CWRU Physics Faculty

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Topological defects in cosmology.
• Search for topological defects using cosmological observations.
• Topological defects in particle physics.
• Primordial magnetic fields and their topology.
• Inflation, eternal inflation and quantum cosmology.
• Black holes.
• Cosmology in the laboratory: design of experiments to test quantum field theoretic phenomena in curved spacetime (such as Hawking radiation).
• Understanding the spectrum of fundamental particles in terms of magnetic monopoles ("dual standard model").