Eva Silverstein

Professor, University
Department[1]

Eva Silverstein (born October 24, 1970) is an American physicist and string theorist. She is best known for
her work on tachyon condensation in string theory and
resulting resolution of some spacetime singularities (with
Adams, Polchinski, and others). Her other signicant research contributions include the construction of the rst
models of dark energy in string theory, some basic extensions of the AdS/CFT correspondence to more realistic eld theories (with Kachru), and the discovery of a
predictive new mechanism for cosmic ination involving
D-brane dynamics (with Tong and Alishahiha).

of

California

Physics

3 Awards and honors

MacArthur Fellow, 1999
Bergmann Memorial Award, 1999
DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, 19992001
Sloan Fellowship, 19992003

Education
4 Research areas

I rst became interested when I learned

what physics was some time in high school.
I had a very interesting high school physics
teacher. I had always enjoyed math and physical science and when I saw the power of
physics to explain and predict physical phenomena through simple principles and calculations, I became hooked. I was especially fascinated by special relativity, which starts from
a simple physical principle that the speed of
light, and in general all laws of nature, are
the same in all reference frames, and derives
through simple high school algebra amazing
consequences such as the fact that time slows
down in moving frames. When I realized that
one could produce such things full time and actually make a living at it, I never really looked
back.
Eva Silverstein, quoted at String People

String theory, gravity, and particle physics: including

moduli stabilization, supersymmetry breaking, and the
microphysics of dark energy in string theory; dynamics of
interacting scalar elds in cosmology and particle physics;
unication of string vacua, singularity resolution, and dualities.

5 Personal
Raised in Spokane, Washington, Silverstein is the daughter of Harry S. and Lorinda Knight Silverstein and graduated from Lewis and Clark High School.[2][3][4] Her father
is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Washington State
University in Pullman.[5]
Silverstein is married to fellow string theorist Shamit
Kachru; both were protgs of Edward Witten.

A.B., Physics, Harvard University, 1992

Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University, 1996

6 References
[1] http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/kitpnews/item/?id=60

Professional academic history

[2] Vorpahl, Beverly (July 7, 1988). People. SpokesmanReview. p. S7.

Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University, 1996

1997

[3] Spokane grad gets genius grant. Eugene Register-Guard.

Associated Press. October 7, 1999. p. 3D.

Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 19972001

[4] Going for it. Spokane Chronicle. photo. July 3, 1982.

p. 1.

Associate Professor, SLAC and Stanford Physics

Department, Stanford, 20012006

[5] Shier, Phyllis (2010). Professor emeritus endows annual

fund for best student philosopher. Washington State University. Retrieved September 25, 2014.

Professor, SLAC and Stanford Physics Department,

Stanford, 2006Present
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External links
Stanford University: Eva Silverstein
List of her papers

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