Prof. Christopher Beem

BS, MS, MA, PhD

Status

Academic Faculty

Associate Professor of Mathematical Physics

Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics at St. John's College

Contact form

https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/beem/

+44 1865 615112

ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8820-2835

Research groups

Mathematical Physics

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Highlighted publications

More N=4 superconformal bootstrap

Beem, C Rastelli, L van Rees, B Physical Review D volume 96 issue 4 046014- (25 Aug 2017)

Deformation Quantization and Superconformal Symmetry in Three Dimensions

Beem, C Peelaers, W Rastelli, L Communications in Mathematical Physics volume 354 issue 1 345-392 (20 Feb 2017)

Research interests

Quantum field theory, conformal field theory, supersymmetry, and string theory. Algebraic structures occurring in each of the above.

Teaching

In the 2019-2020 academic year I am lecturing B7.3 Further Quantum Theory and String Theory I (the latter as a part of the MScMTP/MMathPhys master's program in mathematical and theoretical physics). In the past I have also lectured the Part A Special Relativity short option and a graduate course on vertex operator algebras.

At St. John's I tutor physical applied courses, including Geometry, Dynamics, Constructive Mathematics (Algorithms), Differential Equations I & II, Integral Transforms, Part A Quantum Theory, Fluid Dynamics, Special Relativity, Introduction to Manifolds, and Projective Geometry.

Recent publications

Schur Indices of Class $\mathcal{S}$ and Quasimodular Forms

Beem, C Razamat, S Singh, P Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (18 Apr 2022)

Twisted chiral algebras of class $\mathcal{S}$ and mixed Feigin-Frenkel
gluing

Beem, C Nair, S (31 Jan 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.13435v1

VOAs and Rank-Two Instanton SCFTs

Beem, C Meneghelli, C Peelaers, W Rastelli, L COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS (30 Mar 2020) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000522587600002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e

Flavor Symmetries and Unitarity Bounds in N=2 Superconformal Field Theories

BEEM, C Physical Review Letters volume 122 issue 24 (19 Jun 2019)

Vertex operator algebras, Higgs branches, and modular differential equations

Beem, C Rastelli, L Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2018 issue 8 (21 Aug 2018)

The ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal bootstrap

Beem, C Lemos, M Liendo, P Rastelli, L Rees, B Journal of High Energy Physics (29 Mar 2016) http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7541v2

The (2,0) superconformal bootstrap

Beem, C Lemos, M Rastelli, L van Rees, B PHYSICAL REVIEW D volume 93 issue 2 (21 Jan 2016) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000368517100011&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e

Chiral algebras of class S

Beem, C Peelaers, W Rastelli, L van Rees, B JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 5 (05 May 2015) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000356947900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e

W symmetry in six dimensions

Beem, C Rastelli, L van Rees, B Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2015 issue 5 (01 May 2015)

Infinite Chiral Symmetry in Four Dimensions

Beem, C Lemos, M Liendo, P Peelaers, W Rastelli, L van Rees, B COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS volume 336 issue 3 1359-1433 (15 Jan 2015) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000351405500010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

Principle Investigator in the Simons Collaboration for the Nonperturbative Bootstrap 2016-2023

ERC Consolidator Grant "Algebraic Foundations of Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theory" 2020-2025