INFORMATION REGARDING EXTERNAL SCHOLARS
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candidate's work.
1. NAME, TITLE, & INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION:
Professor David Gross, Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
2. CURRENT ADDRESS & PHONE:
KITP, Kohn Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone:
Office: 805-893-7337
Fax: 805-893-2431
3. EMAIL ADDRESS:
gross@kitp.ucsb.edu
4) STANDING IN THE FIELD: Co-inventor of the modern theory of strong
interactions, an intellectual force in theoretical physics for many years. Winner of the
Nobel Prize, MacArthur Prize and others; member of National Academy and Director of
the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB.
5) WHAT THEY HAVE READ OF YOUR WORK:
Familiar with much of my work.
6) THEIR PROFESSIONAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE
CANDIDATE:
Discuss physics frequently during visits to KITP and Gross’s visits here.
INFORMATION REGARDING EXTERNAL SCHOLARS
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1. NAME, TITLE, & INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION:
Professor Arkani Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study
2. CURRENT ADDRESS & PHONE:
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
609-734-8078
3. EMAIL ADDRESS:
arkani@ias.edu
4) STANDING IN THE FIELD: Considered the brightest “young star” in the field.
Recently left Harvard for position at IAS.
5) WHAT THEY HAVE READ OF YOUR WORK:
Familiar with much of my work. We have collaborated on one paper some years ago,
and we frequently discuss physics together.
7) THEIR PROFESSIONAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE
CANDIDATE:
A colleague; we talk physics with some regularity. We collaborated on one project about
15 years ago.
INFORMATION REGARDING EXTERNAL SCHOLARS
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1. NAME, TITLE, & INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION:
Professor Nathan Seiberg
2. CURRENT ADDRESS & PHONE:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
609-734-8237
3. EMAIL ADDRESS:
seiberg@ias.edu
4) STANDING IN THE FIELD: Considered one of the leaders of the field. Recently
named to National Academy; previously winner of a MacArthur prize and the Heineman
Prize of the American Physical Society.
5) WHAT THEY HAVE READ OF YOUR WORK:
Familiar with much of my work.
8) THEIR PROFESSIONAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE
CANDIDATE:
Frequent collaborator. Advise each other on physics issues with some regularity.
INFORMATION REGARDING EXTERNAL SCHOLARS
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1. NAME, TITLE, & INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION:
Professor Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
2. CURRENT ADDRESS & PHONE:
Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 95030
650-723-2686
3. EMAIL ADDRESS:
susskind@stanford.edu
4) STANDING IN THE FIELD: Considered one of the most original thinkers in
theoretical particle physics. Member of National Academy, winner of Sakurai Prize and
other awards, author of numerous scientific articles as well as a popular book.
5) WHAT THEY HAVE READ OF YOUR WORK:
Familiar with much of my work
9) THEIR PROFESSIONAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE
CANDIDATE:
A colleague; we talk physics with some regularity. We collaborated on one project about
15 years ago.
INFORMATION REGARDING EXTERNAL SCHOLARS
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1. NAME, TITLE, & INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION:
Edward Witten, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
2. CURRENT ADDRESS & PHONE:
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
609-734-8021
3. EMAIL ADDRESS:
witten@ias.edu
4) STANDING IN THE FIELD: Long a leader in theoretical elementary particle
physics, member of National Academy, winner of Fields Medal, MacArthur Prize and
numerous other awards.
5) WHAT THEY HAVE READ OF YOUR WORK:
Familiar with much of my work
10) THEIR PROFESSIONAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE
CANDIDATE:
A colleague; we talk physics during my occasional visits to IAS. We have collaborated
in the past, though not recently.
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candidate's work.
1. NAME, TITLE, & INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION:
Steven Weinberg, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
2. CURRENT ADDRESS & PHONE:
Physics Department, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
3. EMAIL ADDRESS:
Steven Weinberg <weinberg@physics.utexas.edu>
512-471-4072
4) STANDING IN THE FIELD: Long a leader in theoretical elementary particle
physics, winter of the Nobel Prize, member of National Academy, numerous other
awards. Known as a scholar of broad intellectual interests.
5) WHAT THEY HAVE READ OF YOUR WORK:
Familiar with much of my work (it is cited extensively, for example, in his Quantum
Field Theory textbook.
11) THEIR PROFESSIONAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE
CANDIDATE:
A colleague; we talk physics during my occasional visits there and when we see each
other at meetings.
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1. NAME, TITLE, & INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION:
Professor Mark Wise, California Institute of Technology
2. CURRENT ADDRESS & PHONE:
Physics Department, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 452-48
California Institute of Technology
1200 East California Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
3. EMAIL ADDRESS:
wise@theory.caltech.edu
4) STANDING IN THE FIELD: Considered possibly the leading phenomenologist in
the field in the U.S. Member of National Academy, winner of Sakurai Prize of the
American Physical Society, other awards.
5) WHAT THEY HAVE READ OF YOUR WORK:
Familiar with much of my work.
12) THEIR PROFESSIONAL OR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE
CANDIDATE:
We see each other occasionally at Cal Tech and elsewhere and discuss areas of mutual
interest.