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
Relativistic kinematics and stationary motions
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2009)
42,
445402
More on massive 3D gravity
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2009)
79,
124042
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.124042)
Massive gravity in three dimensions.
– Phys Rev Lett
(2009)
102,
201301
SDiff gauge theory and the M2 condensate
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2009)
2009,
013
Light-cone M5 and multiple M2-branes
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2008)
25,
245003
Unitary spherical super-Landau models
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2008)
2008,
069
Landau levels and riemann zeros
– Physical Review Letters
(2008)
101,
110201
Accelerating branes and brane temperature
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2008)
25,
175017
From wave geometry to fake supergravity
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2008)
41,
304014
Hamilton-Jacobi mechanics from pseudo-supersymmetry
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2008)
25,
045017
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