Ergin Sezgin

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Ergin Sezgin (born July 26, 1953 in Mardin , Turkey ) is a Turkish-American theoretical physicist who deals with elementary particle physics, branes , quantum gravity and supergravity . He is a professor at Texas A&M University .

Sezgin received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1975 from Hacettepe University in Ankara and received his PhD in 1980 under Peter van Nieuwenhuizen at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY). As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Texas at Austin (and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara) and from 1981 at the ICTP in Trieste, of which he became a member in 1985. In 1990 he became an Associate Professor and in 1993 Professor at Texas A&M University.

In the 1980s he worked with Abdus Salam (director of the ICTP) on supergravity theories in various dimensions, for example he received the six-dimensional Maxwell-Einstein supergravity theory with compactification on the 2-sphere (also sometimes Salam-Sezgin model called). In 1987, together with Paul Townsend , Eric Bergshoeff and Michael Duff, he was a pioneer in the consideration of higher-dimensional objects as strings (so-called branes), at that time as part of supergravity in 11 dimensions.

He has Turkish and US citizenship.

Fonts

  • with Salam (editor) Supergravities in diverse dimensions , 2 volumes, World Scientific 1989 (reprint volumes with commentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV van Nieuwenhuizen, pdf with a list of his doctoral students
  2. ↑ Salam, Sezgin Maximal extended supergravity theory in seven dimensions , Phys. Lett. B, 118, 1982, 359
  3. ^ Salam, Sezgin d = 8 supergravity , Nucle. Phys. B, 258, 1985, 284 and Phys. Lett. B, 154, 1985, 37
  4. ↑ H. Nishino, Sezgin Matter and gauge couplings of N = 2 supergravity in six dimension , Phys. Lett. B, Vol. 144, 1984, p. 187
  5. ^ Salam, Sezgin Chiral compactification on (Minkowski) x of N = 2 Einstein-Maxwell supergravity in six dimensions , Phys. Lett. B. 147, 1984, 47
  6. ↑ Bergshoeff, Sezgin, Townsend "Supermembranes and 11 dimensional supergravity", Physics Letters B, Volume 189, 1987, p. 75, the same "Properties of 11 dimensional supermembrane theory", Annals of physics, Volume 185, 1988, p. 330– 368
  7. ↑ Bergshoeff, Duff, Pope, Sezgin Supersymmetric Membrane vacua and singletons, Physics Letters B, Volume 199, 1987, p. 69
personal data
SURNAME Sezgin, Ergin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Mardin