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	Contact Information	Area of Expertise
	James R. Bensinger Abelson 312 (781) 736-2875 bensinger@brandeis.edu	Interactions of fundamental particles at the highest possible energy; experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider; development of the Atlas Experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN with the Brandeis experimental high-energy physics group.
	Craig A. Blocker Abelson 323 (781) 736-2879 blocker@brandeis.edu	High-energy proton-antiproton collisions at the Collider Detector at Fermilab; properties of intermediate vector bosons, bottom meson mixing, interactions of quarks and gluons and searches for new phenomena with the Brandeis experimental high-energy physics group.
	Bulbul Chakraborty Abelson 345/346 (781) 736-2843 bulbul@brandeis.edu	Condensed matter theory, especially systems far from equilibrium; glassy dynamics in supercooled liquids; granular media and the jamming of granular flows; modelling the dynamical instability in microtubules.
	Zvonimir Dogic Abelson 208 (781) 736-2167 zdogic@brandeis.edu	Complex fluids and biological physics; understanding and controling the self-assembly of matter on a colloidal length scale; assembly, phase transitions and dynamics of colloidal systems under nonequilibrium conditions.
	Seth Fraden Abelson 214 (781) 736-2888 fraden@brandeis.edu	Complex fluids; interparticle interactions and phase transitions in colloidal suspensions; entropy driven disorder-to-order transitions; physics of protein crystallization and the development of microfluidic-based, high-throughput crystallization devices.
	Michael Hagan Abelson 350 (781) 736-2845 hagan@brandeis.edu	Quantitative biology. Assembly and dynamic pattern formation in biological and biomimetic systems; computational and theoretical methods; viral capsids and other large protein complexes; rational design of novel materials with biomimetic function.
	Matthew Headrick Abelson 310 (781) 736-2858 mph@brandeis.edu	String theory and related areas of quantum field theory, general relativity and geometry.
	Lawrence E. Kirsch Abelson 313 (781) 736-2841 kirsch@brandeis.edu	Experiments at the Collider Detector Facility at Fermi Laboratory to study antiproton-proton interactions in the 2 TeV range; studies of multiparton collisions; construction of the muon subsystem for the ATLAS detector at CERN with the experimental high-energy physics group.
	Jané Kondev Abelson 301 (781) 736-2812 kondev@brandeis.edu	Condensed matter theory; biological physics; mechanical properties of polymers; regulation of gene expression and DNA packing in viruses; effect of confinement and constraints on the equilibrium structure and dynamics of fluctuating lines and surfaces.
	Albion Lawrence Abelson 344 (781) 736-2865 albion@brandeis.edu	Quantum field theory; string theory and their applications to particle physics, cosmology and quantum gravity; interface between theoretical physics and mathematics, especially algebraic geometry; application of quantum field theory to condensed matter physics.
	Robert B. Meyer Abelson 216 (781) 736-2870 meyer@brandeis.edu	Liquid crystals and complex fluids; patterns formed in two-dimensional systems; liquid crystal gels; basic science of these systems and possible practical applications.
	David H. Roberts Abelson 326 (781) 736-2846 roberts@brandeis.edu	Member of the astrophysics group; high-resolution astronomical observations of active galaxies at wavelengths covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum. These are carried out with the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array.
	Azadeh Samadani Abelson 221 (781) 736-2857 azadeh@brandeis.edu	Soft condensed matter and biological physics. Study of biological questions at the systems level, e.g., directional sensing mechanisms in eukaryotic cells; swimming microorganisms; population dynamics, pattern formation, predator-prey interaction.
	Howard J. Schnitzer Abelson 349 (781) 736-2882 schnitzr@brandeis.edu	Quantum field theory, conformal field theory and the theory of strings; testing M-theory by comparison of its predictions with known results of N=2 Seiberg-Witten supersymmetric gauge theories.
	John F.C. Wardle (chair) Abelson 329 (781) 736-2889 wardle@brandeis.edu	Astrophysics group. Polarization-sensitive observations of extragalactic radio sources, using the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Observations of X-ray–emitting jets in quasars with the Chandra Observatory.
	Hermann F. Wellenstein Abelson 121 (781) 736-2850 wellenst@brandeis.edu	Interactions of fundamental particles at the highest possible energy; design, building and testing with the other members of the Brandeis experimental high-energy physics group, the muon detector for the Atlas Experiment onthe Large Hadron Collider at CERN.