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  [### Cumrun Vafa

 ](/people/facpages/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... 

 

 

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   [### Helen Abraha

 ](/people/helen-abraha)Faculty Assistant to Profs. Mitrano, Samuel, Silvera, and Stubbs

 

 

 

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   [### Adam Ackerman

 ](/people/adam-ackerman)Associate Director of Sponsored Research

 

 

 

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   [### Stephen J. Adams 

 ](/people/stephen-adams)Preceptor in Physics

 

 

 

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   [### Elizabeth Alcock

 ](/people/elizabeth-alcock)Faculty Assistant to Profs. Halperin, Nelson, Prentiss, Ro, and Sachdev

 

 

 

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   [### Carlos Argüelles-Delgado

 ](/people/facpages/arguelles)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

 ](/people/facpages/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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   [### Alexander Bartholomew

 ](/people/alexander-bartholomew)Physics Instructional Lab Specialist

 

 

 

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   [### Hannah Belcher

 ](/people/hannah-belcher)Graduate Program Administrator

 

 

 

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   [### Christine Benoit

 ](/people/christine-benoit)Portfolio Manager

 

 

 

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   [### Despina Bokios

 ](/people/despina-bokios)Executive Director

 

 

 

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   [### Michael P. Brenner

 ](/people/facpages/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... 

 

 

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