Jacques Distler
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Jacques Distler is a physicist currently working in string theory. He is professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin since 1994. Before this he was assistant professor at the Princeton University. His father was born in Poland and escaped the German slave camps of World War II.
According to citation counts, his single most influential publication is his 1989 paper on conformal field theory in two dimensions. His earliest paper is Gauge Invariant Superstring Field Theory, co-authored with Andre LeClair and published in 1986 in Nuclear Physics B. Recently he has studied the "landscape" of metastable vacua in string theory.
His paper on this topic, Random polynomials and the friendly landscape, was co-authored with Uday Varadarajan in July 2005, and is available on the arXiv as hep-th/0507090 [1].
He is also known for his blog Musings: Thoughts on Science, Computing, and Life on Earth, one of the first theoretical physics blogs in the world.
Jacques Distler is a current member of arXiv's physics advisory board [2].
[edit] References
- 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.
- J. Distler and U. Varadarajan, Random Polynomials and the Friendly Landscape, arXiv hep-th/0507090, 8 July 2005 [3].
