Stephen Parke

Stephen Parke
Born	1950 Gisborne, New Zealand
Residence	United States
Nationality	New Zealand United Kingdom United States
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Fermilab
Alma mater	St Peter's College, Auckland University of Auckland Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Sidney Coleman
Known for	MHV amplitudes in QCD, analytic understanding of MSW effect and top quark spin correlations

Stephen Parke (born 1950) is a New Zealand physicist. He is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia, Illinois).

Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, Parke attended St Peter's College, Auckland and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He was a graduate student of Sidney Coleman at Harvard University, obtaining a PhD in theoretical particle physics. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1980–1983) before moving to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Field of work

He is an originator of Parke-Taylor amplitudes, which represent a new approach to computing scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics using symmetry methods such as supersymmetry. Parke is also an expert on neutrino physics as well as the physics of the top quark.

See also

• List of alumni of St Peter's College, Auckland for more biographical details

External links

• Parke's scientific publications are available on the INSPIRE-HEP Literature Database [1].
• HEPNames profile: Stephen Parke
• Stephen Parke at Fermilab Theoretical Physics Department