Skip to main content
University of Oxford logo Home

Search form

  • Log in
  • Members
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Travel & Maps
    • Our Building
    • Supporting Mathematics
    • Alumni
    • History
    • Art and Oxford Mathematics
    • News
    • Vacancies
    • Good Practice
  • Study Here
    • Undergraduate Study
    • Postgraduate Study
    • Current Students
  • Research
    • Research Groups
    • Case studies
    • Faculty Books
  • Outreach
    • Posters
    • Oxford Mathematics Alphabet
    • Oxford Online Maths Club
    • It All Adds Up
    • Problem Solving Matters
    • PROMYS Europe
    • Oxfordshire Maths Masterclasses
    • Outreach Information
  • People
    • Key Contacts
    • University People Search
    • People list
    • A Global Department
    • Research Fellowship Programmes
    • Professional Services Teams
  • Events
    • Conference Facilities
    • Public Lectures & Events
    • Departmental Seminars & Events
    • Special Lectures
    • Conferences
    • Summer Schools
    • Past Events
    • Alumni newsletters
    • Info for event organisers and attendees

Primary tabs

  • View(active tab)
  • Contact

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

Oxford Mathematics Twitter
Oxford Mathematics Facebook
Oxford Mathematics Instangram
Oxford Mathematics Youtube

© Mathematical Institute
Website Accessibility Statement
Website Privacy Policy & Cookies Statement

Good practice scheme
Athena SWAN silver award
Stonewall workplace equality
sfy39587stp18