Aron Wall Explained

Aron C. Wall is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in quantum gravity. He is Lecturer of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is one of the winners of the 2019 New Horizons in Physics Prize.[1]

Biography and education

He was born on June 7, 1984, the son of programmer Larry Wall. He received a B.A. in liberal arts in 2005 from St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) and a Ph.D. in physics in 2011 from the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics of the University of Maryland, College Park, under advisor Ted Jacobson.

From 2011 to 2014 he was a Simons postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 2014 to 2017 a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, from 2017 to 2019 a fellow at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics and since then a lecturer in physics at the Cambridge University Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Research

In 2016, together with Ping Gao and, he proposed a mechanism for traversable wormholes without exotic matter.[2] It is based on the interpretation of wormholes as pairs of quantum entangled particles (EPR) by Leonard Susskind and Juan Martín Maldacena, known as the ER-EPR conjecture; however, Wall and colleagues did not use the usual Einstein-Rosen Bridges, but that their wormhole model provides a mathematically equivalent description to quantum teleportation.[3]

Most cited peer-reviewed publications

Personal life

According to his website, he is active in the New Life Church of the Nazarene.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L3837 Aron Wall - 2019 New Horizons in Physics Prize
  2. Natalie Wolchover: Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes, Quanta Magazine, October 23, 2017
  3. Web site: Aron Wall wins Breakthrough New Horizons Prize. University. Stanford. 2018-10-17. Stanford News. en. 2020-01-12.
  4. Google Scholar user page https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BlfllO8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao. Accessed Oct. 30, 2021
  5. http://www.wall.org/~aron/ Personal homepage