Experts
Lisa Randall
Physicist, Harvard University
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Lisa Randall: A Gilded Age for Science
Many fear that if budget cuts need to be made, science will suffer, says Randall. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: Should science inform politics?
A little scientific method couldn't hurt. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Lisa Randall: How will this age be remembered?
A time of short-sighted greed. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Future
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Lisa Randall: What should be the big issues of the 2008 presidential election?
Restoring the Constitution, Randall says. Read More
March 28, 2008
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Lisa Randall: Climate Change Awareness
The government, Randall says, needs to think in the long term. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: What is human nature?
We know ourselves best so we generalize outwards, Randall says. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Lisa Randall: What forces have shaped humanity most?
Greed has been a major motivating factor, says Randall. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In History
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Lisa Randall: Do you believe in absolute truth?
Randall believes in effective theories. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Belief
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Lisa Randall: Scientific Process
Randall's creative process is pretty random, she says. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: What can science learn from the arts?
The art of communication. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: The Next Scientific Frontier
A lot of it will have to do with educating the public, Randall says. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall Explains the Large Hadron Collider
Harvard physicist Lisa Randall describes the Large Hadron Collider. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: What impact does your work have on the world?
Randall hopes people will start asking the broader questions. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: The Risks of Scientific Innovation
Some science is risky, but much of science is not, says Randall. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: What makes a science-literate citizen?
Start with understanding what percentages mean, Randall says. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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String theory is trying to reconcile quantum mechanics and gravity, Randall says. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: A greater design?
Who put all those multiple dimensions out there anyway? Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: Changing Our Understanding of Multiple Dimensions
Exponential warping, Randall says, has large implications. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: The Standard Model for Particle Physics
Randall explains where it falls short, and a little thing called a brane. Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Lisa Randall: Understanding Multiple Dimensions
What are they, where do they come from, and the proof? Read More
March 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
Lisa Randall is professor of theoretical physics and studies particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. Her research concerns elementary particles and fundamental forces and has involved the development and study of a wide variety of models, the most recent involving extra dimensions of space. She has made advances in understanding and testing the Standard Model of particle physics, supersymmetry, models of extra dimensions, resolutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the weakness of gravity and experimental tests of these ideas, cosmology of extra dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. Professor Randall earned her PhD from Harvard University and held professorships at MIT and Princeton University before returning to Harvard in 2001. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and is a past winner of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, and the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Her book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions was included in the New York Times' 100 notable books of 2005. In 2008, Prof. Randall was among Esquire Magazine's "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century". Randall was included in Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" of 2007 and was one of 40 people featured in The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary issue that year. Prof. Randall was featured in Newsweek's "Who's Next in 2006" as "one of the most promising theoretical physicists of her generation" and in Seed Magazine's "2005 Year in Science Icons".
