'Gerald B. Cleaver'
[1] is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at
Baylor University [2] and is Head of the Early Universe Cosmology and Strings (EUCOS)
[3] division of Baylor's Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research (CASPER)
[4]. His research specialty is string phenomenology and string model building
[5].
John H. Schwarz, one of the founders of
string theory, was Cleaver's Ph.D. thesis advisor at
Caltech. While a postdoc at
Texas A&M working with
Dimitri Nanopoulos, Cleaver constructed the first string-derived model containing only the particles of the
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) in the observable sector
[6].
At Baylor University Cleaver has constructed the first string derived Near-MSSM
[7]
possessing the potential to resolve the factor-of-20 difference between the MSSM unification scale of 2.5x10^(16) GeV and the weakly coupled heterotic string scale of 5x10^(17) GeV via a robust method referred to as "Optical Unification"
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