Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
Born (1993-06-03) June 3, 1993
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Residence Edison Park, Chicago
Citizenship U.S.
Nationality Cuban-American
Institutions Boeing Phantom Works, CERN, NASA[1]
Education Ph.D. Candidate[2]
Alma mater Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Andrew Strominger
Known for "Spin Memory"[3] and "the Triangle"[4]
Influences Jeff Bezos[5]
Notable awards Inaugural MIT Freshman Entrepreneurship Award[6]

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (born June 3, 1993) is an American physicist from Chicago, Illinois who studies string theory and high energy physics.[7] She describes herself as "a proud first-generation Cuban-American & Chicago Public Schools alumna."[1] She completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a graduate student at Harvard University.

Pasterski has made contributions in the field of gravitational memories.[8] She is best known for her concept of "the Triangle," which connects several physical ideas.[4][8]

Early life and education

Pasterski was born in Chicago on June 3, 1993. She enrolled at the Edison Regional Gifted Center in 1998, and graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010.[9]

Pasterski holds an active interest in aviation. She took her first flying lesson in 2003, co-piloted FAA1 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2005[10] and started building a kit aircraft by 2006.[11] She soloed her Cessna 150 in Canada in 2007 and certified the aircraft she had built from a kit as airworthy in 2008,[12] with MIT's assistance. Her first U.S. solo flight was in that kit aircraft in 2009 after being signed off by her CFI Jay Maynard.

Pasterski's scientific heroes include Leon Lederman, Dudley Herschbach, and Freeman Dyson, and she was drawn to physics by Jeff Bezos.[5] She has received job offers from Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[13]

Academia

Before focusing on high energy theory, Pasterski worked on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.[5] At 21, Pasterski spoke at Harvard about her concepts of "the Triangle" and "Spin Memory",[14] and completed "the Triangle" for EM[4] during an invited talk at MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics.[15] This work has formed the basis for further work, with one 2015 paper describing it as "a recently discovered universal triangle connecting soft theorems, symmetries and memory in gauge and gravitational theories."[16] At 22, she spoke at a Harvard Faculty Conference about whether or not those concepts should be applied to black hole hair and discussed her new method for detecting gravitational waves.[17][18]

In early 2016, a paper by Stephen Hawking, Malcolm J. Perry, and Andrew Strominger (Pasterski's doctoral advisor of whom she was working independently at the time)[19] titled "Soft Hair on Black Holes" cited Pasterski's work, making hers the only one of twelve single-author papers referenced that was authored by a female scientist.[20][21] This resulted in extensive media coverage after its appearance on the arXiv and in the days leading up to it.[22][23]

Awards and honors

Media coverage

Shortly after the 2016 Hawking paper was released, actor George Takei referenced Pasterski on his Twitter account with her quote, "'Hopefully I'm known for what I do and not what I don't do.' A poignant sentiment."[27] The Steven P. Jobs Trust article included in the tweet has been shared over 527,000 times.[22]

International coverage of the paper and Pasterski's work subsequently appeared in Russia Today, Poland's Angora newspaper and DNES in the Czech Republic.[28][29][30] In 2016, rapper Chris Brown posted a page with a video promoting Pasterski.[31] Forbes and The History Channel ran stories about Pasterski for their audiences in Mexico and Latin America respectively.[32][33] People en Español, one of the most widely read Spanish language magazines, featured Pasterski in their April 2016 print edition.[23][34]

References

  1. 1 2 "Hertz Foundation Profile". Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  2. ↑ "Forbes Profile". Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  3. ↑ Pasterski, Sabrina; Strominger, Andrew; Zhiboedov, Alexander (February 21, 2015). "New Gravitational Memories". arXiv:1502.06120Freely accessible [hep-th].
  4. 1 2 3 Pasterski, Sabrina (May 4, 2015). "Completing the Triangle for EM". arXiv:1505.00716Freely accessible [hep-th].
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 30 Under 30: Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Scientific American profile
  6. ↑ MIT Freshman Awards
  7. ↑ "Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature". Harvard University. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  8. 1 2 Lubos Motl (June 30, 2015). "Memories, asymptotic symmetries and soft theorems". The Reference Frame. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
  9. ↑ "Sabrina Pasterski '10 Profiled by Chicago Tribune". IMSA 360.
  10. ↑ "Sabrina". FAA Technical Center. 2005. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  11. 1 2 Bildilli, Jim (January 5, 2011). "Wondering Where The Future of Aviation Is? Wonder No More! Meet Ms. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski". Midwest Flyer. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  12. ↑ "N5886Q Data". Airport Data. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  13. ↑ "Who's That Girl: Sabrina Pasterski". Hearst UK. 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  14. ↑ Introducing 'the Triangle' and Spin Memory
  15. ↑ "MIT CTP Beyond the Standard Model Journal Club". 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  16. ↑ Kapec, Daniel; Pate, Monica; Strominger, Andrew (June 9, 2015). "New Symmetries of QED". arXiv:1506.02906Freely accessible [hep-th].
  17. ↑ Harvard Faculty Conference slides 7 & 8
  18. ↑ Pasterski, S. (December 16, 2014) "I propose a gravitational wave detector arrangement/measurement corresponding to the subleading soft graviton theorem."
  19. ↑ Mode 2
  20. ↑ Hawking, Stephen W.; Perry, Malcolm J.; Strominger, Andrew (January 5, 2016). "Soft Hair on Black Holes". arXiv:1601.00921v1Freely accessible [hep-th]. Footnote 7, Citations 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 47, 52-56, 58.
  21. ↑ Kim, Larry (February 8, 2016). "17 Surprising Facts About Millennial Physics Phenom Sabrina Pasterski". Inc.com. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  22. 1 2 Halime, Farah (2016-01-12). "This Millennial Might Be The New Einstein". Ozy.com. Steven P. Jobs Trust. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  23. 1 2 "People En Espanol". 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  24. ↑ "Orloff Awards". MIT. August 8, 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  25. ↑ London, Jay (January 8, 2015). "More Than 30 MIT Alumni Named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 Lists". Slice of MIT. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  26. ↑ "Hertz New Fellows 2015". The Hertz Foundation. 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  27. ↑ Takei, George (January 20, 2016). "Twitter feed". Twitter.
  28. ↑ "RT Watching the Hawks". RT. February 4, 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  29. ↑ "Angora". January 31, 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  30. ↑ "DNES". March 14, 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  31. ↑ Brown, Chris (2016). "There's A New Einstein In Town With Answers To The Universe's Biggest Mysteries – And She's A Millenial From Chicago". Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  32. ↑ Gasca, Leticia. "¿Quién es Sabrina Pasterski?". Forbes Mexico. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  33. ↑ "¿La nueva Einstein? Una joven física latina asombra al mundo de la ciencia". The History Channel (Latin America). Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  34. ↑ "People en Español". Echo Media. Retrieved 2016-04-06.

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