Yang Li
Curriculum Vitae
A522 Zaffarano, Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
H +1 (515) 509-0854
B leeyoung@iastate.edu
Í http://leeyoung.public.iastate.edu
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Education
2010 – 2015 Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. James P. Vary
Research Areas: Non-Perturbative QCD, Light-Front Quantization, Hadronic Physics
2015 Dissertation: Ab initio approach to quantum field theories on the light front
2006 – 2010 B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Research Experience
2016 – present Postdoctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
• Investigated spectrum and structure of hadrons in Light-Front Hamiltonian approach.
• Studied the diffractive vector meson productions within the dipole picture using a novel
quarkonium light-front wavefunctions obtained from the basis light-front quantization
approach, and compared with experimental measurements.
2011 – 2015 Research Assistant, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
• Proposed a model for heavy quarkonium based on holographic QCD and realistic
one-gluon exchange. Calculated the quarkonium spectroscopy, decay constants and form
factors, and compared with experimental measurements.
[PLB 758, 118 (2016)]
• Solved, for the first time, the scalar Yukawa model in the Light-Front Hamiltonian
approach in the four-body truncation with a systematic non-perturbative renormalization.
[PLB 748, 278 (2015), FBS 56, 495 (2015)]
• Computed the positronium mass spectrum and Light-Front Wavefunction using a basis
function approach in Light-Front dynamics. Calculated the form factors, Generalized
Parton Distributions, and position-space distributions for selected positronium states.
[PRD 91, 105009 (2015), PRC 93, 055202 (2016)]
Awards
2016
2016
2015
2014
G.W. Fox Memorial Award for Outstanding Research
DPF Travel Award
DNP Travel Award
McCartor Fellowship Award
Selected Publications
2016 Yang Li,
Li P. Maris, X. Zhao, J.P. Vary, Quarkonium in a Holographic Basis. Phys. Lett. B
758, 118 (2016); arXiv:1509.07212 [hep-ph].
2016 L. Adhikari, Yang Li,
Li X. Zhao, P. Maris, J.P. Vary, A.A. El-Hady, Form Factors and
Generalized Parton Distributions in Basis Light-Front Quantization. Phys. Rev. C 93,
055202 (2016); arXiv:1602.06027 [nucl-th].
Update: May 19, 2016
2015 Yang Li,
Li V.A. Karmanov, P. Maris, J.P. Vary, Ab Initio Approach to the NonPerturbative Scalar Yukawa Model. Phys. Lett. B 748, 278 (2015); [arXiv:1504.05233
[nucl-th]].
Li X. Zhao, P. Maris, J.P. Vary, Basis light-front quantization approach
2015 P. Wiecki, Yang Li,
to positronium. Phys. Rev. D 91, 105009 (2015); [arXiv:1404.6234 [nucl-th]].
2015 Yang Li,
Li V.A. Karmanov, P. Maris, J.P. Vary, Non-Perturbative Calculation of the
Scalar Yukawa Theory in Four-Body Truncation. Few-Body Syst. 56, 495 (2015);
[arXiv:1411.1707 [nucl-th]].
2011 Shengjun Wu, Yang Li,
Li Weak Measurement beyond the Aharonov-Albert-Vaidman
formalism. Phys. Rev. A 83. 052106 (2011); [arXiv:1010.1155 [quant-ph]].
Selected Talks
2016 Basis Light-Front Quantization Approach to Heavy Quarkonium. Contributed Talk at
Baryons 2016, May 16–19, Tallahassee, FL
2016 Heavy Quarkonia on the Light Front. Contributed Talk at APS April Meeting,
Apr. 16–19, 2016, Salt Lake City, UT.
2015 Scalar Yukawa Model on the Light Front: ab initio approach to quantum field theory.
Contributed Talk at APS April meeting, Apr. 11–14, 2015, Baltimore, MD.
2014 Non-Perturbative Calculation of Scalar Yukawa Theory in Light-Front Dynamics. Invited
Talk at LightCone 2014 (LC2014), May 26–30, 2014, Raleigh, NC.
2013 Introduction to Basis Light Front Quantization Approach to QCD Bound State Problems.
Invited Talk at International Conference on Nuclear Theory in the Supercomputing
Era (NTSE-2013), May 13–17, 2013, Ames, IA.
Teaching & Advising
2015 – present Graduate Students Mentor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Group capacity: 3 second-year graduate students
2013 Spring Quantum Field Theory Substitute Lecturer, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
2010 – 2012 Teaching Assistant, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Courses: Physics for the Nonscientist, General Physics, Introduction to Classical Physics I,
Introduction to Modern Physics I
Summer Schools
2013 National Nuclear Physics Summer School (NNPSS 2013), Stony Brook University,
Long Island, NY.
Skills
Specialty Numerical Methods, High Performance Computing, Computational Physics
Proficient Fortran, C/C++, MPI, OpenMP, Mathematica, Java, LATEX, GNU/Linux
Familiar Python, Shell Script, HTML
Update: May 19, 2016