Matt Strassler
American physicist and science writer
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Matthew J. Strassler is a theoretical physicist, science communicator, and educator known for the cascading gauge theory.
- Simon's Rock College
- Princeton University
- Stanford University
Matthew Strassler | |
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| Known for | Cascading gauge theory |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Physical Society (2007) |
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| Thesis | The Bern-Kosower rules and their relation to quantum field theory (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Peskin |
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| Discipline | Physics |
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Education
Strassler studied at Simon's Rock College and Princeton University, and later obtained his PhD from Stanford University under the supervision of Michael Peskin.[1] During his collegiate career he also performed concerts.[2]
Career
Teaching and scholarly positions
Strassler was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2002.[3] From 2000 until 2002 he taught at the University of Pennsylvania,[4] and then moved to the University of Washington, where he stayed until 2007.[5][6] He then worked at Rutgers University until 2013.[7] In 2013 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard, and in 2015, was an associate in the Department of Physics.[8]
Scholarly publications
Strassler's scholarly publications has ranked h-index of 44 as of May 2024 according to INSPIRE-HEP[9] and of 51 according to Google Scholar.[10] His publication, "Supergravity and a confining gauge theory: duality cascades and χSB-resolution of naked singularities", co-written with Igor Klebanov for the Journal of High Energy Physics in 2000, developed the cascading gauge theory.[11] His particle physics article "Echoes of a hidden valley at hadron colliders" (2006), co-written with Kathryn Zurek,[12] appeared in Physics Letters B.[13]
Science writing
Strassler's physics-oriented blog, Of Particular Significance, often includes reality-checks on mainstream media coverage of physics news.[14] He has written for such outlets as the New Scientist.[15] His book Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean was published in March 2024, by Basic Books.[16]
Accolades
Strassler was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007 "[f]or work extending the AdS/CFT gravity/gauge duality to QCD-like confining theories, and for insights into novel aspects of the physics of strongly coupled supersymmetric theories".[17]
