Nima Arkani-Hamed
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| Native name | نیما ارکانی-حامد |
| Born |
April 5, 1972 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Harvard University Institute for Advanced Study Cornell University |
| Alma mater |
University of Toronto University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for |
Large extra dimensions Dimensional deconstruction Little Higgs Split supersymmetry Dark Matter Scattering amplitudes Amplituhedron |
| Notable awards | Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society (2003) Sackler Prize of Tel Aviv University (2008) Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award (2005) Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) |
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Website Official website |
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Nima Arkani-Hamed (Persian: نیما ارکانی-حامد) (born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian of Iranian descent, who is a theoretical physicist with interests in high-energy physics, string theory and cosmology. Arkani-Hamed is now on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and director of The Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP) in China, Beijing. He was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Arkani-Hamed's parents, Jafargholi "Jafar" Arkani-Hamed and Hamideh Alasti are both physicists from Iran. His father, a native of Tabriz, was chairman of the physics department at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, and later taught earth and planetary sciences at McGill University in Montreal. Arkani-Hamed immigrated to Canada as a child with his family.
Arkani-Hamed graduated at the University of Toronto with a joint honours degree in mathematics and physics in 1993, and went to the University of California, Berkeley, for his graduate studies, where he worked under the supervision of Lawrence Hall. The majority of his graduate work was on studies of supersymmetry and flavor physics. His Ph.D dissertation was titled "Supersymmetry and Hierarchies." He completed his Ph.D in 1997 and went to SLAC at Stanford University for post-doctoral studies. During this time he worked with Savas Dimopoulos and developed the paradigm of large extra dimensions.
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