Eva Silverstein
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| Born | October 24, 1970 Spokane, Washington, U.S. |
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| Spouse | Shamit Kachru |
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| Fields | String theory Cosmology |
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| Doctoral advisor | Edward Witten |
Eva Silverstein (born October 24, 1970) is an American
theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and string theorist. She is a professor of physics at Stanford University and director of the Modern Inflationary Cosmology collaboration within the Simons Foundation Origins of the Universe initiative.[1]
Life, education, and work
Raised in Spokane, Washington, Silverstein is the daughter of Harry S. and Lorinda Knight Silverstein and graduated from Lewis and Clark High School.[2][3][4] Her father is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Washington State University in Pullman.[5] Silverstein earned her bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1992 and her doctoral degree from Princeton University four years later.
Silverstein's primary research areas include
David Tong
) which helped motivate more systematic analyses of primordial non-Gaussianity.
Silverstein is married to fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru; both were doctoral students of Edward Witten.
Academic appointments
- Postdoctoral associate, Rutgers University, 1996–1997
- Assistant professor, Stanford, 1997–2001
- Associate professor, StanfordPhysics Department, Stanford, 2001–2006
- Professor, StanfordPhysics Department, Stanford, 2006–2016
- Professor, StanfordPhysics Department, Stanford, 2006–Present
- Professor, University of California Physics Department[8]
Awards and honors
- MacArthur Fellow, 1999
- DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, 1999–2001
- Sloan Fellowship, 1999–2003
- Bergmann Memorial Award, 2000 [9]
- APS Fellow, 2016 "For fundamental contributions to quantum gravity and early universe cosmology."[10]
- Simons Investigator, 2017[11]
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) Elected Fellow, 2020[12]
References
- ^ "New Initiative Ponders Origins of the Universe | Simons Foundation". www.simonsfoundation.org. July 21, 2017.
- ^ Vorpahl, Beverly (July 7, 1988). "People". Spokesman-Review. p. S7.
- ^ "Spokane grad gets genius grant". Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. October 7, 1999. p. 3D.
- ^ "Going for it". Spokane Chronicle. photo. July 3, 1982. p. 1.
- ^ Shier, Phyllis (2010). "Professor emeritus endows annual fund for best student philosopher". Washington State University. Archived from the original on March 4, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
- ^ "Eva Silverstein | Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics".
- ^ "Eva Silverstein | Perimeter Institute". Archived from the original on May 30, 2013.
- ^ http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/kitpnews/item/?id=60[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Professor E.D. Bergmann Award". Archived from the original on November 25, 2009.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org.
- ^ Simons Investigators Awardees, The Simons Foundation
- ^ "AAAS Fellows Elected" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
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