Mr. Nikola Petrovic

TECHNICAL LABORATORY COORDINATOR  

Office Number: 169E
Office Phone: +974 423-0211
Fax Number: 4230011
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INTEREST AREAS

Nikola Petrovic now works as the physics lab coordinator at Texas A&M University at Qatar. In addition to overseeing everything about the physics lab and conducting the lab sessions for the students he has also taken a large role as a teaching assistant, conducting physics recitations, tutoring and helping students and creating, proctoring and grading many of the physics exams.
His current research for his Ph. D. is from the field of soliton physics. It focuses on applying the F-expansion technique of solving differential equations in non-linear optics.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Science in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
• Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003

EXPERIENCE

• Physics Lab Coordinator at Texas A&M University at Qatar, 2005-present
• Preparation of the Serbian Mathematics team for the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2003-2005
• Physics Instructor at the Petnica Science Center for High School Research 2003-2005

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Djukic et. al., The IMO Compendium, Springer-Verlag, 2005

D. Jovic, M. Petrovic, D. Arsenovic, S. Prvanovic, M. Belic, N. Petrovic, Counterpropagating beams in photorefractive media and optically induced photonic lattices, Asian J. Phys, Vol. 15 (2006) 283-293

M. R. Belic, M. S. Petrovic, D. M. Jovic, A. I. Strinic, D. D. Arsenovic, S. Prvanovic, R. D. Jovanovic, N. Z. Petrovic, Dancing light: Counterpropagating beams in photorefractive crystals, Acta Physica Polonica A 212 (2007) 729-736

Wei-Ping Zhong, Rui-Hua Xie, Milivoj Belic, Nikola Petrovic, and Goong Chen, Exact spatial soliton solutions of the two-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients, Phys. Rev. A. 78.023821

Milivoj Belic, Nikola Petrovic, Wei-Ping Zhong, Rui-Hua Xie and Goong Chen, Analytical light bullet solutions to the generalized (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 04.