de physique de Paris 7 (webmaster, founder). • Badminton, medieval fencing.
References [1] V. Bonzom and H. Erbin. Coupling of hard dimers to dynamical lattices via random tensors. 2012. http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3798.
