Physics Faculty
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Oleg Lunin Assistant Professor |
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| My work focuses on studying various aspects of gravity and quantum field theory and on uncovering relations between them. Two of the most important open problems in theoretical physics are a construction of a consistent theory of quantum gravity and an analytic understanding of strong interaction. The problems associated with these subfields are unified in the framework of gauge/gravity duality, which states that quantum gravity on a certain background is equivalent to quantum field theory on the boundary of the space. My research focuses on exploring physical consequences of the gauge/gravity duality with particular emphasis on implications for dynamics of supersymmetric gauge theories and for quantum properties of black holes. | |
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Prof. Philip Goyal publishes new article "Information Physics—Towards a New Conception of Physical Reality"
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STUDENT SUCCESS
Maggie Lovell awarded a 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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