Jesse Kempner Thaler Curriculum Vitae

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1 Jesse Kempner Thaler Curriculum Vitae Online Phone (617) (Cell) (510) (LBNL Office) (510) (Campus Office) Office Jesse Thaler (Rm G) Home Jesse Thaler LBNL Theoretical Physics Group 2125 Channing Way, Apt. 2 1 Cyclotron Rd. Mail Stop 50A 5104 Berkeley, CA Berkeley, CA Research in Theoretical Particle Physics Phenomenology of physics beyond the standard model Standard model background estimation Analysis techniques for hadron colliders Positions Fall 2006 Present University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Education Fall 2002 Spring 2006 Fall 1998 Spring 2002 Fall 1994 Spring 1998 Harvard University Ph.D. Physics (June 2006) M.A. Physics (June 2004) Advisor: Nima Arkani-Hamed Thesis: Symmetry Breaking at the Energy Frontier Brown University Sc.B. Math/Physics (May 2002) Advisor: Antal Jevicki Phillips Exeter Academy Fellowships Miller Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Merit Fellowship, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2006 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation,

2 Awards Gamberini Dissertation Prize, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2007 Goldhaber Prize, Harvard Physics Department, 2005 Excellence in Teaching, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2005 Apker Award Finalist, American Physical Society, 2002 Lindsey Prize, Brown Physics Department, 2002 Magna Cum Laude, Brown University, 2002 Sigma Xi, Brown University, 2002 Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 2001 Publications [22] David Krohn, Jesse Thaler, and Lian-Tao Wang, Jets with Variable R, arxiv: [hep-ph]. [21] Jeremy Mardon, Yasunori Nomura, Daniel Stolarski, and Jesse Thaler, Dark Matter Signals from Cascade Annihilations, arxiv: [hep-ph]. [20] Martin Schmaltz and Jesse Thaler, Collective Quartics and Dangerous Singlets in Little Higgs, arxiv: [hep-ph]. [19] Yasunori Nomura and Jesse Thaler, Dark Matter through the Axion Portal, arxiv: [hep-ph]. [18] David Poland and Jesse Thaler, The Dark Top, JHEP 0811, 083 (2008) [arxiv: [hep-ph]]. [17] Jesse Thaler and Lian-Tao Wang, Strategies to Identify Boosted Tops, JHEP 0807, 092 (2008) [arxiv: [hep-ph]]. [16] Christian W. Bauer, Frank J. Tackmann, and Jesse Thaler, GenEvA (II): A phase space generator from a reweighted parton shower, JHEP 0812, 011 (2008) [arxiv: [hepph]]. [15] Christian W. Bauer, Frank J. Tackmann, and Jesse Thaler, GenEvA (I): A new framework for event generation, JHEP 0812, 010 (2008) [arxiv: [hep-ph]]. [14] Yuval Grossman, Yosef Nir, Jesse Thaler, Tomer Volansky, and Jure Zupan, Probing Minimal Flavor Violation at the LHC, Phys. Rev. D 76, (2007) [arxiv: [hep-ph]]. [13] Nima Arkani-Hamed, Philip Schuster, Natalia Toro, Jesse Thaler, Lian-Tao Wang, Bruce Knuteson, and Stephen Mrenna, MARMOSET: The Path from LHC Data to the New Standard Model via On-Shell Effective Theories, arxiv:hep-ph/ [12] Aaron Pierce and Jesse Thaler, Natural Dark Matter from an Unnatural Higgs Boson and New Colored Particles at the TeV Scale, JHEP 0708, 026 (2007) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. 2

3 [11] Aaron Pierce, Jesse Thaler, and Lian-Tao Wang, Disentangling Dimension Six Operators through Di-Higgs Boson Production, JHEP 0705, 070 (2007) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. [10] Hsin-Chia Cheng, Jesse Thaler, and Lian-Tao Wang, Little M-theory, JHEP 0609, 003 (2006) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. [9] Clifford Cheung and Jesse Thaler, (Reverse) Engineering Vacuum Alignment, JHEP 0608, 016 (2006) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. [8] Aaron Pierce and Jesse Thaler, Prospects for Mirage Mediation, JHEP 0609, 017 (2006) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. [7] Hsin-Chia Cheng, Markus A. Luty, Shinji Mukohyama, and Jesse Thaler, Spontaneous Lorentz Breaking at High Energies, JHEP 0605, 076 (2006) [arxiv:hep-th/ ]. [6] Nima Arkani-Hamed, Gordon L. Kane, Jesse Thaler, and Lian-Tao Wang, Supersymmetry and the LHC Inverse Problem, JHEP 0608, 070 (2006) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. [5] Yuval Grossman, Can Kilic, Jesse Thaler, and Devin G. E. Walker, Neutrino Constraints on Spontaneous Lorentz Violation, Phys. Rev. D 72, (2005) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. [4] Jesse Thaler, Little Technicolor, JHEP 0507, 024 (2005) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. [3] Jesse Thaler and Itay Yavin, The Littlest Higgs in Anti-de Sitter Space, JHEP 0508, 022 (2005) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. [2] Nima Arkani-Hamed, Hsin-Chia Cheng, Markus A. Luty, and Jesse Thaler, Universal Dynamics of Spontaneous Lorentz Violation and a New Spin-Dependent Inverse-Square Law Force, JHEP 0507, 029 (2005) [arxiv:hep-ph/ ]. [1] Antal Jevicki and Jesse Thaler, Dynamics of black hole formation in an exactly solvable model, Phys. Rev. D 66, (2002) [arxiv:hep-th/ ]. Invited Seminars Fall 2008 Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Cornell U.C. Davis, Ohio State, MIT, U. Arizona, U. Texas, SLAC Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford U.C. San Diego, U. Michigan, Princeton, Weizmann I., Neve Shalom, Technion U. Washington, SLAC, U.C. Davis, U.C. Irvine Spring 2006 U. Chicago, U. Minnesota, Perimeter I. Fall 2005 Rutgers, U. Pennsylvania, Princeton, U.C. Berkeley, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, U. Texas Spring 2005 Boston U., New York U. 3

4 Conferences and Workshops SCET 2009, MIT, Mar Physics in the LHC Era, Aspen Center for Physics, Feb LHC and Dark Matter Workshop, MCTP, Ann Arbor, Jan New Physics Beyond the Standard Model, KITPC, Beijing, Oct BSM Signals in a QCD Environment, Aspen Center for Physics, Aug LHC from Data to Discovery, LANL, Santa Fe, Jul Vector Boson Plus Jets Production, LBNL, Berkeley, Mar Physics of the Large Hadron Collider, KITP, Santa Barbara, Feb West Coast LHC Theory Network, SLAC, Jan LHC New Physics Signatures Workshop, MCTP, Ann Arbor, Jan BSM Institute, New Physics and the LHC, CERN, Geneva, Aug Eötvös-Cornell BSM Workshop, Eötvös University, Budapest, Jun West Coast LHC Theory Network, U.C. Irvine, May 2007 Physics at LHC from Experiment to Theory, PCTP, Princeton, Mar West Coast LHC Theory Network, U.C. Davis, Dec Joint Meeting of APS-DPF and JPS 2006, Waikiki, Oct LHC Olympics III, KITP, Santa Barbara, Aug LHC Olympics II, CERN, Geneva, Feb LHC Olympics, CERN, Geneva, Jul SUSY 2005, IPPP, Durham, Jul Fundamental Symmetries and Fundamental Constants, ICTP, Trieste, Sept Teaching Experience Fall 2005 Spring 2001 Teaching Fellow, Widely Applied Physics Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard University Teaching Assistant, Linear Algebra Thomas Banchoff, Brown University Professional Associations Referee, Physics Letters B, European Physical Journal C, Journal of Physics G, Journal of High Energy Physics Member, American Physical Society 4

5 References Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study Institute for Advanced Study Einstein Drive Princeton, NJ Lawrence Hall, University of California, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics 366 LeConte Hall #7300 University of California Berkeley, CA Markus Luty, University of California, Davis Physics/Geology Building, Room 431 University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA Chrisitian Bauer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LBNL Theoretical Physics Group 1 Cyclotron Rd. Mail Stop 50A-5104 Berkeley, CA Martin Schmaltz, Boston University schmaltz@bu.edu Department of Physics Boston University 590 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA