Shamit Kachru

Shamit Kachru ( born July 13, 1970 in Champaign ( Illinois)) is an American physicist, quantum field theory deals with elementary particle physics (also in theoretical solid state physics ) and string theory.

Kachru is the son of the professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign Braj Kachru and has Indian ( Kashmiri ) origins. He studied physics at Harvard University (Bachelor 1990), where he was from 1994 to 1996 Junior Fellow, and was awarded his doctorate in 1994 with Edward Witten at Princeton University. As a post - graduate student he was at Rutgers University, in 1999 at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1997Assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1999, he was at first an associate professor and then professor at Stanford University at SLAC. 2009/2010 he was at the Kavli Institute ( KITP ), University of California, Santa Barbara.

He worked among others with dualities in string theory ( with Cumrun Vafa ), extensions of the AdS / CFT correspondence ( with Eva Silverstein ) compactification in string theory and models of supersymmetry breaking. With Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Sandip Trivedi, he designed the KKLT scenario that allowed, among other first approaches to the explanation of inflation ( cosmology ) and a positive cosmological constant in string theory ..

He was Sloan Fellow (1998) and Packard Fellow and received the Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Department of Energy (1997) and the Bergmann Memorial Award (1999).

He is married to the Stringhtheoretikerin Eva Silverstein, with whom he works a lot.

Writings

• Lectures on warped compactifications and stringy brane constructions. TASI 1999