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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

 

Career

 

  • 09/2012 - date: Lecturer, then Reader, DAMTP, Cambridge
  • 09/2012 - 08/2013: IBM Einstein Fellow, IAS, Princeton
  • 09/2009 - 08/2012: Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Perimeter Institute
  • 01/2009 - 05/2009: Visiting Scholar, IHÉS, Bures-sur-Yvette
  • 09/2007 - 08/2009: Postdoc, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
  • 09/2003 - 08/2007: Junior Research Fellowship, Oxford
  • 07/2003: D.Phil, Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford

Research

David is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics High Energy Theory research group, and a Visiting Fellow of Perimeter Institute, Ontario. He is interested in quantum field theory, string theory and twistor theory, with particular emphasis on their application to scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravitational theories.

Selected Publications

  • Adamo, T., Casali, E. and Skinner, D., Perturbative Gravity at Null Infinity, Class. Quant. Grav. 31 (2014).
  • Adamo, T., Casali, E. and Skinner, D., Ambitwistor Strings and the Scattering Equations at One Loop, JHEP 1404 (2014).
  • Mason, L. and Skinner, D., Ambitwistor Strings and the Scattering Equations, JHEP 1407 (2014).
  • Skinner, D., Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity, arXiv:1301.0868 [hep-th].
  • Cachazo, F. and Skinner, D., Gravity from Rational Curves, Phys.Rev.Lett. 110 (2013).
  • Bullimore, M. and Skinner, D., Holomorphic Linking, Loop Equations and Scattering Amplitudes in Twistor Space, arXiv:1101.1329 [hep-th].
  • Skinner, D., A Direct Proof of BCFW Recursion for Twistor Strings, JHEP 1101 (2011).
  • Mason, L. and Skinner, D., The Complete Planar S-Matrix of N=4 SYM as a Wilson Loop in Twistor Space, JHEP 1012 (2010).
  • Mason, L. and Skinner, D., Dual Superconformal Invariance, Momentum Twistors and Grassmannians, JHEP 0911 (2009).
  • Mason, L. and Skinner, D., Scattering Amplitudes and BCFW Recursion in Twistor Space, JHEP 1001 (2010).
  • Mason, L. and Skinner, D., Gravity, Twistors and the MHV Formalism, Comm.Math.Phys. 294 (2010).
  • Boels, R., Mason, L. and Skinner, D., Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Twistor Space, JHEP 0702 (2007).

Publications

On AdS4 deformations of celestial symmetries
R Bittleston, G Bogna, S Heuveline, A Kmec, L Mason, D Skinner
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
2024,
10
Moyal deformations, W 1+∞ and celestial holography
W Bu, S Heuveline, D Skinner
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
11
Ambitwistor strings and the scattering equations on AdS3xS3
K Roehrig, D Skinner
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
73
Ambitwistor strings in six and five dimensions
Y Geyer, L Mason, D Skinner
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2021)
2021,
153
Gauge theory and boundary integrability. Part II. Elliptic and trigonometric cases
R Bittleston, D Skinner
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2020)
2020,
80
Twistor strings for $ \mathcal{N} $ = 8 supergravity
D Skinner
– The Journal of High Energy Physics
(2020)
2020,
47
Gauge theory and boundary integrability
R Bittleston, D Skinner
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2019)
2019,
195
Minitwistors and 3d Yang-Mills-Higgs theory
T Adamo, D Skinner, J Williams
– Journal of Mathematical Physics
(2018)
59,
122301
A gluing operator for the ambitwistor string
KA Roehrig, D Skinner
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2018)
2018,
69
A worldsheet theory for supergravity
T Adamo, E Casali, D Skinner
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2015)
2015,
116
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B1.21

Telephone

01223 766921