Dr. Yost has been a member of the Physics Department faculty since 2008. He is an elementary particle theorist who specializes in the precision calculation of processes at high-energy colliders, such as the LHC at CERN, where he has a Visiting Scientist affiliation. He has also worked on String Theory and the mathematical aspects of Feynman diagrams. He has taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Baylor University, and Princeton University before coming to The Citadel.
News items:
2019 article on Dr. Yost in SFSSM Newsletter
2018 article on Dr. Yost in The Citadel Today.
Degrees:
- Ph.D. in Physics – Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
- B.S. in Physics – Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- B.S. in Mathematics – Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Research Interests:
Elementary Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Quantum Field Theory, Mathematical Physics