(Source: CUNY - The City University of New York) Three top theoretical physicists will join the Graduate Center in Fall 2013, two as visiting professors and one as full-time member of the GC's central faculty in physics. Vijay Balasubramanian, currently Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Penn Neuroscience Program, will be joining the GC as Presidential Professor of Physics and Biology. Since his undergraduate days at MIT, Balasubramanian has made significant contributions to a remarkably broad range of theoretical questions, from string theory to neuroscience. In the theory of quantum fields and strings, he was in the first wave of theorists...
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