A. W. Peet Explained

A. W. Peet
Birth Place:	New Zealand

A. W. Peet (born 1968) is a professor of physics at the University of Toronto. Peet's research interests include string theory as a quantum theory of gravity, quantum field theory and applications of string theory to black holes, gauge theories, cosmology,^[1] and the correspondence between anti-de Sitter space and conformal field theories (Maldacena duality).^[2]

Early life

Peet was born in New Zealand in 1968.

Career

In 1990, Peet received a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Canterbury, and a doctorate in physics from Stanford University in 1994. From 1994 to 1997, they worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara from 1997 to 2000. Since 2000, they have been teaching and conducting research as an established professor at the University of Toronto. Peet is also an affiliate of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.^[3]

Personal life

Peet is non-binary,^[4] uses they/them pronouns,^[5] and is a New Zealand citizen with a passport using an unspecified gender. Peet chose to come out publicly to support queer youth in STEM fields.

Peet debated their fellow University of Toronto colleague, clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, about gender identities, on Canadian public television on several occasions, garnering significant public attention.^{[6] [7] [8]} After the debate, Peet faced online harassment that negatively impacted their mental health.^[9]

Peet is disabled and experiences chronic pain.

Since Peet's disabilities make them unable to comfortably carry bags and heavy objects using their arms and shoulders, they found alternative ways to use and access their belongings in electronic forms.

Awards

• 2003: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Harvard University^[10]
• 2002: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship^[11]
• 2002: Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award^[12]
• 2000-2006: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Scholar, Cosmology and Gravity Program

Publications

• Burrington . BA . Peet . AW . Fractional conformal descendants and correlators in general 2D S_N orbifold CFTs at large N . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2023 . 2023 . 2 . 91 . 10.1007/JHEP02(2023)091. 2211.04633 . 2023JHEP...02..091B . free .
• Burrington . BA . Peet . AW . Larger twists and higher n-point functions with fractional conformal descendants in S_N orbifold CFTs at large N . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2023 . 2023 . 2 . 229 . 10.1007/JHEP02(2023)229. 2212.03993 . 2023JHEP...02..229B . free .
• de Beer . T . Burrington . BA . Jardine . IT . Peet . AW . The large N limit of OPEs in symmetric orbifold CFTs with N = (4, 4) supersymmetry . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2019 . 2019 . 8 . 15 . 10.1007/S13130-019-11019-2. 1904.07816 . 2019JHEP...08..015D . free .
• Cresswell . JC . Jardine . IT . Peet . AW . Holographic relations for OPE blocks in excited states . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2019 . 2019 . 3 . 58 . 10.1007/JHEP03(2019)058. 1809.09107 . 2019JHEP...03..058C . free .
• Burrington . BA . Jardine . IT . Peet . AW . The OPE of bare twist operators in bosonic S_N orbifold CFTs at large N . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2018 . 2018 . 8 . 202 . 10.1007/JHEP08(2018)202. 1804.01562 . 2018JHEP...08..202B . free .
• Cresswell . JC . Peet . AW . Kinematic space for conical defects . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2017 . 2017 . 11 . 155 . 10.1007/JHEP11(2017)155. 1708.09838 . 2017JHEP...11..155C . free .
  • • • • • O'Keefe . DK . Peet . AW . Electric hyperscaling violating solutions in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity with R2 corrections . Physical Review D . 2014 . 90 . 2 . 026004 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.90.026004. 1312.2261 . 118873506 .
• Burrington . BA . Peet . AW . Zadeh . IG . Twist-nontwist correlators in MN/S_N orbifold CFTs . Physical Review D . 2013 . 87 . 10 . 106008 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.87.106008. 1211.6689 . 119252992 .
• Burrington . BA . Peet . AW . Zadeh . IG . Operator mixing for string states in the D1-D5 CFT near the orbifold point . Physical Review D . 2013 . 87 . 10 . 106001 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.87.106001. 1211.6699 . 2013PhRvD..87j6001B . 119277282 .
• Bertoldi . G . Burrington . BA . Peet . AW . Zadeh . IG . Lifshitz-like black brane thermodynamics in higher dimensions . Physical Review D . 2011 . 83 . 12 . 126006 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.83.126006. 1101.1980 . 2011PhRvD..83l6006B . 119209307 .
• Bertoldi . G . Burrington . BA . Peet . AW . Thermal behavior of charged dilatonic black branes in AdS and UV completions of Lifshitz-like geometries . Physical Review D . 2010 . 82 . 10 . 106013 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.82.106013. 1007.1464 . 2010PhRvD..82j6013B . 119266576 .
• Bertoldi . G . Burrington . BA . Peet . AW . Black holes in asymptotically Lifshitz spacetimes with arbitrary critical exponent . Physical Review D . 2009 . 80 . 12 . 126003 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.80.126003. 0905.3183 . 2009PhRvD..80l6003B . 14521865 .
• Bertoldi . G . Burrington . BA . Peet . AW . Thermodynamics of black branes in asymptotically Lifshitz spacetimes . Physical Review D . 2009 . 80 . 12 . 126004 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.80.126004. 0907.4755 . 2009PhRvD..80l6004B . 17988492 .
• Ford . J . Guisto . S . Peet . AW . Saxena . A . Reduction without reduction: Adding KK-monopoles to five-dimensional stationary axisymmetric solutions . Classical and Quantum Gravity . 2008 . 25 . 7 . 10.1088/0264-9381/25/7/075014. 0708.3823 . 2008CQGra..25g5014F . 11674842 .
• Page . DC . Peet . AW . Potvin . G . Generalized hot enhançons . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2006 . 2006 . 10 . 024 . 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/10/024. hep-th/0409280 . 2006JHEP...10..024P . free .
• Saxena . A . Potvin . G . Guisto . S . Peet . AW . Smooth geometries with four charges in four dimensions . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2006 . 2006 . 4 . 010 . 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/04/010. hep-th/0509214 . 2006JHEP...04..010S . free .
• Saremi . O . Kofman . L . Peet . AW . Folding branes . Physical Review D . 2005 . 71 . 12 . 126004 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.71.126004. hep-th/0409092 . 2005PhRvD..71l6004S . 7519853 .
• Leblond . F . Peet . AW . A note on the singularity theorem for supergravity SD-branes . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2004 . 2004 . 4 . 022 . 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/04/022. hep-th/0305059 . 2004JHEP...04..022L . free .
• Saremi . O . Peet . AW . Brane-antibrane systems and the thermal life of neutral black holes . Physical Review D . 2004 . 70 . 2 . 026008 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.70.026008. hep-th/0403170 . 2004PhRvD..70b6008S . 14110106 .
• Dimitriadis . A . Peet . AW . Potvin . G . Ross . SF . Enhançon solutions: Pushing supergravity to its limits . Physical Review D . 2004 . 70 . 4 . 046001 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.70.046001. hep-th/0311271 . 2004PhRvD..70d6001D . 16512363 .
• Leblond . F . Peet . AW . SD-brane gravity fields and rolling tachyons . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2003 . 2003 . 4 . 048 . 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/048. hep-th/0303035 . 2003JHEP...04..048L . 10898560 .
• Kruczenski . M . Myers . RC . Peet . AW . Winters . DJ . Aspects of supertubes . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2002 . 2002 . 5 . 017 . 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/05/017. hep-th/0204103 . 2002JHEP...05..017K . 16260233 .
• Kruczenski . M . Myers . RC . Peet . AW . Supergravity S-Branes . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2002 . 2002 . 5 . 039 . 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/05/039. hep-th/0204144 . 2002JHEP...05..039K . free .
• Johnson . CV . Myers . RC . Peet . AW . Ross . SF . The enhançon and the consistency of excision . Physical Review D . 2001 . 64 . 10 . 106001 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.64.106001. hep-th/0105077 . 2001PhRvD..64j6001J . 16209647 .
• Buchel . A . Peet . AW . Polchinski . J . Gauge dual and noncommutative extension of an N=2 supergravity solution . Physical Review D . 2001 . 63 . 4 . 044009 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.63.044009. hep-th/0008076 . 2001PhRvD..63d4009B . 17692300 .
• Johnson . CV . Peet . AW . Polchinski . J . Gauge theory and the excision of repulsion singularities . Physical Review D . 2000. 61 . 8 . 086001 . 10.1103/PhysRevD.61.086001 . hep-th/9911161 . 2000PhRvD..61h6001J . 2454007 .
• Peet . AW . Baldness/delocalization in intersecting brane systems . Classical and Quantum Gravity . 2000 . 17 . 5 . 1235–1243 . 10.1088/0264-9381/17/5/332. hep-th/9910098 . 2000CQGra..17.1235P . 250755905 .
• Marolf . D . Peet . AW . Brane baldness versus superselection sectors . Physical Review D . 1999 . 60 . 10 . 105007 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.60.105007. hep-th/9903213 . 1999PhRvD..60j5007M . 7508615 .
• Peet . AW . Polchinski . J . UV-IR relations in AdS dynamics . Physical Review D . 1999 . 59 . 6 . 065011 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.59.065011. hep-th/9809022 . 1999PhRvD..59f5011P . 15531643 .
• Peet . AW . The Bekenstein formula and string theory (N-brane theory) . Classical and Quantum Gravity . 1998 . 15 . 11 . 3291–3338 . 10.1088/0264-9381/15/11/003. hep-th/9712253 . 250850487 .
• Lee . S . Peet . AW . Thorlacius . L . Brane waves and strings . Nuclear Physics B . 1998 . 514 . 1–2 . 161–176 . 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)86505-4. hep-th/9710097 . 1998NuPhB.514..161L . 13899954 .
• Peet . AW . Ross . SF . Microcanonical phases of string theory on AdS_m×Sⁿ . Journal of High Energy Physics . 1998 . 1998 . 12 . 020 . 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/12/020. hep-th/9810200 . 1998JHEP...12..020P . free .
• Breckenridge . JC . Myers . RC . Peet . AW . Vafa . C . D-branes and spinning black holes . Physics Letters B . 1997 . 391 . 1–2 . 93–98 . 10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01460-8. hep-th/9602065 . 1997PhLB..391...93B . 119099283 .
• Callan . CG . Maldacena . JM . Peet . AW . Extremal black holes as fundamental strings . Nuclear Physics B . 1996 . 475 . 3 . 645–676 . 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00315-X. hep-th/9510134 . 1996NuPhB.475..645C . 18118039 .
• Breckenridge . JC . Lowe . DA . Myers . RC . Peet . AW . Strominger . A . Vafa . C . Macroscopic and microscopic entropy of near-extremal spinning black holes . Physics Letters B . 1996 . 381 . 4 . 423–426 . 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00553-9. hep-th/9603078 . 1996PhLB..381..423B . 119398349 .
• Gubser . SS . Klebanov . IR . Peet . AW . Entropy and temperature of black 3-branes . Physical Review D . 1996 . 54 . 6 . 3915–3919 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.54.3915. 10021068 . hep-th/9602135 . 1996PhRvD..54.3915G . 11397525 .
• Peet . AW . Entropy and supersymmetry of D-dimensional extremal electric black holes versus string states . Nuclear Physics B . 1995 . 456 . 3 . 732–752 . 10.1016/0550-3213(95)00537-2. hep-th/9506200 . 1995NuPhB.456..732P . 17169833 .
• Mezhlumian . A . Peet . AW . Thorlacius . L . String thermalization at a black hole horizon . Physical Review D . 1994 . 50 . 4 . 2725–2730 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.50.2725. 10017905 . hep-th/9402125 . 1994PhRvD..50.2725M . 15009288 .
• Kallosh . R . Ortín . T . Peet . AW . Entropy and action of dilaton black holes . Physical Review D . 1993 . 47 . 12 . 5400–5407 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.47.5400. 10015563 . hep-th/9211015 . 1993PhRvD..47.5400K . 15115761 .
• Peet . AW . Susskind . L . Thorlacius . L . Tachyon hair on two-dimensional black holes . Physical Review D . 1993 . 48 . 6 . 2415–2420 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.48.2415. 10016491 . hep-th/9305030 . 1993PhRvD..48.2415P . 15185096 .
• Kallosh . R . Peet . AW . Dilaton black holes near the horizon . Physical Review D . 1992 . 46 . 12 . R5223–R5227 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.46.R5223. 10014959 . hep-th/9209116 . 1992PhRvD..46.5223K . 12581419 .
• Peet . AW . Susskind . L . Thorlacius . L . Information loss and anomalous scattering . Physical Review D . 1992 . 46 . 8 . 3435–3443 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.46.3435. 10015288 . hep-th/9205114 . 1992PhRvD..46.3435P . 16352761 .
• Kallosh . R . Linde . A . Ortín . T . Peet . AW . Van Proeyen . A . Supersymmetry as a cosmic censor . Physical Review D . 1992 . 46 . 12 . 5278–5302 . 10.1103/PHYSREVD.46.5278. 10014916 . hep-th/9205027 . 1992PhRvD..46.5278K . 15736500 .

External links

• Centre for Inquiry Canada. Centre for Inquiry Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20221020202625/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpQngpaHamg. 2022-10-20. String Theory for the Scientifically Curious with Dr. A. W. Peet. live. dmy-all. 2010-07-11.
• Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. live. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. A.W. Peet Public Lecture: String Theory Legos for Black Holes. 2015-05-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20221020202710/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlDd2HtFfPU. 2022-10-20. dmy-all.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Peet . A. W. . About Prof. Peet . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220408002612/https://ap.io/home/about/#:~:text=I%20grew,1968 . 2022-04-08 . 2020-07-11 . ap.io.
2. Web site: A. W. Peet. University of Toronto. Canadian Association of Physicists. https://web.archive.org/web/20200711225720/https://ccuwip.cap.ca/about/past-locations/2019-ottawa/2019-guests-and-speakers/a-w-peet/. 2020-07-11. live. 2020-07-11.
3. Web site: A. W. Peet. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://web.archive.org/web/20200711233329/https://perimeterinstitute.ca/people/aw-peet. 2020-07-11. live. 2020-07-11.
4. Web site: Physics pages of Prof. A.W. Peet. 2022-02-07. ap.io. 11 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200711235306/https://ap.io/home/gender/. live.
5. Web site: Peet. A. W.. How to get my name and pronouns right. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201220103439/https://ap.io/g/. 2020-12-20. 2020-12-15. A. W. Peet.
6. Web site: 30 September 2016 . University of Toronto professor A.W. Peet explains why they identify as non-binary . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200711233654/https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2695696572 . 11 July 2020 . 2020-07-11.
7. Web site: Brait . Ellen . 5 November 2016 . When beliefs about gender identity and views on freedom of speech clash . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200706231229/https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/11/05/when-beliefs-about-gender-identity-and-views-on-freedom-of-speech-clash.html . 2020-07-06 . 2020-07-11 . Toronto Star.
8. Web site: Yun . Tom . 3 October 2016 . U of T community responds to Jordan Peterson on gender identities . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200711234404/https://thevarsity.ca/2016/10/03/u-of-t-community-responds-to-jordan-peterson-on-gender-identities/ . 2020-07-11 . 2020-07-11 . The Varsity.
9. Web site: 2019-10-07 . In the Spotlight: Dr. A.W. Peet . 2023-10-10 . The Varsity . en-US.
10. Web site: Fellow. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. https://web.archive.org/web/20200711235638/https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/amanda-wensley-peet. 2020-07-11. live. 2020-07-11.
11. Web site: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2002 Annual Report. 8. https://web.archive.org/web/20200712000107/https://sloan.org/storage/app/media/files/annual_reports/2002_annual_report.pdf. 2020-07-12. live. 2020-07-11.
12. Web site: Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. Innovative researchers in Greater Toronto Area receive Premier's Research Excellence Awards. 2002-07-16. news.ontario.ca. Queen's Printer for Ontario. https://web.archive.org/web/20200712000552/https://news.ontario.ca/archive/en/2002/07/16/Innovative-researchers-in-Greater-Toronto-Area-receive-Premier39s-Research-Excel.html. 2020-07-12. live. 2020-07-11.