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
Planar super-Landau models
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2006)
2006,
143
Dilaton domain walls and dynamical systems
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2005)
23,
441
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/23/2/010)
Classical resolution of singularities in dilaton cosmologies
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2005)
22,
4763
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/22/22/008)
String and M-theory deformations of manifolds with special holonomy
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2005)
2005,
075
Cosmological D-instantons and cyclic universes
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2005)
22,
2635
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/22/13/008)
Cosmology as relativistic particle mechanics: from big crunch to big bang
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2005)
22,
737
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/22/4/007)
A Super-Flag Landau Model
(2005)
Non-Relativistic Superbranes
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2004)
2004,
1333
Cosmology as geodesic motion
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2004)
21,
5375
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/21/23/006)
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