Jesse Kempner Thaler — Curriculum Vitae Online [email protected] Phone (617) 642–8622 (Cell) http://www.jthaler.net/ (510) 486–4468 (LBNL Office) (510) 666–2616 (Campus Office) Office Jesse Thaler (Rm. 50–5056G) Home Jesse Thaler LBNL Theoretical Physics Group 2125 Channing Way, Apt. 2 1 Cyclotron Rd. Mail Stop 50A–5104 Berkeley, CA 94704–2065 Berkeley, CA 94720–8162 Research in Theoretical Particle Physics • Phenomenology of physics beyond the standard model • Standard model background estimation • Analysis techniques for hadron colliders Positions Fall 2006 – Present University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Education Fall 2002 – Spring 2006 Harvard University Ph.D. Physics (June 2006) M.A. Physics (June 2004) Advisor: Nima Arkani-Hamed Thesis: “Symmetry Breaking at the Energy Frontier” Fall 1998 – Spring 2002 Brown University Sc.B. Math/Physics (May 2002) Advisor: Antal Jevicki Fall 1994 – Spring 1998 Phillips Exeter Academy Fellowships • Miller Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2006 – 2009 • Merit Fellowship, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2006 • Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2002 – 2005 1 Jesse Thaler — Curriculum Vitae Awards • Gamberini Dissertation Prize, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2007 • Goldhaber Prize, Harvard Physics Department, 2005 • Excellence in Teaching, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2005 • Apker Award Finalist, American Physical Society, 2002 • Lindsey Prize, Brown Physics Department, 2002 • Magna Cum Laude, Brown University, 2002 • Sigma Xi, Brown University, 2002 • Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 2001 Publications [22] David Krohn, Jesse Thaler, and Lian-Tao Wang, Jets with Variable R, arXiv:0903.0392 [hep-ph]. [21] Jeremy Mardon, Yasunori Nomura, Daniel Stolarski, and Jesse Thaler, Dark Matter Signals from Cascade Annihilations, arXiv:0901.2926 [hep-ph]. [20] Martin Schmaltz and Jesse Thaler, Collective Quartics and Dangerous Singlets in Little Higgs, arXiv:0812.2477 [hep-ph]. [19] Yasunori Nomura and Jesse Thaler, Dark Matter through the Axion Portal, arXiv:0810.5397 [hep-ph]. [18] David Poland and Jesse Thaler, The Dark Top, JHEP 0811, 083 (2008) [arXiv:0808.1290 [hep-ph]]. [17] Jesse Thaler and Lian-Tao Wang, Strategies to Identify Boosted Tops, JHEP 0807, 092 (2008) [arXiv:0806.0023 [hep-ph]]. [16] Christian W. Bauer, Frank J. Tackmann, and Jesse Thaler, GenEvA (II): A phase space generator from a reweighted parton shower, JHEP 0812, 011 (2008) [arXiv:0801.4028 [hep- ph]]. [15] Christian W. Bauer, Frank J. Tackmann, and Jesse Thaler, GenEvA (I): A new framework for event generation, JHEP 0812, 010 (2008) [arXiv:0801.4026 [hep-ph]]. [14] Yuval Grossman, Yosef Nir, Jesse Thaler, Tomer Volansky, and Jure Zupan, Probing Minimal Flavor Violation at the LHC, Phys. Rev. D 76, 096006 (2007) [arXiv:0706.1845 [hep-ph]]. [13] Nima Arkani-Hamed, Philip Schuster, Natalia Toro, Jesse Thaler, Lian-Tao Wang, Bruce Knuteson, and Stephen Mrenna, MARMOSET: The Path from LHC Data to the New Stan- dard Model via On-Shell Effective Theories, arXiv:hep-ph/0703088. [12] Aaron Pierce and Jesse Thaler, Natural Dark Matter from an Unnatural Higgs Boson and New Colored Particles at the TeV Scale, JHEP 0708, 026 (2007) [arXiv:hep-ph/0703056]. 2 Jesse Thaler — Curriculum Vitae [11] Aaron Pierce, Jesse Thaler, and Lian-Tao Wang, Disentangling Dimension Six Operators through Di-Higgs Boson Production, JHEP 0705, 070 (2007) [arXiv:hep-ph/0609049]. [10] Hsin-Chia Cheng, Jesse Thaler, and Lian-Tao Wang, Little M-theory, JHEP 0609, 003 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ph/0607205]. [9] Clifford Cheung and Jesse Thaler, (Reverse) Engineering Vacuum Alignment, JHEP 0608, 016 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ph/0604259]. [8] Aaron Pierce and Jesse Thaler, Prospects for Mirage Mediation, JHEP 0609, 017 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ph/0604192]. [7] Hsin-Chia Cheng, Markus A. Luty, Shinji Mukohyama, and Jesse Thaler, Spontaneous Lorentz Breaking at High Energies, JHEP 0605, 076 (2006) [arXiv:hep-th/0603010]. [6] Nima Arkani-Hamed, Gordon L. Kane, Jesse Thaler, and Lian-Tao Wang, Supersymmetry and the LHC Inverse Problem, JHEP 0608, 070 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ph/0512190]. [5] Yuval Grossman, Can Kilic, Jesse Thaler, and Devin G. E. Walker, Neutrino Constraints on Spontaneous Lorentz Violation, Phys. Rev. D 72, 125001 (2005) [arXiv:hep-ph/0506216]. [4] Jesse Thaler, Little Technicolor, JHEP 0507, 024 (2005) [arXiv:hep-ph/0502175]. [3] Jesse Thaler and Itay Yavin, The Littlest Higgs in Anti-de Sitter Space, JHEP 0508, 022 (2005) [arXiv:hep-ph/0501036]. [2] Nima Arkani-Hamed, Hsin-Chia Cheng, Markus A. Luty, and Jesse Thaler, Universal Dy- namics of Spontaneous Lorentz Violation and a New Spin-Dependent Inverse-Square Law Force, JHEP 0507, 029 (2005) [arXiv:hep-ph/0407034]. [1] Antal Jevicki and Jesse Thaler, Dynamics of black hole formation in an exactly solvable model, Phys. Rev. D 66, 024041 (2002) [arXiv:hep-th/0203172]. Invited Seminars Fall 2008 Cornell Spring 2008 U.C. Davis, Ohio State, MIT, U. Arizona, U. Texas, SLAC Fall 2007 Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford Spring 2007 U.C. San Diego, U. Michigan, Princeton, Weizmann I., Neve Shalom, Technion Fall 2006 U. Washington, SLAC, U.C. Davis, U.C. Irvine Spring 2006 U. Chicago, U. Minnesota, Perimeter I. Fall 2005 Rutgers, U. Pennsylvania, Princeton, U.C. Berkeley, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, U. Texas Spring 2005 Boston U., New York U. 3 Jesse Thaler — Curriculum Vitae Conferences and Workshops • SCET 2009, MIT, Mar. 2009 • Physics in the LHC Era, Aspen Center for Physics, Feb. 2009 • LHC and Dark Matter Workshop, MCTP, Ann Arbor, Jan. 2009 • New Physics Beyond the Standard Model, KITPC, Beijing, Oct. 2008 • BSM Signals in a QCD Environment, Aspen Center for Physics, Aug. 2008 • LHC from Data to Discovery, LANL, Santa Fe, Jul. 2008 • Vector Boson Plus Jets Production, LBNL, Berkeley, Mar. 2008 • Physics of the Large Hadron Collider, KITP, Santa Barbara, Feb. 2008 • West Coast LHC Theory Network, SLAC, Jan. 2008 • LHC New Physics Signatures Workshop, MCTP, Ann Arbor, Jan. 2008 • BSM Institute, New Physics and the LHC, CERN, Geneva, Aug. 2007 • E¨otv¨os-Cornell BSM Workshop, E¨otv¨os University, Budapest, Jun. 2007 • West Coast LHC Theory Network, U.C. Irvine, May 2007 • Physics at LHC from Experiment to Theory, PCTP, Princeton, Mar. 2007 • West Coast LHC Theory Network, U.C. Davis, Dec. 2006 • Joint Meeting of APS-DPF and JPS 2006, Waikiki, Oct. 2006 • LHC Olympics III, KITP, Santa Barbara, Aug. 2006 • LHC Olympics II, CERN, Geneva, Feb. 2006 • LHC Olympics, CERN, Geneva, Jul. 2005 • SUSY 2005, IPPP, Durham, Jul. 2005 • Fundamental Symmetries and Fundamental Constants, ICTP, Trieste, Sept. 2004 Teaching Experience Fall 2005 Teaching Fellow, “Widely Applied Physics” Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard University Spring 2001 Teaching Assistant, “Linear Algebra” Thomas Banchoff, Brown University Professional Associations • Referee, Physics Letters B, European Physical Journal C, Journal of Physics G, Journal of High Energy Physics • Member, American Physical Society 4 Jesse Thaler — Curriculum Vitae References • Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study [email protected] Institute for Advanced Study Einstein Drive Princeton, NJ 08540 • Lawrence Hall, University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Center for Theoretical Physics 366 LeConte Hall #7300 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-7300 • Markus Luty, University of California, Davis [email protected] Physics/Geology Building, Room 431 University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8677 • Chrisitian Bauer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [email protected] LBNL Theoretical Physics Group 1 Cyclotron Rd. Mail Stop 50A-5104 Berkeley, CA 94720-8162 • Martin Schmaltz, Boston University [email protected] Department of Physics Boston University 590 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 5.