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Stanford Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics

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Research in the Stanford Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics spans a wide range of topics from understanding the fundamental nature of forces, particles and space-time geometry, to condensed matter physics and quantum information.  There is considerable cross-fertilization in some of these endeavors with faculty in the SLAC Theory Group and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

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Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Associate Professor of Physics
Wells Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics and Professor of Physics

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