Paul Stephen Aspinwall (born 26 January 1964 in England) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician, who works on
string theory
In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interac ...
(including dualities,
mirror symmetry,
D-branes, and
Calabi–Yau manifold
In algebraic geometry, a Calabi–Yau manifold, also known as a Calabi–Yau space, is a particular type of manifold which has properties, such as Ricci flatness, yielding applications in theoretical physics. Particularly in superstring ...
s) and also algebraic geometry.
Aspinwall received his early education at Bydales School,
Marske-by-the-Sea and
Prior Pursglove College
Prior Pursglove and Stockton Sixth Form College is a sixth form college with sites in Guisborough and Stockton-on-Tees. The college is a result of a merger between Prior Pursglove College and Stockton Sixth Form College in May 2016. The college is ...
,
Guisborough
Guisborough ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It lies north of the North York Moors National Park. Roseberry Topping, midway between the town and Great Ayton, is a landmark i ...
. He then studied at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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with a focus on theoretical elementary particle physics. He received his bachelor's degree in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1988. He is now a professor of mathematics and physics at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in
Durham, North Carolina
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.
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk (''String theory and duality'') at the
ICM in Berlin.
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
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* with Brian Greene, David R. Morrison: ''Spacetime topology change: the physics of Calabi–Yau Moduli Space'', in Strings 93, World Scientific 1995
Arxiv*
* ''Compactification, Geometry and Duality: N=2'', TASI Lectures 1999
Arxiv* ''K3 surfaces and string duality'', TASI Lectures 1996, World Scientific 1997
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* ''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
External links
Paul S. Aspinwall's homepage at Duke University
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1964 births
Living people
British string theorists
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Duke University faculty