Paul Michael Sutcliffe
is British
mathematical physicist
Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The ''Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the developmen ...
and mathematician, currently Professor of Theoretical Physics at the
University of Durham
Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charte ...
. He specialises in the study of
topological soliton
A topological soliton occurs when two adjoining structures or spaces are in some way "out of phase" with each other in ways that make a seamless transition between them impossible. One of the simplest and most commonplace examples of a topological ...
s.
He serves as the Project Director of the SPOCK (''Scientific Properties of Complex Knots'') research programme dedicated to the study of
knotted structures. Related subjects of research include
skyrmion
In particle theory, the skyrmion () is a topologically stable field configuration of a certain class of non-linear sigma models. It was originally proposed as a model of the nucleon by (and named after) Tony Skyrme in 1961. As a topological soli ...
s.
Sutcliffe was awarded the
LMS Whitehead Prize
The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to multiple mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C. Whiteh ...
in 2006 for contributions to the study of
topological soliton
A topological soliton occurs when two adjoining structures or spaces are in some way "out of phase" with each other in ways that make a seamless transition between them impossible. One of the simplest and most commonplace examples of a topological ...
s and their dynamics.
Mathematics People, AMS Notices, September 2006
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Education
Sutcliffe graduated from Durham University in 1989.
Bibliography
Books
''Topological solitons''
(with Nick Manton), Cambridge University Press 2004
Selected academic works
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References
External links
Home Page
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of Durham University
Alumni of University College, Durham
21st-century English mathematicians
Whitehead Prize winners