Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Author

• Horatiu Nastase, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo

  Horaƫiu Năstase is a Researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo. To date, his career has spanned four continents. As an undergraduate he studied at the Universitatea din București and Københavns Universitet. He later completed his Ph.D. at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, before moving to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, New Jersey, where his collaboration with David Berenstein and Juan Maldacena defined the pp-wave correspondence. He has also held research and teaching positions at Brown University, Rhode Island and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His other books include Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence (Cambridge, 2015), String Theory Methods for Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge, 2017) and Classical Field Theory (Cambridge, 2019).