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Matthew Foster

Matthew Foster

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Physics and Astronomy

CONTACT

303 Brockman Hall | 713-348-3922 | matthew.foster@rice.edu

WEBSITE(S)| Research Web Page

Research Areas

Theoretical condensed matter physics. In particular, the effects of disorder and interactions in low-dimensional systems. Anderson localization and metal-insulator transitions. Dirac materials including graphene, topological insulators and superconductors. Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. Applications of quantum field theory, renormalization group, and exact (symmetry-based) methods such as conformal field theory.

Education

2000 BE Electrical Engineering, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science

2006 PhD Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

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