People
Faculty and Postdocs
Larry Ford
Office: 158 Robinson Hall
Phone: 617-627-5356
Email: ford (at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu)
Research Interests
My research involves both general relativity and quantum theory. At the present I am involved in several projects concerned with quantum fluctuations and gravitation. These include studies of the quantum fluctuations of the spacetime lightcone, fluctuations of quantum stress tensors, various aspects of the Casimir and Aharonov-Bohm effects, and negative energy densities in quantum field theory.
Ken Olum
Phone: 617-627-2753
Email: kdo (at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu)
I am a research professor in the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. I study cosmic strings, cosmic rays, energy conditions in general relativity, and the anthropic principle in cosmology. You can see a picture of loop production by a cosmic string network. I also have movies of a cosmic string cusp simulation and a sinusoidal wave or a still picture of a cusp simulation.
In 1997, I received my PhD in the Center for Theoretical Physics, which is part of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science and the Physics Department at MIT. My thesis was in the problem of information radiated from black holes.
My curriculum vitae is online in PostScript, or PDF.
Alex Vilenkin
Office: Room 304C, 574 Boston Avenue
Phone: 617-627-3147
Email: vilenkin (at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu)
Research Interests
Cosmic inflation, dark energy, cosmic strings and monopoles, quantum cosmology, high-energy cosmic rays, the multiverse, and anthropic selection.
Daniel Jiménez Aguilar
Email: Daniel.Jimenez_Aguilar (at tufts.edu)
Delia Schwartz-Perlov
Email: dperlov (at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu)
Affiliates
- Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado
- Arvind Borde
- Jaume Garriga
- Alan Guth
- Thomas Roman
- Louis Clavelli
- Jeremy Wachter
Graduate Students
- Zahra Bayat - email: Zahra.Bayat (at tufts.edu)
- Lucas Brown - email: Lucas.Brown653414 (at tufts.edu)
- Alex Cassem - email: Alexander.Cassem (at tufts.edu)
- George Fanaras - email: Georgios.Fanaras (at tufts.edu)
- Amanda Karis - email: Amanda.Malnati (at tufts.edu)
- Meg Kralj - email: Megan.Kralj (at tufts.edu)
- Alize Sucsuzer - email: Alize.Sucsuzer (at tufts.edu)
Institute Alumni
(Current positions are listed, beside each alum)
- Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado (faculty at University of the Basque Country)
- Sergio del Campo (faculty at the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Brazil)
- Inyong Cho (faculty at at Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
- Mitch Pfenning (faculty at West Point)
- Mairi Sakellariadou (faculty at King's College, England)
- Enrico Schiappacasse (faculty at Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences, Chile)
- Xavier Siemens (faculty at Oregon state University)
- Tanmay Vachaspati (faculty at Arizona State University)
- Vitaly Vanchurin (Founder of Artificial Neural Computing Corp.)
Administration
- Gayle Grant - email: gayle.grant (at tufts.edu)