Here we are (together with Sung-Sik Lee and Werner Friesendorf) at Perimeter Institute on one of our PI days.
| Professor Cliff Burgess | ||||
 I am a high-energy particle theorist whose wild oats were sown working in string theory, but whose research interests have since taken a more phenomenological and cosmological turn. At present my interests lie at the interface between string theory and lower-energy physics, with a particular emphasis on how the discovery of branes (and the realization that we may be trapped on one) may have observable consequences in experiments and in cosmology. In particular, I am working on the implications I believe this may have for Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Inflation and for the Large Hadron Collider.To the extent that there is a theme to my research, it would be the use of effective field theory techniques throughout high-energy physics and other fields. These techniques permit a general understanding of the low-energy (or long-wavelength) behaviour of any physical system. They are particularly apt for our present situation in particle physics, where it appears that the energy scale of any unknown physics beyond the Standard Model is high compared to those that are experimentally accessible. But part of the beauty of these techniques is that they are also applicable in other areas of physics and so they permit a unified perspective towards theoretical physics as a whole.Check out my web page for more details. cburgess@physics.mcmaster.ca |  www.physics.mcmaster.ca/~cburgess |  905-525-9140 x23175 |  905-546-1252 |  ABB 324 |
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| Postdoc | ||||
| Markus Rummel | ||||
| Grad Students | ||||
| Joshua Hainge | ||||
| Peter Hayman | ||||
| Greg Kaplanek | ||||
| Daniel Ruiz | ||||
| Laszlo Zalavari | ||||
| Recently Rehabilitated & Released |
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| Gabriel Magill | Ph.D. 2018 | |||
| Itay Yavin | Professor 2012-2017 | |||
| Peter Hayman | M.Sc. 2016 | |||
| Jared Enns | M.Sc. 2016 | |||
| Ross Diener | Ph.D. 2016 | |||
| Ryan Plestid | M.Sc. 2015 | |||
| Joey Sham | M.Sc. 2015 | |||
| Dr. Brian Shuve | Postdoc 2012-2014 | |||
| Matthew Williams | Ph.D. 2013 | |||
| Matthew McCreadie | M.Sc. 2013 | |||
| Robin Tunley | M.Sc. 2012 | |||
| Allan Bayntun | Ph.D. 2012 | |||
| Michael Horbatsch | Ph.D. 2012 | |||
| Leo van Nierop | Ph.D. 2011 | |||
| Andrew Louca | M.Sc. 2010 |