Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Mass Ave, 6-302 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 office: 617.253.6268 Allan W. Adams 25A Fairmont St Cambridge, MA 02139 cell: 617.417.9045 www.mit.edu/~awa awa @ mit,edu
Personal	Date of Birth: May 9, 1976 Place of Birth: Bogotá, Colombia Citizenship: U.S.A.
Academic Appointments	MIT Center for Theoretical Physics Assistant Professor       2008-Present Principal Research Scientist       2006-2008 Harvard University Society of Fellows Junior Fellow       2003-2006
Education	Stanford University Ph.D., Physics, 2003 Advisor: Eva Silverstein U.C. Berkeley M.A., Physics, 2000 Harvard College A.B., Physics, 1998
Research	MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, 2006-Present Flux Vacua in String Theory, Torsion Linear Models, Quantum Dynamics of Gauge Theories in 2d and 4d, Design of Tests of Short Distance Gravity Harvard Dept. of Physics and Society of Fellows, 2003-2006 Heterotic Mirror Symmetry, Quantum Sheaf Cohomology, Topology Change, Effective Field Theory, Dark Matter Searches Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2000-2003 Closed String Tachyons, AdS/CFT Orbifolds, K-Theory and M-Theory Deconstruction, IR Modifications of String and Field Theories Harvard Dept. of Physics Atom Optics, Atom Waveguides, Lithographic Microfabrication
Teaching Experience	Stanford University Teaching Assistant 2001: Physics 330, Quantum Field Theory U.C. Berkeley GSI 2000: Physics 139, Special and General Relativity 1999: Physics H7B, Electricity and Magnetism Harvard University Teaching Fellow 1998: Physics 143a, Quantum Mechanics 1997: Physics 15a, Classical Mechanics 1997: Physics 15b, Electricity and Magnetism 1996: Physics 1a, Classical Mechanics
Professional Honors	Fellowships and Grants MIT-France Seed Grant, 2007 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 2003-2006 Visiting Fellow, TIFR, Mumbai, India, 2003 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 1998-2002 UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship, Physics Department, 1998-2001 (declined) NSF Grant, Les Houches Session LXXI, 1999 CUE Teaching Award, Harvard Bok Center, Physics 143a & 15b, 1997/98 White Prize, Harvard University Physics Department, 1998 Levenson Memorial Award, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Nominee, 1997 Visiting Positions Saclay/CEA, February, Spring 2007 Rutgers University, February 2004 TIFR Theory Group, March-August 2003 Patents Patent no. 09/593,716, Three-Dimensional Microstructures, with R. J. Jackman, G. M. Whitesides et al. (filed 6/14/2000)
Professional Activities	KITP Program Proposal Accepted for 2009 (not organizing) Lecturer, Canada/USA MathCamp 2006, 2007, 2008 Member, American Physical Society, Division for Particles and Fields. Referee JHEP, Nuclear Physics B, Physical Review Letters
Workshops & Schools	MathCamp 2008, Reed College Lecturer, July 2008 Aspen Center for Physics, Summer Workshop Lecturer, July 2008 Banff String Workshop Lecturer, June 2008 Mitchell Workshop on String Theory Lecturer, March 2008 MathCamp 2007, Colby College Lecturer, July 2007 KITP Workshop on String Phenomenology Lecturer, November 2006 Aspen Center for Physics, Summer Workshop August 2006 MathCamp 2006, U. Puget Sound Lecturer, July 2006 Amsterdam String Workshop Lecturer, June 2006 PI Cosmology Workshop Invitee, October 2005 Benasque String Workshop Invitee, July 2005 Amsterdam String Workshop Lecturer, June 2005 CMS Summer School, Hangzhou, China Lecturer, April-May 2005 Fields Intsitute Workshop on Mirror Symmetry Lecturer, November 2004 Aspen Center for Physics, Summer Workshop July-August 2004 Strings 2004, Paris June-July 2004 Banff String Workshop June 2004 IPM String School, Anzali, Iran Lecturer, September-October 2003 Aspen Center for Physics, Summer Workshop August-September 2003 Stanford Workshop on Strings Lecturer, February 2003 Aspen Center for Physics, Summer Workshop Lecturer, July 2002 Institute for Theoretical Physics, M-Theory Program Affiliate, February-June 2001 PASI 2002, School on Quantum Gravity Student, Valdivia, Chile, January 2002 Les Houches Session LXXI, Physics of the Early Universe Student, Les Houches, France, July 1999
Invited Talks	Aspen Center for Physics, July 2008 Banff String Workshop, June 2008 MIT Knight Fellowship, May 2008 UNH Physics, April 2008 MIT CTP, March 2008 Mitchell Institute, March 2008 UCSB Math, February 2008 Stanford Physics, February 2008 UC Berkeley Physics, February 2008 MIT Math , November 2007 Michigan Physics, November 2007 Brown Physics, November 2007 MIT CTP, October 2007 Saclay/CEA, May 2007 Stanford Physics, April 2007 MIT Math, April 2007 Brandeis Physics, February 2007 Brandeis Physics, February 2007 U. Chicago, February 2007 Michigan, February 2007 Cornell, January 2007 MIT CTP, December 2006 KITP String Phenomenology Workshop, November 2006 Stanford, November 2006 Amsterdam Workshop, July 2006 Weizmann - Tel Aviv Joint Theory Seminar, April 2006 Brown, April 2006 Wisconsin, April 2006 Johns Hopkins, March 2006 Columbia, March 2006 Harvard, February 2006 McGill, February 2006 BU Physics December 2005 MIT, November 2005 Penn, November 2005 Washington, October 2005 Washington, October 2005 Amsterdam, June 2005 CMS, Hangzhou, China, May 2005 Stanford, May 2005 Harvard Physics, April 2005 Harvard Physics, February 2005 Berkeley, November 2004 Fields Institute, November 2004 Duke, October 2004 Brandeis, October 2004 Harvard, October 2004 Berkeley, June 2004 Stanford, May 2004 MIT LIGO Group, May 2004 Harvard CFA, May 2004 UNH, March 2004 Rutgers, February 2004 MIT, December 2003 Harvard, October 2003 Amsterdam, October 2003 Harvard, October 2003 IPM String School, September-October 2003 HRI Theory Group, August 2003 TIFR Theory Group, March 2003 Stanford String Workshop, February 2003 Duke String Seminar, November 2002 UIUC String Seminar, November 2002 Chicago String Seminar, November 2002 ITP/UCSB Theory Seminar, October 2002 UC Berkeley String Seminar, September 2002 SLAC Theory Seminar, September 2002 Aspen Center for Physics, July 2002 Harvard Postdoc Seminar, May 2002 Harvard Grad Seminar, April 2002 UC Berkeley String Seminar, April 2002 UCSB/ITP Post-Doc Seminar, May 2001 UCSB/ITP Grad Seminar, April 2001
Publications	"Hot Spacetimes for Cold Atoms" [arXiv:0807.1111 [hep-ph]] A.A., Koushik Balasubramanian, John McGreevy "Signs of Analyticity in Fermion Scattering" [arXiv:0802.4081 [hep-ph]] A.A., Alejandro Jenkins, Donal O'Connell "Conformal Field Theory and the Reid Conjecture" [hep-th/0703048] in review A.A. "Linear Models for Flux Vacua" [hep-th/0611084] ATMP 12 (2008) 4 in press A.A., Morten Ernebjerg, Joshua Lapan "Causality, Analyticity and an IR Obstruction to UV Completion" [hep-th/0602178] JHEP 10 (2006) 014 A.A., Nima Arkani-Hamed, Sergei Dubovsky, Alberto Nicolis, Riccardo Rattazzi "Topological Heterotic Rings" [hep-th/0506263] ATMP 10 (2006) 5 657-682 A.A., Jacques Distler, Morten Ernebjerg "Things Fall Apart: Topology Change from Winding Tachyons" [hep-th/0502021] JHEP 10 (2005) 033 A.A., Xiao Liu, John McGreevy, Alex Saltman, Eva Silverstein "Direct detection of dark matter with space-based laser interferometers" [astro-ph/0405266] in review A.A. and Joshua Bloom "(0,2) Duality" [0309226] ATMP 7 (2004) 865-885 5 A.A., Anirban Basu and Savdeep Sethi "Decapitating Tadpoles" [0209226] A.A., John McGreevy and Eva Silverstein "The Loop Group of E_8 and K-Theory from 11d" [0203218] JHEP02(2003)029 A.A. and Jarah Evslin "Deconstructing Noncommutativity with a Giant Fuzzy Moose" [0111079] JHEP04(2002)006 A.A. and Michal Fabinger "Don't Panic! Closed String Tachyons in ALE Spacetimes" [0108075] JHEP10(2001)029 A.A., Joe Polchinski and Eva Silverstein "Closed String Tachyons, AdS/CFT, and Large N QCD" [0103220] Phys. Rev. D 64, 086001 (2001) A.A. and Eva Silverstein "Substrate-based atom waveguide using guided two-color evanescent light fields" A. H. Barnett, S. P. Smith, M. Olshanii, K. S. Johnson, A. W. Adams, M. Prentiss; Phys. Rev. A 61, 023608 (2000) [physics/9907014] "Design and Fabrication of Topologically Complex, Three-Dimensional Microstructures" Rebecca J. Jackman, Scott T. Brittain, Allan Adams, Mara G. Prentiss, George M. Whitesides, Science 280, 1583 (1998) "A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity" D.C. Salisbury, L.C. Shepley, A. Adams, D. Mann, L. Turvan, B. Turner, Class. Quantum Grav. 11, 2789 (1994) [gr-qc/9403040] (Spires Listing)