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Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, Gravitation

Cosmology and Statistical Mechanics

Assistant Instructor for Physical Science 303.

PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

MSc from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, 2010.

BSc from Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia, 2008.

About Me

E-mail:

jpedraza@ physics.utexas.edu

 

Office:

RLM 9.322

 

Mailing Address:

Theory Group, Department of Physics, University of Texas,

1 University Station C1608, Austin, TX 78712

 

Work Phone:

(512) 471-3898

(512) 471-4888 [Fax]

List of Publications

1) M. Edalati, W. Fischler, W. Tangarife Garcia and J. F. Pedraza, Fast Scramblers and Non-Commutative Gauge Theories, arXiv:1204.5748.

 

2) M. Chernicoff, J. A. Garcia, A. Guijosa and J. F. Pedraza, Holographic Lessons for Quark Dynamics, J.Phys.G G39 054002 (2012), arXiv:1111.0872.

 

3) M. Chernicoff, A. Guijosa and J. F. Pedraza, The Gluonic Field of a Heavy Quark in Conformal Field Theories at Strong Coupling, JHEP 1110, 041 (2011), arXiv:1106.4059.

 

4) C. A. Agón, J. Ramos-Caro and J. F. Pedraza, Kinetic Theory of Collisionless Self-Gravitating Gases: Post-Newtonian Polytropes, PRD 83, 123007 (2011), arXiv:1104.5262.

 

5) P. S. Letelier, J. Ramos-Caro and J. F. Pedraza, Motion around a Monopole + Ring System: I. Stability of Equatorial Circular Orbits vs Regularity of Three-dimensional Motion, MNRAS 414, 3105 (2011), arXiv:1103.4616.

 

6) A. Guijosa and J. F. Pedraza, Early-Time Energy Loss in a Strongly-Coupled SYM Plasma, JHEP 1105, 108 (2011), arXiv:1102.4893.

 

7) F. D. Lora-Clavijo, P. A. Ospina-Henao and J. F. Pedraza, Charged Annular Disks and Reissner-Nordström Type Black Holes from Extremal Dust, PRD 82, 084005 (2010), arXiv:1009.1005.

 

8) E. Caceres, M. Chernicoff, A. Guijosa and J. F. Pedraza, Quantum Fluctuations and the Unruh Effect in Strongly-Coupled Conformal Field Theories, JHEP 1006, 078 (2010), arXiv:1003.5332.

 

9) G. A. Gonzalez, J. Ramos-Caro and J. F. Pedraza, Fractional Derivative Approach to the Self-gravitation Equation , MNRAS 391, L24 (2008), arXiv:0807.0119.

 

10) G. A. Gonzalez, J. Ramos-Caro and J. F. Pedraza, An Infinite Family of Self-consistent Models for Axisymmetric Flat Galaxies, MNRAS 390, 1587 (2008), arXiv:0806.4277.

 

11) G. A. Gonzalez, J. Ramos-Caro and J. F. Pedraza, Two-Integral Distribution Functions for Generalized Kalnajs Discs, arXiv:0806.4275.

Contact Information

Research Interests

 

Advisor: Prof. Willy Fischler.