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Curriculum Vitae Jacques Distler Work: Home: Physics Department 7522 Stonecliff Drive University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78731 RLM 9.218A, Mailstop C1600 1 University Station Austin, TX 78712 Phone: (512) 471{2950 email: [email protected] Positions Held 2001{present Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Spring 2001 Visiting Fellow, ITP, UC Santa Barbara. 1996{2001 Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin. 1994{1996 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Spring 1993 Visiting Fellow, ITP, UC Santa Barbara. 1989{1994 Assistant Professor, Princeton University. 1987{1989 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cornell University. Education 1987 Ph.D., Physics, Harvard University. 1982 A.B., Physics, cum laude, Harvard University. Grants and Fellowships 2007-present BSF Grant #2006157 (co-PI) 2010{present NSF Grant PHY-0969020 (co-PI) 2005{2010 NSF Grant PHY-0455649 (co-PI) Jacques Distler 2 Spring 2001 Faculty Research Award, University of Texas 2000{2005 NSF Grant PHY-0071512 (co-PI) 1993{1997 Sloan Foundation Fellowship 1995{2000 NSF Grant PHY-9511632 (co-PI) 1996 NSF Grant PHY-9540306 supplement (PI) 1995 Summer Research Award, University of Texas Colloquia and Invited Lectures (recent) August, 2009 Workshop on \(0,2) Mirror Symmetry and Quantum Sheaf Cohomol- ogy," Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany. May, 2009 CBMS conference conference on \Topology, C∗-algebras, and String Duality," TCU, Ft. Worth TX. September, 2008 Perimeter Institute conference on \Science in the 21st Century," Wa- terloo Canada. July, 2008 Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics, SUNY Stony Brook. June, 2008 BIRS Workshop on \Emerging Directions in String Theory," Banff Canada. March, 2008 Mitchell Institute Workshop in String Theory, Texas A&M University, College Station TX. February, 2008 Workshop on 3D Quantum Gravity, McGill University, Montreal Canada. Memberships American Physical Society Sigma Xi Professional Activities Referee for Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics B, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D and Communications in Mathematical Physics. Referee Grant Proposals for the National Science Foundation, the Australian National Research Council, the Canadian National Science and Engineering Research Council, the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation, Chil´e'sFONDECYT and the Israeli Basic Research Foundation. Moderator for hep-th arXiv. Physics Advisory Board of arXiv.org. Jacques Distler 3 Research Interests My current research is focussed on various aspects of duality in string theory and quan- tum field theory. Jacques Distler 4 Publications [1] O. Chacaltana and J. Distler, \Tinkertoys for Gaiotto Duality," arXiv:1008.5203 [hep-th]. [2] J. Distler and E. Sharpe, \Quantization of Fayet-Iliopoulos Parameters in Supergravity," arXiv:1008.0419 [hep-th]. [3] J. Distler, D. S. Freed, and G. W. Moore, \Spin Structures and Superstrings," arXiv:1007.4581 [hep-th]. [4] J. Distler and S. Garibaldi, \There is no `Theory of Everything' inside E8," Comm. Math. Phys. 298 (2010) 419{436, arXiv:0905.2658 [math.RT]. [5] J. Distler, D. S. Freed, and G. W. Moore, \Orientifold Precis," arXiv:0906.0795 [hep-th]. [6] J. Distler and D. Robbins, \General F-Term Gauge Mediation," arXiv:0807.2006 [hep-ph]. [7] J. Distler, S. Mukhi, C. Papageorgakis, and M. Van Raamsdonk, \M2-Branes on M-Folds," JHEP 05 (2008) 038, arXiv:0804.1256 [hep-th]. [8] A. Caldararu, J. Distler, S. Hellerman, T. Pantev, and E. Sharpe, \Non-Birational Twisted Derived Equivalences in Abelian GLSMs," arXiv:0709.3855 [hep-th]. [9] A. Bergman and J. Distler, \Wormholes in Maximal Supergravity," arXiv:0707.3168 [hep-th]. [10] J. Distler and E. Sharpe, \Heterotic Compactifications With Principal Bundles for General Groups and General Levels," hep-th/0701244. [11] J. Distler, B. Grinstein, R. A. Porto, and I. Z. Rothstein, \Falsifying Models of New Physics via WW Scattering," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 041601, hep-ph/0604255. [12] J. Distler and U. Varadarajan, \Random polynomials and the friendly landscape," hep-th/0507090. [13] A. Adams, J. Distler, and M. Ernebjerg, \Topological heterotic rings," hep-th/0506263. [14] A. Bergman, J. Distler, and U. Varadarajan, \1+1 dimensional critical string theory and holography," hep-th/0312115. [15] J. Distler, H. Jockers, and H.-J. Park, \D-Brane Monodromies, Derived Categories and Boundary Linear Sigma Models," hep-th/0206242. [16] I. Brunner, J. Distler, and R. Mahajan, \Return of the Torsion D-branes," Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 5 (2001) 311{353, hep-th/0106262. Jacques Distler 5 [17] I. Brunner and J. Distler, \Torsion D-branes in Nongeometrical Phases," Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 5 (2001) 265{309, hep-th/0102018. [18] J. Distler and F. Zamora, \Chiral Symmetry Breaking in the AdS/CFT Correspondence," JHEP 05 (2000) 005(25pp), hep-th/9911040. [19] J. Distler and F. Zamora, \Nonsupersymmetric Conformal Field Theories from Stable anti-de Sitter Spaces," Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2 (1999) 1405{1439, hep-th/9810206. [20] D. Berenstein, R. Corrado, and J. Distler, \Aspects of ALE Matrix Models and Twisted Matrix Strings," Phys. Rev. D58 (1998) 026005(12pp), hep-th/9712049. [21] D. Berenstein, R. Corrado, and J. Distler, \On the Moduli Spaces of M(atrix)-Theory Compactifications,” Nucl. Phys. B503 (1997) 239{255, hep-th/9704087. [22] T.-M. Chiang, J. Distler, and B. R. Greene, \Some Features of (0,2) Moduli Space," Nucl. Phys. B496 (1997) 590{616, hep-th/9702030. [23] J. Distler and A. Hanany, \(0,2) Noncritical Strings in Six Dimensions," Nucl. Phys. B490 (1997) 75{90, hep-th/9611104. [24] J. Distler and A. Karch, \N = 1 Dualities for Exceptional Gauge Groups and Quantum Global Symmetries," Fortsch. Phys. 45 (1997) 517{533, hep-th/9611088. [25] J. Distler, B. R. Greene, and D. R. Morrison, \Resolving Singularities in (0,2) Models," Nucl. Phys. B481 (1996) 289{312, hep-th/9605222. [26] L. Alvarez-Gaum´e,J.` Distler, C. Kounnas, and M. Mari~no, \Large Softly Broken N = 2 QCD," Int. J. Mod. Phys. A11 (1996) 4745{4777, hep-th/9604004. [27] P. Berglund, P. Candelas, X. de la Ossa, E. Derrick, J. Distler, and T. Hubsch, \On the Instanton Contributions to the Masses and Couplings of E6 Singlets," Nucl. Phys. B454 (1995) 127{163, hep-th/9505164. [28] J. Distler, \Notes on (0,2) superconformal field theories," in Summer School in High Energy Physics and Cosmology (Trieste, Italy, June 13 - July 29, 1994), E. Gava et al., eds., pp. 322{351. World Scientific, 1995. hep-th/9502012. [29] J. Distler and S. Kachru, \Duality of (0,2) string vacua," Nucl. Phys. B442 (1995) 64{74, hep-th/9501111. [30] J. Distler and S. Kachru, \Quantum Symmetries and Stringy Instantons," Phys. Lett. B336 (1994) 368{375, hep-th/9406091. [31] J. Distler and S. Kachru, \Singlet Couplings and (0,2) Models," Nucl. Phys. B430 (1994) 13{30, hep-th/9406090. [32] J. Distler and S. Kachru, \(0,2) Landau-Ginzburg Theory," Nucl. Phys. B413 (1994) 213{243, hep-th/9309110. Jacques Distler 6 [33] J. Distler and S.-J. Rey, \3 Into 2 doesn't go: (Almost) Chiral gauge theory on the lattice," hep-lat/9305026. [34] J. Distler, \Notes on N=2 sigma models," in Spring School on String Theory and Quantum Gravity (Trieste, Italy, March 30 { April 7, 1992), E. Gava et al., eds., pp. 234{256. World Scientific, 1993. hep-th/9212062. [35] J. Distler, \A Note on the 3-D Ising Model as a String Theory," Nucl. Phys. B388 (1992) 648{670, hep-th/9205100. [36] J. Distler and M. D. Doyle, \World sheet supersymmetry without contact terms," Phys. Lett. B287 (1992) 73{81, hep-th/9203058. [37] J. Distler and P. Nelson, \Physical states of the string in a black hole background," in Random surfaces and 2D quantum gravity (Barcelona, Spain, 1991), Nucl. Phys. (Proc. Suppl.) 25A, 1992, pp. 104{108. Also in the Proceedings of the Stony Brook \Strings '91" conference. [38] J. Distler and P. Nelson, \New discrete states of strings near a black hole," Nucl. Phys. B374 (1992) 123{155. [39] J. Distler and P. Nelson, \Hidden symmetry in topological gravity," in 2nd International Symposium on Topological and Geometrical Methods in Field Theory (Turku, Finland, May 26 { June 1, 1991), J. Mickelsson and O. Pekonen, eds., pp. 93{103. World Scientific, 1992. [40] J. Distler and P. Nelson, \The Dilaton Equation in Semirigid String Theory," Nucl. Phys. B366 (1991) 255{272. [41] J. Distler and P. Nelson, \Semirigid Supergravity," Phys. Rev. Lett. 66 (1991) 1955{1958. [42] J. Distler and C. Vafa, \The Penner model and D = 1 string theory," in Random Surfaces and Quantum Gravity (Carg`ese,France, May 27 { June 2, 1990), O. Alvarez, E. Marinari, and P. Windey, eds., NATO Advanced Research Workshop. Plenum Press, 1991. [43] J. Distler and C. Vafa, \A Critical Matrix Model at c = 1," Mod. Phys. Lett. A6 (1991) 259{270. [44] J. Distler and P. Nelson, \Topological Couplings and Contact Terms in 2-d Field Theory," Commun. Math. Phys. 138 (1991) 273{290. [45] P. D. Francesco, J. Distler, and D. Kutasov, \Superdiscrete Series Coupled to 2-D Supergravity," Mod. Phys. Lett. A5 (1990) 2135{2145. [46] J. Distler, \2-d Quantum Gravity, Topological Field Theory and the Multicritical Matrix Models," Nucl. Phys. B342 (1990) 523{538. Jacques Distler 7 [47] J. Distler, Z. Hlousek, and H. Kawai, \SuperLiouville Theory as a Two-Dimensional, Superconformal Supergravity Theory," Int. J. Mod. Phys. A5 (1990) 391. [48] J. Distler and Z. Qiu, \BRS Cohomology and a Feigin-Fuchs Representation of Kac-Moody and Parafermionic Theories," Nucl. Phys. B336 (1990) 533. [49] J. Distler, Z. Hlousek, and H. Kawai, “Hausdorff Dimension of Continuous Polyakov's Random Surfaces," Int. J. Mod. Phys. A5 (1990) 1093. [50] J. Distler and H. Kawai, \Conformal Field Theory and 2-d Quantum Gravity or Who's Afraid of Joseph Liouville?," Nucl.
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