CLASSE: News and Events

Skip to content

We’ve built a new site! You can make your way there by clicking here.
If you are having trouble finding what you need, please email comms-classe@cornell.edu.

CORNELL LABORATORY FOR ACCELERATOR-BASED SCIENCES AND EDUCATION

CLASSE NEWS | 18 Sep 2014

Thomas Hartman Joins Physics Department

<noautolink>hartman-bw.jpg</noautolink>
Thomas Hartman, Assistant Professor of Physics.

Thomas Hartman has recently joined Cornell Physics department and LEPP as an Assistant Professor. Tom received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2010, and held research appointments at Princeton and KITP before coming to Cornell. He is a theoretical physicist interested in understanding quantum gravity using techniques from string theory, general relativity, condensed matter physics, and quantum information. His recent work uses gauge/gravity duality to explore the idea that space-time, and the laws of gravity that govern it, may emerge from collective behavior of an enormous number of underlying degrees of freedom, and to gain insight into what these degrees of freedom might be. Another area of research is black hole thermodynamics, where Tom and collaborators made important advances in understanding semi-realistic Kerr black holes. Tom is also working on new approaches to inflation and the physics of de Sitter space inspired by gauge/gravity duality.