Yasunori Nomura

Berkeley physicist Yasunori Nomura, January 7, 2016

Born|  (1974-01-21) January 21, 1974 (age 52)

Kanagawa, Japan

Nationality| Japan ese
Alma mater| University of Tokyo
Known for| Orbifold GUTs
Holographic Higgs
Multiverse is the same as quantum many worlds
Scientific career
Institutions| University of California, Berkeley

Yasunori Nomura (born 1974) is a theoretical physicist working on particle physics, quantum gravity, and cosmology. He is a professor of physics at University of California, Berkeley, a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a principal investigator at Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe. Since 2015, he has been the director of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Career
* 2 Work
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Career

Nomura received his Ph.D. from University of Tokyo (supervisor Tsutomu Yanagida) in 2000 and became a Miller Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. In 2002-03 he was an associate scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. In July 2003 he joined the Department of Physics at University of California, Berkeley. In 2017, Nomura was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for pioneering contributions to a variety of areas of particle theory, including gauge unification in extra dimensions, electroweak symmetry breaking, supersymmetric models, dark matter, the multiverse, foundations of quantum mechanics, and black holes."[2][3]

## Work

Nomura works on particle physics, quantum gravity, and cosmology. He developed theories of grand unification in higher dimensional spacetime[4] and constructed the so-called holographic Higgs model, the first realistic model in which a composite Higgs particle arises as a pseudo-Nambu–Goldstone boson.[5] He also proposed that the eternally inflating multiverse is the same thing as quantum many worlds.[6][7]

## References

1. ↑ http://bctp.berkeley.edu/index.html
2. ↑ APS Fellows 2017Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
3. ↑ Yasunori Nomura named new American Physical Society Fellow
4. ↑ Hall, L.J.; Nomura, Y. (2003). "Grand unification in higher dimensions". Annals of Physics 306: 132. doi:10.1016/S0003-4916(03)00077-0. Bibcode: 2003AnPhy.306..132H.
5. ↑ Contino, R.; Nomura, Y.; Pomarol, A. (2003). "Higgs as a holographic pseudo-Goldstone boson". Nuclear Physics B671: 148. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.08.027. Bibcode: 2003NuPhB.671..148C.
6. ↑ Nomura, Y. (2011). "Physical theories, eternal inflation, and the quantum universe". Journal of High Energy Physics 11: 063. doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2011)063. Bibcode: 2011JHEP...11..063N.
7. ↑ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/05/26/are-many-worlds-and-the-multiverse-the-same-idea/#.VWtNSB29Dak

## External links

* Yasunori Nomura's home page at University of California, Berkeley
* List of publications on INSPIRE

0.00

(0 votes)

|

Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Biography:Yasunori_Nomura&oldid=701636"