Keith Olive

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,

Co-organizer of a workshop on Cosmic-Ray Production of the LiBeB elements held in Paris in Dec 1998, co-orgainized the TPI workshop on QCD, May 2000, co-organized a session at the Rochester Meeting on Particle Physics in Osaka Japan, July 2000, co-organized the TPI workshop on Supersymmetry, October 2000, organizing committee of a workshop celebrating the 60th birthdays of J. Audouze and J. Truran in Paris, Novemeber 2000, organizing committee of the workshop Deuterium in the Universe ,Paris, June 2001, organizing committee of Cosmo 2001 to be held in Finland September 2001, organizing committee for Arkadyfest to be held in TPI May 2002, organizing committee of SUSY 2002 to be held in Munich June 2002, co-organized the TPI workshop on Frontiers beyond the standard model, October 2002, co-organized the TPI workshop on CMB polarization, March 2003, APS Neutrino Study 2004,. organizing committee of the FTPI workshop on Continuous Advances in QCD, May 2004, co-organized the FTPI workshop on Frontiers beyond the standard model, October 2004, 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 to be held in June 2007.

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.