Senior Lecturer Education Education: PhD, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002 BSc/MSc, Physics/Math, Kharkov State, 1995 Research Research Areas: Physics Education Theoretical Physics Research Interests: STEM education, general relativity, quantum computing, nano 2026 January Graduate Prelim Exam: Document: 2026JanuaryPrelim_PART_1_CM_EM_actual_WithSoln.pdf (470.65 KB) Document: 2026JanuaryPrelim_PART_2_QM_actual_WithSoln.pdf (417.8 KB) Popular Physics: "On the physics of the freely falling cats" (2016) "Kepler's 4th Law of Planetary Motion" (2019) "Comment on "Antimatter Propulsion for Interstellar Travel...": The implementation of banana-antibanana direct annihilation architectures in the Alnitak System" (by Dr. Xyylar vr-Tröx, 2026) Selected Publications Selected Publications: ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5752-9296 Latest publication (June 2026): "Modified Fronsdal coordinates for maximally extended Schwarzschild spacetime," Am. J. Phys. 94, 476–485 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0282904 Latest preprints: (June 2026) "Strongly anisotropic Rytova-Keldysh interaction and the ground state of 2D excitons," arXiv:2606.23033 [cond-mat.mes-hall] (May 2026) "Real Stueckelberg Quantum Geometry and Unbroken Supersymmetry in the Rotating Shallow Water Model," DOI:10.20944/preprints202605.0606.v2 Key Quantum Computing papers: Andrei Galiautdinov, "Generation of high-fidelity controlled-NOT logic gates by coupled superconducting qubits," Phys. Rev. A 75, 052303 (2007) Andrei Galiautdinov and John M. Martinis, "Maximally entangling tripartite protocols for Josephson phase qubits," Phys. Rev. A 78, 010305(R) (2008) Andrei Galiautdinov, Alexander N. Korotkov, and John M. Martinis, "Resonator–zero-qubit architecture for superconducting qubits," Phys. Rev. A 85, 042321 (2012) Eyob A. Sete, Andrei Galiautdinov, Eric Mlinar, John M. Martinis, and Alexander N. Korotkov, "Catch-Disperse-Release Readout for Superconducting Qubits," Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 210501 (2013) M. R. Geller, J. M. Martinis, A. T. Sornborger, P. C. Stancil, E. J. Pritchett, H. You, and A. Galiautdinov, "Universal quantum simulation with prethreshold superconducting qubits: Single excitation subspace method", Phys. Rev. A 91, 062309 (2015) Key GR papers: David R. Finkelstein, Andrei A. Galiautdinov, James E. Baugh, "Unimodular relativity and cosmological constant," J. Math. Phys. 42, 340–346 (2001) Andrei Galiautdinov and Sergei M. Kopeikin, "Post-Newtonian celestial mechanics in scalar-tensor cosmology," Phys. Rev. D 94, 044015 (2016) Andrei Galiautdinov and Lewis H. Ryder, "Neutron interference in the Earth's gravitational field," General Relativity & Gravitation 49, 82 (2017) Key Nano papers: Andrei Galiautdinov, "Anisotropic Keldysh interaction," Physics Letters A 383, 3167-3174 (2019) Andrei Galiautdinov and Yiping Zhao, "Plasmonic properties of composition graded spherical nanoparticles in quasi-static approximation," J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 56 055102 (2023) Andrei Galiautdinov, “Feynman’s method in chiral nanorod-based metamaterial nanoplasmonics,” Phys. Scr. 98 125529 (2023) Courses Taught Courses Regularly Taught: PHYS 1010 PHYS 1111 PHYS 1112 PHYS 1211 PHYS 1212 PHYS 1252 PHYS 1311 PHYS 1312 PHYS 4201/6201 PHYS 4202/6202 PHYS 4980R PHYS 8011 PHYS 8201 PHYS 8202 PHYS 8900