Paul S. Aspinwall

Paul Stephen Aspinwall (born 26.January 1964 in England) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician, who works on string theory (including dualities, mirror symmetry, D-branes, and Calabi-Yau manifolds) and also algebraic geometry.

Aspinwall received his early education at Bydales School, Marske-by-the-Sea and Prior Pursglove College, Guisborough. He then studied at the University of Oxford with a focus on theoretical elementary particle physics. He received his bachelor's degree in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1991.[1] He is now a professor of mathematics and physics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk (String theory and duality) at the ICM in Berlin.[2] In 1999 he was a Sloan Fellow.

Selected publications

  • as editor: Dirichlet branes and mirror symmetry, Clay School on Geometry and String Theory, Cambridge 2002, Clay Mathematics Monographs, American Mathematical Society 2009
  • with Brian Greene, David R. Morrison: Calabi-Yau Moduli Space, Mirror Manifolds and Spacetime Topology Change in String Theory. Nucl.Phys. B, vol. 416, 1994, pp. 414–480, Arxiv
  • with Brian Greene, David R. Morrison: Spacetime topology change: the physics of Calabi-Yau Moduli Space, in Strings 93, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
  • D-branes on Calabi-Yau-manifolds, TASI Lectures 2003, Arxiv
  • Compactification, Geometry and Duality: N=2, TASI Lectures 1999, Arxiv
  • K3 surfaces and string duality, TASI Lectures 1996, World Scientific 1997, Arxiv
  • Enhanced gauge symmetries and Calabi-Yau threefolds, Phys. Lett. B, vol. 371, 1996, pp. 231–237, Arxiv
  • Enhanced gauge symmetry and K3 surfaces, Phys.Lett. B, vol. 357, 1995, pp. 329–334, Arxiv
  • Some relationships between dualities in string theory, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 46, 1996, pp. 30–38, Arxiv
  • with David R. Morrison: Topological field theory and rational curves, Commun. Math. Phys., vol. 151, 1993, pp. 245–262, Arxiv
  • with Jan Louis: On the ubiquity of K3 fibrations in string duality, Phys. Lett. B 369, 1996, 233-242, Arxiv
  • with D. R. Morrison: Point-like instantons on K3 orbifolds, Nucl. Phys. B, vol. 503, 1997, pp. 533–564, Arxiv
  • with Brian Greene, D. R. Morrison: Multiple mirror manifolds and topological change in string theory, Phys.Lett. B, vol. 303, 1993, pp. 249–259, Arxiv
  • with Mark Gross: The SO(32) heterotic string on a K3 surface, Phys.Lett. B, vol. 387, 1996, pp. 735–742, Arxiv
  • M-Theory Versus F-Theory Pictures of the Heterotic String, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., 1, 1998, pp. 127–147, Arxiv
  • with C. A. Lütken: Quantum algebraic geometry of superstring compactifications, Nuclear Physics B, vol. 355, 1991, pp. 482–510
  • The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv

References

  1. ↑ Paul S. Aspinwall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Aspinwall, P. S. (1998). "String theory and duality". Proceedings of the ICM. vol. 2. pp. 229–238. arXiv:math/9809004. Bibcode:1998math......9004A.
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