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Jesse Diaz Thaler

jthaler@mit.edu

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

Research in Theoretical Particle Physics

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

Positions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • January 2010 - Present
  • Assistant Professor of Physics
  • Class of 1943 Career Development Professor
  • MIT Center for Theoretical Physics

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • July 2009 - December 2009
  • Physicist Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Physics Group

University of California, Berkeley

  • July 2006 - June 2009
  • Miller Research Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

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

Brown University

  • Fall 1998 - Spring 2002
  • Sc.B. Math/Physics (May 2002)
  • Advisor: Antal Jevicki

Phillips Exeter Academy

  • Fall 1994 - Spring 1998

Awards & Fellowships

  • Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2013
  • MIT-Belgium Seed Fund Award (with Fabio Maltoni), MIT International Science and Technology Initiative, 2013-2014
  • Kavli Frontiers Fellow, Kavli Foundation, 2012
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, White House, 2012
  • Class of 1943 Career Development Professorship, MIT, 2012-2015
  • Global Seed Fund Award (with Iain Stewart), MIT International Science and Technology Initiative, 2012-2013
  • Early Career Research Award, DOE Office of Science, 2011-2016
  • Miller Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2006-2009
  • Giorgio Gamberini Dissertation Prize, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2007
  • Merit Fellowship, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2006
  • Goldhaber Prize, Harvard Physics Department, 2005
  • Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2005
  • Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2002-2005
  • Apker Award Finalist, American Physical Society, 2002
  • Magna Cum Laude, Brown University, 2002
  • Sigma Xi, Brown University, 2002
  • Lindsey Prize in Physics, Brown University, 2002
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 2002
  • Undergraduate Teaching and Research Fellowship, Brown University, Summer 2001
  • Cox Medal, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1998
  • Cum Laude Society, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1997

Mentoring

Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Gilly Elor, CTP Postdoctoral Researcher, Fall 2013-Spring 2016
  • Andrew Larkoski, CTP Postdoctoral Researcher, Fall 2012-Spring 2015
  • Matthew McCullough, Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Fall 2011-Spring 2014
  • Keith Rehermann, CTP Postdoctoral Researcher, Fall 2010-Spring 2012
    • Currently: Internal Consultant, Ab Initio Software Corporation

Ph.D. Students

  • Lina Necib, anticipated Ph.D. 2017
  • Yonatan Kahn, anticipated Ph.D. 2015
  • Daniele Bertolini, anticipated Ph.D. 2014
    • LHC-TI Graduate Fellowship, LHC Theory Initiative, 2013
  • Zachary Thomas, anticipated Ph.D. 2014
  • Francesco D'Eramo, Ph.D. 2012
    • Thesis: “Hot and Dark Matter” (jointly advised with K. Rajagopal and H. Liu)
    • Miller Research Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, Fall 2012-Spring 2015
    • Vazquez Award for Outstanding Research, MIT Physics Department, 2011

B.S. Students

  • Mobolaji Williams, anticipated B.S. 2013
    • Senior Thesis, Fall 2012-Spring 2013: “Multiple Supersymmetry Breaking and Dark Matter”
    • Independent Research: Spring 2012
    • UROP Research: Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2012
  • Dustin Katzin, B.S. 2012
    • Currently: Part III at University of Cambridge
    • Senior Thesis, Spring 2012: “The DarkLight Experiment: Searching for the Dark Photon”
    • UROP Research: Fall 2011
  • Tucker Chan, B.S. 2012
    • Currently: Stanford Physics Ph.D. Program
    • UROP Research: Summer 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
  • Lin Fei, B.S. 2011
    • Currently: Princeton Physics Ph.D. Program
    • Senior Thesis, Spring 2011: “Dark Matter Dynamics in the Early Universe”
  • Ken Van Tilburg, B.S. 2011
    • Currently: Stanford Physics Ph.D. Program
    • Senior Thesis, Spring 2011: “Identifying Boosted Objects with N-subjettiness and Linear k-means Clustering”
    • Apker Award Finalist, American Physical Society, 2011
    • Joel Matthew Orloff Award for Outstanding Research in Physics, MIT Physics Department, 2011
    • UROP Research: Summer 2010, Fall 2010

Teaching

MIT

  • Quantum Mechanics III (8.06)
    • Lectures: Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013
    • Recitations: Spring 2010
  • Quantum Mechanics II (8.05)
    • Recitations: Fall 2010, Fall 2012

Harvard

  • Teaching Fellow, Widely Applied Physics
    • Fall 2005
    • Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard University
    • Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching

Brown

  • 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

Publications & Preprints

HEPNames | SPIRES | Inspire | arXiv

Research Summary | Publications Organized by Topic

  • Energy Correlation Functions for Jet Substructure.
    Andrew J. Larkoski, Gavin P. Salam, and Jesse Thaler.
    arXiv:1305.0007.
  • Top Partner Probes of Extended Higgs Sectors.
    John Kearney, Aaron Pierce, and Jesse Thaler.
    arXiv:1304.4233.
  • Calculating Track-Based Observables for the LHC.
    Hsi-Ming Chang, Massimiliano Procura, Jesse Thaler, and Wouter J. Waalewijn.
    arXiv:1303.6637.
  • TASI 2012: Super-Tricks for Superspace.
    Daniele Bertolini, Jesse Thaler, and Zachary Thomas.
    arXiv:1302.6229.
  • 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.

Colloquia & Lecture Series

  • “The Shape of Jets to Come: Boosting the Search for New Physics at the LHC,” Colloquium, University of Oregon, May 2013
  • “The Shape of Jets to Come: Boosting the Search for New Physics at the LHC,” Colloquium, Cornell University, February 2013
  • “The Higgs Boson: Triumph of the Standard Model”, MIT Lecture Series Committee, October 2012
  • “Super-tricks for Superspace”, TASI Summer School, C.U. Boulder, June 2012
  • “Little Lessons for a Little Higgs”, ICTP Winter School, Trieste, January 2012
  • “Anticipating New Data from the Energy Frontier”, Colloquium, Brown University, February 2011
  • “Goldstini”, “The Shape of Jets to Come”, “Event Topologies for Early LHC”, Topic of the Week Lecture Series, Fermilab, November 2010
  • “The Large Hadron Collider”, Colloquium, Wellesley College, October 2010
  • “The Shape of Jets to Come”, Colloquium, MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science, February 2010

Invited Seminars

  • May 2013, U. Oregon
  • April 2013, U. Delaware
  • September 2012, Boston U.
  • April 2012, SLAC
  • March 2012, Princeton
  • March 2012, Rutgers
  • January 2012, New York U.
  • January 2012, Columbia U.
  • November 2011, U. New Hampshire
  • October 2011, U. Maryland
  • October 2011, U. Michigan
  • June 2011, U. Minnesota
  • March 2011, U.C. Davis
  • March 2011, U.C. Berkeley
  • October 2010, Cornell
  • October 2010, Boston U.
  • September 2010, Harvard
  • June 2010, SLAC
  • May 2010, Brown
  • April 2010, Yale
  • March 2010, SUNY Stony Brook
  • November 2009, U.C. Santa Cruz
  • October 2009, U.C. Davis
  • October 2009, Fermilab
  • October 2009, Argonne N.L.
  • May 2009, Johns Hopkins
  • May 2009, U. Maryland
  • April 2009, SLAC
  • March 2009, Rutgers
  • February 2009, MIT
  • November 2008, Cornell
  • June 2008, U.C. Davis
  • May 2008, Ohio State
  • April 2008, MIT
  • March 2008, U. Arizona
  • March 2008, U. Texas
  • February 2008, SLAC
  • November 2007, Princeton
  • November 2007, Rutgers
  • November 2007, Stanford
  • April 2007, U.C. San Diego
  • February 2007, U. Michigan
  • February 2007, Princeton
  • January 2007, Weizmann I.
  • January 2007, Neve Shalom
  • January 2007, Technion
  • December 2006, U. Washington
  • October 2006, SLAC
  • October 2006, U.C. Davis
  • October 2006, U.C. Irvine
  • March 2006, U. Chicago (CDF)
  • March 2006, U. Minnesota
  • March 2006, Perimeter I.
  • December 2005, Rutgers
  • December 2005, U. Pennsylvannia
  • November 2005, Princeton
  • November 2005, U.C. Berkeley
  • October 2005, Stanford
  • October 2005, Johns Hopkins
  • October 2005, U. Texas
  • April 2005, Boston U.
  • March 2005, New York U.

Conferences & Workshops

  • 24th Annual Kavli Frontiers of Science, National Academy of Sciences, November 2012 (Plenary Speaker)
  • The LHC Shows the Way, Aspen Center for Physics, August 2012
  • Boost 2012, Valencia, July 2012 (Advisory Committee)
  • Monte Carlo for Beyond the Standard Model 2012, Cornell, March 2012
  • SEARCH 2012, U. Maryland, March 2012
  • SUSY 2011, Fermilab, August 2011
  • TH-LPCC Summer Institute on LHC Physics, CERN, August 2011
  • PANIC11, MIT, July 2011 (Program Committee, Pedagogical Lecture)
  • Year One of the LHC, Aspen Center for Physics, July 2011 (Organizer)
  • Boost 2011, PCTP, Princeton, May 2011
  • New Data from the Energy Frontier, Aspen Center for Physics, February 2011 (Organizer)
  • Boston Jet Physics Workshop, Harvard, January 2011 (Organizer)
  • Searching for a New Gauge Boson at JLab, Jefferson Lab, September 2010
  • Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, Toronto, August 2010 (Closing Talk)
  • Implications of First LHC Data, MIT, August 2010 (Organizer)
  • From Colliders to the Dark Sector, Aspen Center for Physics, June 2010
  • Emerging Problems in Particle Phenomenology, ITS/CUNY, April 2010
  • Dark Forces Workshop, SLAC, September 2009
  • BSM Institute, Physics at the LHC, CERN, August 2009
  • Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the Threshold, Aspen Center for Physics, July 2009
  • US ATLAS Hadronic Final State Forum, SLAC, April 2009
  • SCET 2009, MIT, March 2009
  • Physics in the LHC Era, Aspen Center for Physics, February 2009 (Opening Talk)
  • LHC and Dark Matter Workshop, MCTP, Michigan, January 2009
  • New Physics Beyond the Standard Model, KITPC, Beijing, October 2008
  • Beyond the Standard Model Signals in a QCD Environment, Aspen Center for Physics, August 2008
  • LHC from Data to Discovery, LANL, Santa Fe, July 2008
  • Vector Boson Plus Jets Production, LBL, Berkeley, March 2008
  • Physics of the Large Hadron Collider, KITP, Santa Barbara, February 2008
  • West Coast LHC Theory Network, SLAC, January 2008
  • LHC New Physics Signatures Workshop, MCTP, Michigan, January 2008
  • BSM Institute, New Physics and the LHC, CERN, August 2007
  • Eötvös-Cornell BTSM Workshop, Eötvös University, Budapest, June 2007
  • West Coast LHC Theory Network, U.C. Irvine, May 2007
  • Physics at LHC from Experiment to Theory, PCTP, Princeton, March 2007
  • West Coast LHC Theory Network, U.C. Davis, December 2006
  • Joint Meeting of APS-DFP and JPS 2006, Waikiki, Hawaii, October 2006
  • LHC Olympics III, KITP, Santa Barbara, August 2006
  • LHC Olympics II, CERN, February 2006
  • LHC Olympics, CERN, July 2005
  • SUSY 2005, IPPP, Durham, July 2005
  • Fundamental Symmetries and Fundamental Constants, ICTP, Trieste, September 2004

Service

MIT Ph.D. Thesis Committees

  • Mingming Yang, “Observation and Property Measurement of a New Boson Decaying Into Two Photons Using the CMS Detector” (Christoph Paus), in progress
  • Shawn Henderson, “First Dark Matter Search Results From A Second Generation Direction-Sensitive TPC” (Peter Fisher), in progress
  • Teng Ma, “Fragmentation of Jets Produced in PbPb Collisions at LHC” (Boleslaw Wyslouch), May 2013
  • Kevin Sung, “Measurement of Z boson production at the LHC” (Steven Nahn), March 2013
  • Christopher Jones, “Prediction of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux for the Double Chooz Experiment” (Janet Conrad), June 2012
  • Riccardo Abbate, “Precision Determination of the Strong Coupling Constant using SCET” (Iain Stewart), May 2012
  • Abolhassan Vaezi, “Slave Particle Study of the Strongly Correlated Hubbard Model” (Xiao-Gang Wen), January 2011
  • Georgia Karagiorgi, “Searches for New Physics at MiniBooNE” (Janet Conrad), July 2010

External Ph.D. Examiner

  • Brian Walsh, Yale University, “Search for direct top squark pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV pp collisions using 4.7 fb-1 of ATLAS data” (Tobias Golling), February 2013
  • Travis Martin, Carleton University, “Examining Extra Neutral Gauge Bosons in Non-Universal Models and Exploring the Phenomenology of the Bestest Little Higgs Model and the LHC” (Thomas Gregoire and Stephen Godfrey), August 2012

Internal Service

  • MIT Physics Qualifying Exam, Part II Committee (Spring 2011-Spring 2014, Chair Fall 2013-Spring 2014)
  • MIT Physics Visiting Committee Presentation, “Goldstini at the LHC” (October 2010)
  • MIT Physics Qualifying Exam, Part II Grading Committee (September 2010)
  • MIT Physics Colloquium Committee (Spring 2010-present, Chair Fall 2012-Spring 2014)
  • MIT CTP Nuclear/Particle Seminar Committee (Fall 2010-present)
  • MIT CTP Postdoc Selection Committee (Fall 2009-present)
  • Berkeley CTP Particle Seminar Organizer (2007-2009)
  • Miller Symposium Committee (2008-2009)

External Service

  • Science Advisory Board, USQCD Collaboration (Spring 2013-present)
  • Advisory Committee, Valencia Workshop: “Boost 2012” (July 2012)
  • Program Committee, PANIC 2011: “Particle and Nuclei International Conference” (July 2011)
  • Organizer, Aspen Center for Physics Workshop: “Year One of the LHC” (July 2011)
  • Organizer, Aspen Center for Physics Conference: “New Data from the Energy Frontier” (February 2011)
  • Organizer, Harvard/MIT Workshop: “Boston Jet Physics” (January 2011)
  • Organizer, MIT/Berkeley Workshop: “Implications of First LHC Data” (August 2010)
  • Advisory Committee, Oxford University Workshop: “Boost 2010” (June 2010)

Peer Review

  • Physical Review Letters
  • Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Nuclear Physics B
  • Physics Letters B
  • European Physical Journal C
  • Journal of Physics G
  • Annals of Physics
  • Particle Data Group

Funding Agency Review

  • Department of Energy
  • National Science Foundation
  • Israel Science Foundation

Outreach

  • MIT Physics Alumni Breakfast, “Hints of New Physics at the Energy Frontier”, May 2012
  • MIT PhysPOP Orientation Lecture, “Beyond the Standard Model at the Frontiers”, August 2011
  • TheoryNet High School Physics Outreach (June 2010-present)
    • Michael Hirsh, Needham High School
    • Michael Wadness, Medford High School
  • MIT Physics 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”

Memberships

  • American Physical Society
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