Noah Graham is an Associate Professor of Physics at Middlebury College. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his Ph. D. in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles prior to his arrival at Middlebury in 2002. He also worked in the software industry as a Research Scientist at Dragon Systems, where he was part of the team that created Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the world's first large vocabulary, general purpose continuous speech recognition system. His research focuses on calculations of quantum-mechanical Casimir energies in both mesoscopic and elementary particle physics, and on the emergence of localized objects through nonlinear dynamics in the early universe, both with a particular emphasis on the use of high-performance computation.
In addition to pilot grants from Research Corporation, Vermont EPSCoR, and Middlebury College, his work has been supported by three three-year single-investigator NSF RUI grants in theoretical physics. These grants, "RUI: Solitons and Oscillons in Quantum Field Theory," "RUI: Oscillons and Casimir Forces in Classical and Quantum Field Theory," and "RUI: Scattering Theory Casimir Methods and Coherent Structures in the Early Universe" have supported both work done in collaboration with physicists at other institutions and work done with Middlebury summer research students.