Dr Jock McOrist

Career

  • 2009-present: EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2004-2009: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research

Jock is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics HEP research group, and a member of Trinity Hall. His current research interests are in mathematical and physical aspects of string compactifications and solitons in quantum field theory. 

Selected Publications

  • Geometries, Non-Geometries and Fluxes
    J. McOrist, D. R. Morrison and S. Sethi
    arXiv:1004.5447 [hep-th]

  • (0,2) Deformations of Linear Sigma Models
    M. Kreuzer, J. McOrist, I. Melnikov, and R. Plesser
    arXiv:1001.2104 [hep-th]

  • Dynamical Vacuum Selection in String Theory
    D. Kutasov, O. Lunin, J. McOrist, A. B. Royston, Nuclear Physics B833:64-95,2010
    arXiv:0909.3319 [hep-th]

  • D-term Supersymmetry Breaking;
    D. Kutasov, A. Giveon, J. McOrist, A. B. Royston, Nuclear Physics B822:106-126,2009
    arXiv:0904.0459 [hep-th]

  • Summing the Instantons in Half-Twisted Linear Sigma Models
    J.McOrist and I. Melnikov, JHEP 0902:026,2009
    arXiv:0810.0012 [hep-th]

  • Type IIB Flux Compactifications via the String Worldsheet
    W. D. Linch III, J. McOrist and B. C. Vallilo, JHEP 0809:042 (2008)
    arXiv:0804.0613 [hep-th]

 

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