Michael R. Douglas

Affiliations: 
1988 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 
 2008- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States 
Area:
Quantum Theory
Website:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/people/faculty/bios/michael-r-douglas
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Michael R. Douglas received his bachelor’s degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1983 and his PhD from Caltech in 1988 under the supervision of John Schwarz.
Douglas is a string theorist, best known for his part in the development of matrix models, and for his work on noncommutative geometry in string theory, on Dirichlet branes and their relation to derived categories, and on the statistical approach to string phenomenology. Before coming to help start the Simons Center in 2008, Douglas was at Rutgers University where he was Professor of Physics and Director of the New High Energy Theory Center.
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