TATSU TAKEUCHI (Senior Personnel)
Tatsu Takeuchi received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Tokyo in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from Yale University in 1989. He worked as a research associate at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Stanford, CA, the Fermi National Accelerator Center (Fermilab) in Batavia, IL, and the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland before joining the Physics Department at Virginia Tech in 1997. His research concentrates on understanding the observational consequences of models beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, electroweak symmetry breaking, and neutrino physics. He is also keen in developing methods to explain physics to non-specialists and has written/illustrated a book on Einstein’s special relativity in 2005, which does not have a single equation but instead uses pictures called spacetime diagrams to explain the theory.