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Matthew Reece
Curriculum Vitae
Updated November 11, 2014
Contact Information
569 Jefferson Laboratory
17 Oxford Street
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 496-9123
Email: mreece@physics.harvard.edu
Web: http://physics.harvard.edu/ mreece/
Positions
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Harvard University, July 2012 – Present.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard
University, September 2011 – June 2012.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University,
September 2008 – August 2011
• Graduate Fellow, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California in Santa
Barbara, January – June, 2008.
Education
Cornell University
2004 - 2008
•
Ph.D., Summer 2008
Advisor: Csaba Cs´aki
University of Chicago
• 2000-2004
BA Physics and Mathematics, 2004
Ithaca, NY
Chicago, IL
Publications
Note: JHEP = Journal of High Energy Physics; JCAP = Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
1. JiJi Fan, Matthew Reece, and Lian-Tao Wang, “Possible Futures of Electroweak Precision:
ILC, FCC-ee, and CEPC,” arXiv:1411.1054 [hep-ph].
2. Andrey Katz, Matthew Reece, and Aqil Sajjad. “Naturalness, b → sγ, and SUSY Heavy
Higgses,” JHEP 1410 (2014) 102, arXiv:1406.1172 [hep-ph].
3. Rebecca Krall, Matthew Reece, and Thomas Roxlo, “Effective field theory and keV lines
from dark matter,” JCAP 1409 (2014) 007, arXiv:1403.1240 [hep-ph].
4. Lisa Randall and Matthew Reece, “Dark Matter as a Trigger for Periodic Comet Impacts,”
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161301 (2014), arXiv:1403.0576 [astro-ph]. Featured in an APS Physics
Viewpoint; selected as a PRL Editors’ Suggestion.
5. JiJi Fan and Matthew Reece, “A New Look at Higgs Constraints on Stops,” JHEP 1406
(2014) 031, arXiv:1401.7671 [hep-ph].
6. JiJi Fan and Matthew Reece, “In Wino Veritas: Indirect Searches Shed Light on Neutralino
Dark Matter,” JHEP 1310 (2013) 124, arXiv:1307.4400.
7. JiJi Fan, Andrey Katz, Lisa Randall, and Matthew Reece, “A Dark-Disk Universe,” Phys.
Rev. Lett. 110, 211302 (2013), arXiv:1303.3271 [hep-ph]. Featured in an APS Physics
Synopsis.
8. JiJi Fan, Andrey Katz, Lisa Randall, and Matthew Reece, “Double-Disk Dark Matter,” Phys.
Dark Univ. 2, 139 (2013). arXiv:1303.1521 [astro-ph].
9. JiJi Fan and Matthew Reece, “Probing Charged Matter Through h → γγ, Gamma Ray Lines,
and EDMs,” JHEP 1306 (2013) 004, arXiv:1301.2597 [hep-ph].
10. JiJi Fan and Matthew Reece, “A Simple Recipe for the 111 and 128 GeV Lines,” Phys. Rev.
D. 88, 035014 (2013). arXiv:1209.1097 [hep-ph].
11. Matthew Reece, “Vacuum Instabilities with a Wrong-Sign Higgs-Gluon-Gluon Amplitude,”
New J. Phys. 15 (2013) 043003, arXiv:1208.1765 [hep-ph].
12. Lisa Randall and Matthew Reece, “Single-Scale Natural SUSY,” JHEP 08 (2013) 88,
arXiv:1206.6540 [hep-ph].
13. Zhenyu Han, Andrey Katz, David Krohn, and Matthew Reece, “(Light) Stop Signs,” JHEP
08 (2012) 083, arXiv:1205.5808 [hep-ph].
14. JiJi Fan, Matthew Reece, and Joshua T. Ruderman, “A Stealth Supersymmetry Sampler,”
JHEP 07 (2012) 196, arXiv:1201.4875 [hep-ph].
15. Patrick Draper, Patrick Meade, Matthew Reece, and David Shih, “Implications of a 125 GeV
Higgs for the MSSM and Low-Scale SUSY Breaking,” Phys. Rev. D 85, 095007 (2012),
arXiv:1112.3068 [hep-ph].
16. Yevgeny Kats, Patrick Meade, Matthew Reece, and David Shih, “The Status of GMSB After
1/fb at the LHC,” JHEP 1202 (2012) 115, arXiv:1110.6444 [hep-ph].
17. JiJi Fan, Matthew Reece, and Lian-Tao Wang, “Mitigating Moduli Messes in Low-Scale
SUSY Breaking,” JHEP 09 (2011) 126, arXiv:1106.6044 [hep-ph].
18. JiJi Fan, Matthew Reece, and Joshua T. Ruderman, “Stealth Supersymmetry,” JHEP 11
(2011) 012, arXiv:1105.5135 [hep-ph].
19. JiJi Fan, Matthew Reece, and Lian-Tao Wang, “Nonrelativistic effective theory of dark
matter direct detection,” JCAP 11 (2010) 042, arXiv:1008.1591 [hep-ph].
20. Patrick Meade, Matthew Reece, and David Shih, “Long-Lived Neutralino NLSPs,” JHEP 10
(2010) 067, arXiv:1006.4575 [hep-ph].
21. Matthew Reece and Lian-Tao Wang, “Randall-Sundrum and Strings,” JHEP 07 (2010) 040,
arXiv:1003.5669 [hep-ph].
22. G. Amelino-Camelia et al. [KLOE collaboration], “Physics with the KLOE-2 experiment at
the upgraded DAΦNE,” Eur. Phys. J. C 68, 619 (2010), arXiv:1003.3868 [hep-ex].
23. Patrick Meade, Matthew Reece, and David Shih, “Prompt Decays of General Neutralino
NLSPs at the Tevatron,” JHEP 05 (2010) 105, arXiv:0911.4130 [hep-ph].
24. Matthew Reece and Lian-Tao Wang, “Searching for the light dark gauge boson in GeV-scale
experiments,” JHEP 07 (2009) 051, arXiv:0904.1743 [hep-ph].
25. Csaba Cs´aki, Matthew Reece, and John Terning. “The AdS/QCD Correspondence: Still
Undelivered,” JHEP 05 (2009) 067, arXiv:0811.3001 [hep-ph].
26. Kaustubh Agashe, Csaba Cs´aki, Christophe Grojean, and Matthew Reece. “The S
Parameter in Holographic Technicolor Models,” JHEP 12 (2007) 003, arXiv:0704.1821
[hep-ph].
27. Patrick Meade and Matthew Reece, “BRIDGE: Branching Ratio Inquiry / Decay Generated
Events,” arXiv:hep-ph/0703031.
28. Csaba Cs´aki and Matthew Reece, “Toward a Systematic Holographic QCD: A Braneless
Approach,” JHEP 05 (2007) 062, arXiv:hep-ph/0608266.
29. Patrick Meade and Matthew Reece, “Top Partners at the LHC: Spin and Mass
Measurement,” Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 015010, arXiv:hep-ph/0601124.
30. Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Csaba Cs´aki, Christophe Grojean, Matthew Reece, and John
Terning. “Top and Bottom: a Brane of Their Own,” Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 095018,
arXiv:hep-ph/0505001
31. Markus Duelli, Matthew Reece, and Robert W. Cohn, “A modified minimum-distance
criterion for blended random and nonrandom encoding,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 16, 2425–2438
(1999).
Peer-Reviewed, Invited Conference Proceedings
1. Matthew Reece, “The Status of AdS/QCD,” The IX International Conference on Quark
Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, AIP Conf. Proc. 1343, 117-122 (2011)
Other Publications
1. Matthew Reece, “Tracking Subatomic Physicists” (a review of the film Particle Fever).
Science 343, 1434 (2014).
Teaching
• Fall 2014: Quantum Mechanics I (Harvard University, Physics 143a)
• Spring 2014: The Standard Model (Harvard University, Physics 254)
• Fall 2013: Quantum Field Theory 1 (Harvard University, Physics 253a)
• Spring 2013: The Standard Model (Harvard University, Physics 254)
Simulation and Software Development
• 2009: Developing Monte Carlo tools for simulation of a GeV-scale secluded sector (with
L.-T. Wang). Available at http://phy-gzk.princeton.edu/LeptonJets/.
• 2006-07 (with ongoing maintenance): Coauthor (with P. Meade) of BRIDGE, Monte Carlo
software for computing decay widths in arbitrary physics models and decaying unstable
particles in events produced by other event generators. Available at
http://lepp.cornell.edu/public/theory/BRIDGE.
• 2006-07: Produced a “black box” of sample LHC new physics data for the 4th LHC
Olympics workshop, using MadGraph, BRIDGE, Pythia, and PGS (with P. Meade,
P. Onyisi, and M. Perelstein).
Funding
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant PHY 1415548 “Hidden Particles
in Weak Scale Physics and Beyond”
Awards and Honors
• KITP Graduate Fellow, Spring 2008
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2004
• Cornell University Olin Graduate Fellowship, 2004
• Paul R. Cohen Memorial Prize in Mathematics, 2004
• John Haeseler Lewis Prize in Physics, 2004
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2003
• David W. Grainger Senior Scholarship in Physics, 2003
• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 2002
• University of Chicago College Honor Scholarship, 2000
• University of Chicago Dean’s Grant, 2000
• Intel Science Talent Search, 6th Place, 2000
Invited Plenary Talks at Large International Conferences
• Naturalness 2014, Tel Aviv, November 16, 2014
“Natural SUSY’s Last Hiding Places”
• LHCP, Barcelona, May 16, 2013
“Supersymmetry: Where Do We Stand?”
• 9th International Conference on Identification of Dark Matter (IDM), July 26, 2012
“Supersymmetry: Where Do We Stand?”
• Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX, Madrid, September 3, 2010
“The AdS/QCD Correspondence: Still Undelivered”
Colloquia
• Cornell University Physics Colloquium, November 24, 2014
“Supersymmetry After the LHC’s First Run”
• Brandeis University Physics Colloquium, October 21, 2014
“After the Higgs: What’s Next for Particle Physics?”
• Oskar Klein Center Colloquium, Stockholm, May 14, 2013
“Modeling Bright Gamma Ray Lines”
• York University Physics Colloquium, March 7, 2012
“Theory Confronts the LHC: Sizing Up Supersymmetry”
• Ohio State University Physics Colloquium, January 11, 2012
“Theory Confronts the LHC: Sizing Up Supersymmetry”
Other Talks
• Hidden Dark Matter Conference, Michigan CTP, November 9, 2014
“SUSY DM loopholes: hidden sectors, sequestering, or...?”
• University of Chicago Theory Seminar, November 5, 2014
“Searching for SUSY, Natural or Not”
• Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar, October 16, 2014
“Natural SUSY’s Last Hiding Places”
• University of Cincinnati Particle Theory Seminar, September 30, 2014
“Natural SUSY’s Last Hiding Places”
• US ATLAS Workshop, Seattle, August 4, 2014
“Cosmology and the LHC”
• Fermilab Theory Seminar, July 24, 2014
“In Wino Veritas?’
• Fermilab LHC Physics Center Topic of the Week Seminar, July 22, 2014
“Natural SUSY’s Last Hiding Places”
• Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics and Cosmology Workshop, Budapest, June 30, 2014
“Astrophysical Signals of Dissipative Dark Matter”
• Frontiers of New Physics Workshop, ICTP in Trieste, June 24, 2014
“What Could We Learn From Future Colliders?”
• Stanford University SITP Seminar, May 29, 2014
“Dissipative Dark Matter: Dark Disks and Impact Craters”
• Cornell University Particle Theory Seminar, May 16, 2014
“Dissipative Dark Matter: Dark Disks and Impact Craters”
• Center for Future High Energy Physics, Beijing, March 11 and 13, 2014
Lecturer / discussion leader on the status of supersymmetry
• Berkeley Particle Theory Seminar, February 26, 2014
“Double-Disk Dark Matter”
• LBNL Research Progress Meeting, February 25, 2014
“Searching for SUSY, Natural or Not”
• Cosmology at Colliders, TRIUMF, December 10, 2013
“Higgs Beyond the Standard Model: Expectations in Strongly versus Weakly Interacting
Theories”
• SUSY at the Near Energy Frontier, Fermilab, November 11, 2013
“Naturalness and Supersymmetry”
• Johns Hopkins University Particle Theory Seminar, November 5, 2013
“Double-Disk Dark Matter”
• Higgs Couplings 2013, University of Freiburg, October 15, 2013
“Higgs Beyond the Standard Model: Expectations in Strongly versus Weakly Interacting
Theories”
• Syracuse University Particle Theory Seminar, September 20, 2013
“Constraints on Neutralino Dark Matter”
• SEARCH Workshop at Stony Brook University, August 21, 2013
“(Where) Are the Top Partners Hiding?”
• MIT Particle Theory Seminar, May 6, 2013
“Double-Disk Dark Matter’
• Princeton PCTS Workshop: Higgs Physics After Discovery, April 26, 2013
“The Higgs, Vacuum Stability, and Other Constraints”
• APS April Meeting, Denver, CO, April 15, 2013
“Supersymmetry: Where Do We Stand?”
• Snowmass Energy Frontier Top Group Meeting, January 30, 2013
“Stealth Stop Searches”
• Stanford University SITP Seminar, January 14, 2013
“Do Higgs Decays and Fermi-LAT Data Hint at New Charged Particles?”
• UC Irvine Particle Seminar, January 9, 2013
“Do Higgs Decays and Fermi-LAT Data Hint at New Charged Particles?”
• Frontiers of Beyond the Standard Model III, Minneapolis, October 11, 2012
“Do We Have Hints of New Physics in 2012 Data?”
• University of Chicago Particle Theory Seminar, October 10, 2012
“Possibilities for the Fermi-LAT Gamma Ray Lines”
• Harvard-Smithsonian CfA ITC Lunch Talk, September 26, 2012
“Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Theory”
• Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar, September 7, 2012
“Possibilities for the Fermi-LAT Gamma Ray Lines”
• LHC Workshop in Chicago, May 4, 2012
“Stop Signs at the LHC”
• Case Western Reserve University Seminar, May 1, 2012
“Supersymmetry, Naturalness, and the LHC: Where Do We Stand?”
• PCTS “Hot Topics at Colliders” Workshop, April 27, 2012
“What to Make of a 125 GeV Higgs”
• Perimeter Institute “Higgs: Now and in the Future” Workshop, April 24, 2012
“SUSY, Higgs, and Stop”
• Brandeis University Seminar, April 17, 2012
“Supersymmetry, Naturalness, and the LHC: Where Do We Stand?”
• Perimeter Institute Seminar, March 9, 2012
“Supersymmetry and a 125 GeV Higgs: What Next?”
• NPKI (New Physics @ Korea Institute) Launching Workshop, February 27, 2012
“Stops, Naturalness, and 125 GeV: What Next?”
• Aspen Winter Conference, February 15, 2012
“Supersymmetry: Where Are We?”
• Johns Hopkins University Particle Theory Seminar, February 6, 2012
“Theory Confronts the LHC: Sizing Up Supersymmetry”
• University of Wisconsin Particle Theory Seminar, January 31, 2012
“Theory Confronts the LHC: Sizing Up Supersymmetry”
• Pitt PACC Workshop on the Light Higgs, January 13, 2012
“Options for a 125 GeV Higgs with SUSY”
• University of Wisconsin Particle Theory Seminar, December 6, 2011
“Stealth Supersymmetry”
• Harvard University Seminar, November 30, 2011
“Lessons for SUSY from the LHC”
• University of Michigan Brown Bag Lunch Talk, November 16, 2011
“Stealth Supersymmetry”
• UC Davis Workshop on Hidden SUSY, November 9, 2011
“Stealth Supersymmetry”
• Ohio State University Particle Theory Seminar, October 31, 2011
“Stealth Supersymmetry”
• Stanford SITP Seminar, October 3, 2011
“Stealth Supersymmetry”
• Boston University Particle Theory Seminar, September 26, 2011
“Low-Scale SUSY Breaking: Coliders and Cosmology”
• KITP Program “The First Year of the LHC,” August 11, 2011
“Assessing SUSY After 1 fb−1 ”
• Aspen Center for Physics Seminar, July 14, 2011
“Stealth Supersymmetry”
• MIT Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar, March 14, 2011
“Low-Scale SUSY Breaking: Colliders and Cosmology”
• University of Maryland Particle Theory Seminar, March 3, 2011
“Low-Scale SUSY Breaking: Colliders and Cosmology”
• Rutgers High Energy Theory Seminar, February 22, 2011
“Low-Scale SUSY Breaking: Colliders and Cosmology”
• UC Davis Particle Theory Seminar, January 31, 2011
“Low-Scale SUSY Breaking: Colliders and Cosmology”
• Stony Brook Seminar, November 10, 2010
“Long-Lived Neutral Particles at the LHC”
• IAS Group Meeting, November 3, 2010
“Informal Thoughts on Supersymmetry Breaking and Moduli”
• Perimeter Institute Particle Theory Seminar, October 16, 2010
“Long-Lived Neutral Particles at the LHC”
• Rutgers LHC Lunch, September 29, 2010
“Long-Lived Neutral Particles at the LHC”
• Los Alamos Particle Theory Seminar, June 24, 2010
“The QCD Strings of Randall-Sundrum Models”
• UC Davis Particle Theory Seminar, May 24, 2010
“The QCD Strings of Randall-Sundrum Models”
• UC Berkeley Particle Theory Seminar, May 3, 2010
“Phenomenology of General Neutralino NLSPs”
• SLAC Theory Seminar, April 28, 2010
“The QCD Strings of Randall-Sundrum Models”
• Johns Hopkins University Particle Theory Seminar, March 25, 2010
“The QCD Strings of Randall-Sundrum Models”
• Cornell University Particle Theory Seminar, February 17, 2010
“Phenomenology of General Neutralino NLSPs”
• University of Maryland Particle Theory Seminar, November 23, 2009
“Phenomenology of General Neutralino NLSPs”
• Harvard University Particle Theory Seminar, November 17, 2009
“Phenomenology of General Neutralino NLSPs”
• Boston University Particle Theory Seminar, November 16, 2009
“Phenomenology of General Neutralino NLSPs”
• GGI Workshop: Searching for New Physics at the LHC, Florence, September 23, 2009
“The AdS/QCD Correspondence: Still Undelivered”
• Weak Interactions and Neutrinos ’09 Conference in Perugia, September 16, 2009
“Probing a GeV Dark Sector at Colliders”
• Brookhaven HET/RIKEN Seminar, May 20, 2009
“The AdS/QCD Correspondence: Still Undelivered”
• Long-Lived Particles Workshop at UW Seattle, May 5, 2009
“Secluded GeV-Scale U(1) At Colliders”
• UT Austin Theory Seminar, April 14, 2009
“Phenomenology of Higgsino NLSPs”
• MC4BSM Conference at UC Davis, April 5, 2009
“Collider Signatures of Long-Lived Neutral Particles”
• IAS/Princeton High Energy Theory Seminar, January 23, 2009
“Aspects of Confining Gauge Theories at Large vs. Small ’t Hooft Coupling”
• Yale Particle Theory Seminar, January 20, 2009
“The AdS/QCD Correspondence: Still Undelivered”
• Rutgers High Energy Theory Seminar, November 25, 2008
“Phenomenology of Higgsino NLSPs”
• Beyond the Standard Model Workshop at Fermilab, September 17, 2008
“Higgsino NLSPs at the Tevatron and LHC”
• KITP Conference: Anticipating Physics at the LHC, June 6, 2008
“Aspects of Gauge Mediation at the LHC”
• University of California at Irvine Particle Seminar, May 7, 2008
“Mass Spectrum and Scattering in Randall-Sundrum Models”
• KITP Program on Physics of the Large Hadron Collider, February 15, 2008
“Mass and Spin Determination at the LHC”
• Princeton/IAS Joint Phenomenology Seminar, November 29, 2007
“Constraints on the S parameter”
• Ultra-Mini Workshop: Dark Matter and the LHC, November 2007
“Mass Determination with Missing Energy”
University of Edinburgh
• Boston University Particle Theory Seminar, September 24, 2007
“Constraints on the S parameter”
• Johns Hopkins University Particle Theory Seminar, September 19, 2007
“Constraints on the S parameter”
• SUSY 07, July 2007
“The S-parameter in holographic technicolor”
Karlsruhe, Germany
• Monte Carlo Tools for Beyond the SM Workshop, March 2007
(Part of “Physics at the LHC” workshop)
“BRIDGE: a calculator for widths and decays”
Princeton, NJ
• SLAC Theory Seminar, October 11, 2006
“Braneless AdS/QCD and Regge Physics”
• Rochester HEP/Nuc Seminar, October 3, 2006
“Top partners at the LHC with MadGraph”
• Santa Fe Summer Workshop, July 2006
“A Braneless Approach to AdS/QCD”,
Santa Fe, NM
• TASI student seminar, June 2006
“Holography and Hadrons”,
University of Colorado at Boulder
• Monte Carlo Tools for Beyond the SM Workshop, March 2006
“Top partners at the LHC with MadGraph”,
Fermilab
• 2nd LHC Olympics Workshop
“Cornell Results on the Harvard Black Box”
CERN
• 5th Syracuse–Cornell Theory Meeting, December 2005
“Top partners at the LHC: mass and spin measurement”
Syracuse University
• APS April Meeting 2004
“Studies on τ lepton identification for top (and more!) at CDF”
Philadelphia, PA
• APS April Meeting 2003
“Using track impact parameter to distinguish hadronically-decaying taus in top quark
decays”
Philadelphia, PA
Organizing and Other Experience
• Co-organizer, Primordial Physics Workshop
Aspen Center for Physics, Summer 2015
(Organized with D. Baumann, E. Komatsu, and L. McAllister)
• Colloquium committee chair, Harvard Physics Department, 2014–2015
• Co-organizer, Harvard Self Interacting Dark Matter Workshop
Harvard University, August 7 to 9, 2013
(Organized with J. Fan, M. Freytsis, A. Katz, J. Shelton, M. Vogelsberger and M. Walker)
• Graduate admissions committee, Harvard Physics Department, 2013
• Co-organizer, “Understanding the TeV Scale Through LHC Data, Dark Matter, and Other
Experiments”
GGI Workshop, Arcetri, Florence, Italy, October & November, 2012
(Organized with N. Arkani-Hamed, R. Barbieri, S. De Curtis, B. Heinemann, G. Rolandi,
and L.-T. Wang)
• Co-organizer, “Dark Matter: Direct Detection and Theoretical Developments”
PCTS Workshop, Princeton, NJ, November 15-16, 2010
(Organized with J. Fan, M. Lisanti, and L.-T. Wang)
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• Co-organizer, Eotv
workshop,
“Beyond the Standard Model at the Dawn of the LHC Era”
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¨ University (ELTE), Budapest, June 25-29, 2007
Eotv
(Organized with C. Cs´aki, F. Csikor, G. Cynolter, J. Heinonen, and Z. Horv´ath)
• Organized Cornell group meetings on collider phenomenology, Fall semester 2006
• Courses graded at Cornell:
Physics 651, “Relativistic Quantum Field Theory 1”, taught by Maxim Perelstein, Fall
Semester 2005
Physics 652, “Relativistic Quantum Field Theory 2”, taught by Andr´e Leclair, Spring
Semester 2006
Physics 683, “Supersymmetry”, taught by Girma Hailu, Spring Semester 2007