Joseph Polchinski

UCSB String Group Page

Stanleyfest

Address:

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4030

E-mail:

joep@kitp.ucsb.edu

Phone:

Office: 805-893-3126
Fax: 805-893-2431
Home: 805-964-1557


Research Interests:  Primarily, to answer the question `What is String Theory?' More generally, particle physics and all applications of quantum field theory.  My main recent interests have been cosmic strings and superstrings and integrability in AdS/CFT.  Recently I have been returning to more fundamental questions, such as the black hole information problem.


Recent Teaching: Fall '07: Physics 221A, QFT
Spring '07: Physics 221C, QFT



On some criticisms of String Theory
My Online Talks
Recent Papers
Solvay lecture on the cosmological constant and the string landscape (3/06)

Review of AdS/CFT duality with Gary Horowitz (2/06)

Scientific American article with Raphael Bousso on the string landscape (9/04)
SLAC Summer Institute Lectures on Recent Developments in String Theory (12/98)
A Colloquium on String Duality (7/96)
TASI Lectures on D-Branes (11/96)
Joe's Big Book of String
Strings '96 Proceedings