Particle and Quantum Field Theory Investigations

理论物理学的研究将集中在基本粒子物理学和天体物理学的问题上。将探讨空间超过三维的理论的物理、天体物理和宇宙学结果。“对偶关系”的分支表明，表面上不同的弦理论实际上是同一理论的不同形式将被研究。这些微小的效应将测试我们目前对基本粒子之间的力的理解，并可能标志着超越我们目前理解的新物理学的存在，这些效应将在理论上进行分析。空间有超过三个维度的可能性是非常有趣的，对其结果的探索是非常重要的。弦理论是将我们对自然界所有基本力的理解统一起来的理论的主要候选者，因此该理论的进一步发展也很重要。最后，在最近的过去，小效应已经成为我们理解物理学的一个富有成效的试验场，所以对这种效应的新分析是非常及时的。

Research in theoretical physics will focus on questions in elementary particle physics and astrophysics. The physical, astrophysical, and cosmological consequences of theories in which space has more than threedimensions will be explored. Ramifications of "duality relations" demonstrating that seemingly different string theories are actually different forms of the same theory will be studied. Small effects that will test our present understanding of the forces between the elementary particles and possibly signal the presence of new physics beyond our present understanding will be theoretically analyzed. The possibility that space has more than three dimensions is extremely interesting, and the exploration of its consequences is very important. String theory is the leading candidate for a theory that unifies our understanding of all the basic forces of nature, so further progress in this theory is important as well. Finally, small effects have been a fruitful testing ground for our understanding of physics in the recent past, so new analyses of such effects is very timely.