Allan Adams

Allan Adams
Born	Bogotá, Colombia [1]
Alma mater	Harvard College UC Berkeley Stanford University
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics, ocean engineering, oceanography
Institutions	Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Doctoral advisor	Eva Silverstein

Allan Adams is a Colombian-born American physicist, oceanographer, and entrepreneur. His research in physics has focused on string theory, QFT, and fluid dynamics, while his work in oceanography and ocean engineering have focused on high-precision optical, electro-chemical, and genomic sensing. Adams is the founder and CEO of Aquatic Labs.

Adams earned degrees in physics from Harvard College, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University before joining the faculty of the MIT Department of Physics in 2008. ^[2] Adams opened the Future Ocean Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017, and became a Visiting Oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2018. In 2022, Adams left MIT to found Aquatic Labs, a water-technology startup in Cambridge, MA.

Adams is an avid sailplane pilot, cave diver, and father of two boys.

Awards and recognition

Adams was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows before joining the faculty at MIT. Adams has received numerous awards for his teaching and monitorship, including MIT's School of Science Teaching Prize, the Buechner Teaching and Advising Prizes, and the Baker Memorial Award. ^[3] His introductory lectures on Quantum Mechanics are freely available via MIT OpenCourseWare and have been viewed more than 10 million times. ^[4] His talks on gravitational waves at TED 2016 and TED 2014 have been viewed more than 4.7 million times. ^[5]

Selected publications

• Don't Panic! Closed String Tachyons in ALE Spacetimes. ^[6]
• String universality in ten dimensions. ^[7]
• ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {N}}={1}}$ Sigma Models in ${\displaystyle {\ce {AdS_4}}}$. ^[8]
• Disordered Holographic Systems I & II. ^[9]
• GLSMs for non-Kähler Geometries. ^[10]
• Holographic Vortex Liquids and Superfluid Turbulence. ^[11]
• Holographic Turbulence. ^[12]

References

1. https://x.com/AllanAdamsYG/status/891459331157352448?s=20
2. "Allan Adams". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
3. "Allan Adams". www.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
4. 1. Introduction to Superposition , retrieved 2021-04-22
5. "Allan Adams | Speaker | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
6. Adams, Allan; Polchinski, Joseph; Silverstein, Eva (2001-10-24). "Don't panic! closed string tachyons in ALE spacetimes". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2001 (10): 029. arXiv: hep-th/0108075 . Bibcode:2001JHEP...10..029A. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/10/029. ISSN   1029-8479. S2CID   14486826.
7. Adams, Allan; Taylor, Washington; DeWolfe, Oliver (2010-08-10). "String Universality in Ten Dimensions". Physical Review Letters. 105 (7) 071601. arXiv: 1006.1352 . Bibcode:2010PhRvL.105g1601A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.071601. hdl: 1721.1/69915 . PMID   20868028. S2CID   13916249.
8. Adams, Allan; Jockers, Hans; Kumar, Vijay; Lapan, Joshua M. (2011-12-12). "$ \mathcal{N} = {1} $sigma models in AdS4". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2011 (12): 42. arXiv: 1104.3155 . doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2011)042. ISSN   1029-8479. S2CID   53702924.
9. Adams, Allan; Yaida, Sho (2015-12-14). "Disordered holographic systems: Functional renormalization". Physical Review D. 92 (12) 126008. arXiv: 1102.2892 . Bibcode:2015PhRvD..92l6008A. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.126008 .
10. Adams, Allan; Dyer, Ethan; Lee, Jaehoon (2013-01-07). "GLSMs for non-Kähler geometries". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013 (1): 44. arXiv: 1206.5815 . Bibcode:2013JHEP...01..044A. doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2013)044. ISSN   1029-8479. S2CID   17526644.
11. Chesler, P. M.; Liu, H.; Adams, A. (2013-07-26). "Holographic Vortex Liquids and Superfluid Turbulence". Science. 341 (6144): 368–372. arXiv: 1212.0281 . Bibcode:2013Sci...341..368C. doi:10.1126/science.1233529. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   23888034. S2CID   1762512.
12. Adams, Allan; Chesler, Paul M.; Liu, Hong (2014-04-14). "Holographic Turbulence". Physical Review Letters. 112 (15) 151602. arXiv: 1307.7267 . Bibcode:2014PhRvL.112o1602A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.151602. hdl:1721.1/88966. PMID   24785028. S2CID   34995254.