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 1988.{{MathGenealogy|id=136527}} 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.{{cite book|author=Aspinwall, P. S.|year=1998|chapter=String theory and duality|title=Proceedings of the ICM|volume=2|pages=229–238|arxiv=math/9809004|bibcode=1998math......9004A}} In 1999 he was a Sloan Fellow.

Selected publications

as editor: [https://books.google.com/books/about/Dirichlet_Branes_and_Mirror_Symmetry.html?id=8ISeAwAAQBAJ Dirichlet branes and mirror symmetry], Clay School on Geometry and String Theory, Cambridge 2002, Clay Mathematics Monographs, American Mathematical Society 2009
{{cite journal | last1=Aspinwall | first1=Paul S. | last2=Greene | first2=Brian R. |author-link2=Brian Greene| last3=Morrison | first3=David R. |author-link3=David R. Morrison (mathematician)| title=Calabi–Yau moduli space, mirror manifolds and spacetime topology change in string theory | journal=Nuclear Physics B | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=416 | issue=2 | year=1994 | issn=0550-3213 | doi=10.1016/0550-3213(94)90321-2 | pages=414–480|arxiv=hep-th/9309097| bibcode=1994NuPhB.416..414A }}
{{cite book |eprint=hep-th/9311186 |last1=Aspinwall |first1=P. S. |last2=Greene |first2=B. R. |last3=Morrison |first3=D. R. |chapter=Spacetime Topology Change: The Physics of Calabi-Yau Moduli Space |title=Strings '93 |editor=M. B. Halpern |editor2=G. Rivlis |editor3=A. Sevrin |publisher=World Scientific |location=Singapore |year=1995 |pages=241-262}}
{{cite conference | last=Aspinwall | first=Paul S. | chapter=D-branes on Calabi–Yau-manifolds |title=Progress in String Theory |editor= Juan M. Maldacena | publisher=World Scientific | year=2005 | pages=1–152 | isbn=978-981-256-406-1 | doi=10.1142/9789812775108_0001 |arxiv=hep-th/0403166}}
{{cite arXiv |eprint=hep-th/0001001 |last1=Aspinwall |first1=Paul S. |title=Compactification, Geometry and Duality: N=2 |date=2000 }}
{{cite arXiv |eprint=hep-th/9611137 |last1=Aspinwall |first1=Paul S. |title=K3 Surfaces and String Duality |date=1996 }}
{{cite journal | last=Aspinwall | first=Paul S | title=Enhanced gauge symmetries and Calabi–Yau threefolds | journal=Physics Letters B | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=371 | issue=3–4 | year=1996 | issn=0370-2693 | doi=10.1016/0370-2693(96)00003-2 | pages=231–237|arxiv=hep-th/9511171| bibcode=1996PhLB..371..231A }}
{{cite journal | last=Aspinwall | first=Paul S. | title=Enhanced gauge symmetries and K3 surfaces | journal=Physics Letters B | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=357 | issue=3 | year=1995 | issn=0370-2693 | doi=10.1016/0370-2693(95)00957-m | pages=329–334|arxiv=hep-th/9507012| bibcode=1995PhLB..357..329A }}
{{cite journal | last=Aspinwall | first=Paul S. | title=Some relationships between dualities in string theory | journal=Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=46 | issue=1–3 | year=1996 | issn=0920-5632 | doi=10.1016/0920-5632(96)00004-7 | pages=30–38|arxiv=hep-th/9508154| bibcode=1996NuPhS..46...30A }}
{{cite journal | last1=Aspinwall | first1=Paul S. | last2=Morrison | first2=David R. | title=Topological field theory and rational curves | journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=151 | issue=2 | year=1993 | issn=0010-3616 | doi=10.1007/bf02096768 | pages=245–262|arxiv=hep-th/9110048| bibcode=1993CMaPh.151..245A }}
{{cite journal | last1=Aspinwall | first1=Paul S | last2=Louis | first2=Jan | title=On the ubiquity of K3 fibrations in string duality | journal=Physics Letters B | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=369 | issue=3–4 | year=1996 | issn=0370-2693 | doi=10.1016/0370-2693(95)01541-8 | pages=233–242|arxiv=hep-th/9510234| bibcode=1996PhLB..369..233A }}
{{cite journal | last1=Aspinwall | first1=Paul S. | last2=Morrison | first2=David R. | title=Point-like instantons on K3 orbifolds | journal=Nuclear Physics B | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=503 | issue=3 | year=1997 | issn=0550-3213 | doi=10.1016/s0550-3213(97)00516-6 | pages=533–564|arxiv=hep-th/9705104| bibcode=1997NuPhB.503..533A }}
{{cite journal | last1=Aspinwall | first1=Paul S. | last2=Greene | first2=Brian R. | last3=Morrison | first3=David R. | title=Multiple mirror manifolds and topology change in string theory | journal=Physics Letters B | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=303 | issue=3–4 | year=1993 | issn=0370-2693 | doi=10.1016/0370-2693(93)91428-p | pages=249–259|arxiv=hep-th/9301043| bibcode=1993PhLB..303..249A }}
{{cite journal | last1=Aspinwall | first1=Paul S. | last2=Gross | first2=Mark |author-link2=Mark Gross (mathematician)| title=The SO(32) heterotic string on a K3 surface | journal=Physics Letters B | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=387 | issue=4 | year=1996 | issn=0370-2693 | doi=10.1016/0370-2693(96)01095-7 | pages=735–742|arxiv=hep-th/9605131| bibcode=1996PhLB..387..735A }}
{{cite journal | last=Aspinwall | first=Paul S. | title=M-theory versus F-theory pictures of the heterotic string | journal=Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | publisher=International Press of Boston | volume=1 | issue=1 | year=1997 | issn=1095-0761 | doi=10.4310/atmp.1997.v1.n1.a4 | pages=127–147|arxiv=hep-th/9707014}}
{{cite journal | last1=Aspinwall | first1=P.S. | last2=Lütken | first2=C.A. | title=Quantum algebraic geometry of superstring compactifications | journal=Nuclear Physics B | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=355 | issue=2 | year=1991 | issn=0550-3213 | doi=10.1016/0550-3213(91)90123-f | pages=482–510| bibcode=1991NuPhB.355..482A }}
{{cite arXiv |eprint=hep-th/9412115 |last1=Aspinwall |first1=Paul |title=The Moduli Space of N = 2 Superconformal Field Theories |date=1994 }}

References

External links

[https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/faculty/psa/ Paul S. Aspinwall's homepage at Duke University]

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