Eva Silverstein

Eva Silverstein is a string theorist. She is married to fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru. She and Kachru were both proteges of Edward Witten.

She is best known for her work on tachyon condensationin string theory and resulting resolution of some spacetimesingularities (with Adams, Polchinski, and others).Her other significant research contributions includethe construction of the first models of dark energy instring theory, some basic extensions of the AdS/CFTcorrespondence to more realistic field theories (with Kachru), and the discovery of a predictive new mechanismfor cosmic inflation involving D-brane dynamics(with Tong and Alishahiha).

Education

*A.B., Physics, Harvard University, 1992
*Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University, 1996

Professional academic history

*Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University, 1996-1997
*Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1997-2001
*Associate Professor, SLAC and Stanford Physics Department, Stanford, 2001-2006
*Professor, SLAC and Stanford Physics Department, Stanford, 2006-Present

Awards and honors

*MacArthur Fellow, 1999
*Bergmann Memorial Award, 1999
*DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, 1999 - 2001
*Sloan Fellowship, 1999 - 2003

Research areas

String theory, gravity, and particle physics: including moduli stabilization, supersymmetry breaking, and the microphysics of dark energy in string theory; dynamics of interacting scalar fields in cosmology and particle physics; unification of string vacua, singularity resolution, and dualities.

External links

* [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/silverstein_eva.html Her faculty page at Stanford]
* [http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:XV8JeuMoqJYJ:www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/help/cv_example.pdf+%22Eva+Silverstein%22&hl=en list of her papers]