Quantum Field Theory<\/strong><\/p>\n Quantum field theory is a framework that is capable of describing a vast range of systems that at first glance may appear to have nothing in common. The key concepts connecting such different systems are emergence and universality \u2013 in other words, when you zoom out and look at systems on larger scales, they can behave quite differently than their individual components do, and moreover most of the detailed properties of the individual components are irrelevant for the large-scale behavior. When quantum field theories systematically focus on only large-scale behavior, they are called \u201ceffective field theories,\u201d and I am interested in using them to simplify and unify many seemingly different models. These concepts become especially powerful when we look at systems that are \u201cscale-invariant,\u201d i.e. they continue to behave in exactly the same manner even as we look at them on longer and longer distances. Such scale-invariant theories are at the heart of a large part of modern physics. I am especially interested in their remarkable ability to describe quantum theories of gravity through highly non-trivial \u201cdualities,\u201d where different theoretical descriptions turn out to be equivalent, or \u201cdual,\u201d to each other.<\/p>\n Closure of the Operator Product Expansion in the Non-Unitary Bootstrap,\u201d Ilya Esterlis, David Ramirez,\u00a0<\/span>JHEP<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>1611<\/strong>, 030, (2016)<\/p>\n \u201cUniversal Bounds on Charged States in 2d CFT and 3d Gravity,\u201d Nathan Benjamin, Ethan Dyer, Shamit Kachru.\u00a0<\/span>JHEP<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>1608<\/strong>, 041 (2016)<\/p>\n \u201cOn Information Loss in AdS3\/CFT2,\u201d Jared Kaplan, Daliang Li, and Junpu Wang,\u00a0<\/span>JHEP<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>1605<\/strong>, 109 (2016)<\/p>\n \u201cSmall Black Holes and Near-Extremal CFTs,\u201d Nathan Benjamin, Ethan Dyer, Alexander Maloney, Eric Perlmutter,\u00a0<\/span>JHEP<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>1608<\/strong>, 023 (2016)<\/p>\n \u201cA Quantum Correction to Chaos,\u201d Jared Kaplan.\u00a0<\/span>JHEP<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>1605<\/strong>, 070 (2016)<\/p>\nSelected Publications:<\/h3>\n