User:Paul V Klimov

Basic Info

Hiking in the Sandias

• Paul Victor Klimov
• Resume/CV
• pklimov@unm.edu

Education

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Bachelor of Science in Physics with a minor in Mathematics, expected May 2010

Technical Work Experience

See my resume (linked above) for more in-depth descriptions of my research projects. Projects with reports that I can release have a link next to them.

1. Fall 2009-Present Sandia National Laboratories, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, with Dr. Dale Huber

Spectroscopic study of how the crystalline structure of iron and the binding of various organic surfactants influences the magnetic properties of iron nanoparticles. This study will require us to perform x-ray experiments at Stanford's synchrotron radiation source and likely neutron diffraction experiments at the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center (LANSCE) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. I will also be responsible for constructing pair distribution functions from diffuse scattering spectra and then extrapolating three-dimensional lattices from the resulting functions.

2. Summer 2009 Columbia University, Nanoscale Science Engineering Center, with Prof. Tony Heinz

Raman spectroscopy of graphene trilayers with different stacking orders. click for report. see MATLAB section for the analysis program that I coded.

3. Summer 2008-Summer 2009 Sandia National Laboratories, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, with Dr. Dale Huber

Engineering of magnetite nanoparticles with PEG-diacid. An intermediate step in the synthesis of particles fit for use in the attempted treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

4. Fall 2007-Summer 2008 Sandia National Laboratories, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, with Dr. Dale Huber

Surface modification of metallic iron nanoparticles, with organic molecules of specific functionality, in order to achieve novel magnetic properties. awaiting approval from SNL to post my report

5. Summer 2007 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, with Dr. Sergei Ivanov

Surface modification of CdSe and CdTe semiconductor quantum dots for the enhancement of light emitting properties. awaiting approval from LANL to post my report

6. Summer 2006 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies, with Donald Thompson

I built computers, rectified hardware related issues, and set up computing clusters

7. Summer 2005 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies, with Dr. Zoltan Toroczkai

I developed, from scratch, the webpage for the Center for Nonlinear Studies

Publications

1. (in progress, not true title) The effect of crystalline structure and organic surfactants on the magnetic properties of iron nanoparticles.
2. (in progress) Raman spectroscopy of graphene trilayers with different stacking orders

MATLAB Programs

a few matlab programs that I coded in the past, with animations or cool plots! If a program has multiple cells, run each cell individually, manually.

1. Program to distinguish between ABA and ABC stacking regions in graphene trilayers. I wrote this during the Columbia REU Program

2. Mandelbrot Fractal Animation

3. Double Pendulum Simulation and Animation

4. 3D Binary Star Simulation and Animation

5. Basic Wave Polarization Animation

6. Forced Membrane PDE with Animation and Chladni Figure

7. Propagation of the first n-eigenstates in a box with Animation

8. 3D Orbitals of the Hydrogen Atom! Requires this Laguerre Polynomial Generator. I didn't code the generator and it can be obtained here: here!

Extracurriculars

Programming I have used MATLAB and MAPLE extensively, and Mathematica and LabVIEW to a somewhat lesser extent.

Tutoring General Calculus, General Physics, Vibrations, Analytical Mechanics, and Circuits courses.

Athletics Running, swimming, racquetball, and hiking in Jemez Mountains, Sandia Mountains, and Pajarito Mountain. I have also skied or snowboarded for over 10 consecutive seasons.

Travel So far I have been to Germany (Aachen, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Frankfurt), Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), Netherlands, France, many places in Mexico, and several islands in the Caribbean. This summer I plan to backpack around Europe for a month, hoping to see Greece, Italy, Spain, and Scotland.

Languages I am currently bilingual in Russian and English, and used to be fluent in German. I have also studied Spanish, though briefly. I plan to re-learn German and learn French in the near future.

Miscellaneous

• My Junior Lab Reports
• Pajarito Ski Area Snow Report