Kavli
Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4030
joep@kitp.ucsb.edu
Office:
805-893-3126
Fax: 805-893-2431
Home: 805-964-1557
Research Interests: Primarily, to answer the question `What is String Theory?' More generally, particle physics and all applications of quantum field theory. My main recent interests have centered around gauge/gravity duality as the fundamental principle underlying string theory. This includes reduced models of black holes, the connection between bulk spacetime locality and the properties of the dual field theory, and attempts to identify the duals to realistic string vacua. I have recently begun to work on AdS/condensed matter duality, both because of the interesting quantum field theory questions, and because it gives new perspectives on the duality itself.
Recent Teaching: Fall '07: Physics 221A, QFT
Spring '07: Physics 221C, QFT
On some criticisms of String Theory
My
Online Talks
Recent
Papers
Solvay lecture on the
cosmological constant and the string landscape (3/06)
Review of AdS/CFT duality
with Gary Horowitz (2/06)
Scientific
American article with Raphael Bousso on the string landscape (9/04)
SLAC Summer Institute
Lectures
on Recent Developments in String Theory (12/98)
A Colloquium on String
Duality
(7/96)
TASI Lectures on
D-Branes (11/96)
Joe's Big Book of String
Strings '96 Proceedings