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Matthew Headrick
Abelson 310
(781) 736-2858
mph@brandeis.edu

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Matthew Headrick

Assistant Professor of Physics
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003

matthew headrickMatthew Headrick's research interests lie primarily in string theory and related areas of quantum field theory, general relativity and geometry.

CV and list of publications


Sample of Recent Publications

"Energy functionals for Calabi-Yau metrics," by M. Headrick and T. Nassar, eprint: 0908.2635 [hep-th]

"A new approach to static numerical relativity, and its application to Kaluza-Klein black holes," by M. Headrick, S. Kitchen, and T. Wiseman, eprint: 0905.1822 [gr-qc]

"A note on tachyon actions in string theory," by M. Headrick, Phys. Rev. D79: 046009 (2009), eprint: arXiv:0810.2809 [hep-th]

"Hedgehog black holes and the Polyakov loop at strong coupling," by M. Headrick, Phys. Rev. D77: 105017 (2008), eprint: arXiv:0712.4155 [hep-th]

"A holographic proof of the strong subadditivity of entanglement entropy," by M. Headrick and T. Takayanagi, Phys. Rev. D76: 106013 (2007), eprint: arXiv:0704.3719 [hep-th]

"On closed string tachyon dynamics", by Daniel Z. Freedman, Matthew Headrick, and Albion Lawrence, Phys. Rev. D73:066015 (2006), eprint: hep-th/0510126