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Draft:Matt Strassler

  • Comment: While reviewing this, there were far too many statments made which could not be verified, for instance "full Professor at Rutgers". Some I have deleted, some I have marked. Too many statements bent the truth too far for me. While he does have a few well cited papers, he has no major academic awards and too much dubious information for me to be comfortable with accepting this draft. Ldm1954 (talk) 03:33, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Checking again, editor has still not prepared a proper article and has numerous references to his self-published Blog page, and also a few references which do not justify the statements they are attached to. Ldm1954 (talk) 08:05, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Matthew J. Strassler is a theoretical physicist, science communicator, and educator with a position as an Associate of the Physics Department at Harvard University. His research specializes in quantum field theory, string theory and particle physics.

Education edit

Strassler did his undergraduate studies at Simon's Rock College and Princeton University. He did his Ph.D studies at Stanford University under the supervision of Michael Peskin[1]. During his collegiate career he also performed concerts.[2]

Career edit

Teaching and scholarly positions edit

Stassler was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2002.[3] From 2000 until 2002 he taught at the University of Pennsylvania,[4][5] and then moved on to the University of Washington,[6][relevant? – discuss] where he taught[7] until 2007. He left to a professorship at Rutgers University,[8][relevant? – discuss] where he was on the faculty until 2013. From 2013 into 2015, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard. From 2015 on, he has been an associate in Harvard's Physics Department.[9][5][self-published source?]

Scholarly publications edit

Strassler's publications in scholarly venues have given him a published h-factor of 44 as of May 2024 according to INSPIRE-HEP[10] and of 51 according to Google Scholar.[11] His most cited string theory article[11] is "Supergravity and a confining gauge theory: duality cascades and χSB-resolution of naked singularities" (2000), co-written with Igor Klebanov for the Journal of High Energy Physics, which developed cascading gauge theory, involvinga long chain of Seiberg duality transformations.[12] His most-cited particle physics article[11] is "Echoes of a hidden valley at hadron colliders" (2006), work on dark sectors co-written with Kathryn Zurek,[13] in Physics Letters B.[14]

Science writing edit

Strassler's physics-oriented blog, Of Particular Significance, often includes reality-checks on mainstream media coverage of physics news.[15] He has written for such outlets as NewScientist.[16] His book Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean was a March, 2024 release from Basic Books.[17][18][19][20]

Accolades edit

Strassler was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007 "[f]or work extending the AdS/CFT gravity/gauge duality to QCD-like confining theories, and for insights into novel aspects of the physics of strongly coupled supersymmetric theories".[21]

References edit

  1. ^ "The Bern-Kosower rules and their relation to quantum field theory", dissertation by Strassler, page iii, published by Stanford University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1993
  2. ^ "Strassler to perform at Simon's Rock". The Berkshire Eagle. May 14, 1983.
  3. ^ "Past Member: Matthew Strassler". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  4. ^ "Three University Of Pennsylvania Scientists Claim Sloan Fellowships For 2001". Penn Today. May 2001. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  5. ^ a b "About Me". Of Particular Significance. 29 June 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  6. ^ Hogan, Jenny (2006). "Let the games begin". Nature. 440 (7082): 268–269. doi:10.1038/440268a. PMID 16541042. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
  7. ^ "Spring Quarter 2005 Time Schedule". University of Washington. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
  8. ^ "2010-11 Handbook for Physics and Astronomy Graduate Students". Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
  9. ^ "Matthew Strassler". Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, High Energy Theory Group. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  10. ^ "Literature search: Matthew Strassler". INSPIRE-HEP. Retrieved May 31, 2008.
  11. ^ a b c Matt Strassler publications indexed by Google Scholar
  12. ^ Klebanov, Igor R.; Strassler, Matthew J. (13 October 2000). "Supergravity and a Confining Gauge Theory: Duality Cascades and χSB-Resolution of Naked Singularities". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2000 (8): 052. arXiv:hep-th/0007191. Bibcode:2000JHEP...08..052K. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/052. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  13. ^ Roberts, Glenn, Jr. (24 May 2016). "Hunting for Dark Matter's 'Hidden Valley'". Berkley Lab. Retrieved January 18, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Strassler, Matthew J.; Zurek, Katheyn M. (August 9, 2007). "Echoes of a hidden valley at hadron colliders". Physics Letters B. 651 (5–6): 374–379. arXiv:hep-ph/0604261. Bibcode:2007PhLB..651..374S. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.055. S2CID 119042766. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  15. ^ Boyle, Alan (February 6, 2013). "How to check the X Files of physics". NBC News. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  16. ^ "Matt Strassler". NewScientist. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  17. ^ "Waves in an Impossible Sea". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  18. ^ "Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  19. ^ Lincoln, Don (February 22, 2024). "Explaining quantum field theory". Science. 383 (6685): 835. doi:10.1126/science.adn9364. PMID 38386757. S2CID 267783167. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
  20. ^ Crumey, Andrew (March 8, 2024). "'Waves in an Impossible Sea' and 'The Blind Spot' Review: Physics and Metaphor". Wall Street Journal.
  21. ^ "APS Fellow Archive".

External links edit

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