Biography:Nathan Seiberg
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Nathan Seiberg | |
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 Nathan Seiberg at Harvard University | |
| Born | September 22, 1956 |
| Nationality | Israeli American |
| Alma mater | Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel-Aviv University |
| Known for | Seiberg–Witten theory Seiberg–Witten invariants Seiberg duality |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellow(1996) Heineman Prize (1998) Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) Dirac Medal (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Doctoral advisor | Haim Harari |
| Doctoral students | Shiraz Minwalla |
Nathan "Nati" Seiberg (/ˈsaɪbɜːrɡ/; 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
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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[1] (with Andrew Strominger, Shiraz Minwalla and Rajesh Gopakumar)
- In recent years, partly with Witten, T. Senthil and others, results in Chern-Simons theories and non-supersymmetric field theory dualities of high relevance to condensed matter theory.
Honors and awards
He was recipient of a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship[2] and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1998.[3] In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.[4] In 2016, he was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP.
See also
- Seiberg–Witten theory
References
- ↑ Strominger, Andrew; Seiberg, Nathan; Minwalla, Shiraz; Gopakumar, Rajesh (2000-06-08). "OM Theory in Diverse Dimensions" (in en). Journal of High Energy Physics 2000 (8): 008. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/008. Bibcode: 2000JHEP...08..008G.
- ↑ "Array of Contemporary American Physicists: Nathan Seiberg". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20121007062808/http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?seibergn. Retrieved 2011-07-20..
- ↑ "Heineman Prize: Nathan Seiberg". American Physical Society. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/heineman.cfm. Retrieved 2011-07-20..
- ↑ New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the field , FPP, accessed 1 August 2012
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