Faculty
Expertise: Experimental particle physics: precision tests of the electroweak sector of standard model of particle physics and search of new physics beyond the standard model
Expertise: 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
Expertise: Astrophysical-geophysical fluid dynamics, atmospheric and climate dynamics; extrasolar planets and planetary science; vortex dynamics and turbulence; numerical methods; mathematical physics
Expertise: Active matter, soft condensed matter, biophysics, collective cell behaviors
Expertise: 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-throughout crystallization devices
Expertise: Application of statistical mechanics, modern computational techniques, machine learning tools, 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.
Expertise: 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
Expertise: 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
Expertise: 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
Expertise: Soft matter and biological physics; programmable self-assembly of soft materials; colloidal interactions and phase transitions; DNA nanotechnology and DNA origami; active matter
Expertise: Experimental high-energy physics group; measurement of Higgs boson properties; searches for physics beyond the Standard Model; Dark Matter searches at the LHC; construction and commissioning of silicon detectors (ATLAS ITk); reconstruction and calibration of tracks and muons in the ATLAS detector.
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Expertise: Physics of quantum information, especially in the interface between condensed matter physics, quantum information science, and gravity and holography
Expertise: Mechanics of cell and tissue development, collective behaviors in living systems
Teaching Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Expertise: Interactions of fundamental particles at the highest possible energy. Development and operation of the Atlas Experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN with the Brandeis experimental high-energy physics group.
Expertise: High-energy proton-proton collisions in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, properties of the Higgs boson, search for new physics beyond the Standard Model, including lepton-flavor violation, excited leptons, and left-right symmetric models
Expertise: Condensed matter theory, especially systems far from equilibrium; jamming and flow in non-thermal systems including dense suspensions, granular and glassy solids and biological tissues
Expertise: Experimental high-energy physics
Expertise: K-12 science and environmental education, teacher training, curriculum research
Expertise: Galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, radio astronomy, theoretical astrophysics
Expertise: 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
Expertise: 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.
In Memoriam
Expertise: Quantum theory of fields, elementary particles, gravitation, supergravity, strings
Expertise: Liquid crystals, colloids, polymers
