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Superstring Theory

String theory is a broad and varied field with strong connections to quantum gravity, particle physics and cosmology, as well as mathematics. Our research group has been working on a wide range of topics in all three connections. Some of the main research topics are: string cosmology, the landscape, gauge theory amplitudes, gauge/gravity duality, black rings, and strings at singularities.

In addition to the researchers listed below, PI has three Distinguished Research Chairs who work in superstring theory: Malcolm Perry, Ashoke Sen, and Leonard Susskind.


Researchers:

Alex Buchel
Associate Faculty
PhD Cornell (1999)
Affiliation: University of Western Ontario
Freddy Cachazo
Faculty
PhD Harvard (2002)
Jaume Gomis
Faculty
PhD Rutgers (1999)
Rob Myers
Faculty
PhD Princeton (1986)
Satoshi Nawata
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2008)
Pedro Vieira
Faculty
PhD École Normale Supérieure Paris and the Centro de Fisica do Porto (2008)
Amit Sever
5 Year Sr. Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD The Hebrew University (2007)
Lilia Anguelova
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD SUNY at Stony Brook (2003)
Keith Copsey
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD University of California, Santa Barbara (2007)
Simone Giombi
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD Stony Brook University, YITP (2007)
Janet Hung
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD Cambridge (2009)
Louis Leblond
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD Cornell (2006)
Joao Penedones
Postdoctoral Researcher (visiting)
PhD University of Porto (2007)
Natalia Saulina
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD Princeton (2003)
David Skinner
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD Oxford (2003)
Misha Smolkin
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD Hebrew University (2009)
Jorge Escobedo
Graduate Student
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Yu-Xiang Gu
Graduate Student
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Sayeh Rajabi
Graduate Student
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Ajay Singh
Graduate Student
Affiliation: University of Waterloo


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Featured Publications
hep-th/0605046 (David Mateos, Robert C. Myers, Rowan M. Thomson)
hep-th/0604155 (Jaume Gomis, Christian Romelsberger)
hep-th/0602228 (Freddy Cachazo, Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich)
 
 
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