Stephen Shenker Explained
Stephen Hart Shenker (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is a professor at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His brother Scott Shenker is a computer scientist.
Work
Shenker's 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 D-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)
- Basic results on the connection between quantum gravity and quantum chaos (with Douglas Stanford, Juan Maldacena and others)
Selected works
- Fidkowski . Lukasz . Hubeny . Veronika . Veronika Hubeny . Kleban . Matthew . Matthew Kleban . Shenker . Stephen . The Black Hole Singularity in AdS/CFT . . 6 February 2004 . 2004 . 2 . 014 . 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/02/014. hep-th/0306170 . 2004JHEP...02..014F . 119363210 .
External links
Notes and References
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010175204.html LCCN: Shenker, Stephen Hart