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Leon Balents
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: 805-893-6381
Fax: 805-893-3378
Date of birth: July 24, 1967

Education and Training:

• B.S. Physics and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1989
• Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 1994
• Postdoctoral Fellow, ITP, Santa Barbara, 1994-1998

Academic and Professional Positions:

• Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 1998-1999
• Assistant Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara, 1999-2001
• Associate Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara, 2001-2002
• Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara, 2002-present
• Permanent Member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, 2008-present

Research:

(Nearly) all areas of condensed matter theory.

Honors:

• NSF Career award, 2000-2005
• AP Sloan Foundation Fellow, 2000-2002
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow, 2000-2005

Physics Service:

• Lead organizer for KITP workshop on "Exotic order and criticality in quantum systems", March 21-July 2, 2004
• Organizer for future KITP workshop on "Moments and multiplets in Mott materials", August-December, 2007
• Chair for Gordon conference on "Correlated electrons", summer 2008 (vice-chair, 2006)
• Member, ICAM Science Steering Committee
• Lecturer at several international schools in condensed matter physics
• Regular referee for far too many granting agencies and journal publications

Significant University Service:

• Graduate Advisor, Physics Department, 2000-2003
• Graduate Council Member, 2006-present
• Committee on Program Review, 2006-present