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
Supersymmetry and the physical-phase-space formulation of spinning particles
– Physics Letters B
(1990)
248,
288
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(90)90294-g)
Super p-branes as gauge theories of volume preserving diffeomorphisms
– Annals of Physics
(1990)
199,
340
(doi: 10.1016/0003-4916(90)90381-w)
Superparticle with extrinsic curvature
– Physics Letters B
(1990)
238,
65
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(90)92101-N)
Topological extensions of the supersymmetry algebra for extended objects.
– Physical Review Letters
(1989)
63,
2443
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.2443)
Extended supergravities in d=2+1 as Chern-Simons theories
– Physics Letters B
(1989)
229,
383
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(89)90423-1)
Path-integral calculation of the closed spinning string propagator
– Nuclear Physics Section B
(1989)
322,
127
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90488-4)
Superspace geometry and classification of supersymmetric extended objects
– Physical review letters
(1989)
62,
2579
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.62.2579)
World-volume supersymmetry from spacetime supersymmetry of the four-dimensional supermembrane
– Nuclear Physics B
(1989)
314,
129
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(89)90115-6)
Conformal higher spin in 2+1 dimensions
– Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1989)
225,
245
On “spinning” membrane models
– Physics Letters B
(1988)
209,
451
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(88)91172-0)
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