Submition date and time: 10 Mar 2012  22:14:27

Nome: Muhammad Sohaib Alam.

E-mail: malam@physics.utexas.edu

Endereço Postal Address: 1 University Station C1600, Austin, TX 78712-0264, U.S.A.

Do you hold a PhD title? No

Institution: Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin

Research area: Gauge/Gravity duality in particular at present; string, particle theory and cosmology in general.

Comments:
I am broadly interested in high energy theory and cosmology. In particular, my current research focuses on phenomenological aspects of the gauge/gravity duality. Together with my advisor and a postdoc at our university, I recently explored the role of a constant electromagnetic field, at finite temperature, on chiral symmetry breaking in a particular holographic model of QCD.

arXiv:1202.3488 (http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3488)

I am currently exploring the role of chemical potential and finite temperature in the same background. At the same time, I want to broaden my horizons and get in touch with current research on topics that are the subject of this school.

In the past, I have also worked briefly on primordial anisotropy in inflationary models, though this never culminated in a paper. Some years ago, I also co-authored a paper on real analysis, where we studied "quasi-continuous functions", a class of functions with mild discontinuities.

"Quasicontinuous Functions with Everywhere Discontinuous Iterates", M. Sohaib Alam and Annalisa Crannell; Real Anal. 

Exchange Volume 33, Number 1 (2007), 161-166. (http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?

verb=Display&version=1.0&service=UI&handle=euclid.rae/1209398386&page=record)