# Professor Timothy Hollowood

Professor
Physics
Telephone: (01792) 513194

### Publications

1. Decoherence, discord and the quantum master equation for cosmological perturbations. Physical Review D
2. & S-matrices and quantum group symmetry of k-deformed sigma models. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 49(46)
3. & Causality violation, gravitational shockwaves and UV completion. Journal of High Energy Physics 2016(3)
4. & Causality, renormalizability and ultra-high energy gravitational scattering. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 49(21)
5. & Partition function of N = 2 ∗ $$\mathcal{N}={2}^{\ast }$$ SYM on a large four-sphere. Journal of High Energy Physics 2015(12)

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### Teaching

• #### PH-302Quantum Mechanics II

Students will deepen their study of Quantum Mechanics by learning the general formalism. Students will be challenged by the strange and puzzling aspects of the theory. Students will learn various approximation techniques for solving complicated systems.

• #### PH-311Project

Project carried out individually under the supervision of a member of staff on a suitable theoretical or experimental topic.

• #### PH-318Theoretical Physics Project

An individual project on a theoretical project.

• #### PH-321General Relativity

The objective of this module is to educate students in the General Theory of Relativity in a way that introduces just enough of the mathematical tools required, namely pseudo Riemannian geometry, so that many applications of the theory can be considered. Students will learn about curved geometries mainly through simple examples and by taking the point of view of a freely falling observer. Applications will include: a discussion of the classic test of general relativity involving planetary motion and bending of light; the strange geometry of black-holes, wormholes and warp drive space-times. Finally students will learn how general relativity determines the dynamics of the whole universe.

• ### Ligh propagation in a curved space-time (current)

Student name:
PhD
Other supervisor: Prof Graham Shore
• ### Integrability on the String World Sheet . The project will investigate the gauge-gravity correspondence from a world-sheet perspective. The goal will be to see to what extent the constraint of integrability allows us to build consistent string theories in new space time geometries, and ultimately new dual conformal field theories. (current)

Student name:
PhD
Other supervisor: Prof Carlos Nunez
• ### Integrability in Quantum Field Theory and on the Worldsheet (current)

Student name:
PhD
Other supervisor: Prof Maurizio Piai
• ### Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory and Confinement in the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence (awarded 2016)

Student name:
PhD
Other supervisor: Prof Prem Kumar
• ### Integrable Quantum Field Theories with Solitons (awarded 2016)

Student name:
MSc
Other supervisor: Prof Maurizio Piai
• ### 'Aspects of Gauge-String Duality in SUSY and non-SUSY systems' (awarded 2014)

Student name:
PhD
Other supervisor: Prof Carlos Nunez
• ### Quantum Propagation and Initial Value Problems in Curved Space (awarded 2012)

Student name:
PhD
Other supervisor: Prof Carlos Nunez
• ### On the Phases of Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories from Holography (awarded 2011)

Student name:
PhD
Other supervisor: Prof Prem Kumar
• ### D-brane sources in supergravity and gauge/string duality at finite temperature (awarded 2010)

Student name:
PhD
Other supervisor: Prof Carlos Nunez
• ### The Klebanov Polyakov Correspondence on a Squashed Three Sphere and Wilson Loops in Non-relativistic AdS/CFT (awarded 2010)

Student name:
PhD
Other supervisor: Prof Prem Kumar
• ### Untitled (awarded 2009)

Student name:
PhD