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Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Physics

Name
  
George Sterman



Born
  
June 2, 1946 (age 77) Washington, D.C. (
1946-06-02
)

Institutions
  
C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics Stony Brook University

Alma mater
  
University of Chicago University of Maryland

Doctoral students
  
Claudio Coriano, Ghanashyam Date, Vittorio Del Duca, Hsiang-nan Li, Lorenzo Magnea, Sunil Mukhi, Ashoke Sen, Gianluca Oderda, Carola Berger, Tibor Kucs, Ilmo Sung, Leandro G. Almeida

Known for
  
Sterman-Weinberg Jets proof of factorization theorems Resummation

Notable awards
  
J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics (2003)

Books
  
An introduction to quantum field theory

Education
  
University of Maryland, College Park (1974), University of Chicago

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Residence
  
New York, United States

Notable students
  
Ashoke Sen, Sunil Mukhi

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George Franklin Sterman (born June 2, 1946) is an American theoretical physicist and the Director of the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University where he holds the rank Distinguished Professor.

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Particles and fields at the lhc by george sterman


Background

George Sterman received an A.B. from the University of Chicago in 1968. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1974, and held research associate positions at the University of Illinois (1974–1976), Stony Brook University (1976–1978) and the Institute for Advanced Study (1978–1979), before joining the faculty of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook in 1979. He became director of the Institute in 2001.

Research

George Sterman's research focuses on quantum field theory and its applications in quantum chromodynamics. With Steven Weinberg he proved the infrared finiteness of jet cross sections, thus proving that perturbation theory is a safe method in that regime. He also worked on reformulation and proof of factorization theorems with Stephen Libby, John C. Collins and Davison E. Soper. He authored a textbook entitled An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory in 1993. As of 2010 he has over 190 papers listed as published on HEP-SPIRES.

George Sterman was awarded the 2003 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics "For developing concepts and techniques in QCD, such as infrared safety and factorization in hard processes, which permitted precise quantitative predictions and experimental tests, and thereby helped to establish QCD as the theory of the strong interactions." He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has served as an Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters.

References

George Sterman Wikipedia