Paul S. Aspinwall

Paul Stephen Aspinwall (born 26 January 1964 in England) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician, who works on string theory (including dualities, mirror symmetry, D-branes, and Calabi–Yau manifolds) and also algebraic geometry.

Aspinwall received his early education at Bydales School, Marske-by-the-Sea and Prior Pursglove College, Guisborough. He then studied at the University of Oxford with a focus on theoretical elementary particle physics. He received his bachelor's degree in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1988.^[1] He is now a professor of mathematics and physics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk (String theory and duality) at the ICM in Berlin.^[2] In 1999 he was a Sloan Fellow.

• as editor: Dirichlet branes and mirror symmetry, Clay School on Geometry and String Theory, Cambridge 2002, Clay Mathematics Monographs, American Mathematical Society 2009
• Aspinwall, Paul S.; Greene, Brian R.; Morrison, David R. (1994). "Calabi–Yau moduli space, mirror manifolds and spacetime topology change in string theory". Nuclear Physics B. 416 (2). Elsevier BV: 414–480. arXiv:hep-th/9309097. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90321-2. ISSN 0550-3213.
• with Brian Greene, David R. Morrison: Spacetime topology change: the physics of Calabi–Yau Moduli Space, in Strings 93, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
• Aspinwall, Paul S. (2005). "D-BRANES ON Calabi–Yau MANIFOLDS". D-branes on Calabi–Yau-manifolds. World Scientific. pp. 1–152. arXiv:hep-th/0403166. doi:10.1142/9789812775108_0001. ISBN 978-981-256-406-1.
• Compactification, Geometry and Duality: N=2, TASI Lectures 1999, Arxiv
• K3 surfaces and string duality, TASI Lectures 1996, World Scientific 1997, Arxiv
• Aspinwall, Paul S (1996). "Enhanced gauge symmetries and Calabi–Yau threefolds". Physics Letters B. 371 (3–4). Elsevier BV: 231–237. arXiv:hep-th/9511171. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00003-2. ISSN 0370-2693.
• Aspinwall, Paul S. (1995). "Enhanced gauge symmetries and K3 surfaces". Physics Letters B. 357 (3). Elsevier BV: 329–334. arXiv:hep-th/9507012. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)00957-m. ISSN 0370-2693.
• Aspinwall, Paul S. (1996). "Some relationships between dualities in string theory". Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. 46 (1–3). Elsevier BV: 30–38. arXiv:hep-th/9508154. doi:10.1016/0920-5632(96)00004-7. ISSN 0920-5632.
• Aspinwall, Paul S.; Morrison, David R. (1993). "Topological field theory and rational curves". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 151 (2). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 245–262. arXiv:hep-th/9110048. doi:10.1007/bf02096768. ISSN 0010-3616.
• Aspinwall, Paul S; Louis, Jan (1996). "On the ubiquity of K3 fibrations in string duality". Physics Letters B. 369 (3–4). Elsevier BV: 233–242. arXiv:hep-th/9510234. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)01541-8. ISSN 0370-2693.
• Aspinwall, Paul S.; Morrison, David R. (1997). "Point-like instantons on K3 orbifolds". Nuclear Physics B. 503 (3). Elsevier BV: 533–564. arXiv:hep-th/9705104. doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(97)00516-6. ISSN 0550-3213.
• Aspinwall, Paul S.; Greene, Brian R.; Morrison, David R. (1993). "Multiple mirror manifolds and topology change in string theory". Physics Letters B. 303 (3–4). Elsevier BV: 249–259. arXiv:hep-th/9301043. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(93)91428-p. ISSN 0370-2693.
• Aspinwall, Paul S.; Gross, Mark (1996). "The SO(32) heterotic string on a K3 surface". Physics Letters B. 387 (4). Elsevier BV: 735–742. arXiv:hep-th/9605131. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)01095-7. ISSN 0370-2693.
• Aspinwall, Paul S. (1997). "M-theory versus F-theory pictures of the heterotic string". Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 1 (1). International Press of Boston: 127–147. arXiv:hep-th/9707014. doi:10.4310/atmp.1997.v1.n1.a4. ISSN 1095-0761.
• Aspinwall, P.S.; Lütken, C.A. (1991). "Quantum algebraic geometry of superstring compactifications". Nuclear Physics B. 355 (2). Elsevier BV: 482–510. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(91)90123-f. ISSN 0550-3213.
• The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv

• Paul S. Aspinwall's homepage at Duke University