Dam Thanh Son

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Dam Thanh Son , Vietnamese spelling Đàm Thanh Sơn, (* 1969 in Hanoi ) is a Vietnamese theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago .

Son received his diploma from Lomonosov University in Moscow in 1991 and received his doctorate in 1995 from the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Federation in Moscow. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington and, from 1997, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1999 he was Professor at Columbia University , from 2002 Professor at the University of Washington (and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nuclear Physics there) and since 2012 at the University of Chicago. He was also a fellow at the RIKEN Research Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory .

In 2001, Son applied the AdS / CFT correspondence discovered by Juan Maldacena to fermion liquids, and in particular quark-gluon plasmas to heavy ion collisions, which behave like almost perfect liquids. This correspondence made it possible to describe phenomena of quantum chromodynamics via gravitational physics (theory of black holes) in higher dimensions.

He was a Loeb Lecturer and Sloan Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2006). In 2000 he received an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the Department of Energy (DOE) and in 2013 a Simons Investigator Award.

In 2014 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . In 2018 he received the Dirac Medal (ICTP) .

Fonts

  • with G. Policastro, AO Starinets: From AdS / CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics, JHEP, 0209: 043, 2009, Arxiv
  • with AO Starinets: Viscosity, Black Holes, and Quantum Field Theory, Annual Reviews Nuclear and Particle Physics, Volume 57, 2007, pp. 95-118, Arxiv
  • Liquid universe hints at strings, Physics World, Volume 18, 2005, Issue 6, p. 23
  • with J. Erlich, E. Katz, M. Stephanov: QCD and a Holographic Model of Hadrons, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 95, 2005, p. 261602, Arxiv

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SURNAME Dam Thanh Son
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Đàm Thanh Sơn (Vietnamese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanoi