Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
This cluster brings together researchers using mathematics to model the key physical processes affecting our planet, our star and our universe.
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The Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics cluster brings together researchers using mathematics to model the key physical processes affecting our planet, our star and our universe. We have particular expertise in Gravitation and Cosmology, Plasma Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Solar Physics.
Themes:
The cluster brings together cutting-edge research in:
Members
- - Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) waves in solar and interplanetary plasmas.
- Professor Andrea Brini - String theory, integrable systems, enumerative geometry.
- - Cosmology, dynamical dark energy, and dark matter.
- - Black holes, relativity and gravitational wave astronomy.
- - Space plasma physics, stellar atmospheres, the magnetosphere and space weather.
- - MHD wave theory for solar and astrophysics, magnetic fields and plasma instabilities.
- Dr Marco Fazzi - Quantum field theory, string theory, AdS/CFT.
- - Group field theory, quantum gravity and cosmology.
- - Teaching Fellow
- - Solar physics, wave propagation, magnetic loops and reconnection.
- Leverhulme International Professor Albrecht Klemm - String theory, quantum field theory, number theory, enumerative geometry.
- - Turbulence and chaotic systems, bubble dynamics, data-intensive methods.
- - Teaching Fellow
- - Turbulent diffusion, concentration modelling, atmospheric dispersion.
- - Microfluidics, rheology, interfacial flows.
- - Inverse problems, applied and computational harmonic analysis, and statistical signal processing.
- - Cosmology, the Hubble tension and dark energy.
- - Solar physics, MHD waves and the atmosphere of the Sun.
- - Transition and chaotic dynamics, shear flows, magnetohydrodynamics.
- - General relativity, black holes and quantum field theory in curved space-time.