Research Areas:
Theoretical Particle Physics, Cosmology
Before joining HKUST as the Director of IAS and Chair Professor of Physics between 2011 and 2016, Prof Henry Tye was the Horace White Professor of Physics at Cornell University. Prof Tye’s research interest is in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. He studies the structure of matter at the sub-atomic level and the fundamental forces in nature. In cosmology, he studies the origin of our universe as well as the properties of today’s universe. He applies superstring theory to link the smallest to the biggest. With the advance of modern science and technology, a number of predictions he made in cosmology may be tested via observation in the near future.
Prof Tye was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. He graduated from California Institute of Technology in 1970 and received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. He did research at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory before moving to Cornell in 1978, where he stayed until last year. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Tye, S. (2016). Supplement to the “Giant Collider in China” debate: Background on Prof. C. N. Yang’s opinion on high-energy physics. International Journal of Modern Physics A, 31(30), p.1630056. doi:10.1142/S0217751X16300568 |
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Tye, S. and Wong, S. (2016). The Chern–Simons Number as a Dynamical Variable. Annals of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, 1(1), pp.123-147. doi: 10.4310/amsa.2016.v1.n1.a3 |
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Tye, S. and Wong, S. (2015). Bloch Wave Function for the Periodic Sphaleron Potential and Unsuppressed Baryon and Lepton Number Violating Processes, Physical Review D, 92(4), 045005. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.045005 |
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Chernoff, D. and Tye, S. (2015). Inflation, String Theory and Cosmic Strings, International Journal of Modern Physics D, 24(3), 1530010. doi: 10.1142/S0218271815300104 |
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Yu, Y., Ceng, K., Shiu, G. and Tye, S. (2014). Implications of Fast Radio Bursts for Superconducting Cosmic Strings, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014, 040. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/11/040 |
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Sumitomo, Y. and Tye, S. (2013). Preference for a vanishingly small cosmological constant in supersymmetric vacua in a Type IIB string theory model. Physics Letters B, 723(4-5), 406-410. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.05.027 |
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Sumitomo, Y. and Tye, S. (2013). A stringy mechanism for a small cosmological constant - multi-moduli cases. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2, 006. doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/02/006 |
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Sumitomo, Y., Tye, S. and Wong, S. (2013). Statistical distribution of the vacuum energy density in racetrack Kahler uplift models in string theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(7), 1-20. doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2013)052 |
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Chen, X., Shiu, G., Sumitomo, Y. and Tye, S. (2012). A global view on the search for de Sitter vacua in (Type IIA) string theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(4). doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2012)026 |
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