Nathan Benjamin

Feb

2024

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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Featured Speaker(s): Nathan Benjamin

Cost: Free

Nathan Benjamin is Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Theoretical Physics at Caltech.

Description

Nathan Benjamin is interested in string theory, quantum field theory, conformal field theory, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. He received his B.S. from MIT in 2013, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2018 under the supervision of Shamit Kachru. After his Ph.D., he was a postdoc at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University from 2018 to 2021, and at the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech starting from 2021.