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Alexei Bazavov became an assistant professor at Michigan State University in August 2016, jointly appointed to the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He previously served as a research associate at the University of Arizona from 2007 to 2010 and at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2010 to 2013, with a joint appointment at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Iowa from 2013 to 2016. He is a theoretical particle physicist specializing in the study of strongly coupled theories, particularly Quantum Chromodynamics. His research interests include Quantum Field Theory, Finite-Temperature Field Theory, Lattice Gauge Theory applications in particle and nuclear physics, as well as Parallel Algorithms, Iterative Solvers, and Molecular Dynamics Algorithms. Bazavov also focuses on Inverse Problems, Bayesian Inference, and Ultra-Cold Atomic Systems for quantum simulation, along with Effective Field Theory.
Department of Psychology