George Franklin Sterman (born June 2, 1946) is an American theoretical physicist and the Director of the

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where he holds the rank Distinguished Professor.

Background

George Sterman received an A.B. from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

in 1968. He earned his

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from the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

in 1974, and held research associate positions at the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

(1974–1976),

(1976–1978) and the

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(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 In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons. Quarks are fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such as the proton, neutron and pion. QCD is a type ...

. With

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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 Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 1985, is a Fellow of the

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and has served as an Associate Editor for ''Physical Review Letters''.

References

External links

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