Seminar Series - Matt Caplan, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Illinois State University
- Sponsor
- The Program in Arms Control and Domestic and International Security
- Contact
- ACDIS
- acdis@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- ACDIS: Arms Control & Domestic and International Security
Bio:
Dr. Caplan joined ISU in the fall of 2019. His PhD from Indiana University in 2017 won the Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics from the APS, and prior to joining ISU Dr. Caplan was a CITA National Fellow at the McGill Space Institute.
At ISU, he is the chair of the Twelve Thousand Bombs seminar series on nuclear weapons. Outside academia, he is a writer and scientific consultant for the YouTube channels "In a Nutshell" by Kurzgesagt and "PBS Space Time" by PBS Digital Studio, with writing credits on nearly 100 videos with combined view counts of a billion.
In 2021, Dr. Caplan was an inaugural Next-Generation Fellow of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. He won a Cottrell Scholar Award in 2023, he is a Kavli Scholar of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB (2022-2024), and he is a co-investigator of the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources (SCEECS).