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Cornell University

CLASSE

CLASSE stands for Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education

Andre Leclair

Professor

Quantum field theory for condensed matter, mathematical physics, cold atoms, topological insulators, integrable systems, theory of zeta functions.  


Research

Cold atoms. Critical point of 2d Bose gas, Riemann Hypothesis.


Educational Background

B.S., 1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ph.D., 1987, Harvard University. Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, 1987-89. Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1989-95. Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1995-2003. Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 2003-present. Visiting appointments at: Institute for Theoretical Physics, U.C. Santa Barbara; Centre d'Energie Atomiquie (Saclay), Paris, France; University of Montreal; University of Paris at Jussieu; University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain; Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK; Galileo Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy; Ecole Normal Superieur, Paris, France; CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, IIP, Natal, Brazil.  Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, 1982. Alfred P. Sloan foundation Fellow, 1992. National Young Investigator Award, 1993.