Prof David Berman

David Berman

Professor of Theoretical Physics

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk/spcs/staff/academics/profiles/dsberman.html
Centre for Fundamental Physics
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Research

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Formal Mathematics, String Theory/M-theory, Quantum Field Theory, Synthetic Biology

Interests

I now primarily work on AI for science and Physics for AI. This research covers a wide area of AI applications including both physics and synthetic biology. I have a been developing an understanding learning based on physics ideas of renormalisation that provides an underpinning of the foundations of artificial intelligence.

Previously my interests were in M-theory, the nonperturbative version of string theory. My research was devoted to understanding the interactions of the extended objects in M-theory, known as branes. My other interests over the years have been varied and include: Holography and the AdS/CFT correspondence; noncommutative geometry; and S-duality in gauge theories. In 2010, I extended the ideas of generalised geometry to M-theory. This has produced a duality manifest description of M-theory and has led to a reworking of many ideas in relativity to take into account duality symmetries in string and M-theory. This is still on going research and has many applications in terms of potentially reformulating what string theory is.