Steven Gubser

Steven Scott Gubser ( born May 4, 1972) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with string theory.

Gubser received his doctorate from Princeton University with Igor Klebanov 1998. As a post - graduate student, he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University. In 2000 he was at Princeton University as an assistant professor again. He became a professor at Caltech in 2001 and since 2002 he is professor at Princeton.

He is one of the founders of the duality between gauge theory and gravitation to describe (also AdS / CFT correspondence) that enables four-dimensional gauge theories (preferably supersymmetric gauge theories ) by the gravitational physics in five-dimensional curved spaces. He turned this into the physics of the quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions at.

Gubser is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Gubser received the Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society and the Blavatnik Award of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was the scientific secretary of the Aspen Center of Physics. 2009 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.

In 1989 he won the International Physics Olympiad as a student in 1990 and a silver medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad.

Writings

• The little book of string theory, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 2011
• Joseph Lykken (Editor) strings, branes and extra dimensions. Tasi 2001, World Scientific 2004 ( the fact of Gubser Special holonomy in string theory and M -theory )
• Juan Maldacena, Oz, Ooguri, Aharony Large N Field Theory, String Theory and Gravity, Physics Reports, Volume 323, 2000, pp. 183-386, Arxiv
• With Andreas Karch From gauge -string duality to strong interactions: a Pedestrian 's Guide, Annual Review Nuclear Particle Science, Volume 59, 2009, pp. 145-168, Arxiv
• Igor Klebanov, Alexander Markovich Polyakov Gauge Theory correlators from non -critical string theory, Physics Letters B, Volume 428, 1998, pp. 105-114, Arxiv