Matthew Headrick

Assistant Professor
Martin Fisher School of Physics
Brandeis University

Office: Abelson 310
Office phone: 781-736-2858
E-mail: mph(at)brandeis.edu

I am a member of the Brandeis High-Energy and Gravitational Theory Group. My research interests are primarily in string theory and related areas of quantum field theory, general relativity, geometry, and quantum information theory.

In the spring of 2012, I am teaching Physics 31a, Quantum Theory I.

More about me:

my C.V. (including a list of my publications)
a brief research statement
my Physics Department web page

Here are the slides from some talks I've given over the years:

Quantum Information and Entanglement in Holographic Theories (seminar; 2011)
Holography and Entanglement (10-minute colloquium; 2010)
Gravity, Entropy, and Entanglement (colloquium; 2010)
Calabi-Yau Metrics for Dummies (seminar; 2009)
Hedgehog Black Holes and the Deconfinement Transition (seminar; 2007)
The Uses of Ricci Flow (seminar; 2007)
Scale Transformations and the Dynamics of String Theory (colloquium; 2007)

Also perhaps of interest:

a compendium of useful formulas, mostly lifted from various textbooks such as Wald's General Relativity and Polchinski's String Theory, together with a few of my own shallow insights
a brief semi-popular introduction to tachyons in modern physics
a 19-page set of lecture notes on linear algebra and its applications in physics (suitable for advanced physics undergraduates)

Finally, you may want to check out my page of incredibly useful Mathematica packages.