Evan Craft, fourth-year graduate student with Ian Moult, assistant professor of physics, has been awarded a Graduate Fellowship from the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics KITP), University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). KITP sponsors outstanding graduate fellows who meet the criteria to visit UCSB for five or six months to interact with visiting and resident scientists and to participate in the wide variety of activities at KITP.
Craft comments, “I am one of 8 graduate students selected, and my fellowship is for 6 months… At the KITP, I will set out to advance our understanding of so-called “Light Ray Operators”, which themselves have provided useful tools for characterizing phenomena at modern particle accelerators, in addition to having elucidated a number of underlying properties of quantum field theory itself. My work aims to advance our understanding of these field theoretic objects, first by formally exploring their theoretical structure, and second through direct applications to new phenomena in fundamental nuclear and particle physics.”
Moult stated, “This honor recognizes Evan’s research achievements in the field of particle theory, as well as his potential as a future leader in the field. We are very proud to have Evan as a Yale High Energy Theory group member, and we congratulate him on this award.”