Work on string duality and AdS/CFT correspondence Inflation (cosmology) and String theory landscape Physical mathematics
Awards
Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, Bergmann Memorial Award, Simons Investigator Award, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Scientific career
Fields
Physicist
Institutions
Stanford University
Doctoral advisor
Edward Witten
Shamit Kachru (born 1970) is an American theoretical physicist, a professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University, and a former Wells Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He served as the Stanford Physics Department Chair from 2018 to 2021. He retired in 2023.
ShamitKachru (born 1970) is an American theoretical physicist, a professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University, and a former Wells Family Director...
(1923–2016), Indian linguist ShamitKachru (born 1970), American theoretical physicist, son of Braj and Yamuna Yamuna Kachru (1933–2013), Indian linguist...
linguist Braj Kachru, with whom she frequently collaborated. They had two children: Stanford professor ShamitKachru and physician Amita Kachru. "An Introduction...
in particular finding (along with Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and ShamitKachru) the first models of accelerated expansion of the universe in low energy...
of the AdS/CFT correspondence to more realistic field theories (with ShamitKachru), as well as the discovery of a predictive new mechanism for cosmic...
theory vacuum stabilization (the KKLT mechanism) was proposed in 2003 by ShamitKachru, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Sandip Trivedi. Much of the present-day...
stabilization, now known as the KKLT mechanism, was proposed in 2003 by ShamitKachru, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Sandip Trivedi. Fine-tuning of constants...
University of Texas at Austin Raj Chandra Bose (1901-1987), mathematician ShamitKachru (b. 1970), Mathematical Physicist, professor at Stanford Institute for...
mechanism of string theory vacuum stabilization was proposed in 2003 by ShamitKachru, Renata Kallosh, Linde, and Sandip Trivedi, who also found that all...
ISBN 978-0-521-19790-8. Strings Branes and Gravity. Jeffrey A. Harvey, ShamitKachru, Eva Silverstein. World Scientific TASI 1999 Reformulating String Theory...
1969) Laura Mersini-Houghtonª (born 1969) Dam Thanh Son (born 1969) ShamitKachru (born 1970) Eva Silverstein (born 1970) Daniel Gottesman (born 1970)...
and antibranes was later put on concrete string theoretic grounds by ShamitKachru and collaborators. He went on to work out many details of brane inflation...
theory. In particular, she, along with Sandip Trivedi, Andrei Linde, and ShamitKachru, found the mechanism to stabilize string theory vacua referred to as...
Stefan Hoeche, known for SHERPA parton shower event-generator framework ShamitKachru, pioneer of string theory Rebecca Leane, astroparticle physicist Bernhard...
Gottfried David Gross Steven Gubser Paul Horowitz Stephen Hsu Roman Jackiw ShamitKachru David B. Kaplan Mehran Kardar Vedika Khemani Abraham Klein * Lawrence...
Books. ISBN 978-0316013338. Woit, pp. 242–243 Woit, p. 240 Woit, p. 249 Kachru, Shamit; Kallosh, Renata; Linde, Andrei; Trivedi, Sandip P. (2003). "de Sitter...
Mid-Career Award, University of Wisconsin Chen, Xingang; Huang, Min-xin; Kachru, Shamit; Shiu, Gary (2 January 2007). "Observational signatures and non-Gaussianities...
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