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  1. Personal Information
  2. Curriculum Vitae
  3. General Information
First name: Yuriy
Last name: Davygora
Birth date: 1986/01/23
Birth place: Kyiv, Ukraine
 
Work address: Kirchhoff Institute for Physics
Im Neuenheimer Feld 227
D-69120 Heidelberg
Germany
Room: 00.314
 
E-mail: yuriy(at)davygora.name
ICQ: 300348725
Skype: davygora

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School education

09.1993 - 06.1999: Gymnasium No. 56, Kyiv
 
09.1999 - 06.2003: Lyceum No. 145 for Natural Sciences, Kyiv
School graduation with honor (gold medal)

Higher education

09.2003 - 01.2004: National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Physics Department
 
09.2004 - 01.2005: Studienkolleg Munich, T-course
 
10.2005 - 03.2007: Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Physics
 
04.2007 - 09.2008: Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and
University of Regensburg: Physics with Integrated Doctorate Program

Research activities

11.2008 - 11.2009: Work on diploma thesis in canonical quantum general relativity (loop quantum gravity)
at the Max Planck Instute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
in Potsdam/Golm
 
Title of the thesis: "Canonical Formulations Of Gravitational Theories"
 
11.2008 - 11.2009: Work on Ph.D. thesis in experimental particle physics
at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics in Heidelberg
and CERN near Geneva, Switzerland
 
Preliminary title of the thesis: "Search for new physics in jet signatures at the LHC"

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About me    Lover of life, wannabe songwriter, beginner physicist, amateur guitarist, professional dreamer
Current activities   
  1. Studying physics
  2. Studying myself
  3. Studying HTML/PHP/MySQL
  4. Writing poems and songs
Interests   
  1. Physics, especially fundamental physics (QFT, GR, unified theories, etc.)
  2. Music (rock'n'roll, rock, oldies, folk, renaissance music, classical music, etc.)
  3. Organization of an ideal society
Personal idols    Stephen Fry, Richard P. Feynman, Freddie Mercury, Владимир Высоцкий, Сергей Щербак
Favourite bands and musicians    Queen, Elvis Presley, Rainbow, Scorpions, Blackmore's Night, Loreena McKennitt, The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Drake Bell, Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Georg Kreisler, Владимир Высоцкий, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Evdard Grieg, etc.
Top-10 favourite songs   
  1. Roger Taylor - Foreign Sand
  2. Earl Brown - If I Can Dream (performed by Elvis Presley)
  3. John Lennon - Imagine
  4. Brian May - The Prophet's Song (performed by Queen)
  5. Bob Dylan - Masters Of War
  6. Freddie Mercury, Brian May - Is This the World We Created...? (performed by Queen)
  7. Brian May - Hammer To Fall (performed by Queen)
  8. Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight
  9. Brian May - Who Wants To Live Forever (performed by Queen)
  10. Rainbow - The Temple Of The King
(This Top-10 list is from 2007/12/10)
Favourite TV shows    A Bit of Fry&Laurie, Whose Line, Gladiators, Большая Разница, Вечерний квартал 95
Favourite movies    Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, Titanic, A Few Good Men, Monty Python's Life Of Brian, Операция "Ы", 12 стульев (Гайдай), За двумя зайцами, etc.
Favourite books   
  1. Isaac Asimov: "Foundation" (original trilogy)
  2. Richard Bach: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah", "The Bridge Across Forever", "One"
  3. Richard P. Feynman: "Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman", "What Do You Care What Other People Think?", "The Pleasure Of Finding Thigs Out"
  4. George Gamow: "One Two Three ... Infinity", "Thirty Years That Shook Physics"
  5. Brian May, Patrick Moore, Chris Lintott: "BANG! The Complete History of the Universe"
  6. Михаил Булгаков: "Мастер и Маргарита"
etc.
Favourite games    The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, The Curse of Monkey Island, Little Big Adventure, Little Big Adventure 2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Supaplex, Prince of Persia, Mortal Kombat III, etc.
Political views    Liberal, antinazist
Religion    Authotheism (in the way I define it: for details see the Philosophy section)

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