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,
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 1988.[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
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
- Aspinwall, Paul S.; ISSN 0550-3213.
- with Brian Greene, David R. Morrison: Spacetime topology change: the physics of Calabi–Yau Moduli Space, in Strings 93, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
- Aspinwall, Paul S. (2005). "D-BRANES ON Calabi–Yau MANIFOLDS". D-branes on Calabi–Yau-manifolds. World Scientific. pp. 1–152. ISBN 978-981-256-406-1.
- Compactification, Geometry and Duality: N=2, TASI Lectures 1999, Arxiv
- K3 surfaces and string duality, TASI Lectures 1996, World Scientific 1997, Arxiv
- Aspinwall, Paul S (1996). "Enhanced gauge symmetries and Calabi–Yau threefolds". Physics Letters B. 371 (3–4). Elsevier BV: 231–237. ISSN 0370-2693.
- Aspinwall, Paul S. (1995). "Enhanced gauge symmetries and K3 surfaces". Physics Letters B. 357 (3). Elsevier BV: 329–334. ISSN 0370-2693.
- Aspinwall, Paul S. (1996). "Some relationships between dualities in string theory". Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. 46 (1–3). Elsevier BV: 30–38. ISSN 0920-5632.
- Aspinwall, Paul S.; Morrison, David R. (1993). "Topological field theory and rational curves". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 151 (2). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 245–262. ISSN 0010-3616.
- Aspinwall, Paul S; Louis, Jan (1996). "On the ubiquity of K3 fibrations in string duality". Physics Letters B. 369 (3–4). Elsevier BV: 233–242. ISSN 0370-2693.
- Aspinwall, Paul S.; Morrison, David R. (1997). "Point-like instantons on K3 orbifolds". Nuclear Physics B. 503 (3). Elsevier BV: 533–564. ISSN 0550-3213.
- Aspinwall, Paul S.; Greene, Brian R.; Morrison, David R. (1993). "Multiple mirror manifolds and topology change in string theory". Physics Letters B. 303 (3–4). Elsevier BV: 249–259. ISSN 0370-2693.
- Aspinwall, Paul S.; ISSN 0370-2693.
- Aspinwall, Paul S. (1997). "M-theory versus F-theory pictures of the heterotic string". Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 1 (1). International Press of Boston: 127–147. ISSN 1095-0761.
- Aspinwall, P.S.; Lütken, C.A. (1991). "Quantum algebraic geometry of superstring compactifications". Nuclear Physics B. 355 (2). Elsevier BV: 482–510. ISSN 0550-3213.
- 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