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Theoretical physicists working at a blackboard collaboration pod in the Beecroft building.
Credit: Jack Hobhouse

Prof Andre Lukas

Professor of Theoretical Physics, Head of Theoretical Physics

Research theme

  • Fundamental particles and interactions
  • Fields, strings, and quantum dynamics

Sub department

  • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Research groups

  • Particle theory
Andre.Lukas@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73953
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, room 70.11
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  • Address: Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK                                                       
  • Phone: (+44)(0)1865 273953
  • Email: lukas at physics.ox.ac.uk
  • Office: Beecroft, 512.70.11

Research

My main area of research is string- and M-theory. M-theory is the leading candidate for a fundamental unifying theory of all known forces in nature including gravity. Most of my work is concerned with the "phenomenology" of M-theory models, that is, with the task of relating M-theory to low-energy particle physics and early universe cosmology. Some of the problems I am currently interested in are heterotic model-building, algorithmic algebraic geometry, manifolds with G-structures, M-theory on manifolds with G2 holonomy, cosmology and applications of machine learning to particle and string theory. In the past I have been working on a wide range of topics including supergravity phenomenology, quantum cosmology, neutrino physics, M-theory phenomenology, brane-world models and string cosmology. For a list of my publications follow this link.

Vitae

  • From Oct 2008: Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
  • 2004-2008: University Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
  • 2000-2005: PPARC (now STFC) Advanced Fellow.
  • 2000-2004: Member of faculty in Theoretical Physics at the University of Sussex.
  • 1998-2000: Postdoctoral fellow in Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford.
  • 1996-1998: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  • 1995:  PhD in 1995 at the Technical University of Munich
  • 1991: diploma degree in physics at the University of Wuppertal.

Current teaching

  • Graduate course on Group Theory
  • Second year course on Mathematical Methods

Past teaching

  • First year course on Vectors and Matrices - now as a book
  • MPhys option in Theoretical Physics, C6
  • Final lecture of the particle physics option on String- and M-theory

Calabi-Yau data, packages and more

  • STRINGVACUA: A Mathematica package for studying vacuum configurations in string phenomenology
  • Cicy three-fold list: A list of all complete intersection Calabi-Yau three-folds in products of projective spaces.
  • Positive monad bundles on toric Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces (related to arXiv:1108.1031)
  • Line bundle standard models (related to arXiv:1202.1757)
  • Cicy four-fold list (related to arXiv:1303.1832)
  • Calabi-Yau manifolds are difficult to visualize. If you want to know what they sound like brace yourself and listen to this...

Links

  • Master Course in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (MMathPhys)
  • ArXive
  • inSpireHEP

Research interests

string theory
particle theory
cosmology
machine learning

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