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.