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My reseach interests lie in the area of string theory. Recently, I have been thinking about time dependence, and the nonsinglet sectors of the c=1 matrix model. In addition to time dependence, I also have an interest in emergent spacetime and emergent geometry. In the past, I have worked on matrix cosmologies, S-branes and the dynamics of tachyon condensation, as well as noncommutative geometry, matrix models and nonabelian structures in spacetime.

For a list of my publications from the SPIRES database, click here.

In 2005-2006 I was a postdoc at the New High Energy Theory Center in the Physics Department at Rutgers University.

Before that, in 2002-2005, I was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and I worked in the High Energy Theory Group at the Physics Department at Harvard University.

In my previous, pre-string, life (while an undergraduate at Queen's University), I did research at the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences at the National Research Council of Canada. I worked at the Femtosecond Science group on the theory of coherent control and interactions of laser fields with matter. To see papers from that time, click on the appropriate format below:

`Two-color control of localization: From lattices to spin systems,'
J. Karczmarek, M. Stott, and M. Ivanov,
Phys. Rev. A 60, R4225-R4228 (1999) | PDF | PS | Phys Rev A on-line abstract (includes references) |

`Optical Centrifuge for Molecules,'
J. Karczmarek, J. Wright, P. Corkum, and M. Ivanov,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3420-3423 (1999) | PDF | PS | Phys Rev Lett on-line abstract (includes references) |

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