cv of Dr. O. Castro Alvaredo

2014	Entanglement Entropy of Many Body Quantum Systems, London, (UK)
2014	EPSRC NetworkPlus Workshop on Non-equilibrium Quantum Systems, Nottingham, (UK)
2014	18th UK Meeting on Integrable Models, Conformal Field Theory and Related Topics, Glasgow, (UK)
2014	Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Quantum Computation, Natal, (Brazil)
2013	XXV IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, (Korea)
2013	ICFT 2013 Integrable Models, Conformal Field Theory and related Topics, University of Hertfordshire, UK
2012	RAQIS'12 Recent Advances in Quantum Integrable Systems, University of Angers, Angers (France)
2012	GGI workshop "New quantum states of matter in and out of equilibrium", Instituto Galileo Galilei, Florence (Italy)
2011	8th Bologna Workshop on CFT and Integrable Models, University of Bologna (Italy)
2011	15th UK meeting on Integrable Models, Conformal Field Theory and related Topics, City University London (UK)
2010	Finite-Size Technology in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems (V) , Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque (Spain)
2010	ICFT10-UK meeting on Integrable and Conformal Field Theories , University of Kent, Canterbury (UK)
2009	ICFT09-UK meeting on Integrable and Conformal Field Theories, Oxford University (UK)
2008	2nd INSTANS summer conference , The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Arcetri, Florence (Italy)
2007	IDAQUIS workshop on Infinite Dimensional Algebras and Quantum Integrable Systems, Universidade do Algarve, Faro (Portugal).
2007	6th International Workshop on pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics, City University London (UK).
2007	11th Annual UK meeting on Integrable Models, Conformal Field Theory and related topics, King's College London (UK).
2006	Themes in the interface of representation theory and physics, City University London, London (UK).
2006	EUCLID International Workshop: Integrable Models and Applications: from Strings to Condensed Matter, Lyon (France).
2006	ICFT06-UK Meeting on Integrable and Conformal Field Theory, Durham (UK).
2006	Women in Mathematics Day, meeting held at the London Mathematical Society, London (UK).
2005	EUCLID International Workshop: Integrable Models and Applications: from Strings to Condensed Matter, Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
2005	International Workshop RAQIS'05: Recend Advances in Quantum Integrable Systems, Annecy-le-Vieux (France).
2005	International Workshop: Lessons from low dimensions- the many aspects of Conformal Field Theory, University of Bonn (Germany).
2004	EUCLID Mid-term review, York (UK).
2004	EUCLID International Workshop: Integrable models and applications, Sozopol (Bulgaria).
2004	EUCLID Montpellier Spring School 2004: Modern Problems in Theoretical Physics and Integrable Systems, La Grande Motte (France).
2003	Integrable Models and Applications: from Strings to Condensed Matter, Florence (Italy).
2003	Infinite Dimensional Algebras and Quantum Integrable Systems, Faro (Portugal).
2003	SFB-Klausurtagung St. Marienthal, St. Marienthal (Germany).
2002	Workshop on Integrable Theories, Solitons and Duality, São Paulo (Brasil) .
2002	SFB-Klausurtagung St. Marienthal, St. Marienthal (Germany).
2001	ICMS Workshop on Classical and Quantum Integrable Systems and their Symmetries, Edinburgh (Scotland).
2001	From QCD to Integrable Models: Old Results and New Developments, Nor Amberd (Armenia).
2001	8th Workshop Grundlagen und Konstructive Aspekte der QFT, Hamburg (Germany).
2000	NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Dynamical Symmetries of Integrable Quantum Field Theories and Lattice Models, Kiev (Ucraine).
2000	TMR Summer School on Recent Advances and Applications of Conformal Field Theory, Montpellier (France).
1999	29th British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, Southampton (UK).
1999	Advanced School on Supersymmetry in the Theories of Fields, Strings and Branes, Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

Talks

2014	" Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz for non Equilibrium Steady States in Integrable Quantum Field Theory ", Invited talk presented at the EPSRC NetworkPlus Workshop on Non-equilibrium Quantum Systems, Nottingham (UK).
2014	" On the Entanglement Entropy of IQFT ", Invited talk presented at the conference Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Quantum Computation, International Institute of Physics, Natal (Brazil).
2013	" Entanglement Entropy of 1-Dimensional Quantum Systems ", Invited seminar presented at the University of Birgminham, Theoretical Physics Department, (UK).
2013	" Universal corrections to the entanglement entropy of gapped quantum spin chains: a numerical study ", Talk presented at STATPHYS25, Seoul National University (Korea).
2012	" Entanglement Entropy of Degenerate Ground States: Permutation Symmetric States ", Talk presented at the Workshop on New quantum states of matter in and out of equilibrium, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence (Italy).
2012	" Entanglement Entropy of 1d Quantum Systems ", Invited talk presented at SISSA, Trieste (Italy).
2011	" Entanglement Entropy of Quantum Spin Chains: Infinitely Degenerate Ground States ", talk presented at the 8th Bologna Workshop on CFT and Integrable Systems, University of Bologna (Italy).
2010	" Entanglement entropy in 1+1 dimensional QFTs", talk presented at the Finite-Size Technology in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems (V) workshop held at the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque (Spain).
2010	"Entanglement entropy in 1+1 dimensional QFTs: some ideas on the entropy of disconnected regions", invited talk at the ICFT10-UK Meeting on Integrable and Conformal Field Theories, University of Kent (UK).
2008	" Bi-partite entanglement entropy from branch point twist fields in integrable quantum field theories", invited seminar at the University of Kent (UK).
2008	"The Homogeneous and Symmetric Space sine-Gordon models: a review", invited seminar at Imperial College London (UK).
2007	"Branch-point twist fields and entanglement entropy in integrable quantum field theory", talk delivered at the IDAQUIS workshop on Infinite Dimensional Algebras and Quantum Integrable Systems, Faro (Portugal).
2007	"Form factors of integrable Heisenberg spin chains", invited seminar at the Mathematics department of the University of Bristol (UK).
2006	"Form factors of XXX and XXZ finite mixed spin chains", invited seminar at the Mathematics department of the University of York (UK).
2006	"Boundary form factors of the sinh-Gordon model with Dirichlet boundary conditions at the self-dual point", talk delivered at the EUCLID workshop on Integrable Models and Applications, Lyon (France).
2006	"On the solution of the inverse scattering problem for XXZ quantum spin chains", talk delivered at the ICFT06-UK meeting on Integrable and Conformal Field Theory, Durham University (UK).
2006	"Correlation functions of quantum spin chains", talk delivered at the Women in Mathematics Day, London (UK).
2006	"Correlation functions of quantum spin chains", talk delivered at City University London within the SEMS Seminar series (UK).
2005	"Form Factors from Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for Higher Spin Representations", talk delivered at the EUCLID international workshop: Integrable Models and Applications: from Strings to Condensed Matter, Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
2005	"Form Factors from Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for Higher Spin Representations", talk delivered in RAQIS'05 international workshop: Recent advances in Quantum Integrable Systems, Annecy-le-Vieux (France).
2004	"Correlation functions from algebraic Bethe ansatz: spin chains with impurities", invited talk at City University London (UK).
2004	"Chaos in the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz", in EUCLID international workshop on integrable models and applications, Sozopol (Bulgaria).
2004	"On vacuum energies and renormalizability in quantum integrable systems", in EUCLID Montpellier Spring School 2004: Modern problems in Theoretical Physics and Integrable Systems, La Grande Motte (France).
2003	"Breathers in the Elliptic sine-Gordon Model'', in Integrable Models and Applications: from Strings to Condensed Matter Florence (Italy).
2003	"Universal Boundary Reflection Amplitudes'', in Infinite Dimensional Algebras and Quantum Integrable Systems, Faro (Portugal).
2003	"Developing the Bootstrap Program for Integrable Models: Applications to the Computation of Measurable Quantities'', in the Berguische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal (Germany).
2003	"Developing the Bootstrap Program for Integrable Models: Mathematical Aspects and Applications'', in the ENS-Lyon, Lyon (France).
2002	"From integrability to conductance, impurity systems (part II)'', in Workshop on Integrable Theories, Solitons and Duality, São Paulo (Brasil).
2002	"Integrability versus Impurities: a Measurement of the Conductance for Quantum Wires", in SFB-Klausurtagung St. Marienthal, St. Marienthal (Germany)
2001	"Aspects of Locality in the Form Factor Program: the Federbush Model'', in ICMS Workshop on Classical and Quantum Integrable Systems and their Symmetries, Edinburgh (Scotland).
2001	"Scaling functions from q-deformed Virasoro characters'', in 8th Workshop Grundlagen und Konstructive Aspekte der QFT, Hamburg (Germany).
2001	"Bootstrap Methods in 1+1-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory: the Homogeneous Sine-Gordon Models'', in the Institut für Theoretische Physik of the Freie Universität Berlin.
2000	"Massive symmetric space sine-Gordon soliton theories and perturbed conformal field theory'', in the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain),the Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and at the TMR Summer School on Recent advances and applications of Conformal Field Theory, Montpellier (France).

Date of birth:	June 3, 1975
Place of birth:	O Incio, Lugo, Galicia (Spain)
Citizenship:	Spanish
Marital status:	Single
Foreign languages:	English, German, French and Portuguese

Current address:	Centre for Mathematical Science, City University London,
	Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB
	UK

E-mail address:	o.castro-alvaredo"at" city.ac.uk

Telephone:	0044-(0)20 7040 8952
Fax:	0044-(0)20 7040 8597

February 2003:	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
	Premio Extraordinario de doctorado en Física 2000/2001. Prize given by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela to the best PhD thesis in Physics of the academic year 2000/2001.

December 2001:	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
	Doctorado Europeo en Ciencias Físicas. European Doctor Certificate in Physics.

1999-2001:	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
	Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics
30.07.01 Ph.D. thesis	"Bootstrap Methods in 1+1 Dimensional Quantum Field Theories: the Homogeneous Sine-Gordon Models", hep-th/0109212

Advisor:	Prof. Dr. José Luis Miramontes Antas
Referees:	Dr. P. Dorey, Dr. A. Fring, Prof. J. Sánchez Guillén, Prof. G. Mussardo and Prof. G. Sierra Rodero
Grade:	Sobresaliente, Cum Laude (highest grade)

February 2000:	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
	Premio Extraordinario de licenciatura en Física 1998-1999. Prize given by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela to the best Masters Thesis in Physics of the academic year 1998/1999.

1998-1999:	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
	Licenciada con grado en Física en la modalidad de Tesina, (Masters Thesis)
18.06.99 Dipl. thesis:	Perturbaciones integrables del modelo de Wess-Zumino-Witten: Modelos Split.
Advisor:	Prof. Dr. José Luis Miramontes Antas
Grade:	Sobresaliente (highest grade)

January 1998:	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
	Premio Fin de Carrera de la Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia 1997. Prize given by the "Xunta de Galicia'' to the best graduate student in Physics of the academic year 1996/1997.

1993-1997:	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
	Licenciada en Física ( Physics BSc)
Qualification:	First class degree (91% average)
Speciality:	Física de Partículas (Particle Physics)

Mar. 2005- Jul. 2009	Lecturer in Mathematics

	Centre for Mathematical Science, City University London,
	Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB
	UK

Jan. 2004-Feb. 2005:	EUCLID-Postdoc
	Postdoc position associated to the EU network EUCLID: "Integrable models and applications: from strings to condensed matter", HPRN-CT-2002-00325

	Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normal Supérieure de Lyon
	UMR 5672 du CNRS, 46 Allée d'Italie
	69364 Lyon CEDEX
	France

Feb. 2001-Dec. 2003:	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Research assistant)
	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Sfb288)

	Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin
	Arnimallee 14, D-14195, Berlin
	Germany

Oct. 1998- Jan. 2001:	Becaria FPI (Research Assistant)
	fellowship PB96-0960 from DGICYT (Spain)

	Departamento de Física de Partículas
	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
	Campus Universitario Sur
	E-15706, Santiago de Compostela
	Spain

1999/00 and 2000/01 (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)	General Relativity Tutorials
1999/00 and 2000/01 (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)	Mathematical Analysis Tutorial
From 2005/06 to 2009/10 (City University London)	Calculus MA2601
Since 2006/07 (City University London)	Programming Part I MA1603
Since 2005/06 (City University London)	Programming Part II MA1603
2005/06 and 2006/07 (City University London)	Bottom up Computing and Discrete Mathematics Tutorials
2007/08 (City University London)	Computational Mathematics for Foundation
2007/08 (City University London)	Calculus AS2051 Tutorials
Since 2009/10 (City University London)	Dynamical Systems MA2605

Pump Priming fellowship (City University London) Project's title: Integrable quantum field theory methods applied to quantum information theory: computations of the entanglement entropy	£2040 awarded in March 2008
University Research Competition 2009 (runner-up award) Project's title: Entanglement Entropy and Quantum Field Theory	£3500 awarded in February 2009

23.02.-28.03.(2000)	Institut für theoretische Physik, FU-Berlin, Germany.
1.05.-30.06.(2000)	Institut für theoretische Physik, FU-Berlin , Germany.
1.08.-5.10.(2000)	Institut für theoretische Physik, FU-Berlin , Germany.
15.06.03-21.06.03	Ecole Normale Superieur de Lyon, France.
17.07.03-18.07.03	Berguische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.
25.10.04-30.10.04	City University of London, UK.
28.08.05-02.09.05	Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.

Last updated on 27th September 2011