Jacques Distler
Jacques Distler (born 1961) is a physicist currently working in string theory. He has been a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin since 1994.
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[edit] Early life and education
Distler was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, where he attended Herzliah High School (Snowdon).
[edit] Physics career
Before going to Texas, he was assistant professor at Princeton University.
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. In July 2005, he released a paper on this topic.[1] Professor Distler was a member of arXiv's physics advisory board.[2]
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.
[edit] Personal life
Distler also maintains a webpage dedicated to his father, who was born in Poland and escaped the German slave camps of World War II.
[edit] References
- ^ Random polynomials and the friendly landscape July 2005, arXiv.org
- ^ arXiv advisory board
- 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.
[edit] External links
- Faculty homepage
- Musings, the blog of Jacques Distler
- SPIRES publication list
- Google-Scholar publication list, for some reason this gives slightly lower citation counts than SPIRES, for example SPIRES gives 907 citations for one paper while Google-Scholar gives a figure of 800
