Joseph Kiskis

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Professor Emeritus
Office: 378 Physics Building
Phone: +1 (530) 554-2465
Fax: +1 (530) 752-4717
Email: jekiskis@ucdavis.edu

Personal Professional Website: http://kiskis.physics.ucdavis.edu

Research Interests:

Lattice gauge theory, high energy theory; quantum field theory, theoretical physics.

Research Areas

Career History

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974-1976
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos Scientific Lab, 1976-1977
  • Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1977-1978
  • Oppenheimer Fellow, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1978-1980
  • Assistant Professor in Residence, University of California, Davis, 1980-1981
  • Associate Professor in Residence, University of California, Davis, 1981-1983
  • Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, 1983-1987
  • Professor, University of California, Davis, 1987-2013
  • Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis, 2013-Present

Honors

  • Charles P. Nash Prize on behalf of the Academic Federation, the Academic Senate and the Davis Faculty Association, 2012
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1981-85
  • Outstanding Junior Investigator, Department of Energy, 1981-83
  • Postdoctoral Publication Prize, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1980
  • Thesis Defense with Great Distinction, Stanford University, 1974
  • National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1969-72
  • Scholarship, Erice 1972
  • Summer School in High Energy Astrophysics and Its Relationship to Elementary Particle Physics, 1972
  • Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
  • Department of Physics Citation, University of California, Davis, 1969
  • Regents Scholar, University of California, Davis, 1965-69