Allan Adams

Allan Adams
Born	Bogotá, Colombia^[citation needed]
Alma mater	Harvard College UC Berkeley Stanford University
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics, ocean engineering, oceanography
Institutions	Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Doctoral advisor	Eva Silverstein

Allan Adams is an American physicist and oceanographer. His research in physics has focused on string theory, QFT, and fluid dynamics, while his work in oceanography and ocean engineering have focused on high-precision optical sensing and imaging and on low-cost scalable instrumentation. He currently leads the Future Ocean Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a visiting oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Adams earned degrees in physics from Harvard College, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University before joining the faculty of the MIT Department of Physics in 2008.[1] Adams opened the Future Ocean Lab at MIT in January 2017, and became a Visiting Investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2018. In 2021, Adams co-founded Station B, a non-profit ocean engineering field station in Bermuda.

Adams is an avid sailplane pilot, cave diver, and father of two boys. He is married to MIT cognitive neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe.

Awards and recognition

Adams was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows before joining the faculty at MIT. Adams has received numerous awards for his teaching and monitorship, including MIT's School of Science Teaching Prize, the Buechner Teaching and Advising Prizes, and the Baker Memorial Award.[2] His introductory lectures on Quantum Mechanics are freely available via MIT OpenCourseWare and have been viewed more than 10 million times.[3] His talks on gravitational waves at TED 2016 and TED 2014 have been viewed more than 4.7 million times.[4]

Selected publications

• Don't Panic! Closed String Tachyons in ALE Spacetimes.[5]
• String universality in ten dimensions.[6]
• ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {N}}={1}}$ Sigma Models in ${\displaystyle {\ce {AdS_4}}}$.[7]
• Disordered Holographic Systems I & II.[8]
• GLSMs for non-Kähler Geometries.[9]
• Holographic Vortex Liquids and Superfluid Turbulence.[10]
• Holographic Turbulence.[11]

References

1. "Allan Adams". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
2. "Allan Adams". www.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
3. 1. Introduction to Superposition, retrieved 2021-04-22
4. "Allan Adams | Speaker | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
5. Adams, Allan; Polchinski, Joseph; Silverstein, Eva (2001-10-24). "Don't panic! closed string tachyons in ALE spacetimes". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2001 (10): 029. arXiv:hep-th/0108075. Bibcode:2001JHEP...10..029A. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/10/029. ISSN 1029-8479. S2CID 14486826.
6. Adams, Allan; Taylor, Washington; DeWolfe, Oliver (2010-08-10). "String Universality in Ten Dimensions". Physical Review Letters. 105 (7): 071601. arXiv:1006.1352. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.105g1601A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.071601. hdl:1721.1/69915. PMID 20868028. S2CID 13916249.
7. Adams, Allan; Jockers, Hans; Kumar, Vijay; Lapan, Joshua M. (2011-12-12). "$ \mathcal{N} = {1} $sigma models in AdS4". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2011 (12): 42. arXiv:1104.3155. doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2011)042. ISSN 1029-8479. S2CID 53702924.
8. Adams, Allan; Yaida, Sho (2015-12-14). "Disordered holographic systems: Functional renormalization". Physical Review D. 92 (12): 126008. arXiv:1102.2892. Bibcode:2015PhRvD..92l6008A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.126008.
9. Adams, Allan; Dyer, Ethan; Lee, Jaehoon (2013-01-07). "GLSMs for non-Kähler geometries". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013 (1): 44. arXiv:1206.5815. Bibcode:2013JHEP...01..044A. doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2013)044. ISSN 1029-8479. S2CID 17526644.
10. Chesler, P. M.; Liu, H.; Adams, A. (2013-07-26). "Holographic Vortex Liquids and Superfluid Turbulence". Science. 341 (6144): 368–372. arXiv:1212.0281. Bibcode:2013Sci...341..368C. doi:10.1126/science.1233529. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 23888034. S2CID 1762512.
11. Adams, Allan; Chesler, Paul M.; Liu, Hong (2014-04-14). "Holographic Turbulence". Physical Review Letters. 112 (15): 151602. arXiv:1307.7267. Bibcode:2014PhRvL.112o1602A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.151602. hdl:1721.1/88966. PMID 24785028. S2CID 34995254.