Iain Stewart (physicist)

Iain William Stewart is a Canadian-American theoretical nuclear and particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the Otto and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science and the current Director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP). He is best known for his work on effective field theories and for developing the Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET).

Iain Stewart
CitizenshipAmerican, Canadian
Alma materUniversity of Manitoba (BSc 1994, MSc 1995)
California Institute of Technology (PhD 1999)
Known forEffective field theory
Soft-collinear effective theory
AwardsAPS Fellow
Simons Investigator
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics
Particle physics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
University of Washington, Seattle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisApplications of Chiral Perturbation Theory in Reactions with Heavy Particles (1999)
Academic advisorsPeter Blunden (MSc)
Mark Wise (PhD)
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