Research Interest of Jacob Bourjaily

      Publication 1: Local Models in F-Theory and M-Theory with Three Generations (URL)
      Publication 2: Unfolding Geometric Unification in M-Theory (URL)
      Publication 3: Geometrically Engineering the Standard Model: Locally Unfolding Three Families out of E(8) (URL)

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Statement of Interest:


  My two primary research interests are phenomenological model building in
F-theory and M-theory, and the emerging story of a twistor description of
perturbative Yang-Mills theory and gravity. In F-theory and M-theory, locality
provides a powerful and predictive criterion to test string theory at low
energies (and allows us to avoid many of the difficulties of the otherwise vast
string landscape). And somewhat unrelated to M/F-theory,  the shockingly 
elegant way in which amplitudes appear in twistor space hints at the 
possibility of a remarkably simple description of all of (perturbative) gauge 
theory.