Emil Martinec

Senior Associate, KICP
Professor, Department of Physics Enrico Fermi Institute; and the College
Director, Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics

Emil Martinec
Address:
Michelson Center for Physics
Room 433
933 East 56th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone:
(773) 702-7118
Email:
ejmartin@uchicago.edu
Website:
http://theory.uchicago.edu/~ejm/

Background

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984

Research

Superstring/M-theories; in particular, their geometrical structure and their role in grand unification and the quantization of gravity. Also theories of random surfaces, quantum gravity, black hole physics, and two-dimensional quantum field theory.