Professor Gerard Watts
Professor in Theoretical Physics
Research interests
- Mathematics
Biography
Gerard Watts gained his PhD from Cambridge in 1990, under the supervision of Professor Peter Goddard. He then had postdoctoral research positions in Durham, Montreal and Paris while also holding a research fellowship from St John's College Cambridge.
He moved to King’s in 1996 on an EPSRC fellowship, was appointed Lecturer in 2000 and Reader in 2001. He was promoted to Professor in 2017. Gerard held varied grants from the EPSRC, EU, Royal Society, London Mathematical Society and the Institute of Physics and organised numerous workshops and conferences.
He has supervised five PhD students in King's, held grants from the EU, Royal Society, London Mathematical Society and the Institute of Physics and organised numerous workshops and conferences, most notably the UK Integrable and Conformal Field theory meetings which he started at King's in 1996 and have been held annually around the country since then.
Gerard currently has two PhD students and is very happy to discuss possible research projects with interested students.
Research interests
- Conformal and topological field theory
- Integrable quantum field theory
- Infinite dimensional algebras and their applications
- Numerical and algebraic approaches to renormalisation group flows
Further information
Research
Theoretical Physics
The group is at the forefront of research in supersymmetry, string and M- theory and related areas.
Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES)
CNES acts as an international hub for cross-disciplinary research in non-equilibrium science.
Events
Defects and Symmetry Meeting
A meeting to bring together researchers working with higher categorical structures and those whose research involves defects and generalised symmetries in...
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Research
Theoretical Physics
The group is at the forefront of research in supersymmetry, string and M- theory and related areas.
Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES)
CNES acts as an international hub for cross-disciplinary research in non-equilibrium science.
Events
Defects and Symmetry Meeting
A meeting to bring together researchers working with higher categorical structures and those whose research involves defects and generalised symmetries in...
Please note: this event has passed.