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Matthew Fisher Joins Scientific Advisory Committee |
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, September 25, 2009 - Perimeter Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Matthew Fisher as the newest member of its Scientific Advisory Committee.
Dr. Fisher received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986, and went on to become first a Visiting Scientist and then a Research Staff Member at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center (1986-1993). In 1993, he joined the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Physics Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2007, Dr. Fisher joined Microsoft’s Station Q as a research physicist, on leave from the UCSB physics department. In 1995, Fisher received the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation of the United States, and has also been the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (1997). In 2003, he was elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Fisher’s research has focused on strongly correlated quantum many-body systems, notably transport and tunneling in one-dimensional electron gases and quantum Hall edge states, and the superfluid-insulator transition in the Boson Hubbard model. Presently, he is interested in gapless spin-liquid phases of two-dimensional Mott insulators and possible non-Fermi liquid phases occurring in high temperature superconductors. To view the current Scientific Advisory Committee listing, click here. |  |
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