Assistant Professor of Physics

Contact:

(518) 276-6455
giedtj@rpi.edu

Office: Science Center 1C16

Homepage: http://www.rpi.edu/~giedtj/

Education:

Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., Physics, University of California, Berkeley
B.S., Physics, San Francisco State University

Career Highlights:

2007-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer
2005-07: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
2002-05: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Toronto, Canada
2009: Dept. of Energy, High Energy Physics: Outstanding Junior Investigator Award

Research Interests:

Lattice field theory beyond the standard model; phenomenology of warped string compactifications.

Selected Publications:

1. Joel Giedt, Evan Weinberg, “Backward running or absence of running from Creutz ratios,” Physical Review D84 (2011) 074501 [1105.0607].

2. Simon Catterall, Luigi Del Debbio, Joel Giedt, Liam Keegan, “MCRG minimal walking Technicolor,” submitted to Physical Review D [1108.3794].

3. Joel Giedt, “A deconstruction lattice description of the D1/D5 brane world-volume gauge theory,” Advances in High Energy Physics 2011 (2011) 241419.

4. Chen Chen, Joel Giedt, Joseph Paki, “Supercurrent conservation in the lattice Wess-Zumino model with Ginsparg-Wilson fermions,” Physical Review D84 (2011) 025001 [1104.1126].

5. Simon Catterall, Eric Dzienkowski, Joel Giedt, Anosh Joseph, Robert Wells, “Perturbative renormalization of lattice N=4 super Yang-Mills theory,” Journal of High Energy Physics 1104 (2011) 074 [1102.1725].

6. Chen Chen, Eric Dzienkowski, Joel Giedt, “Lattice Wess-Zumino model with Ginsparg-Wilson fermions: One-loop results and GPU benchmarks,” Physical Review D82 (2010) 085001 [1005.3276].