Freddy Cachazo

Freddy Alexander Cachazo is a Venezuelan-born

theoretical physicist who holds the Gluskin Sheff Freddy Cachazo
Freeman Dyson Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Nationality Venezuelan, Canadian
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Alma mater Harvard University (Ph.D.,
Ontario, Canada. 2002)
International Centre for
He is known for the contributions to quantum field Theoretical Physics (Diploma,
theory through the study of scattering amplitudes, in 1997)
particular in quantum chromodynamics, N = 4 Simón Bolívar University (B.S.,
supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory and quantum 1996)
gravity. His contributions include BCFW recursion
Known for BCFW recursion
relations, the CSW vertex expansion and the
CSW rules
amplituhedron. In 2014, Cachazo was awarded the
Soft graviton theorem
New Horizons Prize[1] for uncovering numerous
structures underlying scattering amplitudes in gauge Awards New Horizons Prize (2014)

theories and gravity.[2] Herzberg Medal (2012)

Rutherford Memorial Medal
(2011)

Academic career Scientific career

Fields Theoretical Physics
After graduating from Simón Bolívar University in
Institutions Perimeter Institute for
1996, Cachazo attended a year-long Postgraduate
Theoretical Physics
Diploma Programme at the International Centre for
Institute for Advanced Study
Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.[3] He was
Thesis Dualities in Field Theory from
admitted in Harvard University, where he completed
Geometric Transitions in String
the Ph.D. under the supervision of Cumrun Vafa in
Theory (2002)
2002.[4]
Doctoral Cumrun Vafa
Cachazo was a post-doctoral member of the Institute advisor
for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey in Website pitp.ca/people/Freddy-Cachazo
2002-05 and 2009-10.[5] In 2005, he became a faculty (http://pitp.ca/people/Freddy-Ca
member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical chazo)
Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, as well as an
Adjoint Faculty at the nearby University of Waterloo.[6] He currently holds the Gluskin Sheff Freeman
Dyson Chair in Theoretical Physics.[7]

Cachazo's research concerns quantum field theory, the underlying theory describing fundamental
interactions of particles and space-time itself. The research program is to understand their deep structure
through the study of scattering amplitudes. Such understanding allows for both efficient computation of
the probabilities of physical processes occurring and insights into the unknown structures of the gauge
theories and gravity.
Together with Ruth Britto, Bo Feng and Edward Witten, he introduced the recursion relations for the
computation of scattering amplitudes, which opened a new window for computations required at particle
accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider. With Nima Arkani-Hamed and collaborators, he studied
N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory and showed how to compute amplitudes at any order in the
perturbation theory. He co-discovered a new formalism unifying gauge theory and gravity in any space-
time dimension, known as the Cachazo-He-Yuan formulation.

Awards and honors

In 2009, he was awarded the Gribov Medal for an outstanding work by a young physicist from the
European Physical Society.[8] Two year later he won the Rutherford Medal,[9] an equivalent prize
awarded by the Royal Society of Canada. In 2012, Canadian Association of Physicists awarded Cachazo
with the Herzberg Medal.[10][11] Finally, he won the 2014 New Horizons Prize,[1][2] which by many is
regarded to be the most prestigious award for young theoretical physicists.

Selected publications
Britto, Ruth; Cachazo, Freddy; Feng, Bo; Witten, Edward (2005). "Direct proof of tree-level
recursion relation in Yang-Mills theory". Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (181602): 181602. arXiv:hep-
th/0501052 (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0501052). Bibcode:2005PhRvL..94r1602B (https://u
i.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005PhRvL..94r1602B). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181602 (htt
ps://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.94.181602). PMID 15904356 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nl
m.nih.gov/15904356). S2CID 10180346 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1018034
6).
Britto, Ruth; Cachazo, Freddy; Feng, Bo (2005). "Generalized unitarity and one-loop
amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills". Nucl. Phys. B725 (275–305): 275–305. arXiv:hep-
th/0412103 (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412103). Bibcode:2005NuPhB.725..275B (https://u
i.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005NuPhB.725..275B). doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.07.014 (htt
ps://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.nuclphysb.2005.07.014). S2CID 11653681 (https://api.semanticsc
holar.org/CorpusID:11653681).
Arkani-Hamed, Nima; Cachazo, Freddy; Kaplan, Jared (2010). "What is the Simplest
Quantum Field Theory?". JHEP. 1009:016 (9): 16. arXiv:0808.1446 (https://arxiv.org/abs/08
08.1446). Bibcode:2010JHEP...09..016A (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010JHEP...09..
016A). doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2010)016 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2FJHEP09%282010%2901
6). S2CID 118407741 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:118407741).
Cachazo, Freddy; Svrcek, Peter; Witten, Edward (2004). "MHV vertices and tree amplitudes
in gauge theory". JHEP. 2004 (9): 006. arXiv:hep-th/0403047 (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/04
03047). Bibcode:2004JHEP...09..006C (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004JHEP...09..0
06C). doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/006 (https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1126-6708%2F200
4%2F09%2F006). S2CID 16328643 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:16328643).
Arkani-Hamed, Nima; Bourjaily, Jacob L.; Cachazo, Freddy; Caron-Huot, Simon (2011).
"The All-Loop Integrand For Scattering Amplitudes in Planar N=4 SYM". JHEP. 1101:041:
41. arXiv:1008.2958 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2958). Bibcode:2011JHEP...01..041A (http
s://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011JHEP...01..041A). doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2011)041 (http
s://doi.org/10.1007%2FJHEP01%282011%29041). S2CID 8746937 (https://api.semanticsch
olar.org/CorpusID:8746937).
Arkani-Hamed, Nima; Bourjaily, Jacob L.; Cachazo, Freddy; Goncharov, Alexander B.;
Postnikov, Alexander; Trnka, Jaroslav (2012). "Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive
 Grassmannian". arXiv:1212.5605 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605) [hep-th (https://arxiv.org/
archive/hep-th)].
Arkani-Hamed, Nima; Cachazo, Freddy; Cheung, Clifford; Kaplan, Jared (2010). "A Duality
For The S Matrix". JHEP. 1003:020 (3): 20. arXiv:0907.5418 (https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.541
8). Bibcode:2010JHEP...03..020A (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010JHEP...03..020A).
doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2010)020 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2FJHEP03%282010%29020).
S2CID 5771375 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5771375).
Cachazo, Freddy; He, Song; Yuan, Ellis Ye (2014). "Scattering of Massless Particles in
Arbitrary Dimensions". Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 (171601): 171601. arXiv:1307.2199 (https://arxi
v.org/abs/1307.2199). Bibcode:2014PhRvL.113q1601C (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2
014PhRvL.113q1601C). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.171601 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2F
PhysRevLett.113.171601). PMID 25379910 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25379910).
S2CID 5970885 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5970885).
Cachazo, Freddy; Strominger, Andrew (2014). "Evidence for a New Soft Graviton Theorem".
arXiv:1404.4091 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4091) [hep-th (https://arxiv.org/archive/hep-th)].

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