Janna Levin
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Janna J. Levin (born 1968) is a theoretical cosmologist. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology granted in 1993 and a Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy and Physics from Barnard College granted in 1988. [1]. Her work predicts a finite universe and uses techniques from topology and fractals to demonstrate this. Other work includes black holes and chaos. Since January of 2004, she has been an assistant professor in astronomy and physics at Barnard College.
Levin is the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots (2002) and in 2006 she published A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, a historical novel featuring Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing as characters.
She appeared as a guest on Stephen Colbert's Comedy Central show The Colbert Report on August 24, 2006.
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