Faculty
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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 high energy physics group. |
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Craig A. Blocker Abelson 323 (781) 736-2879, email: 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 high energy physics group. |
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Bulbul Chakraborty (chair) Office: Abelson 345/6, tel: 6-2843, email: bulbul |
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 Office: Abelson 216, tel: 6-2167, email: zdogic |
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 non-equilibrium conditions |
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Seth Fraden Office: Abelson 222, tel: 6-2888, email: fraden |
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 Office: Abelson 350, tel: 6-2845, email: hagan |
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. |
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Matthew P. Headrick Office: Abelson 310, tel: 6-2858, email: mph |
String theory and related areas of quantum field theory, general relativity, and geometry. |
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Lawrence E. Kirsch Office: Abelson 313, tel: 6-2841, email: kirsch |
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 High Energy Group. |
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Jané Kondev Office: Abelson 301, tel: 6-2812, email: kondev |
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. |
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Albion Lawrence Office: Abelson 306, tel: 6-2865, email: albion |
Quantum field theory, string theory and their applications to particle physics, cosmology and quantum gravity. Interface between theoretical physics and mathematics (esp. algebraic geometry). Application of quantum field theory to condensed matter physics. |
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Robert B. Meyer Office: Abelson 240, tel: 6-2870, email: meyer |
Liquid cryatals 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 Office: Abelson 326, tel: 6-2846, email: roberts |
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 Office: Abelson 221, tel: 6-2857, email: azadeh |
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 Office: Abelson 349, tel: 6-2882, email:schnitzr |
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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John F.C. Wardle Office: Abelson 329, tel: 6-2889, email: wardle |
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 Office: Abelson 206, tel:6-2850, email:wellenst |
Interactions of fundamental particles at the highest possible energy. Design, building, and testing, with the other members of the Brandeis 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 Office: Abelson 311, tel: 6-2860, email: fell |
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Geoffry Svacha Office: Abelson 325, tel: 6-2838, email: svacha |
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Ira Farber Office: Rosensteil 109, tel: 6-2432, email: farber |
Stanley Deser
Marcus T. Grisaru
Peter Heller
Robert V. Lange
Hugh N. Pendleton, III
Alfred G. Redfield
Silvan S. Schweber
In Memoriam