Gary Shiu (Chinese: ) is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who is a professor of physics at the

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. His research spans cosmology, particle physics, and string theory. He has made significant contributions to both fundamental and phenomenological aspects of string theory. He is well known for his work in constructing models of particle physics and cosmology from string theory, and in elucidating experimental and observational consequences of fundamental physics. He brought string theory research to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was involved in the founding of the Theoretical and Computational Cosmology Group and the AI ∩ Universe Initiative.

Education

Gary Shiu received his primary and secondary school education at St Joseph's College. He received a bachelor's of science in physics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993 and a Ph.D. from

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in 1998 under advisor

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Career

He conducted postdoctoral research work at

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and subsequently at the

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before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. He was a senior fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study and the founding director of the Center for Fundamental Physics and concurrently chair professor of physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong. He has held visiting professorships at the

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, and the

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. Shiu has given numerous lectures worldwide, both at a technical level and for the general public, including BEL Lectures, Steve Goldman Lectures in Mathematical Physics, Nico van Kampen Colloquium, Johannes Diderik van der Waals Lectures, Zi-Ping Distinguished Lectures in Theoretical Physics, Colloquium Ehrenfestii, and Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, among others. He was an invited speaker of the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science in 2023.

Awards

* 2003: Research Innovation Award,

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* 2004: NSF Career Award * 2005: Cottrell Scholar Award * 2006: Kavli Frontiers Fellow,

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* 2008: Guggenheim Fellow * 2008: Vilas Associate Award * 2009: Ambrose Monell Foundation Fellow,

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

* 2011: Fellow,

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* 2012: Johannes Diderik van der Waals Chair, University of Amsterdam * 2012: University of Wisconsin Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award * 2012: Fellow,

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, UK * 2015: Fellow,

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* 2016: Kellett Mid-Career Award, University of Wisconsin

Selected publications

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References

External links

Machine Learning Initiative, Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cosmology, Observational and Theoretical Cosmology at UW Madison

Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study

Center for Fundamental Physics

Strings and Particle Physics
Sci Talks
How Many Dimensions Does The Universe Have? Kavli, 18th Annual U.S. Symposium
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shiu, Gary Living people American theoretical physicists Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Physical Society Cornell University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)