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Jeff Harvey
University of Chicago
Candidate for General Councillor
Biographical Summary
Jeff Harvey is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor and a member of the Physics Department and the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago. He received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Minnesota, a Ph.D from Caltech in 1981 and was a postdoc and faculty member at Princeton University before moving to the University of Chicago in 1989.
His research interests and accomplishments cover a broad spectrum of topics in particle theory, cosmology, mathematical physics, and string theory. The present focus of his research is the application of the AdS/CFT correspondence to the strong interactions.
He has been a member of the editorial boards of Physical Review D and Classical and Quantum Gravity and is currently an associate editor of Reviews of Modern Physics. He was chair of the University of Chicago physics department from 2001-2004.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to physics he enjoys travel, playing the piano, and a good game of Poker.
Candidate's Statement
If elected as General Councillor I will strive to support the general goals of the APS including communicating the ideas and techniques of physics to policy makers and the general public, providing the broadest possible opportunities and support for people of all backgrounds who wish to be trained as physicists, and lobbying for the support of basic research. I am particularly interested in the role of APS journals and the challenges they face in a world where modes of communication are changing at an accelerated pace.
