Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from University of Texas, Austin, in 1998 under the supervision of Willy Fischler, coauthor of matrix theory.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from University of Texas, Austin, in 1998 under the supervision of Willy Fischler, coauthor of matrix theory.
He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2001-2004 and again in the fall of 2010. Berenstein"s research mainly concerns string theory. He has made notable contributions to the theory of AdS/CFT conjecture—for example, in 2002 regarding the duality between strings on pp-wave spacetime and Berenstein–Maldacena–Nastase operators in North=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, together with Juan Maldacena and Horatiu Nastase, and more recently (since 2004) on the matrix model of BPS (Bogomol"nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound) states in North=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.