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April 06, 2006
Dr. Lisa Randall, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Harvard University, 4/5/06
Professor Lisa Randall's new book, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions, was recently published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. Warped Passages was included in The New York Times list of 100 notable books of 2005.
Professor Randall’s research concerns the fundamental nature of particles and forces and how matter's basic elements relate to the physical properties of the world that we see. She has worked on a wide variety of ideas for what might lie beyond established particle physics and cosmological theories, including grand unified theories, supersymmetry, cosmological inflation, string theory, and most recently, extra dimensions of space.
Professor Randall has made seminal contributions in all these areas, and as of Fall 2005 was the most cited theoretical physicist of the past five years. is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Physical Society. Professor Randall is a past winner of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, and the Westinghouse (now Intel) Science Talent Search.
Professor Randall discusses how gravity is connected to the geometry of spacetime, potential solutions to the hierarchy problem utilizing a Gravitybrane model, the possibility of infinite extra dimensions, and possible outcomes of future experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (coming online at CERN in 2007).
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