Jacob Lewis Bourjaily, Student of Physics and Mathematics Curriculum Vitae Photography Florence Sicily Personal Skydiving Astrophotography Scientists and Mathematicians on Money Page: 1 2 3 4 5 Scrapbook Original Poetry Solutions to Physics Homework contact information: Jacob Bourjaily Harvard Jefferson Laboratory Department of Physics Harvard University email: bourjaily (at) fas.harvard.edu.edu Jacob Bourjaily's Home Page	Introduction: I am a theoretical physicist at Harvard University as a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. I completed my PhD in 2011 at Princeton University under the supervision of Nima Arkani-Hamed at the Institute for Advanced Study. The primary focus of my research involves the understanding of quantum field theory using "on-shell" methods; this involves many intricate connections to new areas of mathematics, including the geometry of particular configurations of planes—stratifications of Grassmannian manifolds. I have also worked on string theory and particle physics phenomenology, with a particular interest in the local, geometric structures which can lead to physically interesting phenomenological models in M-theory and F-theory. Education: Princeton University Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, May 2011. M.A. in Physics, January 2008. University of Cambridge, Trinity College M.A.St., Masters of Advanced Studies, Mathematics (CASM), June 2006. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor B.S. with Highest Honors in Physics, Mathematics, April 2005. Recent Research Publications: J. Bourjaily, S. Caron-Huot, and J. Trnka, Dual-Conformal Regularization of Infrared Loop Divergences and the Chiral Box Expansion, arXiv:1303.4734 [hep-th]. J. Bourjaily, Positroids, Plabic Graphs, and Scattering Amplitudes in Mathematica, arXiv:1212.6974 [hep-th]. N. Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, A. Goncharov, A. Postnikov, and J. Trnka, Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian, arXiv:1212.5605 [hep-th]. J. Bourjaily, A. Dire, A. Shaikh, M. Spradlin, and A. Volovich, The Soft-Collinear Bootstrap: N=4 Yang-Mills Amplitudes at Six and Seven Loops, arXiv:1112.6432 [hep-th]. N. Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, A. Hodges, and J. Trnka, A Note on Polytopes for Scattering Amplitudes, arXiv:1012.6030 [hep-th]. N. Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, and J. Trnka, Local Integrals for Planar Scattering Amplitudes, arXiv:1012.6032 [hep-th]. J. Bourjaily, Efficient Tree Amplitudes in N=4: Automatic BCFW Recursion in Mathematica, arXiv:1011.2447 [hep-ph]. J. Bourjaily J. Trnka, A. Volovich, and C. Wen, The Grassmannian and the Twistor String in N=4 SYM, arXiv:1006.1899 [hep-th]. N. Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, and J. Trnka, Unification of Residues and Grassmannian Dualities, arXiv:0912.4912 [hep-th]. N. Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, and J. Trnka, Local Spacetime Physics from the Grassmannian, arXiv: 0912.3249 [hep-th]. J. Bourjaily, Effective Field Theories for Local Models in F-Theory and M-Theory, arXiv:0905.014 [hep-th]. J. Bourjaily, Local Models in F-Theory and F-Theory with Three Generations, arXiv:0901.3785 [hep-th]. J. Bourjaily and S. Espahbodi, Geometrically Engineerable Chiral Matter in M-Theory, arXiv:0804.1132 [hep-th]. J. Bourjaily, Unfolding Geometric Unification in M-Theory, arXiv:0706.3364 [hep-th]. J. Bourjaily, Geometrically Engineering the Standard Model: Locally Unfolding Three Families out of E8, arXiv:0704.0445 [hep-th]. Phys. Rev. D76:045004. J. Bourjaily, Multiple Unfoldings of Orbifold Singularities: Engineering Geometric Analogies to Unification, arXiv:0704.0444 [hep-th]. Phys. Rev. D79:046005. J. Bourjaily, G. Kane, P. Kumar, and T. Wang, Outside the mSUGRA Box; hep-ph/0504170. J. Bourjaily and G. Kane, What is the Cosmological Significance of a Discovery of Wimps at Colliders or in Direct Experiments? Submitted to Phys Rev D; hep-ph/0501262. J. Bourjaily, Determining the Actual Local Density of Dark Matter Particles. Eur. Phys. J. C-D. Also to appear in the proceedings of ISSP 2004; astro-ph/0410470. J. Bourjaily, Weighing the Dark Matter Halo. To appear in "IDM 2004: The 5th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter," eds. N. Spooner and V. Kudryavtsev; astro-ph/0411409. Honors and Awards: Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 2011 Marshall Scholarship, 2005 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005-2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, 2004 Best Student, Erice International School of Subnuclear Physics 2004 Paul A. M. Dirac Diploma, Erice International School of Subnuclear Physics 2004 Best Presentation of a Theoretical Subject, Erice International School for Subnuclear Physics 2004, Weighing the Universe with Colliders and Detectors Writ and Mary Cornwell Fellowship, University of Michigan Department of Physics Margaret Hunt Scholarship, University of Michigan College of Literature Science and the Arts, covering full tuition and most living expenses Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics Award, University of Michigan Department of Mathematics Frank C. Mock Fellowship, University of Michigan Department of Physics Otto Graf Scholarship, University of Michigan Honors College Arthur B. Singleton Distinguished Class Prize, University of Michigan College of Engineering, awarded to the most outstanding first year engineering student Roger B. Chaffee Astronaut Memorial Scholar Kikuchi Memorial Scholar, University of Michigan Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Continuous Merit Scholarship, University of Michigan Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student Scholarship, 2002 American Nuclear Society Scholarship United States Department of Energy Nuclear Engineering Fellowship National Academy for Nuclear Training Scholarship University of Michigan Alumni Association Scholarship University of Michigan Club of Grand Rapids Scholarship James B. Angell Scholar, College of Literature, Science and the Arts William J. Branstrom Freshman Prize, University of Michigan George M. Landes Prize for Technical Communication (Second Place) University of Michigan Regents Merit Scholarship Thomas Strach Award for Excellence in Amateur Astronomy, Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association First Prize, Undergraduate Book Collecting Contest for the collection Landmarks in the History of Math and Science Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America Professional and Honorary Societies: Harvard Society of Fellows Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics American Physical Society American Mathematical Society Mathematical Association of America American Nuclear Society American Chemical Society Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honor Society Alpha Nu Sigma, National Honor Society for Nuclear Science Golden Key, National Academic Honor Society Delta Epsilon Iota, National Academic Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society	News and Updates: Added a list of still outstanding banknotes featuring scientists, mathematicians and science-related material. Recently updated my banknote collection, adding a fifth page. website last updated: 24th March 2013