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Harvard University.
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Stephen Shenker
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Career
He is a professor at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His contributions to physics include:
Basic results on the phase structure of gauge theories (with Eduardo Fradkin)
Basic results on two dimensional conformal field theory and its relation to string theory (with Daniel Friedan, Emil Martinec, Zongan Qiu, and others)
The nonperturbative formulation of matrix models of low-dimensional string theory, the first nonperturbative definitions of string theory (with Michael R Douglas)
The discovery of distinctively stringy nonperturbative effects in string theory, later understood to be caused by Doctorate-branes. These effects play a major role in string dynamics
The discovery of Matrix Theory, the first nonperturbative definition of String/M theory in a physical number of dimensions.
Matrix Theory (see Matrix string theory) is an example of a gauge/gravity duality and is now understood to be a special case of the AdS/CFT correspondence (with Tom Banks, Willy Fischler and Leonard Susskind)
The discovery of the first distinct signature of the black hole singularity in AdS/CFT (with Lukasz Fidkowski, Veronika Hubeny and Matthew Kleban).
Membership
National Academy of Sciences. American Physical Society.
