David Broadhurst

David John Broadhurst (* 1947 in Hong Kong ) is a British theoretical physicist who specializes in high energy physics. He is a professor at the Open University .

Broadhurst attended from 1958 to 1964, the Manchester Grammar School, then taught nine months at a high school in Lusaka and studied at Oxford (among others from 1965 physics at Balliol College David Brink and Don Perkins ) and in 1968 to 1971 at the University of Sussex with the master's degree (he never received a doctorate) on the electromagnetic properties of the nucleon. From 1971 to 1973 he was at SLAC , 1973/74 at CERN (where he became known with Gerardus' t Hooft and Martinus Veltman's Schoonship program for calculating Feynman integrals) and 1974/75 at Balliol College in Oxford (with Richard Dalitz ) . From 1975 he was a lecturer and later a reader at the Open University.

He dealt with the numerical computation of complicated Feynman integrals and came up with the role that the Riemann zeta function and multiple zeta functions play as values ​​of Feynman amplitudes, especially in the theories popular for model calculations . He worked with Dirk Kreimer in the 1990s and the field was also discovered by mathematicians for themselves from the 1990s ( Pierre Cartier , Alain Connes , Francis Brown , Maxim Kontsevich and others). ${\displaystyle \phi ^{4}}$

Web links

• Homepage
• David Broadhurst on the Edith Cowan University website