Jacques Distler
Jacques Distler | |
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| Born | January 1, 1961 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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| Fields | physics,string theory |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
Jacques Distler(born January 1, 1961) is a Canadian-born Americanphysicistworking instring theory.He has been a professor ofphysicsat theUniversity of Texas at Austinsince 1994.
Early life and education
[edit]Distler was born to a Jewish family inMontreal,Quebec,Canada, where he attendedHerzliah High School(Snowdon) along with noted Pediatric Researcher Daniel Wechsler.[citation needed]He attendedHarvard University,also with Dan Wechsler, for both his bachelors and doctorate in physics. His 1987 thesisCompactified String Theorieswas supervised bySidney Coleman.[1]
Physics career
[edit]Before going to Texas, he was assistant professor atPrinceton University.
According to citation counts, his most influential publication is his 1989 paper onconformal field theoryin two dimensions. His earliest paper isGauge Invariant Superstring Field Theory,co-authored with André LeClair and published in 1986 in Nuclear Physics B.
He has studied the "landscape"ofmetastablevacuain string theory. In July 2005, he released a paper on this topic.[2]Professor Distler was a member of arXiv's physics advisory board.[3][failed verification]
He has ablogMusings: Thoughts on Science, Computing, and Life on Earth,one of the first theoretical physics blogs in the world.[citation needed]
Personal life
[edit]Distler maintains awebpagededicated to his father, who was born inPolandand escaped the German slave camps ofWorld War II.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- A. LeClair and J. Distler,Gauge Invariant Superstring Field Theory,Nucl. Phys. B273 (1986) 552.
- J. Distler and H. Kawai,Conformal Field Theory and 2-D Quantum Gravity or Who's Afraid of Joseph Liouville?,Nucl. Phys. B321 (1989) 509.
External links
[edit]- Faculty homepage
- Musings,the blog of Jacques Distler
- INSPIRE-HEP publication list[permanent dead link]
- Google-Scholar publication list,for some reason this gives slightly lower citation counts than INSPIRE, for example INSPIRE gives 907 citations for one paper while Google-Scholar gives a figure of 800
- Jacques Distlerat theMathematics Genealogy Project
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