I began my career in science as an undergraduate studying physics and mathematics at the University of Michigan. Upon graduation, I took up a Marshall Scholarship to pursue a degree in Mathematics at Cambridge University before starting doctoral work at Princeton University, where I earned my PhD in 2011 under the supervision of Nima Arkani-Hamed at the Institute for Advanced Study, writing a thesis on Quantum Field Theory and the Analytic S-Matrix. After Princeton, I was elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows, where I spent several years working on what would become the book, Grassmannian Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes, published by Cambridge University Press. I moved to Copenhagen in 2014 to join the faculty at the Niels Bohr International Academy of the University of Copenhagen, where I still maintain an affiliation. While in Copenhagen, my work earned support from the Villum Foundation and the European Research Council, allowing me to recruit and collaborate with a number of outstanding researchers (see below). I took up my current position at Penn State in 2020, and am looking forward to many exciting years here.
Publications
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Jacob Bourjaily,
Andrew McLeod,
Cristian Vergu,
Matthias Volk,
Matt Von Hippel,
Matthias Wilhelm,
"{Rooting Out Letters: Octagonal Symbol Alphabets and Algebraic Number Theory}." JHEP 02 (2020)
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Jacob Bourjaily,
Nikhil Kalyanapuram,
Cameron Langer,
Kokkimidis Patatoukos,
Marcus Spradlin,
"{Elliptic, Yangian-Invariant \textquotedblleft{}Leading Singularity\textquotedblright{}}." Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 20 (2021)
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Jacob Bourjaily,
Cameron Langer,
Kokkimidis Patatoukos,
"{Locally-finite quantities in sYM}." JHEP 04 (2021)
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Jacob Bourjaily,
Enrico Herrmann,
Cameron Langer,
Kokkimidis Patatoukos,
Jaroslav Trnka,
Minshan Zheng,
"{Integrands of less-supersymmetric Yang-Mills at one loop}." JHEP 03 (2022)