Gary Horowitz
Gary T. Horowitz (born April 14, 1955 in Washington, DC ) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with string theory and quantum gravity .
Horowitz studied at Princeton University (Bachelor 1976) and received his doctorate in 1979 from the University of Chicago with Robert Geroch . He then worked as a post-doc at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Oxford University (as a NATO Fellow). From 1981 to 1983 he was an Einstein Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1983 he became an Assistant Professor, 1986 Associate Professor and 1990 Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Horowitz deals with the investigation of gravitational phenomena, for example black holes , in string theory . In his work on black holes in string theory in the 1990s, he worked with Andrew Strominger and Joseph Polchinski , among others . At that time, it was possible to prove that special (extremal) black holes fulfill the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formulas in string theory (Strominger, Cumrun Vafa , Horowitz and others).
In 1985 he published an influential work with Philip Candelas , Andrew Strominger and Edward Witten on the compactification of superstrings in Calabi-Yau spaces.
With Strominger, he was also one of those people who found evidence of brane solutions to string theory in the early 1990s.
He also deals with AdS / CFT correspondence and its application, for example, to superconductors ( holographic superconductors )
In 1982 he won first prize with M. Perry in the Gravity Research Foundation's essay competition. From 1985 to 1989 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2002, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2010, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2013 . In 1993 he received the Xanthopoulos Prize.
Fonts
- Spacetime in string theory, 2004
- Quantum gravity at the turn of the millennium, 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting 2000
- with S. Teukolsky: Black Holes , in S. Bederson (Ed.): More things in heaven and earth - a celebration of physics at the millennium, Springer 1999
- Quantum states of black holes , in Robert Wald (Ed.): Black holes and relativistic stars, University of Chicago Press 1998
- with Joseph Polchinski: Gauge / gravity duality , in D. Oriti: Approaches to quantum gravity, Cambridge University Press 2009
- Editor: Black holes in higher dimensions, Cambridge University Press 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gary Horowitz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Counting states of near extremal black holes, Phys. Rev. Letters, Vol. 77, 1996, p. 2368
- ↑ For more general black holes one can only show the proportionality of the logarithm of the number of string states to the surface (which corresponds to the entropy), Horowitz, Polchinski A correspondence principle for black holes and strings , Physical Review D, Vol. 55, 1997, p. 6189
- ^ Vacuum configuration of superstrings, Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 258, 1985, pp. 46-76
- ↑ Horowitz, Strominger Black strings and p-branes , Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 360, 1991, pp. 197-209
- ^ Horowitz, Introduction to Holographic Superconductors, 2001, 5th Aegean Summer School
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horowitz, Gary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Horowitz, Gary T. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |