Presidential Young Investigator Award: Research on String and Conformal Field Theories

弦理论的研究将继续， 已经发现的解决方案， 深入了解弦的基本原理 此外，由于字符串 理论似乎是量子引力的一致理论，它 计划用它来解决诸如高 热力学中的温度状态， 散射振幅，标准的奇异性 宇宙学和黑洞的奇点 特定主题 包括试图找到弦方程解，弦方程 没有通常意义上的“时间”，也没有努力 理解弦理论如何修正标准宇宙学 场景，以及字符串如何预测 时空

Research will continue in string theory, studying solutions already discovered to string vacua to get some insight into the fundamentals of strings. Also, since string theory appears to be a consistent theory of quantum gravity, it is planned to use it to address such questions as the high temperature regime in thermodynamics, high energy limits of scattering amplitudes, singularities of the standard cosmology, and singularities of black holes. Particular topics include an attempt to find solutions of string equations which do not have "time" in the usual sense and an effort to understand how string theory modifies the standard cosmological scenario, and how strings can predict the dimensionality of space-time.