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
SUPERSYMMETRIC SPACETIMES IN (2+1)-ADS-SUPERGRAVITY MODELS
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
12,
895
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/12/4/003)
Spacetime scale-invariance and the super p-brane
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
9,
2545
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/9/12/002)
Chern-Simons quantum mechanics
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
7,
1655
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/7/9/016)
Black holes of D = 5 supergravity
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
16,
1
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/16/1/001)
Quantum mechanics of the relativistic spinning particle
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
5,
807
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/5/5/013)
Convex cones, Jordan algebras and the geometry of d=9 Maxwell-Einstein supergravity
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
2,
801
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/2/6/007)
6-DIMENSIONAL SIMPLE AND EXTENDED CHIRAL SUPERGRAVITY IN SUPERSPACE
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
2,
l85
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/2/4/005)
Elliptic functions and the closed spinning-string propagator
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
6,
l29
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/6/2/005)
M-theory from its superalgebra
– STRINGS, BRANES AND DUALITIES
(1999)
520,
141
A particle mechanics description of antisymmetric tensor fields
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
6,
1125
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/6/8/012)
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