Stephen Parke

Stephen Parke (born 1950) is a New Zealand physicist. He is a Distinguished Scientist and former Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia, Illinois).[1]

Stephen Parke
Born1950
NationalityNew Zealand
United Kingdom
United States
Alma materSt Peter's College, Auckland
University of Auckland
Harvard University
Known forParke–Taylor amplitudes, analytic understanding of MSW effect and top quark spin correlations
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsStanford Linear Accelerator Center
Fermilab
Doctoral advisorSidney Coleman

Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, Parke attended St Peter's College, Auckland and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He was a graduate student of Sidney Coleman at Harvard University, obtaining a PhD in theoretical particle physics. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (19801983) before moving to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Field of work

He is an originator of Parke–Taylor amplitudes, which represent a new approach to computing scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics using symmetry methods such as supersymmetry. Parke is also an expert on neutrino physics as well as the physics of the top quark.

See also

  • List of alumni of St Peter's College, Auckland for more biographical details

References

  1. "Rutherford explanation this week". University of Canterbury. 26 May 2008.



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