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412: 347:: "Today the interpretation of many experiments in high-energy physics requires multiloop quantum chromodynamics calculations, and Bill's result is a prime ingredient in every such calculation. It is also a critical ingredient in calculating the running of the coupling constants of the Standard Model's supersymmetric extensions, calculations that are interpreted these days as evidence for both grand unification and low-energy supersymmetry. Thus Bill's work is also crucial to our thinking about physics beyond the Standard Model." 40: 371:
and paper output, Caswell felt that pure hand calculation was excruciating to perform and impractical to check. Looking into the then-uncharted world of machine symbolic calculation, he adapted Tony Hearn's REDUCE program in order to graph out calculations. Today his work is utilized in the multiloop
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Caswell was an assistant professor at Brown University from 1977 to 1979, and an assistant professor at the University of Maryland from 1979 to 1983. In 1983, Caswell left academic work for a position as a civilian scientist in the
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and renormalization group ideas, in which he himself made several pioneering contributions, the highpoint of which was his 1972 calculation of the beta function to two-loop accuracy. According to
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properties. His thesis, published in 1974, was groundbreaking work that encouraged and shaped future research. To quote his obituary in
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did significant work in 1978 to develop new and powerful tools for dealing with bound states such as
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in three years with a degree in physics in 1968. He then attended graduate school for physics at
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quantum chromodynamics calculations that are used in high-energy physics experiments.
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His parents were involved in the design of a memorial to 9/11 victims in
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Asymptotic Behavior of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories to Two-Loop Order
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William Edward Caswell was born on June 22, 1947, in
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William Caswell (disambiguation)

Boston
Arlington, Virginia
University of Maryland, College Park
BS
Princeton University
PhD
quantum gauge theory
Brown University
Naval Surface Weapons Center
Thesis
Asymptotic Behavior of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories to Two-Loop Order
Doctoral advisor
Curtis Callan
quantum gauge theory
FORTRAN
computer algebra
September 11 attacks
American Airlines Flight 77
Pentagon
Boston, Massachusetts
Silver Spring, Maryland
University of Maryland
Phi Beta Kappa
Princeton University
Army
Vietnam War
drill sergeant
basic training

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