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Marcelo Gleiser

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

at Dartmouth since 1991

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Education

  • University of London, King's College: Ph.D. 1986
  • Federal University of Rio de Janeiro: M.Sc. 1982
  • Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro: B.A. 1981

Experience

  • 1999-present: Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy
  • 1998-present: Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College
  • 1995-1998: Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College
  • 1991-1995: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College
  • 1988-1991: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of
  • California at Santa Barbara
  • 1986-1988: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group.

Honors and Awards

  • Essay "Emergent Realities in the Cosmos", selected to appear in the anthology "Best American Science Writing 2003", ed. Oliver Sacks (W. W. Norton, New York, NY 2003).
  • Winner of the 2002 "Jabuti Award", for my book "The Prophet and the Astronomer".
  • Winner of the 2001 Jose Reis Award for the Public Understanding of Science, granted by the National Research Council of Brazil.
  • FELLOW of the American Physical Society, Division of Astrophysics
  • Winner of the 1998 ``Jabuti Award'', a literary award from Brazil, for my book "The Dancing Universe".
  • 1995: Dartmouth Award for Outstanding Creative or Scholarly Work
  • 1994-1999: Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the National Science Foundation and the White House.

Memberships

  • The American Physical Society
  • International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life

Contact Information

Research Interests (see the Cosmology Home Page , Personal Web Page )

The interface of particle physics and cosmology, in particular the dynamics of primordial phase transitions and statistical field theory applied to the early Universe. Nonequilibrium statistical physics and Nonlinear dynamics. Astrophysics of Compact Objects. Complexity theory.

Selected Recent Publications

"Prebiotic Homochirality as a Critical Phenomenon", with Joel Thorarinson, in press Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres [astro-ph/0601399].
"Energy Landscape of d-Dimesnsional Q-balls, with Joel Thorarinson", Phys. Rev. D 73, 065008 (2006).
"Resonant Nucleation", with R. Howell. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 151601 (2005).
"d-Dimensional Oscillating Scalar Field Lumps and the Dimensionality of Space", Phys. Lett. B 600, 126 (2004).
"Anisotropic Stars II: Stability," with Krsna Dev, in press, General Relativity and Gravitation (2003).
"Resonant Emergence of Local and Global Spatio-Temporal Orderin a Nonlinear Field Model," with R. Howell, in press Phys. Rev. E (RC) (2003) [hep-ph/0209176].
"Equilibration Time Scales in Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate Dynamics," with D. G. Barci, E. S. Fraga and R. Ramos, Physica A 317 (2003) 535.
"Quantifying Nonequilibrium Behavior with Varying Cooling Rates," with Carmen Gagne, Physica D 181 (2003) 121.
"Long-lived Oscillons from Asymmetric Bubbles," with A. Adib and C. A. S. Almeida, Phys. Rev. D66 (2002) 085011.

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