Erick Weinberg
| Erick James Weinberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 29, 1947 Ossining, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Sidney Coleman |
| Doctoral students |
Kimyeong Lee Ai-qun Woo Bum-Hoon Lee Sang-Hoon Lee Nicholas Stathakis Yue Hu Hai Ren Dimitrios Metaxas Xingang Chen Huidong Guo James Hackworth Christopher Miller Adam Brown Ali Masoumi Hakjoon Lee Xiao Xiao |
| Known for |
Coleman–Weinberg potential Lee–Weinberg–Yi metric |
Erick J. Weinberg (born August 29, 1947) is a theoretical physicist and Professor of physics at the Department of Physics in Columbia University. Weinberg was educated at Manhattan College (BA 1968). He obtained a PhD from Harvard in 1973, under the supervision of Sidney Coleman with whom he discovered the Coleman–Weinberg mechanism for spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum field theory. Professor Weinberg works on various branches in high-energy theory, including black holes, vortices, Chern–Simons theory, magnetic monopoles in gauge theories and cosmic inflation. Professor Weinberg also serves as the Editor of Physical Review D, as well as a visiting scholar of Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS).
Having graduated from Harvard University in 1973, Erick J. Weinberg went to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton as a postdoctoral researcher. At 1975, he was appointed by Columbia University as an assistant professor of physics. Promoted to professor of physics in 1987, Professor Weinberg has been a faculty member at Columbia University since then. From 2002 to 2006, Professor Weinberg served as the chair of Columbia University's physics department. Professor Weinberg is still actively researching BPS monopoles and vacuum decay.
Professor Weinberg has worked on various branches in theoretical high energy physics, including the theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking, inflation,the theory of supersymmetric solitons, and the theory of vacuum decay via the nucleation of quantum/thermal bubbles.
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