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headshot of Petr Horava Petr Horava
Dept of Physics
cosmology, physics, quantum geometry, particle physics, string (and M-) theory, quantum gravity
Picture of Professor Gray outside the physics department. Heather Gray
Dept of Physics
particle physics, machine learning, algorithms, quantum algorithms, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU)
Yury Kolomensky in his lab Yury Kolomensky
Dept of Physics
particle physics, precision measurements, electroweak interactions, neutrino physics, QCD, BaBar, E158, CUORE, Mu2e
Photograph of Karl van Bibber in 2019 Karl van Bibber
Dept of Nuclear Engineering
Particle Astrophysics, experimental nuclear physics, Accelerator Technology and Neutron Sources
Sai Balakrishnan Sai Balakrishnan
Dept of City & Regional Planning
spatial forms of urbanization, land-use changes
Simo Mäkiharju in lab setting Simo Mäkiharju
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
experimental fluid dynamics, fluid dynamics, Cavitation, multiphase flow, drag reduction, ocean renewable energy, particle image velocimetry, Time-Resolved X-Ray Densitometry, Droplet and particle transport
headshot of Kam-Biu Luk Kam-Biu Luk
Dept of Physics
physics, particle physics, neutrino oscillation, neutrino mixing parameters, nuclear instrumentation, data mining, neutrino physics
headshot of Hitoshi Murayama Hitoshi Murayama
Dept of Physics
physics, particle physics, the universe, fundamental constituents of matter, Higgs boson, anti-matter, neutrino oscillations, finite value of the cosmological constant, triple coincidence of energy densities
Daniel McKinsey Daniel McKinsey
Dept of Physics
dark matter, noble gases, cryogenics, high voltages, particle physics, astrophysics, low temperature physics, detector physics, neutrinos
Pradeep Chhibber Pradeep Chhibber
Dept of Political Science
political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India
headshot of Max Buchholz Max Buchholz
Dept of City & Regional Planning
urban and regional economics, social and spatial inequality, urbanization, segregation, quantitative methods
Burkhard Militzer Burkhard Militzer
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
density functional methods, equation of state calculations, planetary interiors, materials at high pressure, theoretical mineral physics, path integration Monte Carlo, planet formation, quantum Monte Carlo method
headshot of Lia Scott Lia Scott
School of Public Health
breast cancer, structural racism as predictor of breast cancer, spatial epidemiologic methods
Teresa Caldeira Teresa Caldeira
Dept of City & Regional Planning
urbanization in the global south, peripheries: urban violence and spatial segregation, urban change, ethnography and qualitative methods
Eric Schickler Eric Schickler
Dept of Political Science
American politics, Congress, political parties, public opinion
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
School of Education
biostatistics, educational statistics, latent variable models, missing data methods, multilevel models, generalized linear latent and mixed models, hierarchical models, longitudinal data, Item response models, structural equation models
David Foster David Foster
Dept of Neuroscience
behavioral neurophysiology of spatial learning and memory, hippocampus replay, computational models of reinforcement learning and navigationf
headshot of Wick Haxton Wick Haxton
Dept of Physics
astrophysics, neutrino physics, nuclear astrophysics, tests of symmetries and conservation laws in nuclear and particle and atomic physics, many-body theory, effective theories
Lawrence Hall Lawrence Hall
Dept of Physics
physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory
Iryna Dronova Iryna Dronova
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
landscape ecology, remote sensing, GIS, spatial analysis, urban geography, ecosystem change, biodiversity, ecosystem services, wetlands, urban regions, landscape dynamics
Ian Wang Ian Wang
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
genetics and genomics, genomics, landscape genetics, evolution, population genetics, conservation, herpetology, GIS, spatial analysis, statistical methods, epigenetics
Jonathan Wurtele Jonathan Wurtele
Dept of Physics
physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments
Zachary Lamb Zachary Lamb
Dept of City & Regional Planning
urban spatial politics, ecological design, environmental hazards of climate change, Affordable housing, shared equity housing, manufactured housing, adaptation to flooding
Headshot of James Pitman James Pitman
Dept of Statistics
fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence
Kathy Yelick Katherine A. Yelick
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
high performance computing, partitioned Global Address Space programming, communication-avoiding algorithms, automatic performance tuning, high performance data analytics, computational biology
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