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Burt Ovrut | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | String theory M-theory Heterotic string theory |
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| Fields | Theoretical physics Superstring Theory |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisors | Benjamin W. Lee Yoichiro Nambu |
| Website | http://www.physics.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/burt-ovrut |
Burt Ovrut is an Americantheoretical physicist best known for his work onheterotic string theory. He is currently Professor of Theoretical High Energy Physics at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.
Ovrut earned his Ph.D. in physics at theUniversity of Chicago in 1978. His doctoral advisors wereBenjamin W. Lee andYoichiro Nambu, and his thesis was on an Sp(4) x U(1) Theory of the Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions.
Ovrut is one of those who pioneered the use ofM-theory to explain theBig Bang without the presence of asingularity. Together with Justin Khoury, Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok, he introduced the notion of theEkpyrotic Universe, "... a cosmological model in which the hot big bang universe is produced by the collision of a brane in the bulk space with a bounding orbifold plane, beginning from an otherwise cold, vacuous, static universe".[1]
Recently Burt Ovrut and his collaborators constructed a Calabi-Yau compactification that reproduces theMinimal Supersymmetric Standard Model without any exotics.[2]
Ovrut was elected as aFellow of the American Physical Society in 2000.[3]
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