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| Stephen Parke | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gisborne, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealand United Kingdom United States |
| Alma mater | Edmund Campion College, Gisborne St Peter's College, Auckland University of Auckland Harvard University |
| Known for | Parke–Taylor amplitudes, analytic understanding of MSW effect and top quark spin correlations |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Fermilab |
| Doctoral advisor | Sidney Coleman |
Stephen Parke is a New Zealand physicist. He is a distinguished scientist and former head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia, Illinois).
Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, Parke attended Edmund Campion College, Gisborne and St Peter's College, Auckland. He did his undergraduate studies, mathematics and physics, at the University of Auckland in New Zealand where his mentor was Dan Walls. He obtained a Fulbright Travel Grant and was awarded a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship to attend graduate school at Harvard University. He was a graduate student of Sidney Coleman, obtaining a PhD in theoretical particle physics in 1980. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1980–1983) collaborating with Sidney Drell before moving to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as an Associate Scientist.
Field of work
He is an originator of Parke–Taylor amplitudes, which he developed with his colleague, Tomasz Taylor. Parke-Taylor amplitudes represent a new approach to computing scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics using symmetry methods such as supersymmetry. Parke is also an expert on neutrino physics as well as the physics of the top quark.
See also
- List of alumni of St Peter's College, Auckland for more biographical details
References
- "Rutherford explanation this week". University of Canterbury. 26 May 2008.
- "Stephen J. Parke". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
- Wolchover, Natalie (17 September 2013). "A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics". Quanta Magazine.
- Wolchover, Natalie (13 November 2019). "Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
External links
- Parke's scientific publications are available on the INSPIRE-HEP Literature Database .
- HEPNames profile: Stephen Parke
- Stephen Parke at Fermilab Theoretical Physics Department
- Particle physicists
- Neutrino physicists
- 21st-century American physicists
- Harvard University alumni
- American people of New Zealand descent
- New Zealand scientists
- New Zealand physicists
- University of Auckland alumni
- People from Gisborne, New Zealand
- Living people
- People educated at St Peter's College, Auckland
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Theoretical physicists
- People associated with Fermilab
- People educated at Campion College, Gisborne