Jesse Diaz Thaler

My (old) cv is also available as a PDF file.

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Email : jthaler@jthaler.net
Web : http://www.jthaler.net/
Office : 617.253.3713
Cell : 617.642.8622

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Jesse Thaler
17 Lilac Ct
Cambridge, MA 02141

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Jesse Thaler
Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave, 6-318
Cambridge, MA 02139

Personal

  • Married: Alexandra (Sasha) Diaz Thaler
  • Previous Name: Jesse Kempner Thaler

Research in Theoretical Particle Physics

  • Phenomenology of physics beyond the standard model
  • Standard model background estimation
  • Analysis techniques for hadron colliders

Positions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Winter 2010 - Present
  • Assistant Professor of Physics

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Fall 2009
  • Physicist Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Physics Group

University of California, Berkeley

  • Summer 2006 - Summer 2009
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
  • Miller Research Fellowship (2006-2009)

Education

Harvard University

  • Fall 2002 - Spring 2006
  • Ph.D. Physics (“Symmetry Breaking at the Energy Frontier”, June 2006)
  • A.M. Physics (June 2004)
  • Advisor: Nima Arkani-Hamed
  • Gamberini Dissertation Prize (2007)
  • Merit Fellowship (2006)
  • Goldhaber Prize (2005)
  • Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching (2005)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2002-2005)

Brown University

  • Fall 1998 - Spring 2002
  • Sc.B. Math/Physics (May 2002)
  • Advisor: Antal Jevicki
  • APS Apker Finalist (2002)
  • Magna Cum Laude (2002)
  • Sigma Xi (2002)
  • Lindsey Prize in Physics (2002)
  • Phi Beta Kappa (2001)
  • UTRA Fellowship (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship, Summer 2001)

Phillips Exeter Academy

  • Fall 1994 - Spring 1998
  • Cox Medal (1998)
  • Cum Laude Society (1997)

Publications

HEPNames | SPIRES | arXiv

Publications Organized by Topic

  • The Bestest Little Higgs.
    Martin Schmaltz, Daniel Stolarski, Jesse Thaler.
    arXiv:1006.1356.
  • MARMOSET: The Path from LHC Data to the New Standard Model via On-Shell Effective Theories.
    Nima Arkani-Hamed, Bruce Knuteson, Stephen Mrenna, Philip Schuster, Jesse Thaler, Natalia Toro, and Lian-Tao Wang.
    hep-ph/0703088.
  • Universal Dynamics of Spontaneous Lorentz Violation and a New Spin-Dependent Inverse-Square Law Force.
    Nima Arkani-Hamed, Hsin-Chia Cheng, Markus A. Luty, and Jesse Thaler.
    JHEP 0507:029 (2005), hep-ph/0407034.

Conferences & Workshops

  • August 2010, Toronto: Hadron Collider Physics Symposium
  • August 2010, MIT: Implications of First LHC Data
  • June 2010, Aspen Center for Physics: From Colliders to the Dark Sector
  • April 2010, ITS/CUNY: Emerging problems in particle phenomenology
  • September 2009, SLAC: Dark Forces Workshop
  • August 2009, CERN, Geneva: BSM Institute, Physics at the LHC
  • July 2009, Aspen Center for Physics: Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the Threshold
  • April 2009, SLAC: US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum
  • March 2009, MIT: SCET 2009
  • February 2009, Aspen Center for Physics: Physics in the LHC Era (Gave opening talk)
  • January 2009, MCTP, Michigan: LHC and Dark Matter Workshop
  • October 2008, KITPC, Beijing: New Physics Beyond the Standard Model
  • August 2008, Aspen Center for Physics: Beyond the Standard Model Signals in a QCD Environment
  • July 2008, LANL, Santa Fe: LHC from Data to Discovery
  • March 2008, LBL, Berkeley: Vector Boson Plus Jets Production
  • February 2008, KITP, Santa Barbara: Physics of the Large Hadron Collider
  • January 2008, MCTP, Michigan: LHC New Physics Signatures Workshop
  • August 2007, CERN, Geneva: BSM Institute, New Physics and the LHC
  • June 2007, Eötvös University, Budapest: Eötvös-Cornell BTSM Workshop
  • March 2007, PCTP, Princeton: Physics at LHC from Experiment to Theory
  • October 2006, Waikiki, Hawaii: APS DPF 2006
  • August 2006, KITP, Santa Barbara: LHC Olympics III
  • February 2006, CERN, Geneva: LHC Olympics II
  • July 2005, CERN, Geneva: LHC Olympics
  • July 2005, IPPP, Durham: SUSY 2005
  • September 2004, ICTP, Trieste: Conference on Fundamental Symmetries and Fundamental Constants

Invited Seminars

  • June 2010, SLAC
  • April 2010, Yale
  • March 2010, SUNY Stony Brook
  • November 2009, UC Santa Cruz
  • October 2009, UC Davis
  • October 2009, Fermilab
  • October 2009, Argonne
  • May 2009, Johns Hopkins
  • May 2009, Maryland
  • April 2009, SLAC
  • March 2009, Rutgers
  • February 2009, MIT
  • November 2008, Cornell
  • June 2008, UC Davis
  • May 2008, Ohio State
  • April 2008, MIT
  • March 2008, Arizona
  • March 2008, UT Austin
  • February 2008, SLAC
  • November 2007, Princeton
  • November 2007, Rutgers
  • November 2007, Stanford
  • May 2007, UC Irvine (West Coast LHC Series)
  • April 2007, UC San Diego
  • February 2007, Michigan
  • February 2007, Princeton
  • January 2007, Weizmann
  • January 2007, Neve Shalom
  • January 2007, Technion
  • December 2006, UC Davis (West Coast LHC Series)
  • December 2006, UWash
  • October 2006, SLAC
  • October 2006, UC Davis
  • October 2006, UC Irvine
  • March 2006, Chicago (CDF)
  • March 2006, Minnesota
  • March 2006, Perimeter Institute
  • December 2005, Rutgers
  • December 2005, UPenn
  • November 2005, Princeton
  • November 2005, Berkeley
  • October 2005, Stanford
  • October 2005, Johns Hopkins
  • October 2005, UT Austin
  • April 2005, BU
  • March 2005, NYU

Outreach

  • TheoryNet (High School Outreach) (2010-present)
  • MIT IAP Lecture 2010, “The LHC Won't Destroy the Planet (But Will Spark a Revolution)”
  • MIT-CTP Felix Villars Theoretical Physics Retreat Speaker 2010, “Entering the LHC Era”

Teaching Experience

  • Lecture, 8.06 (Quantum Mechanics III)
    • Spring 2011
  • Recitation, 8.05 (Quantum Mechanics II)
    • Fall 2010
  • Recitation, 8.06 (Quantum Mechanics III)
    • Spring 2010
  • Teaching Fellow, Widely Applied Physics
    • Fall 2005
    • Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard University
    • Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching
  • Teaching Assistant, Linear Algebra
    • Spring 2001
    • Thomas Banchoff, Brown University
  • Math/Physics Tutor
    • 1999 - 2000
    • Brown University
  • Classroom Assistant, Algebra I and II
    • Fall 1999
    • Textron/Chamber of Commerce Charter High School, Providence, RI

Service

Peer Review

  • Physics Letters B
  • European Physical Journal C
  • Journal of Physics G
  • Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Annals of Physics

Funding Agency Review

  • Israel Science Foundation
  • National Science Foundation

Memberships

  • American Physical Society

Committees

  • PANIC Program Committee (2011)
  • Aspen Center for Physics Conference Organizer (Winter 2011)
  • MIT-CTP Nuclear/Particle Seminar Organizer (2010-present)
  • Berkeley Particle Seminar Organizer (2007-2009)
  • Miller Symposium Committee (2008-2009)
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