Blake High School Students Publish Paper with Professor James Gates

James Hubert Blake High School students James Gonzales and James Parker recently became “published” authors in theoretical physics as coauthors of 4D, N = 1 Supersymmetry Genomics (I), which is a mathematically derived supersymetric relationship between specific particles.

Mr.Gonzales and Mr. Parker participated in the Student Summer Theoretical Physics Research Session (SSTPRS) at the University of Maryland with Professor Jim Gates, the John S. Toll Professor & Director of the Center for String & Particle Theory.

Twelve students from Maryland and the University of Iowa cooperated in the research on string theory for two months during the summer. During the first month the students learned advanced math concepts from Dr. Gates and then applied these concepts to their research during the second month. Students worked diligently and made a valuable contribution to the research and were the only high school students to coauthor the article. Mr. Parker said, "It was a great learning experience to work with Dr. Gates."

Their paper can be viewed at http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3830.  ArXiv is the premiere website in the world where each day the world’s community of theoretical physicists publicize their work.

Invited Talks & Presentations

O.W. Greenberg , Professor, was invited to give a talk at the Quantum Mechanics Conference in the Complex Domain at Washington University. His talk was titled "Discovery of Color."