Particles, Fields and Spacetime
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Mathematical Sciences
Abstract
Particle Physics is about to enter a new and crucial phase. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will enable us to examine experimentally many of the theoretical concepts that underly the standard model of particle physics and search for the deeper structures that are believed to unify the laws of physics. Quantum field theory is the mathematical language in which the standard model is expressed, and it treats particles as point-like objects. Only certain kinds of quantum field theories, known as gauge theories, are consistent in the four dimensional world we live in. These include, and are generalisations of, the theory of electrodynamics that describes light interacting with electric charge. To be able to interpret the results of experiments we need to be able to solve gauge theories, at least approximately. This is a hard problem, but one in which there has recently been very remarkable progress due to a convergence of ideas originally developed in quite disparate contexts for solving very different kinds of theories. A major thrust of the project will be to push this line of enquiry further so as to be able to more fully understand gauge theories and be able to compute their properties. Matter at large scales is dominated by gravity which is described by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. This governs the motion of planets, stars, galaxies, and the evolution of the Universe itself. Uniting General Relativity and the standard model of particle physics is the most important challenge facing theoretical physics. It is widely, though not universally, believed that string theory provides such a unification. String theory replaces the point-like particles of quantum field theory with extended objects whose different vibrational modes account for the different species of fundamental particles. It is this belief that leads to the expectation that supersymmetry, a property of all realistic string theories, plays a role in nature, and may well be discovered at the LHC. Showing how nature contrives to hide this property is another part of the project. String theory has also lead to many unexpected relations between different kinds of physical theories, most notably in the AdS/CFT correspondence which states equivalences between certain gravity theories and corresponding gauge theories, enabling us to solve difficult problems in one theory by studying simper ones in the other. We will use this to study problems in gravity that would otherwise be intractable and also model strongly coupled physical processes in diverse areas by gravity. We will also use another method for studying hadrons that is particularly appropriate to describing large numbers of them bound into nuclei or even neutron stars. This is based on effective field theories such as the Skyrme model which we will investigate numerically using computers. Being a theory of quantum gravity strings have many implications for cosmology, in particular they admit the possibility that what we see as the physical universe is only a low dimensional subspace called a brane, moving in a space of higher dimensions. We will continue the quest to find direct experimental and observational signatures that will test this scenario.
Organisations
- Durham University, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Utrecht University (Collaboration)
- University of Bonn, Germany (Collaboration)
- University of Amsterdam (Collaboration)
- Bioinnovel (Collaboration)
- The University of Seoul (Collaboration)
- Princeton University, United States (Collaboration)
- Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Collaboration)
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Collaboration)
- University of Cambridge (Collaboration)
- University of Pennsylvania, United States (Collaboration)
- National University of Defense Technolog, China (Collaboration)
- University of Augsburg (Collaboration)
- University of British Columbia, Canada (Collaboration)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Collaboration)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Stanford University, United States (Collaboration)
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Collaboration)
- University of Tokyo (Collaboration)
- University of Heidelberg, Germany (Collaboration)
- Washington University in St. Louis (Collaboration)
- University of California Santa Barbara, United States (Collaboration)
- Max Planck Society (Collaboration)
- International School for Advanced Studies (Collaboration)
- Uppsala University (Collaboration)
- Durham University, Durham (Collaboration)
- TATA Institute of Fundamental Research (Collaboration)
- Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Collaboration)
- Grants Admin Office (Collaboration)
- University of Miami, United States (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
- McGill University, Canada (Collaboration)
- Universidade de São Paulo (Collaboration)
- University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- University of Montreal (Collaboration)
- Beijing University (Collaboration)
- University of Barcelona, Spain (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- King's College London, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
Publications
Brizhik LS
(2014)
Donor-acceptor electron transport mediated by solitons.
in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
Burda P
(2015)
Vacuum metastability with black holes
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Burda P
(2014)
Lifshitz flows in IIB and dual field theories
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Caldarelli M
(2013)
AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme instability
in Physical Review D
Calmet X
(2017)
Non-minimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Curvature in an Inflationary Universe
in Foundations of Physics
Camps J
(2012)
Derivation of the blackfold effective theory
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Camps J
(2012)
Transport and response coefficients in the blackfold approach Blackfolds as materials
in Fortschritte der Physik
Cardoso V
(2012)
NR/HEP: roadmap for the future
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Chadburn S
(2014)
Time dependent black holes and scalar hair
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Cherkis S
(2012)
Moduli of monopole walls and amoebas
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| Description | Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theory The members of our group have played a pioneering role in the efforts to understand the observables in highly supersymmetric theories. We have a strong focus on the extraordinarly rich N = 4 super Yang-Mills theories, for which observables such as scattering amplitudes, Wilson loops, and correlation functions of local operators can be analytically computed to high (and sometimes arbitrarily large) order in the coupling. This stems largely from the exceptional integrability properties of the four-dimensional N = 4 SYM theories, which normally arises only in two-dimensional QFTs. Our research focuses on N = 4 SYM as an important toy model for understanding QFT and quantum gravity more generally. The power of this approach is clearly demonstrated by many past results, for example many modern methods for computing scattering amplitudes in the Standard Model were first discovered and developed in N = 4 SYM. It is essential to continue developing such techniques in order to analyze future data from particle colliders like the LHC. We also investigate whether and to what extent these ideas can be extended beyond the planar limit and to more realistic models. We have already made substantial progress in this direction, for example through the development of ambitwistor string models which describe 4d gauge and gravity theories with any amount of supersymmetry. Furthermore, several techniques developed for the bootstrap analysis of the N = 4 theories have already been used for other theories. Our research sits at the intersection of three exceptionally active topics of current research - Amplitudes, Integrability, Bootstrap. These three by now intimately related topics have brought together people from a wide range of other fields, ranging from number theory to computer science to LHC phenomenology.Holography The discovery of the holographic relation between conformal field theories and string theory on asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes has revolutionised the study of both field theory and quantum gravity. The gravitational description provides a powerful approach to calculations in strongly-coupled field theory, and at the same time the field theory provides a fundamental definition of string theory in which we can seek to understand the description of quantum spacetime. Our group has made substantial contributions to both directions, including the extension of holography to new domains where the underlying symmetries are non-relativistic. Our research has two main focus areas: firstly applied holography, using holography as a tool to study the physics of strongly-coupled field theories, with a view to applications in both QCD and in condensed matter systems. Secondly, entanglement and holography, where the group has had a world-leading position in the development of the relation between minimal surfaces in the bulk and entanglement in the field theory. This relation provides a very important new insight into the structure of the holographic duality. Cosmology The major achievement of the cosmology programme has been a series of papers by Ruth Gregory demonstrating that the Higgs vacuum decays in the presence of tiny black holes The implication of this work is that primordial black holes, i.e. black holes left over from the early universe, would be in conflict with the Standard Model of particle physics. This work extends previous analyses of the tunnelling process to allow for nucleation seeds or impurities, by including a black hole in the tunnelling process. The action of the instanton is significantly reduced for small black hole masses. Applying this to the Standard Model Higgs, we conclude that black holes trigger very rapid decay of the Higgs vacuum. Another implication considered in this work was the possibility that black holes produced at the LHC would trigger vacuum decay in models with large extra dimensions. Whilst investigating the Higgs potential at high energies, we obtained some radical results on the renormalisation of Higgs-gravity couplings. These couplings play a crucial role in the cosmology of the Higgs boson and in Higgs inflation. In this rapidly moving area, there are contrasting physical descriptions depending on the choice of frame (Einstein or Jordan). Choosing a quantisation scheme which is covariant under changes of frame gives new results for beta functions of the effective field theory and new physical predictions. The techniques needed to do these calculations have only been developed recently, and they open up a whole new avenue of research. Non-perturbative Field Theory Non-perturbative aspects of field theory is an important theme in our work. The study of classical soliton solutions is an important area of activity, in which the group has a long-standing presence. We are also active in the study of non-perturbative aspects of string and M-theory, and the study of field theories with boundaries. A recent area of development is resurgence, an approach to reconstructing non-perturbative information from the asymptotics of the perturbation expansion. Current work is described under different areas below. |
| Exploitation Route | All research directions are the subject of current world wide activity |
| Sectors | Education |
| URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/mathematical.sciences/cpt/research/ |
| Description | Collaborative Small Grant |
| Amount | £600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | London Mathematical Society |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| Amount | € 1,400,758 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | SPiN: 615443 |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 04/2014 |
| End | 04/2019 |
| Description | Foundational Questions Institute: Large Grants |
| Amount | $43,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 03/2014 |
| End | 03/2016 |
| Description | GATIS: Gauge Theory as an Integrable System |
| Amount | £502,468 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 317089 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | |
| Description | Grant - Defects in Integrable Classical and Quantum Field Theory |
| Amount | £266,648 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/F026498/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Grant - Elliptic Genera and Mathieu 24 Moonshine |
| Amount | £44,994 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Grant - Hopf solitons |
| Amount | £234,115 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/G038775/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Grant - Integrability, Symmetry and Quantum Space-Time |
| Amount | £38,360 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 247523 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | |
| Description | Grant - Phase Structure of Strongly Coupled Field Theories and Gravity |
| Amount | £121,770 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | PP/E006930/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Grant - Properties of Higher Dimensional Black... |
| Amount | £1,400 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Nuffield Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Grant - Solitons and Other Extended Structures |
| Amount | £12,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Grant - Solutions of Higher Dimensional Gravity |
| Amount | £1,400 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Nuffield Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Grant - String Theory Approach to Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories |
| Amount | £344,990 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/G007063/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| End | 01/2014 |
| Description | Grant: Geometry, Holography and Skyrmions |
| Amount | £173,723 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/K003453/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | LMS Scheme 3 Grant |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 31331 |
| Organisation | London Mathematical Society |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2013 |
| End | 09/2014 |
| Description | LMS Scheme 3 Grant |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 31229 |
| Organisation | London Mathematical Society |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2012 |
| End | 09/2013 |
| Description | Leverhulme Research Project |
| Amount | £192,413 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RPG-2016-233 |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | North British Mathematical Physics Seminar Series |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | London Mathematical Society |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Research grant - Transfer of Physics Methodology to the Modelling... |
| Amount | £113,595 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/H003649/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Royal Commission Fellowship |
| Amount | £88,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Studentship |
| Amount | £55,032 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Travel grant |
| Amount | £900 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Wolfson Merit Award |
| Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2011 |
| End | 08/2016 |
| Description | Workshop - Symmetry and Geometry of Banes in String/M Theory |
| Amount | £6,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | London Mathematical Society |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Workshop: International Colloquium on Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics |
| Amount | £622 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | 2 loop Wilson loops |
| Organisation | ETH Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Major contribution to all papers |
| Impact | Collaboration with Zurich no longer ongoing, but research into the area brought up by this collaboration is still in progress at Durham. 5 papers published so far. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | AdS/QCD aspects |
| Organisation | University of Barcelona |
| Department | Faculty of Physics |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Two staff members under the grant were involved in this collaboration, both being lead author on several publications |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions towards travel |
| Impact | Several publications in international refereed journals, various invited talks at international conferences. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | AdS/QCD aspects |
| Organisation | Utrecht University |
| Department | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Two staff members under the grant were involved in this collaboration, both being lead author on several publications |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions towards travel |
| Impact | Several publications in international refereed journals, various invited talks at international conferences. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Aspen Workshop Team |
| Organisation | Heidelberg University |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I led a working group in Aspen |
| Collaborator Contribution | To lead working group |
| Impact | Publications 1. Lifshitz solutions in supergravity and string theory Ruth Gregory (Durham U.), Susha L. Parameswaran (Uppsala U.), Gianmassimo Tasinato (Heidelberg U.), Ivonne Zavala (Bonn U.). Published in JHEP 1012 (2010) 047 2.Lifshitz black holes in IIA supergravity Luke Barclay (Durham U., IPPP), Ruth Gregory (Durham U., IPPP & Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Susha Parameswaran (Hannover U.), Gianmassimo Tasinato (Portsmouth U., ICG), Ivonne Zavala (Groningen U.). Published in JHEP 1205 (2012) 122 |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Aspen Workshop Team |
| Organisation | University of Bonn |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I led a working group in Aspen |
| Collaborator Contribution | To lead working group |
| Impact | Publications 1. Lifshitz solutions in supergravity and string theory Ruth Gregory (Durham U.), Susha L. Parameswaran (Uppsala U.), Gianmassimo Tasinato (Heidelberg U.), Ivonne Zavala (Bonn U.). Published in JHEP 1012 (2010) 047 2.Lifshitz black holes in IIA supergravity Luke Barclay (Durham U., IPPP), Ruth Gregory (Durham U., IPPP & Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Susha Parameswaran (Hannover U.), Gianmassimo Tasinato (Portsmouth U., ICG), Ivonne Zavala (Groningen U.). Published in JHEP 1205 (2012) 122 |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Aspen Workshop Team |
| Organisation | Uppsala University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I led a working group in Aspen |
| Collaborator Contribution | To lead working group |
| Impact | Publications 1. Lifshitz solutions in supergravity and string theory Ruth Gregory (Durham U.), Susha L. Parameswaran (Uppsala U.), Gianmassimo Tasinato (Heidelberg U.), Ivonne Zavala (Bonn U.). Published in JHEP 1012 (2010) 047 2.Lifshitz black holes in IIA supergravity Luke Barclay (Durham U., IPPP), Ruth Gregory (Durham U., IPPP & Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Susha Parameswaran (Hannover U.), Gianmassimo Tasinato (Portsmouth U., ICG), Ivonne Zavala (Groningen U.). Published in JHEP 1205 (2012) 122 |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Aspen working group |
| Organisation | Heidelberg University |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Durham staff member led a working group between these institutions. |
| Impact | One academic paper published so far. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Aspen working group |
| Organisation | University of Bonn |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Durham staff member led a working group between these institutions. |
| Impact | One academic paper published so far. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Aspen working group |
| Organisation | Uppsala University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Durham staff member led a working group between these institutions. |
| Impact | One academic paper published so far. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Broken Baby Skyrmions |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Department | School of Mathematics Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Academic research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Academic research |
| Impact | Broken Baby Skyrmions Proceedings of the Royal Society A 468, 1085-1104 (2012). |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Brownian motion in AdS/CFT |
| Organisation | University of Amsterdam |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Two members of the department participated with collaborators from the University of Amsterdam on research leading to one academic publication |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | CPN harmonic maps and the corresponding surfaces |
| Organisation | University of Montreal |
| Department | Department of Mathematics and Statistics |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Analytical work on harmonic maps |
| Impact | V. Hussin, I. Yurducen and W.J. Zakrzewski: Canonical surfaces associated with projectors in grassmannian sigma models, published in J. Math. Phys.51 103509 (2010); arXiv: 1002.2690(math-ph math.MP) |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Collaboration with TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
| Organisation | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Academic research leading to the publication of two papers. |
| Impact | Two academic papers published |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Organisation | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with University of California, Santa Barbara and two members of the department on academic research leading to the publication of 3 papers |
| Impact | Publication of three academic papers |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of Pennsylvania |
| Organisation | University of Pennsylvania |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Academic research leading to the publication of one paper |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Concept of quasi-integrability |
| Organisation | Universidade de São Paulo |
| Department | Physics Institute of São Carlos |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Analytical work and some numerics. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supported by a grant from the Royal Society and FAPESP (of Sao Paolo, Brazil). |
| Impact | Outputs: 1. L.A. Ferreira and W.J. Zakrzewski: Some comments on quasi-integrability, to be published in Reports in Mathematical Physics (2010) 2. L.A. Ferreira and W.J. Zakrzewski: The concept of quasi-integrability: a concrete example, arXiv:1011.2176 (hep-th) (2010), submitted to JHEP. 3. P. Klimas, L.A. Ferreira and W.J. Zakrzewski: Some (3+1) dimensional vortex solutions of the $CP^N$ model, arXiv:1103.0559 (hep-th) (2011) And more in preparation |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Conformal field theories in anti-de Sitter space. |
| Organisation | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between the Weizmann Institute, UC at Santa Barbara, and one member of the department |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assistance with travel costs |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Conformal field theories in anti-de Sitter space. |
| Organisation | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Country | Israel |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between the Weizmann Institute, UC at Santa Barbara, and one member of the department |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assistance with travel costs |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Conformal non-relativistic hydrodynamics from gravity. |
| Organisation | University of Washington |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between Washington University, Seattle, and two members of the department |
| Collaborator Contribution | Help with travel costs |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Consultancy Collaboration |
| Organisation | Bioinnovel |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Joint consultancy work on the modelling of cell cultures (for company Bioinovel) and the design of a foam for horse saddle (for company FnE Saddle). We merge our expertise on computational Modelling and soft matter physics to address problems relevant to our industrial partners. Maths staff's main contribution has been to liaise with the director of Bioinovel, derive a model of a cell culture using an ordinary differential equation with a delay. Also to write a program in C++ that the company can use and present work in the Bioinovel premises. Maths' contribution the Saddle project is to model the dynamics of a foam material. |
| Impact | The work for Bioinovel raised £5k and is likely to lead to a publication. It will also be a key component of the main product developing by the company. The work for FnE Saddle is still ongoing and should lead to at least one research paper. Ultimately it should also help the company to improve the design of its saddles. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Correlation function/ Wilson loop duality |
| Organisation | Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) |
| Department | Institute of Theoretical Physics 1 |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborative research into Correlation function/Wilson loop duality. |
| Impact | 2 papers published so far |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Correlation function/ Wilson loop duality |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborative research into Correlation function/Wilson loop duality. |
| Impact | 2 papers published so far |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Cosmic Superstrings |
| Organisation | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Durham staff member led a collaboration with these two institutes on academic research into cosmic superstrings. |
| Impact | Three academic papers were published as a result of this collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Cosmic Superstrings |
| Organisation | University of Bonn |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Durham staff member led a collaboration with these two institutes on academic research into cosmic superstrings. |
| Impact | Three academic papers were published as a result of this collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Doubly-periodic monopoles and the Nahm transform |
| Organisation | Trinity College Dublin |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint research project on "Doubly-periodic monopoles and the Nahm transform" |
| Impact | Paper in preparation |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Holographic models of de Sitter QFTs. |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between University of British Columbia, UC at Santa Barbara, and one member of the department. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Help with travel costs |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Holographic models of de Sitter QFTs. |
| Organisation | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between University of British Columbia, UC at Santa Barbara, and one member of the department. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Help with travel costs |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Holographic superconductivity |
| Organisation | University of Tokyo |
| Department | Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborative research into holographic superconductivity |
| Impact | Three academic papers have resulted from the collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | ISAQS |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ISAQS is an EC-funded program of exchanges under the PIRSES scheme, coordinated by a Durham professor covered under this grant. |
| Impact | . |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Integrability in AdS/CFT |
| Organisation | University of Miami |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | All collaborators worked on the research problem. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution of costs for initial visit to Miami in 2009. Work on the research problem. |
| Impact | Collaboration currently dormant but may restart. One paper: "On the absence of reflection in AdS_4/CFT_3", published in JHEP 1001 (2010) 129. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Integrability in AdS/CFT |
| Organisation | University of Seoul |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | All collaborators worked on the research problem. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution of costs for initial visit to Miami in 2009. Work on the research problem. |
| Impact | Collaboration currently dormant but may restart. One paper: "On the absence of reflection in AdS_4/CFT_3", published in JHEP 1001 (2010) 129. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Integrating out geometry: Holographic Wilsonian RG and the membrane paradigm. |
| Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Department | Laboratory for Nuclear Science |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with UC Santa Barbara, MIT and one member of the department. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Help with travel costs |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Integrating out geometry: Holographic Wilsonian RG and the membrane paradigm. |
| Organisation | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with UC Santa Barbara, MIT and one member of the department. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Help with travel costs |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Light nuclei of even mass number in the Skyrme model |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Academic research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Academic research |
| Impact | Light nuclei of even mass number in the Skyrme model, Physical Review C 80, 034323 (2009). |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Mathieu 24 Moonshine |
| Organisation | Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg |
| Department | Department of Mathematics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in lattice techniques and conformal field theory |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in conformal field theory, algebraic geometry and group theory |
| Impact | M. Gaberdiel, A. Taormina, R. Volpato and K. Wendland, JHEP02(2014)022 |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Mathieu 24 Moonshine |
| Organisation | ETH Zurich |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise in lattice techniques and conformal field theory |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in conformal field theory, algebraic geometry and group theory |
| Impact | M. Gaberdiel, A. Taormina, R. Volpato and K. Wendland, JHEP02(2014)022 |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Mathieu Moonshine |
| Organisation | University of Augsburg |
| Department | Department of Mathematics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The group theoretical aspects of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attracted funds from the London Mathematical Society (Small Collaborative Grant). Fundamental research at the interface between finite group theory and algebraic geometry; explicit representation of the symplectic automorphisms of Kummer K3 surfaces in terms of permutations of 24 elements belonging to the group M24. |
| Impact | One paper so far, arXiv:1008.0954, submitted to Geometry and Physics. Invitation to 3 conferences on the basis of the paper content, invitation to visit Yukawa Institute in Kyoto in September 2011. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | McGill AdS/CMT |
| Organisation | McGill University |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Visiting McGill and collaborative discussions with researchers there. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have supported several visits by this staff member, and it has helped to develop new research directions |
| Impact | 1 paper: S.F. Ross & O. Saremi, Holographic stress tensor for non-relativistic theories, JHEP 0909 (2009) 009 |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Modelling of Biological Systems |
| Organisation | Durham University |
| Department | School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Staff member's main contribution was to organise regular group meetings with the biologists and then to perform the modelling of microtubule dynamics. |
| Impact | 2 research papers in preparation. In process of applying for a BBSRC grant. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Multiboundary |
| Organisation | McGill University |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research collaboration, support for collaborative visits. |
| Impact | Publication to appear |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Multiboundary |
| Organisation | Stanford University |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research collaboration, support for collaborative visits. |
| Impact | Publication to appear |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Multiboundary |
| Organisation | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research collaboration, support for collaborative visits. |
| Impact | Publication to appear |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | N=8 Supergravity |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Durham researcher contributed major part of the project. |
| Impact | One paper published. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | N=8 Supergravity |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Durham researcher contributed major part of the project. |
| Impact | One paper published. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | On Universality of Ergoregion Mergers |
| Organisation | Princeton University |
| Department | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, University of California, Santa Barbara, and two staff members from Durham on academic research leading to the publication of one paper |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | On Universality of Ergoregion Mergers |
| Organisation | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, University of California, Santa Barbara, and two staff members from Durham on academic research leading to the publication of one paper |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Perimeter Institute |
| Organisation | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Spend 3 months a year at PI. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborate with PI staff |
| Impact | Publications: 1. Rotating black hole hair: Published in JHEP 1306 (2013) 023 2. Vortex hair on AdS black holes: e-Print: arXiv:1405.6507 [hep-th] | To appear in JHEP |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | SISSA |
| Organisation | International School for Advanced Studies |
| Department | Physics faculty |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 3 papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | intellectual |
| Impact | 3 papers |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | String cosmology |
| Organisation | University of Tokyo |
| Department | Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborative research on String cosmology |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | The fluid-gravity correspondence: The membrane at the end of the universe. |
| Organisation | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with University of British Columbia, TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and two staff members from Durham on academic research leading to one publication. |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | The fluid-gravity correspondence: The membrane at the end of the universe. |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with University of British Columbia, TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and two staff members from Durham on academic research leading to one publication. |
| Impact | Publication of one academic paper. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Typical states |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | School of Mathematics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research collaboration |
| Impact | Publication: JHEP 1309 (2013) 066 |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Typical states |
| Organisation | University of Pennsylvania |
| Department | Department of Physics & Astronomy |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research collaboration |
| Impact | Publication: JHEP 1309 (2013) 066 |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Typical states |
| Organisation | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Country | Israel |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research collaboration |
| Impact | Publication: JHEP 1309 (2013) 066 |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Univ Of Barcelona |
| Organisation | University of Barcelona |
| Department | Faculty of Physics |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 1 paper + more in progress |
| Collaborator Contribution | intellectual input |
| Impact | 1 paper + more in progress |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Vortons and Skyrmions work |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | School of Physics and Astronomy Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Academic research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Academic research |
| Impact | Stability and the equation of state for kinky vortons, Physical Review D 80, 085024 (2009). Light nuclei of even mass number in the Skyrme model, Physical Review C 80, 034323 (2009). Formation and evolution of kinky vortons, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 9, 39 (2009). Vorton construction and dynamics, Nuclear Physics B 814, 180-194 (2009). |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | kerr/CFT correspondance |
| Organisation | University of Beijing |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Equal contributions to the research made by each partner |
| Collaborator Contribution | Equal contribution to the work |
| Impact | Publication: Real-time correlators in Kerr/CFT correspondence. Bin Chen, Chong-Sun Chu. DCPT-10-01. Jan 2010. 21 pp. Published in JHEP 1005 (2010) 004 e-Print: arXiv:1001.3208 [hep-th] |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | multiple M2 branes |
| Organisation | National University of Defense Technology |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Equal contributions to research made by each partner |
| Collaborator Contribution | Equal contribution to work |
| Impact | Publications: Truncated Nambu-Poisson Bracket and Entropy Formula for Multiple Membranes. Chong-Sun Chu (Durham U. & Durham U., Dept. of Math.), Pei-Ming Ho (Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.), Yutaka Matsuo, Shotaro Shiba (Tokyo U.). |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | multiple M2 branes |
| Organisation | University of Tokyo |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Equal contributions to research made by each partner |
| Collaborator Contribution | Equal contribution to work |
| Impact | Publications: Truncated Nambu-Poisson Bracket and Entropy Formula for Multiple Membranes. Chong-Sun Chu (Durham U. & Durham U., Dept. of Math.), Pei-Ming Ho (Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.), Yutaka Matsuo, Shotaro Shiba (Tokyo U.). |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | "Expediction Zukunft" exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kasper Peeters and Marija Zamaklar provided image material (about string theory) for the German science exhibition "Expedition Zukunft". This is an initiative by the Max-Planck-Society, consisting of a special train filled with exhibitions about basic and applied research. The train visited 62 cities in Germany in 2009 and has been 'exported' to China in 2010. Some more info at http://de.expedition-zukunft.org/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2010 |
| Description | African Institute of Mathematical Sciences lectures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Patrick Dorey gave three-week 30-lecture courses on Solitons at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa He will do likewise in Feb/March 2011. He is also a member of the associate faculty of AIMS, and a member of the Steering Committee for AIMS-Ghana, a project to set up a new AIMS centre in Ghana as part of the AIMS-Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI) AIMS-NEI recently received funding of $20 million CDN from the Canadian government, and $3 million US from Google, $2 million of which being one of only 5 awards made by google's project 10100. Invited back in 2010 and 2011. Appointed to the Associated Faculty of AIMS (from September 2009), and also made a member of the Steering Committee for AIMS-Ghana. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2010,2011 |
| Description | Beautiful Equations: BBC4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Gregory participated in BBC4's Beautiful Equations (14/12/10) . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Durham Physics Christmas Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Departmental Christmas lecture. Pupils from several nearby schools sent parties - the students seemed enthused and engaged. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Exploring Physics conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Professor Gregory gave a talk at the Exploring Physics Conference for sixth-formers (2/4/08) . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Gowland Lecture 2008 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Gregory gave the Gowland lecture at the Science and Religion Forum (2-6/9/08) The lecture was published as The Gowland Lecture 2008: "Why Matter? A scientific Perspective" in: Matter and Meaning: Is Matter Sacred or Profane?", ed Michael Fuller (Cambs Scholars Publishing p.9-20, 2010) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Hack Circus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lively media related event in London, range of science and arts presentation revolving around TIME. The youtube site seems to have generated quite a few hits - general interest |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://tinyletter.com/HackCircus/ |
| Description | Hebden Bridge Astronomical Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A regional astronomical society invited me to talk. As always, local public interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Huddersfield Astronomical Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A regional astronomical society invited me to talk. As always, local public interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Hull Astronomical Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A regional astronomical society invited me to talk. As always, local public interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | IOP Newcastle "The Decay of the Universe" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | IOP talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | In Our Time: Radio 4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Gregory has participated in Radio 4's In our Time (30/4/09). . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Inaugural Emmy Noether Society Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | About 80 undergraduate maths students attended talk. The lecture series was set up to highlight the achievements of women in mathematical sciences, and I discussed with the female students afterwards. This sort of event is important as part of encouraging women to remain at higher levels in science. I felt it had some impact on the participants. The guys enjoyed it too! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Interview for Plus magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | http://plus.maths.org/content/strings-particles-and-early-universe magazine article |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Korean Science Times interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Veronika Hubeny gave an interview for the Korean journal Science Times, Sep.2008. . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Leeds Cafe Scientifique |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The cafe scientifique format is a short talk followed by lively discussion. Plenty of discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Loughborough University Christmas Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | About 150 students attended the Christmas lecture - huge number of questions and interest. Encouraging students to take science further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Outreach publications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Ruth Gregory has published the outreach publications "Cosmic Alternatives?" Review of Facts and Speculations in Cosmology, by Jayant Narlikar and Geoffrey Burbridge, Physics World 22 40-41 (2009), and Book Review: "Introduction to General Relativity," by Lewis Ryder Class. Quant. Grav. 27, 139002 (1p) (2010) . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2010 |
| Description | Pedro Pascuale Center for Science in Benasque interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Veronika Hubeny and Mukund Rangamani gave an interview for the Pedro Pascuale Center for Science in Benasque (Aragon), Spain as part of their effort to publicize the center to the general public. . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Public Lecture: Leeds Astromeet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote speaker at the 2011 Leeds Astromeet - a regional meeting of amateur astronomers (with entry fee). About 200 participants.Talk title: "Our Universe: The Pizza Nobody Ordered". Details: Nov 12 2011 http://www.leedsastronomy.org.uk/Astromeet-2011.html The talk led to 3 (so far) follow up invitations to speak at local amateur astronomy societies, in Leeds, South Shields and Hebden Bridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | South Shields Astronomical Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | About 30 people attended the talk, very lively discussion and questions. As always, local public interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | York Careers Day Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Students seemed engaged with talk and asked many questions. Students showed an interest in an academic career, as well as interest in proceeding to a phd. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |