SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MEDICINE
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Elementary Particles and Cosmology
Position:Associate Professor





Education: Postgraduate: Javakhishvili State University, 1998 – 2001; Field – theoretical physics; Degree – PhD, 2004. Undergraduate/Graduate: Javakhishvili State University, 1992 – 1998.
Professional Experience: Assistant at the chair of theoretical physics, Javakhishvili State Universoty, 2001 – 2005; Senior researcher at the High Energy Physics Institute, Javakhishvili State University, 2005 – 2006; Senior researcher at the Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, 2006 – 2011; Assistant, then Associate professor at Ilia State University, 2008 – present.

Scientific interests / research interests

Quantum gravity phenomenology, Phase transitions in quantum field theory, Extra-dimensional models, Inflationary cosmology, Dark energy problem.

I am currently investigating the corrections to the lifetime of a metastable state due to non-exponential decay. It is based on the notion of non-escape probability and may have interesting consequences for the false vacuum decay in QFT. One can even try to use the non-escape probability description for estimating the dynamics of the decay of a metastable state at finite temperature. Also, at present, I am interested in various models related to the possible observational signatures of gravitational effects derived from the microphysics. One of such models arises due to non-commutativity of space-time. Because of the smallness of quantum gravity length Maßtab, gravitational effects from the standpoint of present experiments might be observable in presence of some efficient amplifying mechanisms provided by the modified theories. So far there are no observational clues for such theories.

List of publications from the database: HEP-SPIRES

Light incoherence due to background space fluctuations, Phys. Rev. D94, no. 12, 124044 (2016).

Extra-dimensional generalization of minimum-length deformed QM/QFT and some of its phenomenological consequences, Phys. Rev. D91, no. 6, 064040 (2015).

Field propagation in a stochastic background space: The rate of light incoherence in stellar interferometry, Phys. Rev. D86, 104066 (2012).

Cosmological implications of Karolyhazy uncertainty relation, Phys. Lett. B652, 165 (2007).

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Current Courses

Course Catalog

Bachelor’s level

  • Analytical mechanics

Master’s level

  • Early Universe Cosmology
  • Quantum Particles and Fields I

Doctoral level

  • Doctoral Seminar II (Physics and Astronomy)

Bachelor’s level

  • Analytical mechanics
  • Mathematical methods for physics

Master’s level

  • Quantum Particles and Fields II
  • Master Seminar (For Cosmology and Gravitation)
  • Quantum Particles and Fields I

Doctoral level

  • Doctoral Seminar I

2020-2021 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Analytical mechanics

Master’s level

  • Early Universe Cosmology
  • Quantum Particles and Fields I – Quantum Mechanics

2019-2020 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Analytical mechanics

Master’s level

  • Quantum Particles and Fields II – Basics of Quantum field Theory
  • Quantum Particles and Fields I – Quantum Mechanics

2018-2019 Year

Master’s level

  • Quantum Particles and Fields II – Basics of Quantum field Theory
  • Quantum Particles and Fields I – Quantum Mechanics

2017-2018 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Introduction to the Theory of Relativity
  • Analytical mechanics

Master’s level

  • Quantum Particles and Fields II – Basics of Quantum field Theory
  • Quantum Particles and Fields I – Quantum Mechanics

2016-2017 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Introduction to the Theory of Relativity
  • Analytical mechanics

2015-2016 Year

Master’s level

  • Quantum Particles and Fields II – Basics of Quantum field Theory
  • Quantum Particles and Fields I – Quantum Mechanics

Doctoral level

  • Cosmology of Early Universe

2014-2015 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Theoretical Mechanics

2013-2014 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Introduction to Cosmology
  • Theoretical Mechanics

2012-2013 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Theoretical Mechanics

2011-2012 Year

Master’s level

  • Early Universe Cosmology
  • Introduction to Cosmology

Doctoral level

  • Individual Term Project I
  • Cosmology of Early Universe

2010-2011 Year

Master’s level

  • Individual Term Paper
  • Introduction to Cosmology
  • Quantum Particles and Fields II – Basics of Quantum field Theory

Doctoral level

  • Cosmology of Early Universe
  • Individual Term Project II
  • Individual Term Project I

2009-2010 Year

Master’s level

  • Individual Term Paper
  • Quantum Particles and Fields I
  • Introduction to Cosmology