Willy Fischler Explained

Willy Fischler
Birth Place:	Antwerp, Belgium
Nationality:	dual American Belgian
Field:	Theoretical Physics
Work Institutions:	University of Texas at Austin University of Pennsylvania Los Alamos National Laboratory CERN
Alma Mater:	Universite Libre de Bruxelles (License and Ph.D.)
Doctoral Advisor:	Robert Brout
Doctoral Students:	David Berenstein Xenia de la Ossa
Known For:	Invisible axion, see Axion. M(atrix) theory. Gauge mediation, see Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

Willy Fischler (born 1949 in Antwerp, Belgium) is a theoretical physicist.^[1] He is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is affiliated with the Weinberg theory group. He is also a certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C) and was a Licensed Paramedic with Marble Falls Area EMS and a volunteer EMT with the Westlake Fire Department.

His contributions to physics include:

• Early computation of the force between heavy quarks.
• The DFSZ (Dine–Fischler–Srednicki–Zhitnisky) model, as a solution to the strong CP problem.
• The cosmological effects of the invisible axion (with Michael Dine) and its role as a candidate for dark matter.
• Pioneering work (with Michael Dine and Mark Srednicki) on the use of supersymmetry to solve outstanding problems in the standard model of particle physics.
• The first formulation of what became known as the "moduli problem in cosmology" (with G.D. Coughlan, Edward Kolb, Stuart Raby and Graham Ross).
• The Fischler–Susskind mechanism in string theory (with Leonard Susskind).
• The original formulation of the holographic entropy bound in the context of cosmology (with Leonard Susskind).
• The discovery of M(atrix) theory, or BFSS Matrix Theory. M(atrix) theory is an example of a gauge/gravity duality (with Tom Banks, Steve Shenker and Leonard Susskind).
• Black Hole production in colliders (with Tom Banks).

External links

• Prof. Fischler's homepage
• Medic
• MFAEMS

Notes and References

1. News: Stephens . Tim . Top physicists gather at UCSC to honor Tom Banks and Willy Fischler . 28 July 2023 . UC Santa Cruz News . 9 June 2009 . en.