![]() Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University with a grant from the Tow Foundation. In 2002 she held a research fellowship at Cambridge University (England). Levin attended Columbia University for her bachelor's degree and MIT for her Ph.D, graduating in 1993. She describes her household as mostly not religious (Levin was not brought to synagogue and was not bat mitzvahed). Her grandparents were immigrants from Eastern Europe, who eventually gave up keeping kosher. Levin was born to Yiddish-speaking Jewish parents in Texas. ![]() She joined the faculty at Barnard College in January 2004 and is currently the Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Other work includes black holes and chaos theory. Much of her work deals with looking for evidence to support the proposal that our universe might be finite in size due to its having a nontrivial topology. She earned a Bachelor of Science in astronomy and physics with a concentration in philosophy at Barnard College in 1988 and a PhD in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. Levin (born 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College. ![]() MAD Gravity and the Early Universe: a Possible New Resolution to the Horizon and Monopole Problems (1993) ![]()
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