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Ira Z. Rothstein is a Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Physics, Mellon College of Science. His academic journey includes a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland (1992) and an M.Sc. from Brown University (1987). He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Michigan and UC San Diego before joining CMU in 1997. Professor Rothstein is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
His research focuses on applying Effective Field Theory (EFT) to diverse systems, including Higgs boson dynamics at the LHC, black hole physics (especially gravitational wave studies for LIGO), and quantum aspects of condensed matter systems like cold atomic gases and van Hove singularities in solids. Recent work includes calculating black hole spin effects on gravitational waveforms and exploring symmetry-driven phenomena in strongly coupled systems.
Rothstein’s publications span high-impact journals like Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B, and Journal of High Energy Physics. His work bridges quantum field theory with classical gravitational phenomena, emphasizing multi-scale problems and decoupling principles rooted in locality. He has developed novel EFT frameworks to address challenges in particle physics, astrophysics, and condensed matter physics.
Key contributions include advancing methods for gravitational wave calculations, understanding non-Fermi liquid behavior in unitary gases, and probing quarkonium production via jet substructure analysis. His theoretical tools have been applied to dark matter annihilation rates and the interplay between scattering amplitudes and classical potentials in post-Minkowskian gravity.
