Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Mass Ave, 6-405
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
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Allan W. Adams
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www.mit.edu/~awa
office: 617.253.4866
fax: 617.253.8674
awa @ mit,edu
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Academic Appointments
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- MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
- 2008- Assistant Professor
- 2006-2008 Principal Research Scientist
- Harvard University Society of Fellows
- 2003-2006 Junior Fellow
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Education
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- Stanford University
- Ph.D., Physics, 2003
- Advisor: Eva Silverstein
- U.C. Berkeley
- M.A., Physics, 2000
- Harvard College
- A.B., Physics, 1998
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Professional Honors
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- Fellowships and Awards
- MIT School of Science Teaching Prize for Undergraduate Education, 2009
- MIT France Seed Grant, 2007
- Harvard Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow, 2003-2006
- TIFR Visiting Fellow, Mumbai, India, 2003
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 1998-2002
- Harvard Physics Department White Prize, 1998
- Harvard Bok Center CUE Teaching Awards, Physics 15b(1997) & 143a(1998)
- Harvard FAS Levenson Memorial Award Nominee, 1997
- Patents
- Patent no. 09/593,716, Three-Dimensional Microstructures, with R. J. Jackman, G. M. Whitesides et al. (filed 6/14/2000)
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Professional Activities
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KITP Program Proposal Accepted for 2009 (not organizing)
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Lecturer, Canada/USA MathCamp 2006, 2007, 2008
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Member, American Physical Society, Division for Particles and Fields.
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Referee JHEP, Nuclear Physics B, Physical Review Letters, Phys Rev D
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Workshops & Schools
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- TED Global 2009, Oxford
- Attendee, July 2009
- KITP Workshop on AdS/CMT
- Lecturer, July 2009
- Aspen Center for Physics, Summer Workshop
- Lecturer, June 2009
- NBSP Conference, Nashville
- Exhibitor, February 2009
- 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
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Invited Talks
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- KITP Workshop on AdS/CMT, July 2009
- Aspen Workshop on AdS/CFT, June 2009
- UC Boulder Theory Seminar, April 2009
- UCB Theory Colloquium, March 2009
- Perimeter Institute, Feb 2009
- MIT, IAP Colloquium, Jan 2009
- 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
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Publications
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- "Computing the Spectrum of a Heterotic Flux Vacuum"
[arXiv:0908.4294 [hep-th]]
- A.A., Joshua Lapan
- "Orbifold Phases of Heterotic Flux Vacua"
[arXiv:0908.2994 [hep-th]]
- A.A.
- "Exact null tachyons from RG flows"
[arXiv:0907.4651 [hep-th]]
- A.A., Albion Lawrence, Ian Swanson
- "Charged Schrodinger Black Holes"
[arXiv:0907.1920 [hep-th]]
- A.A., Charles Max Brown, Oliver DeWolfe, Christopher Rosen
- "Heterotic Flux Vacua from Hybrid Linear Models"
[arXiv:0902.4440 [hep-th]]
- A.A., David Guarrera
- "Astro2010 Decadal Survey Whitepaper: Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies"
[arXiv:0902.1527 [astro-ph]]
- J.S.Bloom et al.
- "1/N Effects in Non-Relativistic Gauge-Gravity Duality"
[arXiv:0812.0166 [hep-th, cond-mat]]
- A.A., Alex Maloney, Aninda Sinha, Samuel Vazquez
- "Hot Spacetimes for Cold Atoms"
[arXiv:0807.1111 [hep-th, cond-mat]]
- 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) 4 817-851
- 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]
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