Cliff Burgess, McMaster University
Physics & Astronomy
Professor
Hamilton, Ontario
cburgess@physics.mcmaster.ca
Office:
(519) 569-7600 ext. 7531
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23175
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Bio/Research
Born in Manitoba, Burgess was raised in various places around Western Canada, Ontario and Europe.
He received his B.Sc. in a co-op program, with a joint honours in Physics and Applied Math from the University of Waterloo. Professor Burgess' doctoral work was in Theoretical Particle Phys...
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He received his B.Sc. in a co-op program, with a joint honours in Physics and Applied Math from the University of Waterloo. Professor Burgess' doctoral work was in Theoretical Particle Phys...
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Bio/Research
Born in Manitoba, Burgess was raised in various places around Western Canada, Ontario and Europe.
He received his B.Sc. in a co-op program, with a joint honours in Physics and Applied Math from the University of Waterloo. Professor Burgess' doctoral work was in Theoretical Particle Physics at the University of Texas in Austin under the supervision of Steven Weinberg, followed by a postdoctoral stint at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
In 1987 he joined the faculty at McGill University, where he was made James McGill Professor in 2003. Burgess is currently a professor with McMaster University's department of Physics and Astronomy and an Associate Member at the Perimeter Institute.
He was recently awarded a prestigous Killam Fellowship by the Canada Council for the Arts to research String Cosmology, the interface between string theory and early universe cosmology.
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He received his B.Sc. in a co-op program, with a joint honours in Physics and Applied Math from the University of Waterloo. Professor Burgess' doctoral work was in Theoretical Particle Physics at the University of Texas in Austin under the supervision of Steven Weinberg, followed by a postdoctoral stint at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
In 1987 he joined the faculty at McGill University, where he was made James McGill Professor in 2003. Burgess is currently a professor with McMaster University's department of Physics and Astronomy and an Associate Member at the Perimeter Institute.
He was recently awarded a prestigous Killam Fellowship by the Canada Council for the Arts to research String Cosmology, the interface between string theory and early universe cosmology.
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