Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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Professor Adam Pound

Professorial Fellow-Research

Research interests

  • General Relativity
  • Sources of gravitational waves
  • Black holes

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Dr Alexander Tyukov

Research Fellow
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Mr Altay Etkin

Research interests

  • AdS/CFT correspondence
  • Holographic black holes
  • Quantum information theory
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Dr Andreas Schmitt

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Quantum chromodynamics
  • Superconductivity and superfluidity of dense nuclear and quark matter

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Dr Benjamin Withers

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Gravity
  • Holography
  • String theory

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Professor Carlos Lobo

Professor

Research interests

  • Superfluidity (rotational aspects, microscopics)
  • Superconductivity (multicomponent pairing theory, FFLO states)
  • Condensed Matter aspects of ultracold atoms (topological states in lattices)

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Dr Carlos Mafra

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Covariant quantization of the superstring
  • Pure spinor formalism
  • Superstring scattering amplitudes

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Professor Carsten Gundlach

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Classical general relativity
  • Numerical relativity
  • Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse

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Mr Chandramouli Chowdhury

Senior Research Assistant

Research interests

  • Cosmological Correlators
  • Scattering Amplitudes
  • Logarithmic corrections to Black Hole Entropy
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Professor Christopher Howls

Professor of Mathematics

Research interests

  • Asymptotic Analysis
  • Semiclassical Analysis
  • Applied Mathematics

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