Freddy Cachazo

Freddy Cachazo
NationalityVenezuelan, Canadian
Alma materHarvard University (Ph.D., 2002)
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Diploma, 1997)
Simón Bolívar University (B.S., 1996)
Known forBCFW recursion
CSW rules
Soft graviton theorem
AwardsNew Horizons Prize (2014)
Herzberg Medal (2012)
Rutherford Memorial Medal (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsPerimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis Dualities in Field Theory from Geometric Transitions in String Theory  (2002)
Doctoral advisorCumrun Vafa
Websitepitp.ca/people/Freddy-Cachazo

Freddy Alexander Cachazo is a Venezuelan-born theoretical physicist who holds the Gluskin Sheff Freeman Dyson Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

He is known for the contributions to quantum field theory through the study of scattering amplitudes, in particular in quantum chromodynamics, N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory and quantum gravity. His contributions include BCFW recursion relations, the CSW vertex expansion and the amplituhedron. In 2014, Cachazo was awarded the New Horizons Prize[1] for uncovering numerous structures underlying scattering amplitudes in gauge theories and gravity.[2]

  1. ^ "Freddy Cachazo wins New Horizons Prize". Perimeter Institute. 5 November 2013. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  2. ^ "Freddy Cachazo". Breakthrough Prize. 2014. Retrieved 2018-08-12.