Cosmas K. Zachos ( el, Κοσμάς Ζάχος; born 1951) is a
theoretical physicist. He was educated in physics (
undergraduate A.B. 1974) at
Princeton University, and did graduate work in theoretical physics at the
California Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1979 ) under the supervision of
John Henry Schwarz.
Zachos is an emeritus staff member in the theory group of the High Energy Physics Division of
Argonne National Laboratory
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. He is considered an authority on the subject of
phase-space quantization. His early research involved, jointly, the introduction of
renormalization geometrostasis, and the so-called FFZ
Lie algebra
In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced ) is a vector space \mathfrak g together with an Binary operation, operation called the Lie bracket, an Alternating multilinear map, alternating bilinear map \mathfrak g \times \mathfrak g \rightarrow ...
of
noncommutative geometry. His thesis work revealed a balancing repulsive gravitational force present in extended
supergravity.
He is co-author of treatises on
quantum mechanics in
phase space
In dynamical system theory, a phase space is a space in which all possible states of a system are represented, with each possible state corresponding to one unique point in the phase space. For mechanical systems, the phase space usually ...
,
[ Thomas L. Curtright, David B. Fairlie, Cosmas K. Zachos, ''A Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space'', (World Scientific, Singapore, 2014) .]
a Fellow of the
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...
, and a Fellow of the
Institute of Physics.
He is Adjunct Professor of physics at the
University of Miami and the brother of theoretical computer scientist
Stathis Zachos Stathis K. Zachos ( el, Στάθης (Ευστάθιος) Ζάχος; born 1947 in Athens) is a mathematician, logician and theoretical computer scientist.
Biography
Zachos received his PhD from the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuri ...
. He is married to biostatistician
Sue Leurgans.
References
External links
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*Zachos's
website at Argonne*
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ORCID profile
1951 births
20th-century Greek physicists
21st-century American physicists
California Institute of Technology alumni
Living people
Particle physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Theoretical physicists
Princeton University alumni
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
Mathematical physicists
Date of birth missing (living people)
University of Miami faculty
Argonne National Laboratory people
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