String theory, black hole physics and gauge theory. Recent work has
involved manifestations of the holographic principle in string theory,
the physics of Hawking radiation and noncommutative gauge
theories. Past work include noncritical string theory and random
surfaces, matrix models for nonperturbative strings, W-gravity,
large-N gauge theories, vortices and monopoles.
Education
Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, University of Chicago (1983).
