Rate My Professor Steven Gottlieb

Steven Gottlieb is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Provost Professor Emeritus of Physics at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his AB in mathematics and physics from Cornell University and his PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1978. Since the early 1980s, Gottlieb has specialized in lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), employing advanced computational techniques to investigate the strong nuclear force governing quarks and gluons. As a founding member of the MILC Collaboration since 1990, he has led efforts in performing highly precise lattice QCD simulations, including calculations of the QCD hadron spectrum, masses of five of nature's six quarks, properties of the quark-gluon plasma, and weak matrix elements crucial for determining elements of the CKM quark mixing matrix. These computations play a vital role in testing the Standard Model and searching for new physics beyond it. Gottlieb frequently collaborates with the Fermilab Lattice Collaboration, was a member of the HotQCD collaboration, and contributes to the Flavour Lattice Averaging Group (FLAG) on semi-leptonic decays.

Gottlieb's research extends to high-performance computing, where he participates in the US Department of Energy-funded Exascale Computing Project, with additional support from the National Science Foundation and Intel. He holds the position of Associate Editor-in-Chief for Computing in Science and Engineering and serves as co-editor, alongside Rubin Landau, of the Series in Computational Physics published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. His influential publications include 'The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model' (2020), 'Chiral and deconfinement aspects of the QCD transition' (2012), 'Equation of state in (2+1)-flavor QCD' (2014), 'Review of lattice results concerning low-energy particle physics: Flavour Lattice Averaging Group (FLAG)' (2017), and 'Equation of state and QCD transition at finite temperature' (2009). Through these contributions, Gottlieb has pioneered advancements in theoretical elementary particle physics, enabling unprecedented accuracy in numerical predictions of subatomic phenomena.