Draft:Matt Strassler

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  • 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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