Valery A. Kalatsky, Ph.D.

University of Houston, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

4800 Calhoun Rd. Building 1 Room N308, Houston, TX 77004-4005

Telephone: (713) 743-4429 Fax: (713) 743-4444 Email: vkalatsky@uh.edu

URL: http://keck.ucsf.edu/~kalatsky

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, Texas A&M University, May 1999.

Dissertation: Large spins in anisotropic external fields, November 1998

Supervisor: Prof. Valery L. Pokrovsky

M.Sc. in Applied Physics and Mathematics, cum laude,

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia, 1994

The Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia; theoretical studies

Thesis: Stability and topological defects of domain structures in ultra-thin ferromagnetic films, June 1994

Supervisor: Prof. Valery L. Pokrovsky

B.S. in Applied Physics and Mathematics,

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia, 1991

The Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow, Russia; experimental studies

Research Experience

2004- present Assistant Professor, Neuro-enginering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston.

2004 summer Research Scientist, Laboratory for Integrative Neural Systems (head Manabu Tanifuji), RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan.

2003-2004 Research Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco. Projects: functional architecture of rodent auditory and visual cortex (Stryker, Merzenich, Schreiner labs, UCSF), functional architecture of cat visual cortex (Stryker lab, UCSF), role of corpus callosum in rodent vision (Jaime Olavarria, University of Washington), regulation of early neocortical arealization by transcription factors EMX2 (Dennis O’Leary lab, Salk) and PAX6 and COUP-TFI (John Rubenstein lab, UCSF).

2000-2003 Sloan-Swartz postdoctoral fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco. Postdoctoral research in Prof. M.P.Stryker lab. Developed new paradigm for optical imaging of intrinsic signal. Designed and built imaging system employing the new approach. Developed all required software: acquisition, stimulation, and analysis. Performed a large series of functional mapping experiments in visual cortex (mouse, rat, ferret, cat) in collaboration with Prof. Stryker lab and in auditory cortex (mouse, rat, cat) in collaboration with Prof. Merzenich and Schreiner labs. Programming for Windows (C++) and Linux.

1999-2000 Postdoctoral fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division. Developed model for fracture in brittle materials: continuum field description. Research in granular materials: large scale simulations of mechanically and electro-statically driven granular media. Extensive programming, visualization, and large-scale parallel computer simulations on SGI Origin 2000 (128 R10000 processors).

1993-1999 Research and teaching assistant at Department of Physics, Texas A&M University. Research in vortices in layered superconductors (pancakes and Josephson vortices), ultra-thin ferromagnetic films, meta-magnetic transitions in RENi₂B₂C (4-positional clock model), adiabatic and semi-classical approximations, dynamics of large spins, Berry's phase for large spins in crystal electric field. Extensive programming work: C/C++, Fortran 77, Perl, Maple V, LaTeX/TeX, HTML, CGI and shell scripting.

1992-1993 Graduate student with Prof. N. B. Kopnin at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. Research on Hall effect in type-II superconductors.

1989-1992 Undergraduate research in cryogenic physics in Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems.

Teaching Experience

2004-present Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston. Applied Electricity and Magnetism (Fall 2004).

1993-1997 Teaching Assistant at Department of Physics, Texas A&M University. 12 semesters of teaching undergraduate (College Physics, Mechanics, Electricity and Optics, Modern Physics Laboratory) and graduate classes (Quantum Mechanics).

1992 Teacher of physics and mathematics at a summer college for university entrants, Moscow, Russia.

Honors and Awards

1989-1993 Distinguished Scholarship, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

1998 Phi Kappa Phi, Texas A&M University Chapter

Memberships

1995-2000 American Physical Society

2001-present Society for Neuroscience

Invited Presentations & Workshops

Neuroscience

Lecturer in “Imaging Structure & Function in the Nervous System”, topic “Intrinsic Imaging” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory summer course, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, July 27 - August 16, 2004.

Panelist in “How Physicists Can Work in the Physics/Biology Interface and Survive” American Physical Society Conference on “Opportunities in Biology for Physicists”, San Diego, CA, Jan. 30 – Feb. 1, 2004.

New paradigm for optical imaging: temporally encoded maps of intrinsic signal. Behavioral Neuroscience seminar in Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, September 4, 2003.

Suprathreshold organization of rat auditory cortex revealed by new method of intrinsic signal optical imaging. Sloan-Swartz meeting, Boston, MA, June 2002.

“From Microscopic to Macroscopic Brain Dynamics” Sloan/Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, Salk Institute Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, UCSD Rancho Santa Fe, CA, May 10-12, 2002.

Rapid acquisition of intrinsic signal cortical maps using periodic stimulation, presented at

Cortical Maps meeting, The Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, October 2001.

The Yale Vision Lunch, Yale University, New Haven, CT October 12, 2001. Host Steven Zucker.

Sloan-Swartz meeting, Squaw Valley, CA, June 2001.

Physics

Continuum field description of crack propagation, series of presentations at:

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, Feb. 25, 2000 Host Steve Martin

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Feb. 18, 2000 Host Hermann Riecke

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Jan. 19, 2000 Host Haim Diamant

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, Nov. 30, 1999 Host Alexei Abrikosov

Large spins in external fields, series of presentations at:

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, Feb. 4, 1999 Host Valerii Vinokour

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, Mar. 1, 1999 Host Lev Bulaevskii

Large moments in external fields of high group symmetry, series of presentations at:

Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Feb. 13, 1998 Host Paul C. Canfield

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Feb. 24, 1998 Host Qian Niu

The University of Houston, Houston, TX, Feb. 27, 1998 Host George Reiter

Magnetic structure of rare-earth nickel borid-carbides,

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Feb. 1996 Host Chia-Ren Hu

Phenomena in the ultra-thin ferromagnetic films,

2nd Landau Institute Summer School, Moscow, Russia, July 18, 1994 Host Valery L. Pokrovsky

Abstracts

Neuroscience

The Society for Neuroscience

V.A. Kalatsky and M.P. Stryker. Properties of the mouse visual cortex revealed by temporally encoded maps of the intrinsic signal (Slide), 125.9. New Orleans, LA, 2003.

V.A. Kalatsky and M.P. Stryker. Suprathreshold organization of rat auditory cortex revealed by new method of intrinsic signal optical imaging (Poster), 354.15. Orlando, FL, 2002.

V.A. Kalatsky and M.P. Stryker. Rapid acquisition of intrinsic signal cortical maps using periodic stimulation (Slide), 349.10. San Diego, CA, 2001.

Physics

March Meeting of the American Physical Society

Continuum Field Description of Crack Propagation, [K29.013], Minneapolis, MN, 2000.

Energy levels of a large spin and symmetry of an external field, [VC38.09], Atlanta, GA, 1999.

Berry's phase for large spins in external fields, [K7.03], Los Angeles, CA, 1998.

Large spins in external fields of high group symmetry, [K7.15], Los Angeles, CA, 1998.

The Structure of the Meta-Magnetic Phases in HoNi₂B₂O, [O9.10], Kansas City, MO, 1997.

Magnetic Structure of Rare-Earth Nickel Borocarbides, [I10.4], St. Louis, MO, 1996.

Summer Schools

Spring College in Condensed Matter: “Disorder and Chaos in Quantum Systems”,

International Centre For Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, May – June 1996.

2^nd Landau Institute Summer School, Chernogolovka, Russia, July 1994.

Bibliography.

1 V.A.Kalatsky, D.B.Polley, M.M.Merzenich, C.E.Schreiner, and M.P.Stryker, Fine functional organization of auditory cortex revealed by Fourier optical imaging, in preparation (2004).

2 V.A.Kalatsky and M.P.Stryker, New paradigm for optical imaging: Temporally encoded maps of intrinsic signal, Neuron, 38, 529-545 (2003).

3 I.S.Aranson, V.A.Kalatsky, and V.M.Vinokur, Continuum field description of crack propagation, Physical Review Letters 85, 118 (2000).

4 I.S.Aranson, D.Blair, V.A.Kalatsky, G.W.Crabtree, W.-K.Kwok, V.M.Vinokur, and U.Welp, Electrostatically-driven granular media: phase transitions and coarsening, Physical Review Letters 84, 3306 (2000).

5 V.A.Kalatsky, V.L.Pokrovsky, Spectra and magnetic properties of large spins in external fields, Physical Review A 60, 1824 (1999).

6 K.D.Myers, P.C.Canfield, V.A.Kalatsky, and V.L.Pokrovsky, Angular dependence of metamagnetic transitions in DyAgSb2, Physical Review B 59, 1121 (1999).

7 V.A.Kalatsky, V.L.Pokrovsky, Large spins in external fields of cubic group symmetry, Europhysics Letters 44, 539 (1998).

8 V.A.Kalatsky, V.L.Pokrovsky, Microscopic model for the magnetic subsystem in HoNi2B2C, Physical Review B 57, 5485 (1998).

9 V.A.Kalatsky, E.Muller-Hartmann, V.L.Pokrovsky, G.S.Uhrig. Berry's phase for large spins in external fields, Physical Review Letters 80, 1304 (1998).

10 P.C.Canfield, S.L.Bud'ko, B.K.Cho, A.Lacerda, D.Farrell, E.Johnston-Halperin, V.A.Kalatsky, V.L.Pokrovsky. Angular dependence of metamagnetic transitions in HoNi2B2C, Physical Review B 55, 970 (1997).

11 Ar.Abanov, V.A.Kalatsky, V.L.Pokrovsky, W.M.Saslow. Phase diagram of ultrathin ferromagnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy, Physical Review B 51, 1023 (1995).

12 N.B.Kopnin, B.I.Ivlev, V.A.Kalatsky, The flux-flow Hall effect in type-II superconductors. An explanation of the sign reversal, Journal of Low Temperature Physics 90, 1 (1993).

13 N.B.Kopnin, B.I.Ivlev, V.A.Kalatsky, Sign reversal of the flux-flow Hall effect in type-II superconductors, JETP Letters 55, 750 (1992).

Selected publications are available on-line at http://keck.ucsf.edu/~kalatsky/.