Steve Sharpe
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, University of Washington

I joined the particle theory group in the Physics Department at the University of Washington in 1988. My current research interests focus on lattice gauge theory, in particular the calculation of weak matrix elements which are needed to constrain the Standard Model of particle physics, as well as the idea of "large-N reduction", whereby in the limit of the large number of colors one can reduce the volume of the theory to a single point. I am involved in the US national lattice QCD collaboration, "USQCD" (see links below). I am also a member of the Particle Data Group (link below), and of the Flavor Lattice Averaging Group.

My present graduate student is Max Hansen; I am also working closely with a visiting student from Krakow, Mateusz Koren.

My previous graduate students are Keith Clay (joint with Steve Ellis, presently Chair of Physics at Green River Community College), Yan Zhang (was postdoc at Beijing U., present whereabouts unknown), Noam Shoresh (joint with David B. Kaplan, first postdoc at Boston U, now on the research staff at the Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA) Ruth Van de Water (first postdoc at Fermilab, second at Brookhaven National Lab, now staff member at Fermilab) and Jackson Wu (first postdoc at Triumf, Vancouver, second at University of Bern, Switzerland, now in Taiwan), and Andrew Lytle (first postdoc at Univ. Southampton, England, now at TIFR, Mumbai, India).

Teaching (recent plus some old classes)

US mail: Stephen R. Sharpe
         Department of Physics
         University of Washington
	 Box 351560
         Seattle, WA 98195-1560
Office:  B406 Physics-Astronomy Building
Email:   sharpe@phys.washington.edu
Phone:   (206) 685-2395
FAX:     (206) 543-5923 or 685-0635
Steve Sharpe < sharpe@phys.washington.edu>
Last modified: 12/2010