Paul Sutcliffe

Paul Michael Sutcliffe[2] is British mathematical physicist and mathematician, currently Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Durham.[3] He specialises in the study of topological solitons.

Paul Sutcliffe
Alma materUniversity of Durham[1]
AwardsWhitehead Prize (2006)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorRichard S. Ward[1]

He serves as the Project Director of the SPOCK (Scientific Properties of Complex Knots) research programme dedicated to the study of knotted structures.[4] Related subjects of research include skyrmions.

Sutcliffe was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize in 2006 for contributions to the study of topological solitons and their dynamics.[5]

Education

Sutcliffe graduated from Durham University in 1989.[2]

Bibliography

Books

Selected academic works

  • Sutcliffe, Paul (16 June 2017). "Skyrmion Knots in Frustrated Magnets". Physical Review Letters. 118 (24): 247203. arXiv:1705.10966. Bibcode:2017PhRvL.118x7203S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.247203. PMID 28665663. S2CID 29890978.
  • Houghton, Conor J.; Manton, Nicholas; Sutcliffe, Paul (1998), "Rational maps, monopoles and Skyrmions", Nuclear Physics B, 510 (3): 507–537, arXiv:hep-th/9705151, Bibcode:1998NuPhB.510..507H, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00619-6, S2CID 9022461.
  • Battye, Richard A.; Sutcliffe, Paul (1998), "Knots as stable soliton solutions in a three-dimensional classical field theory", Physical Review Letters, 81 (22): 4798–4801, arXiv:hep-th/9808129, Bibcode:1998PhRvL..81.4798B, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4798.
  • Battye, Richard A.; Sutcliffe, Paul (1997), "Symmetric Skyrmions", Physical Review Letters, 79 (3): 363–366, arXiv:hep-th/9702089, Bibcode:1997PhRvL..79..363B, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.363, S2CID 14313232.

References

  1. Paul Sutcliffe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "BSc". University of Durham Congregation (28 June 9:10am). Durham: Durham University: 6. 1989.
  3. Staff profile, University of Durham, retrieved 28 February 2016.
  4. Meet the Research Programme Team, retrieved 28 February 2016.
  5. Mathematics People, AMS Notices, September 2006
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