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Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Troy, New York 12180-3590 USA

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E-mail: physics@rpi.edu

Joel Giedt
Joel Giedt

Assistant Professor of Physics

Education:
Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., Physics, University of California, Berkeley
B.S., Physics, San Francisco State University

Career Highlights:
2007-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer
2005-07: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
2002-05: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Toronto, Canada
2009: Dept. of Energy, High Energy Physics: Outstanding Junior Investigator Award

Research Interests:
Lattice field theory beyond the standard model; phenomenology of warped string compactifications.

Selected Publications:

Simon Catterall, Joel Giedt, Francesco Sannino and Joe Schneible, "Phase diagram of SU(2) with 2 flavors of dynamical adjoint quarks," JHEP 0811 (2008) 009.

John R. Ellis, Joel Giedt, Oleg Lebedev, Keith Olive and Mark Srednicki, "Against Tachyophobia," Phys. Rev. D78 (2008) 075006.

Joshua W. Elliott, Joel Giedt and Guy D. Moore, "Lattice four-dimensional N=4 SYM is practical," Phys. Rev. D78 (2008) 081701.

Maxime Gabella, Tony Gherghetta and Joel Giedt, “A gravity dual and LHC study of single-sector supersymmetry breaking,” Physical Review D76 (2007) 055001.

Joel Giedt and Erich Poppitz, "Chiral lattice gauge theories and the strong coupling dynamics of a Yukawa-Higgs model with Ginsparg-Wilson fermions," Journal of High Energy Physics, JHEP 0710 (2007) 076 e-print: hep-lat/0701004.

Joel Giedt, Gordon L. Kane, Paul G. Langacker and Brent D. Nelson, “Massive Neutrinos and (Heterotic) String Theory,” Physical Review D71 (2005) 115013.

Tony Gherghetta and Joel Giedt, “Bulk fields in AdS(5) from probe D7 branes,” Physical Review D74 (2006) 066007.

Joel Giedt, "R-symmetry in the Q-exact (2,2) 2d Lattice Wess-Zumino Model," Nuclear Physics B726 (2005) 210-232.

Joel Giedt and Erich Poppitz, “Lattice Supersymmetry, Superfields and Renormalization,” Journal of High Energy Physics 0409 (2004) 029.

Jan Ambjorn, Joel Giedt and Jeff Greensite, “Vortex Structure vs. Monopole Dominance in Abelian-Projected Gauge Theory,” Journal of High Energy Physics 02 (2000) 033.

L. Del Debbio, M. Faber, J. Giedt, J. Greensite and S. Olejnik, “Detection of Center Vortices in the Lattice Yang-Mills Vacuum,” Physical Review D58 (1998) 094501.

"Joel Giedt, "Power-counting theorem for staggered fermions," accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B, 782(2007) 134.

Contact:
(518) 276-6455
giedtj@rpi.edu

Office: Science Center 1C16

Homepage: http://www.rpi.edu/~giedtj/

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