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Associate Professor of Physics
E-mail: markru@purdue.edu
Office: Physics 252
Telephone: (765) 494-5570
Fax: (765) 494-0706
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Ms.Sc., Physics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ph.D., Physics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998
Research Interests
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String Theory and its connections to Gauge Theory
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How strings emerge from gauge theory in the large N limit. Applications to QCD.
- String descriptions of confining gauge theories
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String Theory and Blackhole Physics
Honors and Awards
2009 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Professional Experience
- 2011 to present Associate Professor of Physics, Purdue University.
- 2006-2010 Assistant Professor of Physics, Purdue University.
- 2005-2006 Post Doctoral Researcher (Research Staff), Princeton University.
- 2003 -2004 Post Doctoral Researcher, Brandeis University
- 2001-2003 Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Toronto, Canada and
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada.
Recent Publications
- Kruczenski M and Lawrence A, Random walks and the Hagedorn transition, JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (7): Art. No. 031 JUL 2006
- Benvenuti S and Kruczenski M, From Sasaki-Einstein spaces to quivers via BPS geodesics: L-p,L-q|(r), JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (4): Art. No. 033 APR 2006.
- Kruczenski M, Spiky strings and single trace operators in gauge theories, JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (8): Art. No. 014 AUG 2005.
- Hovdebo JL, Kruczenski M, Mateos D, et al., Holographic mesons: Adding flavor to the AdS/CFT duality, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A 20 (15): 3428-3433 JUN 20 2005.
- Kruczenski M, Zayas LAP, Sonnenschein J, et al., Regge trajectories for mesons in the holographic dual of large-N-c QCD, JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (6): Art. No. 046 JUN 2005.