Biography
Paulo Bedaque received his B.S. in 1985 from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil and his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Rochester. Following this, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and then at the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington. He joined the scientific staff at Lawrencey Berkeley Lab in 2001 and joined UMD in 2006. Professor Bedaque's research career has focused on the interface of nuclear physics and particle physics with an emphasis on various aspects of QCD. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Research
Research Area:
Research Projects:
- Lattice field theory, Effective theories and other non-perturbative methods in Quantum Chromodynamics
- Properties of superdense matter and compact astrophysical objects
Centers & Institutes: Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics
Teaching
- Physics 102:Physics of Music
- Physics 272: Introductory Physics: Fields
- Physics 371: Modern Physics
- Physics 401: Quantum Physics I
- Physics 402: Quantum Physics II
- Physics 412: Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism I
- Physics 601: Theoretical Dynamics
- Physics 603: Methods of Statistical Physics
- Physics 612: Quantum and Statistical Physics I
- Physics 747: Quantum Chromodynamics