Mathematics Department Theoretical Physics Group

Prof George Papadopoulos Department of Mathematics King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS United Kingdom Room 416, Strand Building Tel: +44-(0)20-7848 2227 (direct line) Tel: +44-(0)20-7848 2217 (general office) Fax: +44-(0)20-7848 2017 E-mail: george.papadopoulos.AT.kcl.ac.uk

Member of the Theoretical Physics Group

Research Interests

My research interests are in supersymmetry, supergravity, string theory, M-theory and their applications to geometry. My current research involves the classification of supersymmetric solutions of supergravity theories and their applications in string theory, AdS/CFT and black holes.

Publications

My complete list of publications can be found at spires. Some publications are as follows:

1.``Intersecting M-branes,'' Phys.Lett.B380:273-279,1996; hep-th/9603087 (with P.K. Townsend)

2.``Duality of type II 7 branes and 8 branes,'' Nucl.Phys.B470:113-135,1996; hep-th/9601150 (with E. Bergshoeff, M. de Roo, Michael B. Green, P.K. Townsend )

3. ``A new maximally supersymmetric background of IIB superstring theory, '' JHEP 0201:047,2002; hep-th/0110242 (with M Blau, J M. Figueroa-O'Farrill, C Hull)

4. ``Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry,'' Class.Quant.Grav.19:L87-L95,2002; hep-th/0201081 (with M Blau, J M. Figueroa-O'Farrill, C Hull)

5. ``The Spinorial geometry of supersymmetric backgrounds,'' Class.Quant.Grav.22:1033-1076, (2005); hep-th/0410155 (with J Gillard and U Gran)

6. ``M2-branes, 3-Lie Algebras and Plucker relations'' JHEP 0805:054,2008; arXiv:0804.2662  [hep-th]

Current Grants

1. ``Geometry of supersymmetric supergravity backgrounds,'' EPSRC 3 year funding, starting date Oct 2008

2. ``Symmetries, Supersymmetries, Strings and Spacetime: the search for a fundamental theory of physics,'' STFC rolling grant of the Theoretical Physics Group, co-investigator, starting date Oct 2008 (7 investigators, PI PC West)

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