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Keith Olive

Professor

414 Tate, 624-7354, email olive @ umn.edu Download curriculum vitae
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DISTINGUISHED MCKNIGHT UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR 1998-; Director, Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, 1999-2005; Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1987-94,George a Taylor Research Award, 1988, APS Fellow, 2003,

Member of the Particle Data Group, member of the international organizing committee for the IAU symposium on element abundances from Deuterium to Uranium, Paris, May 2005, co-organized the FTPI workshop on Mass, Light, and Chemistry held October 2005, organizing committee of the FTPI workshop on Continuous Advances in QCD, May 2006, international organizing committee for CIPANP 2006, June 2006, chair of the organizing committee of DSU07 held in June 2007, organizing committee of Workshop on Neutrino Frontiers held October 2008, organizing committee of the FTPI workshop on Continuous Advances in QCD, May 2008, scientific program committee for CIPANP 2009, May 2009, international organizing commitee of DSU09 held in June 2009, scientific organizing committee for JD9 of the IAU General Assembly help in August 2009.

Research Areas
Cosmology/Particle Physics

Current Research

My research is in the area of particle physics and cosmology. The main topics on which I work are: big bang nucleosynthesis, which is an explanation of the origin of the light element isotopes through 7Li; particle dark matter; big bang baryogenesis, which is an explanation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in nature; and inflation which is a theory constructed to resolve many outstanding problems in standard cosmology.

Advisees and Collaborators

Erik Aver, Physics Grad Student
Neil Barnaby, Research Associate
Marcos Garcia Garcia, Teaching Assistant
Kenji Kadota, Research Associate
Feng Luo, Research Assistant
Pearl Sandick, Graduate Fellow
Osamu Seto, Research Associate
Vasileios Spanos
Jiaming Zheng, Teaching Assistant

Selected Publications

E. Aver, K.A. Olive, and E.D. Skillman, A New Approach to Systematic Uncertainties and Self-Consistency in Helium Abundance Determinations, JCAP 1005:003

J. Ellis, K.A. Olive, C. M. Savage, and V. Spanos, Neutrino Fluxes from CMSSM LSP Annihilations in the Sun, Phys. Rev. D81:085004

A. Hosford, A.E. Garcia Perez, R. Collet, S.G. Ryan, J.E. Norris, and K.A. Olive, Lithium abundances of halo dwarfs based on excitation temperature. II. NLTE, A. A. 511:A47

O.~Buchmueller, R.~Cavanaugh, A.~De Roeck, J.R.~Ellis, H.~Fl\"acher, S.~Heinemeyer, G.~Isidori, K.A.~Olive, F.J.~Ronga, and G.~Weiglein, Predictions for $m_t$ and $M_W$ in Minimal Supersymmetric Models, Phys. Rev. D81: 035009

S. Ekstr\"om, A. Coc, P. Descouvemont, G. Meynet, K. A. Olive, J.-Ph. Uzan, and E. Vangioni, Effects of the variation of fundamental constants on Pop III stellar evolution,, A. A. 514:A62

Kenji Kadota and Keith A. Olive, Heavy Right-Handed Neutrinos and Dark Matter in the $\nu$CMSSM, Phys. Rev. D80:095015

O.~Buchmueller, R.~Cavanaugh, A.~De Roeck, J.R.~Ellis, H.~Fl\"acher, S.~Heinemeyer, G.~Isidori, K.A.~Olive, F.J.~Ronga, and G.~Weiglein, Likelihood Functions for Supersymmetric Observables in Frequentist Analyses of the CMSSM and NUHM1, Eur. J. Phys. C64:391

R.H. Cyburt, J. Ellis, B.D. Fields, F. Luo, K.A. Olive, and V. Spanos, Nucleosynthesis Constraints on a Massive Gravitino in Neutralino Dark Matter Scenarios, JCAP 0910:021

J. Cembranos, K.A. Olive, M. Peloso, and J.-P. Uzan, Quantum Corrections to the Cosmological Evolution of Conformally Coupled Fields, JCAP 0907:025

J. Ellis, K.A. Olive, and P. Sandick, Update on the Direct Detection of Dark Matter in MSSM Models with Non-Universal Higgs Masses, New J. Phys. 11:105015

Education

B.S. Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1978.
M.S. Physics, University of Chicago, 1978.
Ph.D. Physics, University of Chicago, 1981.