Albion E Lawrence

Title

Associate Professor of Physics

Physics

Expertise

Quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and string theory, and their applications to particle physics and cosmology.

Profile

I am interested in a broad range of issues surrounding cosmology, particle physics, and quantum gravity, and their interactions with mathematics and condensed matter physics.
My current focus is on the dynamics of spacetime in string theory.

Degrees

University of Chicago, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	albion@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2865
Office:	Abelson-Bass-Yalem Building, 344

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Awards and Honors

Member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara (2009)

Kavli Frontiers Fellow (National Academy of Sciences) (2006)

Member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara (2006)

Dept. of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator (2004)

Courses Taught

FYS	2c	Physical Science Frontiers
PHYS	15a	Advanced Introductory Physics I
PHYS	102a	General Relativity
PHYS	162a	Quantum Mechanics I
PHYS	162b	Quantum Mechanics II
PHYS	202a	Quantum Field Theory

Scholarship

Matthew Headrick, Albion Lawrence, and Matthew Roberts. "Bose-Fermi duality and entanglement entropies." J. Stat. Mech. 1302. (2013): P02022.

Vijay Balasubramanian, Monica Guica, and Albion Lawrence. "Holographic Interpretations of the Renormalization Group." J. High Energy Phys. 1301. (2013): 115.

Albion Lawrence. "Theta angle monodromy in two dimensions." Physical Review D 85. (2012): 105029.

Nemanja Kaloper, Albion Lawrence, and Lorenzo Sorbo. "An ignoble approach to large field inflation." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1103. (2012): 023.

Sergei Dubovsky, Albion Lawrence, and Matt Roberts. "Axion Monodromy in a model of holographic gluodynamics." Journal of High Energy Physics 1202. (2012): 053.

Allan Adams, Albion Lawrence, and Ian Swanson. "Exact Null Tachyons From RG Flows." Physical Review D 80. (2010): 106005.

Gary Horowitz, Albion Lawrence, and Eva Silverstein. "Insightful D-branes." Journal of High Energy Physics 0907. (2010): 057.

Lawrence, Albion E. "F-term SUSY breaking and moduli." Physical Review D 79. (2009): 101701.

Lawrence, Albion; Sander, Tobias; Schulz, Michael; Wecht, Brian. "Torsion and supersymmetry breaking." Journal of High Energy Physics 0807:042. (2008): 43 pages.

Freedman, Daniel Z.; Headrick, Matthew; and Lawrence, Albion. "On closed string tachyon dynamics." Physical Review D 73. (2007): 066015 (20 pages).

Gaberdiel, Matthias and Lawrence, Albion. "Bulk perturbations of N=2 branes." Journal of High Energy Physics 0705. 087 (2007): 35 pages.

Green, Daniel; Lawrence, Albion; McGreevy, John; Morrison, David R; and Silverstein, Eva. "Dimensional Duality." Physical Review D D76. 066004 (2007): 25 pages.

Lawrence, Albion and Sever, Amit. "Scattering of twist fields from D-branes and orientifolds." Journal of High Energy Physics 0709:094. (2007): 35 pages.

Kruczenski, Martin and Lawrence, Albion. "Random Walks and the Hagedorn Transition." Journal of High Energy Physics 2006. 0607 (2006): 031 (34 pages).

Lawrence, Albion; Schulz, Michael; and Wecht, Brian. "D-branes in nongeometric backgrounds." Journal of High Energy Physics 2006. 0607 (2006): 038 (27 pages).

Lawrence, Albion; and Sever, Amit. "Holography and renormalization in Lorentzian signature." Journal of High Energy Physics 2006. 0610 (2006): 013 (46 pages).

Lawrence,Albion E., John McGreevy. Remarks on Branes, Fluxes, and Soft SUSY Breaking. Proc. of Proceedinngs for QTS3. Cincinnati, Ohio: World Scientific, 2005.

Lawrence,Albion E and John McGreevy. "D-terms and D-strings in Open String Models." Journal of High Energy Physics 0410 (2004): 056 (29 pages).

Lawrence,Albion E and John McGreevy. "Local String Models of Soft Supersymmetry Breaking." Journal of High Energy Physics 2004. 0406 (2004): 007 (36 pages).

Lawrence,Albion E and John McGreevy. Remarks on Branes, Fluxes and Soft Supersymmetry Breaking. Proc. of Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries. 2004.

Lawrence,Albion E., John McGreevy. "D-terms and D-strings in open string models." Journal of High Energy Physics (2004): 56.

Lawrence,Albion E., John McGreevy. "Local String Models of Soft SUSY Breaking." Journal of High Energy Physics (2004): 007.

Lawrence,Albion E, Nemanja Kaloper, Matthew Kleban, Stephen Shenker, and Leonard Susskind. "Initial Conditions for Inflation." Journal of High Energy Physics (2002): 037.

Lawrence,Albion E, Nemanja Kaloper, Matthew Kleban, and Stephen Shenker. "Signatures of Short Distance Physics in the Cosmic Microwave Background." Physical Review D (2002): 123510.

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