405 Newman Lab, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-2501
Phone: (607) 255-4951, e-mail: gx26@cornell.edu
I'm a fourth year PhD student at Cornell University's Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Institute for High-Energy Phenomenology.
Adviser: Liam McAllister
Research Interests
I am interested in building inflation models inspired by string thoery and studying their observational signatures.
Education
Cornell University; Ithaca, NY.
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (anticipated), May 2011
Tsinghua University; Beijing, China.
Bachelor of Science in Physics , July 2005,
Publications
- Signatures of Modulations in Axion Monodromy Inflation, upcoming. R Flauger, L McAllister, E Pajer, E Silverstein, A Westphal, and G Xu . (2008)
- Dynamical Threshold Enhancement and Resummation in Drell-Yan Production., JHEP 0807:030,2008. arXiv:0710.0680 [hep-ph] T.Becher M. Neubert and G Xu.(2007)
Talks
- Signatures of Axion Monodromy Inflation .
CHEP Seminar, McGill University, December 2009. - From Warped Throat to RS scalar.
Theory Student Seminar; Cornell University, Nov. 2008. - Introduction to Fibre Bundles.
Theory Student Seminar; Cornell University, June 2008. - Introduction to F Theory.
End of String Theory Class presentation; Cornell University, May 2008. - Conformal Collider Physics.
String Group Meeting; Cornell University, March 2008. - Dynamical Threshold Enhancement and Resummation in Drell-Yan Production.
Cornell-Syracuse Workshop; Syracuse University 11 Jan 2008. - Introduction to AdS Geometry.
End of SUSY class Presentation; Cornell University, May 2007. - From Renormalization Group to the God Particle.
End of Statistical Physics class presentation; Cornell University, Dec 2006.
Documents
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Feb 3rd "string theory" with permission. temperory .
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Feb 10th "string theory" with permission. temperory .
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Feb 17th "string theory" with permission. temperory .
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Feb 17th "string theory" with permission.detail notes from 2008
temperory .
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Feb 17th "string theory" with permission.detail notes from 2008 temperory .
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Feb 24th "string theory" with permission temperory .
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Mar 3rd "string theory" with permission.temperory
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Mar 10th "string theory" with permission temperory .
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Mar 31th "string theory"(by Ben Heidenreich) with permission.temperory
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Apr 7th "string theory" with permission temperory .
- String theory notes from Liam McAllister spring 2010 Apr 14th "string theory"(by Stefan Sjors) with permission temperory .
Schools and Conferences
- String theory and its Applications: From meV to the Planck Scale, Theoretical Advanced Study Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, June 2010
- Branes, Strings, and Inflation, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, October 2009
- Exploring the Cosmological Frontiers, Perimeter Institute, June 2009
- Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics; International Centre for Theoretical Physics, March 2009.
- BCCS08 Workshop On Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics; Case Western Reserve University, 8-9 December 2008..
- Branes, Strings and Inflation ; Princeton University 3-8 Oct 2008
- Cornell-Syracuse Workshop; Syracuse University, Jan 2008.
- Cornell-Syracuse Workshop; Cornell University, Jan 2007
- The Next Frontier: Exploring the LHC; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, July 2006.