David Schaich

Physics Department and Center for Computational Science       Boston University 590 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 Curriculum Vitae (last modified 17 June 2009)

Office: PRB 558 (3 Cummington St.) Phone: 617/353-6065 Fax: 617/358-4419

Biography

I'm a Ph.D. student in theoretical particle physics at Boston University. Originally from the Detroit area, I graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 2006 with majors in physics, history, and mathematics. I wrote my honors thesis on Lattice Simulations of Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theories under Prof. Will Loinaz.

At BU I am a member of the high energy theory group, focusing on lattice gauge theory and dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. I am also a member of the Lattice Strong Dynamics Collaboration.

I was supported for one year by a BU Dean's Fellowship, and for another two by an NSF IGERT fellowship through the Center for Computational Science.

Research Interests

• Lattice gauge theory and lattice QCD.
• Dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking and novel strong dynamics.
• Quantum field theory and physics beyond the Standard Model.
• High performance computing and computational physics.

Teaching

In the 2008-2009 academic year I graded and held office hours for BU's quantum field theory sequence, PY 713 and PY 714. We'll see what (if anything) I teach in the fall of 2009.

Publications

1. David Schaich and Will Loinaz, "Improved lattice measurement of the critical coupling in phi^4_2 theory", Physical Review D79:056008 (2009), doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.79.056008 [arXiv:0902.0045].

2. Richard Brower, Ron Babich, Kostas Orginos, Claudio Rebbi, David Schaich and Pavlos Vranas, "Moebius Algorithm for Domain Wall and GapDW Fermions", Proceedings of Science LATTICE 2008:034 (2008), journal server [arXiv:0906.2813].

3. D. A. Schaich, A. R. Runge, S. A. Gangloff and M. J. Misovich, "Series Solutions for Vapor Pressures and Densities Predicted by the Peng-Robinson Equation", in preparation.

4. C. M. Emborsky, D. A. Schaich and M. J. Misovich, "Series Solutions for Enthalpies of Vaporization from Cubic Equations of State", in preparation.

Unpublished reports and presentations

1. S Parameter Notes, 10 June 2009.

2. Technicolor at the LHC, 30 April 2009.

3. LHC Exotica: Overview of Alternative Signatures, 6 April 2009.

4. Computational modelling of DNA structure, 31 December 2008.

5. Zero-temperature Ising-Glauber dynamics in two dimensions, 18 December 2007.

6. David Schaich, Scott Kaplan, William Loinaz and James Hagadorn, Interdisciplinary Cluster Computing at a Liberal Arts College, AAPT Topical Conference on Computational Physics for Upper Level Courses, Davidson College, 27-28 July 2007.

7. Correlation functions in scalar quantum field theory in two and four dimensions, 7 May 2007.

8. Lattice Simulations of Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theories, B.A. Honors Thesis, Amherst College (advisor: William Loinaz), 12 May 2006.

Miscellany

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Last updated 2 July 2009.