Assistant Professor of Physics

Contact:

(518) 276-6455
giedtj@rpi.edu

Office: Science Center 1C16

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

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:

1. “Neutralino-hadron scattering in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model”, Underwood, Sophie J.; Giedt, Joel; Thomas, Anthony W.; Young, Ross. Physical Review D Volume: 86 Issue: 3, Article Number: 035009 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.035009, AUG 9 2012.

2. “Finite size scaling in minimal walking Technicolor”, Giedt, Joel; Weinberg, Evan. Physical Review D Volume: 85 Issue: 9, Article Number: 097503 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.097503, MAY 17 2012.

3. “Backward running or absence of running from Creutz ratios”, Giedt, Joel; Weinberg Evan. Physical Review D84 (2011) 074501 [1105.0607].

4. “MCRG minimal walking Technicolor”, Catterall, Simon; Del Debbio, Luigi; Giedt, Joel; Keegan, Liam. Physical Review D [1108.3794].

5. “A deconstruction lattice description of the D1/D5 brane world-volume gauge theory”, Giedt, Joel. Advances in High Energy Physics 2011 (2011) 241419.

6. “Supercurrent conservation in the lattice Wess-Zumino model with Ginsparg-Wilson fermions”, Chen, Chen; Giedt, Giedt; Paki, Joseph. Physical Review D84 (2011) 025001 [1104.1126].