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B.S., 1982, Massachusets Institute of Technology. Ph.D., 1987, Harvard University. Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, 1987-89. Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1989-95. Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1995-2003. Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 2003-present. Visiting appointments at: Institute for Theoretical Physics, U.C. Santa Barbara; Centre d'Energie Atomiquie (Saclay), Paris, France; University of Montreal; University of Paris at Jussieu, University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Galileo Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy; Ecole Normal Superieur, Paris, France. Phi Beta Kappa, 1982. Alfred P. Sloan foundation Fellow, 1992. National Young Investigator Award, 1993.

Research Areas
Quantum field theory for condensed matter, mathematical physics, finite temperature field theory, disordered systems, high temperature superconductivity

Current Research
New conformal fixed points in 2 + 1 dimensions based on symplectic fermions, high temperature superconductivity based on symplectic fermions, finite temperature field theory, Riemann hypothesis, disordered systems

Graduate Students
Eliot Kapit, Pye Ton How and Dean Robinson

Spotlight

Finding the mechanism responsible for breaking electroweak symmetry is a current focus of Maxim Perelstein, assistant professor of physics. He also investigates topics in theoretical cosmology, particularly theoretical models for dark energy, dark matter, and inflation. Perelstein's interests lie in constructing new models of electroweak symmetry breaking, and in devising strategies for testing them experimentally. His work is complemented by related experiments planned for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

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