CURRICULUM STUDIORUM

Personal details

Name:              Ph.D. Karolis TAMOŠIŪNAS

Address:          Partizanų 16c-25, Kaunas, LT-3009, Lithuania

Phone:             +370 37 335310

Cell phone:      +370 61950771

E-mail:             Karolis@itpa.lt

Date of Birth: 30 December 1978

Nationality:      Lithuanian

Education, positions:

February 2006 – now

Researcher at the Department of the Theory of Nucleus in the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, A. Goštauto St. 12, 01108 Vilnius, Lithuania.

January 2002 – December 2005

Doctoral degree student in high energy nuclear physics at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Ph.D. degree obtained by defending thesis named “Kinetic Description of the Final Stages in the Relativistic Nuclear Collisions”. Allegaten 55, Bergen, N-5007, Norway.

January 2001 - December 2001

Master of Philosophy diploma in nuclear physics at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Allegaten 55, Bergen, N-5007, Norway. Working language English; average grade A.

September 1996 - June 2000

Bachelor degree in physics with specialty in mathematics at Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Environmental science, Department of Physics; Daukanto St. 26 Kaunas, LT-3000, Lithuania.

September 1984 – June 1996

Secondary education in Kaunas “Ausros” secondary school; Laisves aleja 93, Kaunas, LT-3000, Lithuania.

Schools, Traineeships, Grants

25 September – 21 October 2006

Research program “From RHIC to LHC: Achievements and Opportunities”, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Washington University, Seattle, US.

21 August – 1 September, 2006

CERN School of Computing, Helsinki, Finland.

19 June – 10 September, 2005

Research at High Energy Physics group in Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China. Supervised by Chunbin Yang, Professor of Physics.

12 September – 22 October, 2004

Research at Department of Physics, Cape Town University. Supervised by Prof. Jean Claymans.

1 March – 31 May, 2004

Leonardo Da Vinci research grant to GSI Planck Str. 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany. Supervised by Prof. Braun Munzinger.

1 April – 30 September, 2003

Marie Curie fellowship for European Graduate School "Complex Systems of Hadrons and Nuclei", Institut für Theoretische Physik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.

17 June - 17 December, 2002
Marie Curie fellowship for Doctoral Training Program “Dense and Hot QCD” at ECT* (European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas), Trento, Italy.

 

Participation in Workshops and Conferences:

3 – 8 July, 2006

International conference “Physics at LHC”, Cracow, Poland.

19 - 24 June, 2005

International workshop “QCD theory and RHIC physics”, Wuhan, China.

30 March - 4 April, 2005

2nd International Workshop on the Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement, Bergen, Norway.

15 - 20 September, 2004

International conference “Strangeness In Quark Matter 2004”, Cape Town, South Africa

28 March - 3 April, 2004

International conference “IX hadron Physics and VII Relativistic Aspects of Nuclear Physics”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

20 - 21 June, 2003

Workshop “Dynamics in Hadron Physics” at Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Giessen, Germany

23 February - 1 March, 2003

Lecture week of the European Graduate School Copenhagen-Giessen "Complex Systems of Hadrons and Nuclei" at ECT*, Trento, Italy

4 - 10 January, 2003

NorFA network lecture week “Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology”, Norway

14 - 25 October, 2002

Workshop “Coherent Effects at RHIC and LHC: Initial Conditions and Hard Probes” at ECT*, Trento, Italy

2 - 11 September, 2002

Workshop “Structure of the Nucleon” at ECT*, Trento, Italy

8 - 19 July, 2002

Workshop “Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD” at ECT*, Trento, Italy

17 - 22 June, 2002

Workshop “Charm Production: from Threshold via SPS to RHIC and LHC " at ECT*, Trento, Italy

17 - 20 April 2001

The North-West Europe Nuclear Physics Conference at University of Bergen, Norway

 

 

 

Talks and Seminars presented:

25 September 2006

“Stability of the Freeze-Out Process in Quark-Gluon Plasma Evolution” at Institute for Nuclear Theory, Washington University, Seattle, US.

08 July 2005

“New developments in Freeze-Out in Heavy Ion Collisions” at Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China

16 September 2004

“Modeling of Boltzmann Transport Equation for Freeze-Out” at the International conference “Strangeness in Quark Matter 2004”, Cape Town, South Africa

20 April 2004

“Modeling ultra-relativistic high-energy processes with computational fluid dynamics and kinetic theories” at The Bergen Centre for Computational Science, Bergen, Norway

7 January 2003

“Solving Negative Contribution Problem In The Cooper-Frye Formula” at NorFA Network Lecture Week “Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology”

5 August 2002

"Freeze-out dynamics in Heavy-Ion Collisions" at ECT*, Trento, Italy

7 December 2001

“Change of Matter Properties Across Idealized Freeze-out Hypersurface” at University of Bergen, Norway

Languages

English - fluent, Russian - fluent, Lithuanian – native.

Other interests

Philosophy, traveling, arts

1. K. Tamosiunas and L.P. Csernai, Cancelling Juttner Distributions for Space-like Freeze-out, Eur. Phys. J. A 20 269-275 (2004), hep-ph/0403179
2. K. Tamosiunas, L.P. Csernai, V.K. Magas, E. Molnar, A. Nyiri, Modeling of Boltzmann Transport Equation for Freeze-Out, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.  31 2005
3. K. Tamosiunas, L.P. Csernai, J. Manninen, E. Molnar, A. Nyiri,  Cancelling Juttner Distributions for Space-like Freeze-out,  AIP Conf.  Proc. 739: 652-654, 2005
4. E. Molnar, L. P. Csernai, V. K. Magas, A. Nyiri and K. Tamosiunas, Covariant description of kinetic freeze out through a finite space-like layer, nucl-th/0503047
5. L.P. Csernai, V.K. Magas, E. Molnar, A. Nyiri and K. Tamosiunas,  Modified Boltzmann Transport Equation and Freeze Out, Eur. Phys. J. A 25: 65-73, 2005 hep-ph/0505228
6. V.K. Magas,  L.P. Csernai, E. Molnar, A. Nyiri and K. Tamosiunas, Modified Boltzmann Transport Equation,  Nucl. Phys. A 749: 202-205, 2005, hep-ph/0502185
7. L.P. Csernai, E. Molnar, A. Nyiri and K. Tamosiunas, Hydrodynamics: Overview, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31, 2005
8. E. Molnar, L. P. Csernai, V. K. Magas, A. Nyiri and K. Tamosiunas, Covariant description of kinetic freeze out through a finite time-like layer, nucl-th/0503048, Phys. Rev. C 74, 024907 (2006)
   
9. L.P. Csernai, A. Anderlik, Cs. Anderlik, A. Keranen, V.K. Magas, J. Manninen, E. Molnar, A. Nyiri, B.R. Schlei, D.D. Strottman and K. Tamosiunas Phase Transitions in High Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions, hep-ph/0401005
10. A. Nyiri, L.P. Csernai, E. Molnar and  K. Tamosiunas Collective Phenomena In Heavy-Ion Collisions, J.Phys. G: 31, S1045-S1049, 2005
11. L.P. Csernai, V.K. Magas, E. Molnar, A. Nyiri, D. Roehrich, K. Tamosiunas,  Multi-Module Modeling of Heavy Ion Reactions and the 3-rd Flow Component: AIP Conf.Proc.739:330-345, hep-ph/0408183, 2005
12. L.P. Csernai, A. Anderlik, Cs. Anderlik, V.K. Magas, E. Molnar, A. Nyiri, D. Rohrich,  K. Tamosiunas, The 3-rd Flow Component as a QGP Signal, 2004 Acta Phys. Hung. A 22: 181-186, hep-ph/0405277, 2005