Nathan Seiberg
Not to be confused with Atle Selberg.
| Nathan Seiberg | |
|---|---|
|
Nathan Seiberg at Harvard University | |
| Born |
September 22, 1956 Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli American |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater | Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel-Aviv University |
| Doctoral advisor | Haim Harari |
| Doctoral students | Shiraz Minwalla |
| Known for |
Seiberg–Witten invariant Seiberg duality |
| Notable awards |
MacArthur Fellow(1996) Heineman Prize (1998) Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) Dirac Medal (2016) |
Nathan "Nati" Seiberg (/ˈsaɪbərɡ/; born September 22, 1956) is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Research
His contributions to mathematical physics include:
- Mathematical foundations of rational 2-dimensional CFTs (with G. Moore).
- Discovery of some of the first examples of "Seiberg Duals", numerous and ever growing disparate theories that are dynamically equivalent to another at low energy
- papers from the early 1990s about the application of holomorphy to calculations in gauge theories with supersymmetry, including a solution of N=1 four-dimensional gauge theories such as SQCD. He later used renormalization group methods to obtain a 3d Seiberg dual for his 4D SQCD
- articles about the strong-weak duality (S-duality) in the context of supersymmetric gauge theories
- papers about the complete solution of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four and three dimensions
- a paper on Matrix theory and M theory in the discrete Light-Cone Quantization
- his and Edward Witten's analysis of the appearance of non-commutative geometry in theories containing open strings, and an identification of a low energy limit of open string dynamics as a noncommutative quantum field theory
- OM-theory (with Andrew Strominger and Shiraz Minwalla)
Honors and awards
He was recipient of a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship[1] and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1998.[2] In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.[3] In 2016, he was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP.
See also
References
- ↑ "Array of Contemporary American Physicists: Nathan Seiberg". American Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2011-07-20..
- ↑ "Heineman Prize: Nathan Seiberg". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2011-07-20..
- ↑ New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the field, FPP, accessed 1 August 2012
External links
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