Shamit Kachru

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Shamit Kachru (born July 13, 1970 in Champaign ) is an American physicist who deals with elementary particle physics, quantum field theory (also in theoretical solid state physics) and string theory.

Life

Kachru is the son of the professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Braj Kachru and has Indian ( Kashmiri ) origins. He studied physics at Harvard University (Bachelor 1990), where he was a Junior Fellow from 1994 to 1996, and received his doctorate in 1994 under Edward Witten at Princeton University . As a post-doctoral student he was at Rutgers University , in 1999 at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1997 Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1999 he was first associate professor and then professor at Stanford University at SLAC . In 2009/2010 he was at the Kavli Institute (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara .

Among other things, he dealt with dualities in string theory (with Cumrun Vafa ), extensions of the AdS / CFT correspondence (with Eva Silverstein), compactification in string theory and models of the supersymmetry break. With Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde and Sandip Trivedi he designed the KKLT scenario, which among other things enabled the first approaches to explain inflation (cosmology) and a positive cosmological constant in string theory.

He was a Sloan Research Fellow (1998) and a Packard Fellow, and received the Department of Energy's Outstanding Young Investigator Award (1997) and the Bergmann Memorial Award (1999).

He is married to the string theorist Eva Silverstein , with whom he also works a lot.

Fonts

  • Lectures on warped compactifications and stringy brane constructions . TASI, 1999, arxiv : hep-th / 0009247

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Born in Srinagar , Kashmir in 1932 , a linguist who coined the term World English
  2. ↑ Kachru, Linde, Kalloh, Trivedi: De Sitter Vacua in String Theory . In: Phys. Rev. D , Volume 68, 2003, arxiv : hep-th / 0301240
personal data
SURNAME Kachru, Shamit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Champaign