Prof. Christopher Beem

BS, MS, MA, PhD

Status

Academic Faculty

Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Mathematical Institute

Official Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics, St. John's College

+44 1865 615112

Contact form

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

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 2025-2026 academic year I am lecturing B7.3 Further Quantum Theory. In the past I have also lectured String Theory I for the Master's programme in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, 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, Differential Equations, Part A Geometry, and Projective Geometry.

Recent publications

Simplifying the type A Argyres-Douglas landscape

Beem, C Martone, M Sacchi, M Singh, P Stedman, J Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2025 issue 12 (18 Dec 2025)

On the semi-infinite cohomology of graded-unitary vertex algebras

Garner, N BEEM, C (12 Sep 2025)

Free field realisation of boundary vertex algebras for Abelian gauge theories in three dimensions

Beem, C Communications in Mathematical Physics volume 406 issue 5 (29 Apr 2025)

Free field realizations for rank-one SCFTs

Beem, C Deb, A Martone, M Meneghelli, C Rastelli, L Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2024 issue 12 (03 Dec 2024)

Free field realisation of the chiral universal centraliser

Beem, C Nair, S Annales Henri Poincare (08 May 2023)

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

Beem, C Nair, S Communications in Mathematical Physics (11 Nov 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.13435v1

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)

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)

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" 2020-2026