Eva Silverstein

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Name Eva Silverstein Role Physicist		Awards MacArthur Fellowship

Education Princeton University, Harvard University

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Eva Silverstein (born October 24, 1970) is an American physicist and string theorist. She is best known for her work on tachyon condensation in string theory and resulting resolution of some spacetime singularities (with Adams, Polchinski, and others). Her other significant research contributions include the construction of the first models of dark energy in string theory, some basic extensions of the AdS/CFT correspondence to more realistic field theories (with Kachru), and the discovery of a predictive new mechanism for cosmic inflation involving D-brane dynamics (with Tong and Alishahiha).

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Education

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I first became interested when I learned what physics was some time in high school. I had a very interesting high school physics teacher. I had always enjoyed math and physical science and when I saw the power of physics to explain and predict physical phenomena through simple principles and calculations, I became hooked. I was especially fascinated by special relativity, which starts from a simple physical principle that the speed of light, and in general all laws of nature, are the same in all reference frames, and derives through simple high school algebra amazing consequences such as the fact that time slows down in moving frames. When I realized that one could produce such things full time and actually make a living at it, I never really looked back.

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A.B., Physics, Harvard University, 1992

Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University, 1996

Professional academic history

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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

Professor, University of California Physics Department

Awards and honors

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MacArthur Fellow, 1999

Bergmann Memorial Award, 1999

DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, 1999–2001

Sloan Fellowship, 1999–2003

Simons Investigator, 2017

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.

Personal

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Raised in Spokane, Washington, Silverstein is the daughter of Harry S. and Lorinda Knight Silverstein and graduated from Lewis and Clark High School. Her father is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Washington State University in Pullman.