Max Atkin |
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| Research group: | Elementary Particles |
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| Email address: | m dot atkin1 at physics.ox.ac.uk | |
| Room number: | Room 6.1 Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics | |
| Postal address: | Rudolf Peierls Centre for
Theoretical Physics
1 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3NP England |
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| About: | I am a PhD student working in the Theoretical Particle Physics group under the supervision of John Wheater. My current interests are lower dimensional models of quantum gravity, in particular non-critical string theory and matrix models. I am also interested in matrix model formulations of causal dynamical triangulation in addition to proving rigorous results concerning the dimension of the spacetime appearing in such models. The latter interest leads into the areas of random graphs and combinatorics which is also fascinating! | |
| Preprints and publications: | Preprints | |
| Some talks/presentations I've given: |
Measuring the Dimension of a Quantum Universe: is there less room at the bottom? Poster presentation for the Workshop on Random Matrix Theory, Brunel University, London, Dec. 2010 | |
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Reproducing the Brane spectrum of (4,3) Minimal String Theory Using Matrix Models Poster presentation and talk at European Random Geometry (ENRAGE) meeting, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden, May 2009. | ||
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D-branes, Matrix Models and Minimal String Theory Talk given at Oxford University Theoretical Physics department, Oxford University, Oxford, May 2009.. |
Undergraduate Teaching Experience: | Stipendiary Lecturer, Christ Church, Oxford, 2010-Present
1st and 3rd year courses in Mathematics, General Relativity and Cosmology. I also take part in undergraduate admissions interviewing. |
| Undergraduate Tutor, Department of Physics, University of Oxford 2007-2008
Tutored undergraduate classes in general relativity, and special relativity and electromagnetism. |
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