David Berenstein is a Colombian

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experime ...

and professor at

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the U ...

, USA. He received his Ph.D. from

University of Texas, Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, in 1998 under the supervision of Willy Fischler, coauthor of matrix theory. He was a visiting scholar at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent schola ...

in 2001-04 and again in the fall of 2010.Institute for Advanced Study scholar profile
/ref> 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 ''N=4''

supersymmetric In a supersymmetric theory the equations for force and the equations for matter are identical. In theoretical and mathematical physics, any theory with this property has the principle of supersymmetry (SUSY). Dozens of supersymmetric theories ...

Yang-Mills theory, together with

Juan Maldacena Juan Martín Maldacena (born September 10, 1968) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has made significant contributions to t ...

and Horațiu Năstase, and more recently (since 2004) on the matrix model of BPS ( Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound) states in ''N=4''

Yang-Mills theory.

Publications

References

External links

* ''Strings in flat space and pp waves from N=4 superYang-Mills'', .
David Berenstein's Webpage at UCSB.
21st-century American physicists University of Texas at Austin alumni University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars American string theorists Colombian emigrants to the United States Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{US-physicist-stub