Max Tegmark

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Max Tegmark was raised in Sweden. He received his two bachelor degrees at different universities there, one in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, and the other in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He then moved to University of CA Berkeley for his graduate work and received his PhD there in 1994. He was a research associate with the Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik in Munich, then a Hubble Fellow and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, but then was lured away by the MIT physics department, where he has been since 2004. Dr. Tegmark has made major contributions to physics/cosmology, some of which he discusses in this presentation. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has received numerous awards.