Luboš Motl
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Image:LubosMotlPubMicro.jpg Luboš Motl, usually Lubos Motl in English, (born 1973) is a Czech theoretical physicist who works on string theory and conceptual problems of quantum gravity. He was born in Plzeň. He received his master degree from the Charles University in Prague, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Rutgers University and has been a Harvard Junior Fellow (2001-2004) at Harvard University where he is now an assistant professor.
Together with Robbert Dijkgraaf, Erik Verlinde, and Herman Verlinde, he is a co-founder of Matrix string theory, a nonperturbative definition of string theory. Recently he worked on the pp-wave limit of AdS/CFT correspondence; twistor theory and its application to gauge theory with supersymmetry; black hole thermodynamics and the conjectured relevance of quasinormal modes for loop quantum gravity; deconstruction, and other topics. He has a presence on the Internet, where he often participates in heated discussions supporting string theory against loop quantum gravity. Together with Urs Schreiber and Arvind Rajaraman, he is a co-founder and moderator of the sci.physics.strings newsgroup.
Motl translated "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene to Czech, and together with Miloš Zahradník, he co-authored a Czech textbook on linear algebra (We Grow Linear Algebra).
Motl is one of few Harvard faculty willing to openly defend president Lawrence Summers's controversial remarks regarding women in science. In fact Motl went beyond defending Summers's remarks and expanded upon them, asserting neurological evidence that women have inferior mathematical reasoning abilities Template:Citeneeded.
Other interests
Luboš Motl was well known in the BBS Liane community in the 1990's for his poetry and his posts on CzLove board.
Motl was very active member of several discussion forums in the Czech Republic during early 2000s. A large number of posts about his political opinions has gained Motl rather questionable reputation among left-wing activists there Template:Citeneeded.