Martin Roček is a
professor
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of
theoretical physics
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at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook and a member of the
C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics. He received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from
Harvard University
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in 1975 and 1979. He did post-doctoral research at the
University of Cambridge
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and
Caltech
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before becoming a professor at
Stony Brook University.
He was one of the co-inventors of
hyperkähler quotients, a hyperkahler analogue of
Marsden–Weinstein reduction and the structure of
Bihermitian manifolds. His research interests include
supersymmetry
Supersymmetry is a Theory, theoretical framework in physics that suggests the existence of a symmetry between Particle physics, particles with integer Spin (physics), spin (''bosons'') and particles with half-integer spin (''fermions''). It propo ...
,
string theory and applications of
generalized complex geometry, and with
S. J. Gates,
M. T. Grisaru, and
W. Siegel, Rocek coauthored ''Superspace, or One thousand and one lessons in supersymmetry'' (1984), the first comprehensive book on supersymmetry.
He is the local coordinator of the annual Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics jointly hosted by Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Mathematics of the Stony Brook University.
References
"Twisted multiplets and new supersymmetric nonlinear sigma-models"
External links
Martin Rocek's page at YITP 5th Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics
Living people
Theoretical physicists
String theorists
Stony Brook University faculty
New Trier High School alumni
Harvard University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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