Pierre RAMOND
Biographical Data
- Born, Jan 31, 1943, Neuilly/Seine, France
Professional
- BSEE, Newark College of Engineering (NJIT), 1965
- Ph. D. (Physics), Syracuse University, 1969
- Postdoctoral Fellow, NAL (FermiLab), 1969-1971
- Instructor, Yale university, 1971-73
- Assistant Professor, Yale University, 1973-76
- R. A. Millikan Senior Fellow, Caltech, 1976-79
- Caltech Research Associate, 1979-80
- Professor, University of Florida, 1980-99
- Distinguished Professor, University of Florida, 1999
- Member, Institute of Advanced Study, Fall 2007
Honors & Awards
- Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1965
- NDEA Fellow, 1965-1968
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1985
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, NJIT, 1990
- Boris Pregel Award, NY Academy of Sciences, 1992
- Scholar/Teacher of the Year, 1996, University of Florida
- University of Florida: TIP Award, 1995; PEP Award, 1997
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1998
- Dr Lee Visiting Fellow, Christ Church College, Oxford, Spring 2000
- Frontier Fellow, FermiLab, May 2000
- 2002 Reimar Lüst Lecturer, Max Planck Society, Albert Einstein Institute, September 2002
- Oskar Klein Medal, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences & Stockholm University, August 2004
- Lise Meitner Prize, Chalmers University of Technology & Göteborg University, Sweden, December 2007
Service
- Scientific Director, Les Houches Summer School on Particle Physics, 1985
- Member, Department of Energy High Energy Advisory Panel (HEPAP), 1991-94
- Member, Whitherell HEPAP Subpanel, 1992
- Member (1995) and Chair (1996) of APS's Sakurai Prize Committee
- Member, Aspen Center for Physics, 1981
- Treasurer, Aspen Center for Physics, 1992-96
- President, Aspen Center for Physics, 1996-98
- Member, Editorial Board, JHEP, June 2004-
- Member, Scientific Committee for Physics, Conseils de Physique Solvay, 2004-2010
- Chair, Faculty Senate, University of Florida, 2004-2005
- Trustee, University of Florida, 2004-2005
- Chairman of the Board, Aspen Center for Physics, 2006-2009
- Chair DPF, American Physical Society, 2012
- Member, Fermilab Director Search Committee, 2012-2013
Books & Papers
- Single Author: "Field Theory: A Modern Primer", Addison/Wesley, 1981
- Single Author: "Journeys Beyond the Standard Model", Perseus, 1999
- Single Author: "Group Theory: A Physicist's Survey", Cambridge University Press, 2010
- Editor: "Architecture of Fundamental Interactions at Short Distances", with R. Stora, North Holland, 1986
- Editor: "Yukawa Couplings and the Origin of Mass", with P. Sikivie, International Press, 1996
- PUBLICATIONS
"Recent" Activities 2008-
- "N=8 in Light-Cone Superspace",Seminar, Chalmers University, January 2008
- "Simplicity in Natural Laws", Lise Meitner Lecture, Göteborg, Sweden, January 2008
- "Simplicity, Mathematics and the Fundamental Laws of Nature", S. Goldman Lecture in Mathematical Physics, Univ. of Central Florida, March 2008
- "Light-cone Superspace of Maximally Supersymmetric Theories",Seminar, Caltech, June 2008
- "Maximally Supersymmetric Theories", Invited Speaker, Journée A. Neveu's, École Normale Superieure
- "Exceptional Symmetries in Superspace", Université de Montpellier, June 2008
- "Superconformal Theories", Invited Speaker, S. Mandelstam's Birthday, KITP, February 2009
- "Still in Light-Cone Superspace", Invited Speaker, Shifmania, University of Minnesota, May 2009
- "Superconformal Theories in Light-Cone Superspace", Göteborg, Sweden, July 2009
- Colloquium, USF, Tampa, October 2009
- "Superconformal Theories in Light-Cone Superspace", Yukawa Institute, Kyoto, October 2009
- "The BLG Theory in Light-Cone Superspace", Miami09, Fort Lauderdale, December 2009
- Colloquium, FSU, Tallahassee, February 2010
- Colloquium, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, March 2010
- Public Lecture, Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, December 2010
- Five TASI Instructions, University of Colorado, Boulder, June 2011
- TASI Public Lecture, University of Colorado, Boulder, June 2011
- "Superconformal Theories in Light-Cone Superspace", StringVac 2011, September 2011, Busan, South Korea
- "Stuck at (2,0)", December 2011, Miami 2011, Fort Lauderdale
- "Obsessed by (2,0)", January 2012, Valdivia, Chile
- "(2,0) on the Light-Cone", March 2012, University of Colorado
- Public Lecture, Induction Ceremony, UCF, Orlando, April 2012 2012
- Lectures on Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Saalburg Summer School, September 2012
- "The Physics Before Us", Community Planning Meeting, FermiLab, October 2012
- "Snowmass Status Report", LCWS12 Meeting, University of Texas, Arlington, October 2012
- Colloquium, University of Kansas, March 2013
- Plenary Talk, Pheno2013, U. Pittsburgh, May 2013
- Plenary Talk, ISOUPS-2013, Asilomar, CA, May 2013