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  • Michael Peskin

    Michael Peskin

    Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Emeritus

    BioI am a theoretical physicist interested in elementary particles and the fundamental interactions. My main research interests are:

    * consequences of the "Standard Model of particle physics"

    * precision study of the heaviest known elementary particles - the W and Z bosons, the top quark, and the Higgs boson - to search for clues to new fundamental interactions beyond the Standard Model

    * models of such new interactions, especially models with composite or strongly interacting Higgs bosons

    * models for the particle that composes the dark matter of the universe

    I am the author of a leading theoretical textbook in this area, "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory", with Daniel Schroeder. Recently, I have written another textbook that emphasizes our experimental knowledge, "Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics".

    For further information about my research activities, interests, Stanford courses, and related subjects, please see my web page: https://s3df.slac.stanford.edu/people/mpeskin/

  • - Rainer Pitthan

    - Rainer Pitthan

    Affiliate, Fundamental Physics Directorate

    BioPoly-math offspring and sibling of a poly-math family.
    ret Stanford 1979-2005, many positions incl. Department Head
    CERN Fellow 1989-1990, 1999-2001
    Faculty Naval Postgraduate School 1973-1979, ran 120MeV Electron Linac
    NATO Fellow 1973-1974, NSF Fellow 1974-1979
    Promotion Dr. rer. nat. (Dr.Sci.)
    Asst. Prof. Technical University Darmstadt, 1971-1973
    Co-President Academic Senate, 1970-1972, TU Darmstadt
    Central Planner TU Darmstadt 1969-1971
    Pre-doctoral Research Assistant. TU Darmstadt 1967-1969
    MS (Dipl.Phys.) in Technical Nuclear Physics and Reactor Tech, 1965-1967
    B.S. (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry), Landgraf-Philipps-University, Marburg/Lahn, 1960-1062
    1959-1973 to pay my way through college in semester breaks many jobs in construction and
    industrial production
    For the 4 month vocational education requirement for my BS degree I was lucky to be put through
    the 1st year program of the National Apprenticeship Requirements in Tool-and-Die (Werkzeugmacher)
    and Vocation Electrical Apprenticeships at the local Brown Boverie Cie (now ABB) subsidiary (Resopal).

    more of a standard academic CV, see bit.ly/3g3yv5l