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Cumrun Vafa

Chair, Department of Physics; Timken University Professor
Cumrun Vafa's primary area of research is string theory. String theory, a subject that is about four decades old, is at the center of efforts by theoretical physicists to find a unified fundamental theory of nature. String theory provides a framework to...
Cumrun Vafa

Helen Abraha

Faculty Assistant to Profs. Mitrano, Samuel, Silvera, and Stubbs

Elizabeth Alcock

Faculty Assistant to Profs. Halperin, Nelson, Prentiss, Ro, and Sachdev

Carlos Argüelles-Delgado

Associate Professor of Physics
Carlos Argüelles-Delgado is a neutrino physicist. Their work explores properties of neutrinos using data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The surprising discovery of neutrino mass and mixing leads to the obvious question: what other unexpected...
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Jacob A. Barandes

Senior Preceptor in Physics; Associated Faculty in Philosophy
I work in philosophy of physics, broadly construed. I'm especially interested in quantum foundations, the classical limit, the philosophy of (space)time, the metaphysics of laws, the nature of probability probability and causation, and the formal and...
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Michael P. Brenner

Michael F. Cronin Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics and Professor of Physics
Our research uses methods and ideas of applied mathematics to address problems in science and engineering. We are first and foremost problem solvers, and search widely to find problems where mathematics (simple or complicated, with large computer...
Michael Brenner