Professor Paul Kingsley Townsend

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

General Relativity, supersymmetry, string/M-theory, solitons, cosmology and various topics in Mathematical Physics

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

Quantization of the Gauge Coupling Constant in a Five-Dimensional Yang-Mills-Einstein Supergravity Theory

M Günaydin, G Sierra, PK Townsend

– Physical Review Letters

(1984)

53,

322

Stability of gauged d=7 supergravity, and the definition of masslessness in adS7

PK Townsend, L Mezincescu, P van Nieuwenhuizen

– Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

(1984)

143,

384

Three-loop finiteness of the N = 4 supersymmetric non-linear σ model

M Roček, PK Townsend

– Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics

(1980)

96,

DBI in the IR

P Townsend, L Mezincescu

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical