MAX TEGMARK, Associate
Professor of Physics
Research Interests
Professor Tegmark's research is focused on precision cosmology,
e.g., combining theoretical work with new measurements to place
sharp constraints on cosmological models and their free parameters.
Spectacular new measurements are providing powerful tools for this...more
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Biographical Sketch
A native of Stockholm, Tegmark left Sweden in 1990 after receiving
his B.Sc. in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (he'd
earned a B.A. in Economics the previous year at the Stockholm School
of Economics). His first academic venture beyond Scandinavia brought
him to California, where he studied physics at the University of
California, Berkeley, earning his M.A. in 1992, and Ph.D. in 1994.
After four years of west coast living, Tegmark returned to Europe
and accepted an appointment as a research associate with the Max-Planck-Institut
für Physik in Munich. In 1996 he headed back to the U.S. as
a Hubble Fellow and member of the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton. Tegmark remained in New Jersey for a few years until
an opportunity arrived to experience the urban northeast with an
Assistant Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, where
he received tenure in 2003.
He extended the east coast experiment and moved north of Philly
to the shores of the Charles River (Cambridge-side), arriving at
MIT in September 2004, along with his wife, fellow astrophysicist
Angelica de Oliveira-Costa,
and their two sons, Philip
and Alexander.
Tegmark has received numerous awards for his research, including
a Packard Fellowship (2001-06), Cottrell Scholar Award (2002-07),
and an NSF Career grant (2002-07). His work with the SDSS collaboration
on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine's
"Breakthrough
of the Year: 2003."
For more on his research, publications, and students, or his fun
articles, goofs, and photo album, please visit Prof.
Tegmark's home page.
[top] Selected Publications
Tegmark, M., et al, "Cosmological
Parameters from SDSS and WMAP," Phys. Rev. D 69
(2004), 103501.
Tegmark, M., et al, "The
3D Power Spectrum of Galaxies from the SDSS," Astrophys.
J. 606 (2004), 702-740.
Tegmark, M., "Measuring
Spacetime: From the Big Bang to Black Holes," Science
296 (24 May 2002), 1427-1433.
Tegmark, M., de Oliveira-Costa, A., and Hamilton, A.J.S., "A
High Resolution Foreground Cleaned CMB Map from WMAP," Phys. Rev. D 68 (2003), 123523.
Tegmark, M., Silk, J., Rees, M., Blanchard, A., Abel, T., and Palla,
F., "How
Small Were the First Cosmological Objects?" ApJ
474 (1997), 1-12.
Tegmark, M., "The
Importance of Quantum Decoherence in Brain Processes,"
Phys. Rev. E (10 November 1999).
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