Research Interest of Jacob Bourjaily

      Publication 1: Unfolding Geometric Unification in M-Theory (URL)
      Publication 2: Geometrically Engineering the Standard Model: Locally Unfolding Three Families out of E(8) (URL)
      Publication 3: Multiple Unfoldings of Orbifold Singularities: Engineering Geometric Analogies to Unification (URL)

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Statement of Interest:


  I am primarily interested in building phenomenological models in M-theory
and string theory. Because there are only a few locally-realizable (i.e.
geometrically engineerable) constructions which include enough complexity
to represent all three families of Standard Model (possibly with exotics), it is
natural to ask if any are phenomenologically viable. This question directly
probes whether or not quantum gravity---knowledge of the entire 
compactification manifold---is necessary for an understanding of the origin
of three families from string theory.