Theoretical particle physicist
Henriette D. Elvang is a Theoretical Particle Physicist and Professor at the University of Michigan . She works on quantum field theory and scattering processes.
Education and early career
Elvang studied physics at the University of Copenhagen . She earned her bachelor's degree in 1998 and her master's degree in 2001. Elvang moved to America for her graduate studies, earning a doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2005. She worked on Young projection operators and charged, rotating black rings.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] Elvang also investigated Kaluza–Klein bubbles and their interactions with black holes .[ 5] [ 6] She was a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics from 2005 to 2008.[ 7] [ 8] Elvang identified that black holes and black rings can coexist if they are spinning.[ 9] She named the combination of a spherical black hole surrounded by a black ring a 'Black Saturn'.[ 10] After her fellowship, Elvang joined the Institute for Advanced Study as a postdoctoral researcher.[ 7] She was supported by the United States Department of Energy .[ 11] [ 12]
Research
A computer simulation of a black hole
Elvang joined the University of Michigan in 2009 where she works on supersymmetry . She worked on the 4-dimensional spacetime RG flows .[ 13] She looks to understand quantum gravity and the gauge gravitation correspondence.[ 7] Elvang described scattering amplitudes using basic quantum field theory , including Feynman rules and Yukawa theory .[ 14] [ 15] She uses the spinor helicity formalism .[ 16] Her work was turned into the first comprehensive textbook on quantum amplitudes, published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.[ 17] Elvang studies the implications of standard symmetries on ultraviolet divergence in supergravity .[ 18] She uses the soft bootstrap to constrain effective field theories of massless particles.[ 19]
Elvang was made a Cottrell Scholar in 2013, developing a sophomore course that taught the value of academic study.[ 20] The course she developed, Honors Physics Ill/Physics 360: Waves, Heat, and Light , was described by Andrew D. Martin as 'enhancing' the undergraduate course.[ 21] Elvang developed an exchange program with Bryn Mawr College to attract women into physics research. In 2017 she was promoted to Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan .[ 21]
She was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018.[ 22] Elvang's citation read "for profound insights into gravitational field solutions with novel horizon geometries, the structure of quantum scattering in supersymmetric theories, corner contributions to entanglement entropy, and precision holography" .[ 22]
Awards and honours
References
^ Elvang, Henriette; Cvitanovic, Predrag; Kennedy, Anthony D. (2003). "Diagrammatic Young projection operators for U(n)" . arXiv :hep-th/0307186 . Bibcode :2003hep.th....7186E .
^ Elvang, Henriette (2003-12-23). "A charged rotating black ring". Physical Review D . 68 (12): 124016. arXiv :hep-th/0305247 . Bibcode :2003PhRvD..68l4016E . doi :10.1103/physrevd.68.124016 . ISSN 0556-2821 . S2CID 7440962 .
^ Elvang, Henriette; Emparan, Roberto (2003). "Black rings, supertubes, and a stringy resolution of black hole non-uniqueness". Journal of High Energy Physics . 2003 (11): 035. arXiv :hep-th/0310008 . Bibcode :2003JHEP...11..035E . doi :10.1088/1126-6708/2003/11/035 . ISSN 1126-6708 . S2CID 119415477 .
^ Elvang, Henriette; Rodriguez, Maria J. (2008). "Bicycling black rings". Journal of High Energy Physics . 2008 (4): 045. arXiv :0712.2425 . Bibcode :2008JHEP...04..045E . doi :10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/045 . ISSN 1126-6708 . S2CID 119270467 .
^ Elvang, Henriette; Horowitz, Gary T. (2003-02-27). "When black holes meet Kaluza-Klein bubbles". Physical Review D . 67 (4): 044015. arXiv :hep-th/0210303 . Bibcode :2003PhRvD..67d4015E . doi :10.1103/PhysRevD.67.044015 . S2CID 8204088 .
^ Elvang, Henriette; Harmark, Troels; Obers, Niels A. (2005). "Sequences of bubbles and holes: new phases of Kaluza-Klein black holes". Journal of High Energy Physics . 2005 (1): 003. arXiv :hep-th/0407050 . Bibcode :2005JHEP...01..003E . doi :10.1088/1126-6708/2005/01/003 . ISSN 1126-6708 . S2CID 2254344 .
^ a b c d "Physicist Henriette Elvang Receives NSF CAREER Award | U-M LSA Physics" . lsa.umich.edu . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ "Center for Theoretical Physics celebrates 50 years" . MIT School of Science . Retrieved 2019-12-30 .
^ Battersby, Stephen. "Atom smasher may give birth to 'Black Saturns' " . New Scientist . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ Elvang, Henriette; Figueras, Pau (2007). "Black Saturn" . JHEP . 0705 (5): 050. arXiv :hep-th/0701035 . Bibcode :2007JHEP...05..050E . doi :10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/050 . S2CID 5663953 .
^ "Faculty and Members 2010-11" . Issuu . 18 July 2017. Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ "Henriette Elvang" . Institute for Advanced Study . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ Olson, Timothy M.; Elvang, Henriette (2013-03-01). "RG flows in d dimensions, the dilaton effective action, and the a-theorem". Journal of High Energy Physics . 2013 (3): 34. arXiv :1209.3424 . Bibcode :2013JHEP...03..034E . doi :10.1007/JHEP03(2013)034 . ISSN 1029-8479 . S2CID 119280088 .
^ Elvang, Henriette; Huang, Yu-tin (2013-08-07). "Scattering Amplitudes". arXiv :1308.1697 [hep-th ].
^ "SCGP VIDEO PORTAL" . scgp.stonybrook.edu . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ "Henriette Elvang (University of Michigan) – Physics" . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ Elvang, Henriette (2015). Scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107069251 .
^ Michael, Elvang, Henriette Freedman, Daniel Z. Kiermaier (2012-06-21). "A simple approach to counterterms in N=8 supergravity". Journal of High Energy Physics . 2010 (11): 16. arXiv :1003.5018 . Bibcode :2010JHEP...11..016E . doi :10.1007/JHEP11(2010)016 . OCLC 796408072 . S2CID 17023994 . {{cite journal }}
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^ Elvang, Henriette; Hadjiantonis, Marios; Jones, Callum R. T.; Paranjape, Shruti (2018-06-15). "Soft Bootstrap and Supersymmetry". Journal of High Energy Physics . 2019 . arXiv :1806.06079 . doi :10.1007/JHEP01(2019)195 . S2CID 119259829 .
^ "Henriette Elvang - Cottrell Scholar Awards" . Research Corporation for Science Advancement . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ a b "PROMOTION RECOMMENDATION" (PDF) . UMich . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ a b c "APS Fellow Archive" . www.aps.org . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ "2021 Fellows" . American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2022-01-28 .
^ "Professor Henriette Elvang Selected for a College of Literature, Science, and Arts John Dewey Award | U-M LSA Physics" . lsa.umich.edu . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ "APS -APS April Meeting 2017 - Event - Maria Goeppert Mayer Award: An Effective Field Theory Approach to Soft Photon and Graviton Theorems" . Bulletin of the American Physical Society . 62 (1).
^ "Henry Russel Award" . Rackham Graduate School: University of Michigan . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ "Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education | U-M LSA U-M College of LSA" . lsa.umich.edu . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ "Professor Henriette Elvang Receives Cottrell Scholar Award | U-M LSA Physics" . lsa.umich.edu . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .
^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0953232 - CAREER: Supersymmetry - from Fundamentals to Phenomenology" . www.nsf.gov . Retrieved 2018-12-26 .