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Career

  • Postdoc positions at SUNY, Stony Brook, USA; CERN (UK junior fellow), Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (Joliot-Curie fellow).
  • Appointed DAMTP lecturer 1984. Currently DAMTP Professor of Theoretical Physics.
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2000

Research

General Relativity, supersymmetry, string/M-theory, solitons, cosmology and various topics in Mathematical Physics

Recent Publications

 

  • E.A. Bergshoeff, W.Merbis, A.J. Routh and P.K. Townsend, ``The Third Way to 3D Gravity'', Int. J. Mod. Phys. D24 (2015) 1544015
  • L. Mezincescu, A.J. Routh and P.K. Townsend, ``Twistors and the massive spinning particle'', J. Phys. A49 (2016) 025401
  • A.S. Arvanitakis, L. Mezincescu and P.K. Townsend, ``Worldline CPT and massless supermultiplets'', Int. J. Mod. Phys. A31 (2016) 1650152
  • J. Gomis and P.K. Townsend, ``The Galilean Superstring'', JHEP 1702 (2017) 105
  • A.S. Arvanitakis, A.E. Barns-Graham and P.K. Townsend, ``Anti-de Sitter particles and manifest (super)isometries'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 (2017) 141601

Publications

Tachyons, supertubes and brane/anti-brane systems
D Mateos, S Ng, PK Townsend
– J HIGH ENERGY PHYS
(2002)
ARTN 016
The s-rule exclusion principle and vacuum interpolation in worldvolume dynamics
PK Townsend, J Gomis, MNR Wohlfarth
– The Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
12,
027
The first law of black brane mechanics
PK Townsend, M Zamaklar
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2001)
18,
5269
Quintessence from M-theory
PK Townsend
– J HIGH ENERGY PHYS
(2001)
ARTN 042
Supergravity supertubes
R Emparan, D Mateos, PK Townsend
– JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2001)
2001,
ARTN 011
Multidomain walls in massive supersymmetric sigma models
JP Gauntlett, D Tong, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D
(2001)
6402,
025010
Supertubes.
D Mateos, PK Townsend
– Phys Rev Lett
(2001)
8701,
011602
The heterotic dyonic instanton
E Eyras, PK Townsend, M Zamaklar
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2001)
5,
046
D-brane solitons in supersymmetric sigma models
JP Gauntlett, R Portugues, D Tong, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D
(2001)
63,
085002
Supersymmetric intersecting domain walls in massive hyper-Kähler sigma models
JP Gauntlett, D Tong, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D
(2001)
63,
085001
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B0.34