Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

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Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
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Pasterski in 2017
Born (1993-06-03) June 3, 1993 (age 32)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
Harvard University (PhD)
Known for Spin memory effect
PSZ Triangle
AwardsInaugural MIT Freshman Entrepreneurship Award [1]
Scientific career
Institutions Boeing Phantom Works
CERN
Perimeter Institute
Thesis Implications of Superrotations  (2019)
Doctoral advisor Andrew Strominger

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (born June 3, 1993) is an American theoretical physicist from Chicago who studies high energy physics. [2] [3] She describes herself as "a proud first-generation Cuban-American and Chicago Public Schools alumna". [4] At Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature (2014) she participated in the discovery of the spin memory effect which predates LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves. [5] [6] [7] [8] Since leaving Harvard, Pasterski has explored celestial holography. [9] [10] [11] She completed her undergraduate studies while still a teenager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earned her PhD from Harvard University and was a PCTS Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University [12] before joining the faculty of the Perimeter Institute at age 27. [13] In 2015, she was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 Science list and named a Forbes 30 under 30 All Star in 2017. [14]

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Early life

Pasterski was born in Illinois on June 3, 1993, to Mark Pasterski and Maria Gonzalez. Her father, an attorney and an electrical engineer, encouraged her to follow her dreams. [15] She enrolled at the Edison Regional Gifted Center in 1998, and graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010. [16]

She took her first flying lesson in 2003, piloted FAA1 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2005 [17] and started building a standard-build Canadian light sport aircraft by 2006. [15] Her first U.S. solo flight was in that aircraft in 2009 after being signed off by her CFI Jay Maynard. [18]

Education and academia

As a sophomore at MIT, Pasterski was part of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. [19] She graduated with a 5.00 undergraduate GPA. [20] While a graduate student at Harvard, she worked with Andrew Strominger. [21] She worked on the spin memory effect. [22] She completed work on the Pasterski–Strominger–Zhiboedov triangle for electromagnetic memory [23]

Pasterski earned her PhD in physics from Harvard University in May 2019. At age 27, she founded the Celestial Holography Initiative and within six months had hired four post-docs. [13] Pasterski invited Andrew Strominger to join Perimeter's Simons Foundation LOI requesting $ 8 million for Celestial Holography. [24] That collaboration is now underway as the Simons Collaboration on Celestial Holography. [25]

Media coverage

WIRED's "A New Way to Understand the Universe" and the live broadcast of "What if the Universe is a Hologram?" from CBC's The Current featured Pasterski's work. [26] [27]

Pasterski's 2016 work in promoting the Let Girls Learn initiative was recognized by an invitation to the White House, [28] a congratulatory message from the White House played on network television, [29] and a two-page spread in Marie Claire 's January 2017 issue with former First Lady Michelle Obama. [30]

Pasterski's continuing efforts to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for girls in Cuba has been recognized by the Annenberg Foundation. [31] [32]

Pasterski's 2017 work in promoting STEM education for girls in Russia has been recognized by the U.S Embassy in Moscow [33] and by the Moscow Polytech. [34]

International print and television coverage of Pasterski's work has appeared in Russian, Polish, Czech, [35] Spanish, German, Hindi and French: Russia Today, Poland's Angora magazine, DNES magazine in the Czech Republic, People en Español, Jolie in Germany, Vanitha TV in India, Madame magazine in France, le Figaro magazine Paris, Femina magazine in Switzerland, and Marie Claire España. [36] [37] [38] Forbes and The History Channel ran stories about Gonzalez Pasterski for their audiences in Mexico and Latin America, respectively. [39] [40]

Awards and honors

References

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  2. ↑ "Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature". Harvard University. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski". scholar.google.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  4. ↑ "Hertz Foundation Profile". Archived from the original on February 1, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Future of Alpha Centauri - A rare opportunity for planet hunting in Alpha Centauri a predicted for 2028".
  6. ↑ "General Relativity and the 1919 Solar Eclipse".
  7. ↑ "New Gravitational Memories" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-03-06.
  8. ↑ Nichols, David A.; Strominger, Andrew; Zhiboedov, Alexander (2017). "Spin memory effect for compact binaries in the post-Newtonian approximation". Physical Review D. 95 (8): 084048. arXiv: 1702.03300 . Bibcode:2017PhRvD..95h4048N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.084048. S2CID   3487878.
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  10. ↑ "Celestial Holography Initiative | Perimeter Institute".
  11. ↑ Krishna, Swapna. "Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space". Wired.
  12. ↑ "PCTS - Postdoctoral Fellows". Archived from the original on 2020-08-08.
  13. 1 2 "Celestial Holography Initiative | Perimeter Institute". perimeterinstitute.ca. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  14. ↑ "30 Under 30 2018". Forbes. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  15. 1 2 3 Bildilli, Jim (January 5, 2011). "Wondering Where The Future of Aviation Is? Wonder No More! Meet Ms. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski". Midwest Flyer. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Sabrina Pasterski '10 Profiled by Chicago Tribune". IMSA 360. Archived from the original on 2016-04-09.
  17. ↑ "Sabrina". FAA Technical Center. 2005. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  18. ↑ "What is your best achievement?" (PDF). Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  19. 1 2 30 Under 30: Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Scientific American profile
  20. ↑ MacGuill, Dan (27 December 2017). "FACT CHECK: The Remarkable Sabrina Pasterski". Snopes.com. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  21. ↑ "Spring 2015 - Harvard University - The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences" (PDF). gsas.harvard.edu. Colloquy Magazine. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 27, 2020. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  22. ↑ Nichols, David A.; Strominger, Andrew; Zhiboedov, Alexander (2017). "Spin memory effect for compact binaries in the post-Newtonian approximation". Physical Review D. 95 (8): 084048. arXiv: 1702.03300 . Bibcode:2017PhRvD..95h4048N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.084048. S2CID   3487878.
  23. ↑ Pasterski, Sabrina; Strominger, Andrew; Zhiboedov, Alexander (2015). "Asymptotic Symmetries and Electromagnetic Memory". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017 (9) 154. arXiv: 1505.00716 . doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2017)154. S2CID   59500056.
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  25. ↑ "Celestial Kickoff". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  26. ↑ Krishna, Swapna. "Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space". Wired.
  27. ↑ What if the universe is a hologram?. cbc.ca. Retrieved September 17, 2024
  28. ↑ "White House China Room" . Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  29. ↑ "Young Women's Honors". YouTube . 7 December 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  30. ↑ Hauser, Brooke (December 12, 2016). "Young Women's Honors". Marie Claire. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  31. ↑ "Cuba Is Exhibition September 9, 2017 through March 4, 2018" . Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  32. ↑ "Delegation to Cuba" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 18, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  33. ↑ "Spaso House" . Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  34. ↑ "Gorky Park Polytech Fest". Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  35. ↑ "Říká se jí "nový Einstein". Smiřte se s tím, že sci-fi věci jako cestování časem neobjevíme, upozorňuje Pasterski". Seznam Zprávy. May 21, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2019(An interview with Pasterski with Czech subtitles.){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  36. ↑ "RT Watching the Hawks". RT. February 4, 2016. Archived from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  37. ↑ "Angora". January 31, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  38. ↑ "DNES". March 14, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  39. ↑ Gasca, Leticia (2016-03-29). "¿Quién es Sabrina Pasterski?". Forbes Mexico. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  40. ↑ "¿La nueva Einstein? Una joven física latina asombra al mundo de la ciencia". The History Channel (Latin America). Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  41. ↑ "New Freshman Awards recognize exceptional first-year students". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  42. ↑ "Orloff Awards". MIT. August 8, 2015. Archived from the original on October 1, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  43. ↑ "3 Questions: Marking the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery". MIT Physics. 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  44. ↑ "Hertz New Fellows 2015". The Hertz Foundation. 2015. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  45. ↑ "Forbes' 30 under 30 2015: Science". Forbes . 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  46. ↑ "Marie Claire Magazine: The Unstoppables". Marie Claire. 2016-12-12. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  47. ↑ "Sabrina Pasterski Profile". Forbes. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  48. ↑ "Silicon Valley Comic Con - April 21-23, 2017". Silicon Valley Comic Con. Archived from the original on August 11, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  49. ↑ "InStyle". Time. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
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  51. ↑ "Daily Planet" . Retrieved April 10, 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
  52. ↑ "Notable IMSA Alumni – Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski '10 – Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy". www.imsa.edu. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
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