Tom Bridgeland

Tom Bridgeland (* around 1973 ) is a British mathematician who studies algebraic geometry .

Bridgeland studied mathematics at Cambridge University from 1991 and after graduation went to the University of Edinburgh , where he received his PhD under Antony Maciocia in 1998 ( Fourier-Mukai Transforms of surfaces and moduli spaces of stable sheaves ). He then was there EPSRC and Royal Society Research Fellow. From 2004 he was a reader and then a professor at the University of Sheffield . Since 2011 he has been Professor and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University .

He deals with algebraic geometry with applications in string theory (mirror symmetry, etc.). Inspired by ideas in string theory, he introduced stability conditions of triangulated categories and showed that these form a manifold. As an example, he examined the spaces of stability conditions derived from categories of coherent sheaves on K3 surfaces.

In 2003 he received the Berwick Prize . In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Derived categories of coherent sheaves ). In 2005 he received the Whittaker Prize and in 2008, together with David Tong , the Adams Prize . In 2014 he was elected to the Royal Society .

Fonts

• with P. Aspinwall a. a .: Dirichlet Branes and Mirror Symmetry , Clay Mathematics Monographs, 2009

Web links

• Homepage in Oxford

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Bridgeland in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Bridgeland Stability conditions on triangulated categories , Annals of Mathematics, Volume 166, 2007, pp. 317-345
3. ^ Bridgeland Spaces of Stability Conditions , Proc. of symposia in pure math. 80, 2009
4. ↑ Bridgeland Stability conditions on K3 surfaces , Duke Math. J., Volume 141, 2008, p. 241