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Department

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, partial differential equations, mathematical physics, mathematical aspects of quantum mechanics, scattering theory, microlocal analysis

Alexander Givental

Alexander Givental

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, mathematical physics, symplectic geometry, singularities, mirror symmetry

phoro of Jitomirskaya

Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Dept of Mathematics

mathematical analysis, probability, dynamical systems

Alan D. Weinstein

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, mathematical physics, symplectic geometry

Marc A. Rieffel

Marc A. Rieffel

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, operator algebras, non-commutative geometry, non-commutative harmonic analysis, quantum geometry, quantum information theory

Luca Victor Iliesiu

Dept of Physics

quantum field theory, quantum gravity

Constantin Teleman

Constantin Teleman

Dept of Mathematics

algebraic geometry, Lie groups, topology, topological quantum field theory

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Physics

string theory, mathematical physics

Richard E. Borcherds

Richard Borcherds

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, lie algebras, vertex algebras, automorphic forms

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, representation theory, integrable systems, mathematical physics

Ori Ganor

Dept of Physics

string (and M-) theory, quantum field theory, mathematical physics

Sung-Jin Oh

Dept of Mathematics

mathematical analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations

Raúl Briceño in outdoor setting

Dept of Physics

nuclear physics, particle physics

Petr Horava

Dept of Physics

cosmology, physics, quantum geometry, particle physics, string (and M-) theory, quantum gravity

Michael Lindsey

Michael J. Lindsey

Dept of Mathematics

applied mathematics, mathematical analysis, probability, numerical analysis, optimization, Monte Carlo methods

Carmine during a rehearsal of his opera "Pane, sale, sabbia"

Carmine Emanuele Cella

mathematical representation of musical and acoustic signals, music composition

School of Education

mathematical cognition, design-based research, mixed-media design for mathematics learning environments, embodied interaction

Dept of Physics

physics, astrophysics, geophysics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, turbulence

Christian H. Borgs

Christian Borgs

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theoretical computer science, probability theory, combinatorics, complex networks, statistical physics, artificial intelligence, applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences

James A. Sethian

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods

Alistair Sinclair

Dept of Statistics

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

algorithms, applied probability, statistics, random walks, Markov chains, computational applications of randomness, Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical physics, combinatorial optimization

Steven Kahn

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, cosmology, optical astrophysics

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, Super-representation theory, algebraic geometry