Sylvester James Gates
Sylvester James "Jim" Gates Junior, often quoted S. James Gates, (born December 15, 1950 in Tampa , Florida ) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with supersymmetry , quantum field theory , supergravity and string theory.
Gates studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in both mathematics and physics in 1973 and a doctorate in 1977 on supersymmetry (symmetry principles in selected problems of field theory) with JE Young. He was then a Junior Fellow at Harvard University until 1980, at Caltech from 1980 to 1982 and Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT from 1982 to 1984 . In 1984 he became an associate professor and since 1988 he has been a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park . There he is Regents Professor, John S. Toll Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for String and Particle Theory. He is also doing research at MIT.
From 1991 to 1993 he was also a professor at Howard University .
He is the co-author of an early monograph on supersymmetry. Around 2005 he introduced graphic methods into the supersymmetric representation theory, which he named Adinkras after symbols of the West African Asante .
He has appeared on several television shows on superstrings and similar topics, including PBS Nova (The Elegant Universe, 2003).
In 1994 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He received the National Medal of Science for 2011. Gates holds honorary doctorates from Georgetown University (2001), Loyola University Chicago (2005) and the University of Western Australia (2010) and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2011 , since 2012 of the American Philosophical Society and since 2013 of the National Academy of Sciences . He was on President Barack Obama's Scientific Advisory Board .
Fonts
- with Marcus T. Grisaru , Martin Roček , Warren Siegel : Superspace, or One thousand and one lessons in supersymmetry. Benjamin-Cummings, 1983, arxiv : hep-th / 0108200
At the Teaching Company, he published twenty-four half-hour lectures on superstring theory on DVD in 2006.
Web links
- Homepage at the University of Maryland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Michael Faux, SJ Gates: Adinkras: A graphical technology for supersymmetric representation theory. In: Physical Review D. Volume 71, 2005, 065002, doi: 10.1103 / PhysRevD.71.065002 , arxiv : hep-th / 0408004 .
- ^ Member History: S. James Gates. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 17, 2018 (with biography).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gates, Sylvester James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gates, S. James; Gates, Jim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tampa , Florida |