Areas of Research in Physics

*Availability to take new students varies from year to year.*

Materials Science and Applications Group

Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Explorations of perturbative and non-perturbative Quantum Chromo Dynamics; Experimental probes of the emergent Quark-Gluon Plasma in heavy ion collisions; Theoretical Space-time structure of fundamental matter; Machine Learning techniques to aid discovery physics in high energy.

Luna Chen

Heavy-ion physics; Quark gluon plasma; collider physics; jets and their calibration; Bayesian analysis; machine learning techniques in collider physics