Buonanno, Alessandra
Biography
Alessandra Buonanno received her Ph.D. from the University of Pisa, followed by a postdoctoral work at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in France and a Richard C. Tolman Postdoctoral Prize fellowship at Caltech. Returning to France, she worked for CNRS at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris and Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie in Paris before accepting a faculty position at UMD in 2005. She received a Sloan Fellowship in 2006 and she was the William and Flora Hewlett Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2011-2012. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, and a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute. In 2014, she accepted the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam; she remains a Research Professor at UMD. Her work spans several topics in gravitational physics, in particular theoretical and phenomenological aspects of gravitational-wave physics and astrophysics.
Research
Research:
Research Projects:
- Gravitational-wave physics
- Cosmology of the early Universe
Centers & Institutes: Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics; Joint Space-Science Institute
News
- Buonanno to Receive Oskar Klein Medal
- Buonanno Elected to Italian National Academy of Sciences
- Buonanno Receives Balzan Prize
- Buonanno Receives Dirac Medal
- Buonanno Elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Buonanno Receives Galileo Galilei Medal
- Professor Alessandra Buonanno Awarded the Leibniz Prize
Chacko, Zackaria
Biography
Professor Chacko is a theoretical physicist, and a founding member of the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP). His research interests lie in elementary particle physics, the field that studies the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions. The primary focus of Professor Chacko's research is the study of new theories that can explain some of the puzzles of the current Standard Model of particle physics, and that can be tested by current or upcoming experiments. He has made contributions to our understanding of weak scale supersymmetry, extra dimensions, grand unification, composite Higgs models, dark matter, baryogenesis and neutrino physics. Professor Chacko's work has connections to many different types of experiments, including the Large Hadron Collider, the direct and indirect detection of dark matter, precision observations of the cosmic microwave background, neutrino oscillation studies, searches for rare processes and short range tests of Newton's law of gravitation.
Cohen, Thomas
Biography
Tom Cohen is a Professor and Associate Chair in Physics. He received his A.B. in 1980 from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator from 1990-1995. His exceptional teaching ability has been recognized through several awards including the Celebrating Teaching Award, the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.
Research
Research Area:
Notable Publications:
- Cohen, T.D., R.J. Furnstahl, D.K. Griegel. Quark and gluon condensates in nuclear matter. Phys. Rev. C45:1881, 1992
Centers & Institutes: Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics