Faculty
Faculty / Contact
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Aparna Baskaran Abelson 306 (781) 736-2866 aparna@brandeis.edu |
Condensed matter theory; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; emergent phenomena such as phase transitions and pattern formation in far-from-equilibrium complex fluids including granular materials, self-propelled particles and other active materials. |
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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. |
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Craig A. Blocker Abelson 323 (781) 736-2879 blocker@brandeis.edu Graduate advising head |
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. |
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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. |
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Zvonimir Dogic Abelson 222 (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. |
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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. |
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Michael Hagan Abelson 350 (781) 736-2845 hagan@brandeis.edu |
Application of statistical mechanics, modern computational techniques, and theory to problems in biology and condensed matter physics; assembly of viral capsids and other large protein complexes; pattern formation in collections of internally driven particles; effects of molecular chirality on large-scale structure. |
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Matthew Headrick Abelson 310 (781) 736-2858 mph@brandeis.edu |
String theory and related areas of quantum field theory, general relativity and geometry; elliptic numerical relativity; quantum information theory and its relation to holography and quantum gravity. |
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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. |
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Jané Kondev Abelson 301 (781) 736-2812 kondev@brandeis.edu |
Condensed matter theory and quantitative biology; application of condensed matter physics models to problems in molecular and cell biology such as regulation of gene expression and chromosome structure. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Gabriella Sciolla Abelson 313 (781) 736-2841 sciolla@brandeis.edu |
Experimental high-energy physics group; physics beyond the Standard Model; Dark Matter detection with DMTPC; search for new physics at the LHC. |
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John F.C. Wardle Abelson 329 (781) 736-2889 wardle@brandeis.edu Department chair |
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. |
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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 on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. |
Teaching and Adjunct Faculty
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Richard N. Fell Abelson 311 (781) 736-2860 fell@brandeis.edu Undergraduate advising head |
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Edward Martens Abelson 350 (781) 736-2829 martens@brandeis.edu |
Emeritus Faculty
(still active in research and/or teaching)
Stanley Deser
Marcus T. Grisaru
Peter Heller
Robert V. Lange
Hugh N. Pendleton III
Alfred G. Redfield
Silvan S. Schweber