About the Theory Group
The High Energy Physics Theory Group at the University of Hawaii currently
comprises of three regular faculty members,
- Kirill Melnikov kirill@phys.hawaii.edu
- Sandip Pakvasa pakvasa@phys.hawaii.edu
- Xerxes Tata tata@phys.hawaii.edu
along with,
- Walter Simmons (affiliate faculty) was@phys.hawaii.edu,
- San-Fu Tuan (emeritus faculty) tuan@phys.hawaii.edu,
post-doctoral researchers,
- Javier Ferrandis, javier@phys.hawaii.edu
graduate student,
- Roger Kadala, kadala@hawaii.edu.
Starting April 1, 2003,
will be a Visiting Professor in our Group for at least three years.
Research Interests
The interests of the Theory group are mainly phenomenological and include
heavy flavour physics and quarkonia, CP violation, neutrino physics and
astrophysics, precision phenomenology using quantum field theory,
collider phenomenology, physics of electroweak symmetry
breaking, supersymmetry, grand unification and other extensions of the
Standard Model. Prof. Pakvasa is also a member of the
KAMLAND Collaboration.
The members of the Theory Group regularly interact with
their experimental colleagues as well as with colleagues at the Institute
for Astronomy in Manoa Valley and routinely collaborate with physicists
on the US Mainland and abroad. Over the years, they have developed close
ties with colleagues at Wisconsin, Florida State, Amherst, Bell Labs, KEK
(Japan), Brookhaven and SLAC to name a few.
Our students interact closely with the
faculty members and routinely attend summer schools and conferences on the
mainland.