Henriette Elvang
Henriette Elvang | |
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Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara University of Copenhagen |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Michigan MIT Institute for Advanced Study |
Thesis | New black holes in string theory (2005) |
Doctoral advisor | Gary Horowitz |
Henriette D. Elvang is a Theoretical Particle Physicist and Professor at the University of Michigan. She works on quantum field theory and scattering processes.
Education and early career[]
Elvang studied physics at the University of Copenhagen. She earned her bachelor's degree in 1998 and her master's degree in 2001. Elvang moved to America for her graduate studies, earning a doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2005. She worked on Young projection operators and charged, rotating black rings.[1][2][3][4] Elvang also investigated Kaluza–Klein bubbles and their interactions with black holes.[5][6] She was a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics from 2005 to 2008.[7][8] Elvang identified that black holes and black rings can coexist if they are spinning.[9] She named the combination of a spherical black hole surrounded by a black ring a 'Black Saturn'.[10] After her fellowship, Elvang joined the Institute for Advanced Study as a postdoctoral researcher.[7] She was supported by the United States Department of Energy.[11][12]
Research[]
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Elvang joined the University of Michigan in 2009 where she works on supersymmetry. She worked on the 4-dimensional spacetime RG flows.[13] She looks to understand quantum gravity and the gauge gravitation correspondence.[7] Elvang described scattering amplitudes using basic quantum field theory, including Feynman rules and Yukawa theory.[14][15] She uses the spinor helicity formalism.[16] Her work was turned into the first comprehensive textbook on quantum amplitudes, published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.[17] Elvang studies the implications of standard symmetries on ultraviolet divergence in supergravity.[18] She uses the soft bootstrap to constrain effective field theories of massless particles.[19]
Elvang was made a Cottrell Scholar in 2013, developing a sophomore course that taught the value of academic study.[20] The course she developed, Honors Physics Ill/Physics 360: Waves, Heat, and Light, was described by Andrew D. Martin as 'enhancing' the undergraduate course.[21] Elvang developed an exchange program with Bryn Mawr College to attract women into physics research. In 2017 she was promoted to Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan.[21]
She was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018.[22] Elvang's citation read "for profound insights into gravitational field solutions with novel horizon geometries, the structure of quantum scattering in supersymmetric theories, corner contributions to entanglement entropy, and precision holography".[22]
Awards and honours[]
- 2018 Fellow of the American Physical Society[22]
- 2017 University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and Arts John Dewey Award[23]
- 2016 American Physical Society Maria Goeppert Mayer Award[24]
- 2015 University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Henry Russel Award[25]
- 2014 University of Michigan Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education[26]
- 2013 Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell Scholar[27]
- 2010 NSF CAREER Award[7][28]
References[]
- ^ Elvang, Henriette; Cvitanovic, Predrag; Kennedy, Anthony D. (2003). "Diagrammatic young projection operators for U(n)". arXiv:hep-th/0307186. Bibcode:2003hep.th....7186E. Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^ Elvang, Henriette (2003-12-23). "A charged rotating black ring". Physical Review D. 68 (12): 124016. arXiv:hep-th/0305247. Bibcode:2003PhRvD..68l4016E. doi:10.1103/physrevd.68.124016. ISSN 0556-2821. S2CID 7440962.
- ^ Elvang, Henriette; Emparan, Roberto (2003). "Black rings, supertubes, and a stringy resolution of black hole non-uniqueness". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2003 (11): 035. arXiv:hep-th/0310008. Bibcode:2003JHEP...11..035E. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/11/035. ISSN 1126-6708. S2CID 119415477.
- ^ Elvang, Henriette; Rodriguez, Maria J. (2008). "Bicycling black rings". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2008 (4): 045. arXiv:0712.2425. Bibcode:2008JHEP...04..045E. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/045. ISSN 1126-6708. S2CID 119270467.
- ^ Elvang, Henriette; Horowitz, Gary T. (2003-02-27). "When black holes meet Kaluza-Klein bubbles". Physical Review D. 67 (4): 044015. arXiv:hep-th/0210303. Bibcode:2003PhRvD..67d4015E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.67.044015. S2CID 8204088.
- ^ Elvang, Henriette; Harmark, Troels; Obers, Niels A. (2005). "Sequences of bubbles and holes: new phases of Kaluza-Klein black holes". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2005 (1): 003. arXiv:hep-th/0407050. Bibcode:2005JHEP...01..003E. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/01/003. ISSN 1126-6708. S2CID 2254344.
- ^ a b c d "Physicist Henriette Elvang Receives NSF CAREER Award | U-M LSA Physics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ "Center for Theoretical Physics celebrates 50 years". MIT School of Science. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ^ Battersby, Stephen. "Atom smasher may give birth to 'Black Saturns'". New Scientist. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ Elvang, Henriette; Figueras, Pau (2007). "Black Saturn". JHEP. 0705 (5): 050. arXiv:hep-th/0701035. Bibcode:2007JHEP...05..050E. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/050. S2CID 5663953.
- ^ "Faculty and Members 2010-11". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ "Henriette Elvang". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ Olson, Timothy M.; Elvang, Henriette (2013-03-01). "RG flows in d dimensions, the dilaton effective action, and the a-theorem". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013 (3): 34. arXiv:1209.3424. Bibcode:2013JHEP...03..034E. doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2013)034. ISSN 1029-8479. S2CID 119280088.
- ^ Elvang, Henriette; Huang, Yu-tin (2013-08-07). "Scattering Amplitudes". arXiv:1308.1697 [hep-th].
- ^ "SCGP VIDEO PORTAL". scgp.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ "Henriette Elvang (University of Michigan) – Physics". Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ Elvang, Henriette (2015). Scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107069251.
- ^ Michael, Elvang, Henriette Freedman, Daniel Z. Kiermaier (2012-06-21). "A simple approach to counterterms in N=8 supergravity". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2010 (11): 16. arXiv:1003.5018. Bibcode:2010JHEP...11..016E. doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2010)016. OCLC 796408072. S2CID 17023994.
- ^ Elvang, Henriette; Hadjiantonis, Marios; Jones, Callum R. T.; Paranjape, Shruti (2018-06-15). "Soft Bootstrap and Supersymmetry". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019. arXiv:1806.06079. doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2019)195. S2CID 119259829.
- ^ "Henriette Elvang - Cottrell Scholar Awards". Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ a b "PROMOTION RECOMMENDATION" (PDF). UMich. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ a b c "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ "Professor Henriette Elvang Selected for a College of Literature, Science, and Arts John Dewey Award | U-M LSA Physics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ "APS -APS April Meeting 2017 - Event - Maria Goeppert Mayer Award: An Effective Field Theory Approach to Soft Photon and Graviton Theorems". Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 62 (1).
- ^ "Henry Russel Award". Rackham Graduate School: University of Michigan. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ "Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education | U-M LSA U-M College of LSA". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ "Professor Henriette Elvang Receives Cottrell Scholar Award | U-M LSA Physics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0953232 - CAREER: Supersymmetry - from Fundamentals to Phenomenology". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
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