Matthew Headrick

Matthew Peter Headrick (born ca. 1973^[6]) is an American physicist who is an Associate Professor of Physics at Brandeis University.^[3][1][4] He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2002 under Shiraz Minwalla and his A.B from Princeton University in 1994.^[1] Headrick is known for his contributions to the quantum information perspective on holography.

Matthew Peter Headrick
Born	About 1973
Alma mater	Harvard University Princeton University[1] UCLS[2]
Awards	Regeneron Science Talent Search[2] NSF-GRF Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Xi[3]
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist[4]
Institutions	Brandeis University[4] Stanford University MIT Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Harvard University Peace Corps[3]
Thesis	Noncommutative solitons and closed string tachyons[5]  (2002)
Doctoral advisor	Shiraz Minwalla[5]
Other academic advisors	J. Richard Gott[3]
Website	www.brandeis.edu/departments/physics/people/faculty/headrick.html

Headrick is notable as the 1990 winner of the Intel (then Westinghouse) Science Talent Search while a high school student at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, an event that generated intense media coverage.^[2][7] He appeared on talk shows including Today.^[6][8] In response to the award, then-Illinois Gov. Thompson declared a "Matthew Headrick Day"^[6][9] and the US House of Representatives also made a proclamation.^[6]

Selected publications

• Constable, Neil R; Freedman, Daniel Z; Headrick, Matthew; Minwalla, Shiraz; Motl, Lubos; Postnikov, Alexander; Skiba, Witold (2002). "PP-wave string interactions from perturbative Yang–Mills theory". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2002 (7): 017. arXiv:hep-th/0205089. Bibcode:2002JHEP...07..017C. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/07/017. S2CID 3206249.
• Constable, Neil R; Freedman, Daniel Z; Headrick, Matthew; Minwalla, Shiraz (2002). "Operator Mixing and the BMN Correspondence". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2002 (10): 068. arXiv:hep-th/0209002. Bibcode:2002JHEP...10..068C. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/10/068. S2CID 118892195.
• Gopakumar, Rajesh; Headrick, Matthew; Spradlin, Marcus (2003). "On Noncommutative Multi-Solitons". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 233 (2): 355–381. arXiv:hep-th/0103256. Bibcode:2003CMaPh.233..355G. doi:10.1007/s00220-002-0734-z. S2CID 119547261.
• Headrick, Matthew; Takayanagi, Tadashi (2007). "Holographic proof of the strong subadditivity of entanglement entropy". Physical Review D. 76 (10): 106013. arXiv:0704.3719. Bibcode:2007PhRvD..76j6013H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.106013. S2CID 7716686.
• Headrick, Matthew (2010). "Entanglement Rényi entropies in holographic theories". Physical Review D. 82 (12): 126010. arXiv:1006.0047. Bibcode:2010PhRvD..82l6010H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.126010. S2CID 118447819.
• Headrick, Matthew; Hubeny, Veronika E.; Lawrence, Albion; Rangamani, Mukund (2014). "Causality & holographic entanglement entropy". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014 (12): 162. arXiv:1408.6300. Bibcode:2014JHEP...12..162H. doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2014)162. S2CID 53656032.

See also

• List of University of Chicago Laboratory Schools people