Relativity and Mathematical Physics
Research Groups
- Actuarial and Financial Mathematics
- Applied Algebra and Information Theory
- Bayesian Statistics
- Computational Mathematics and High-Performance Computing
- Enumerative Combinatorics
- Fluid Dynamics
- Functional Analysis
- Mathematics Education
- Matrix Analysis
- Number Theory
- Potential Theory
- Probability
- Quantum Information and Computation
- Real Algebra
- Relativity and Mathematical Physics
- Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics
- Statistical Modelling
Relativity and Mathematical Physics
Relativity
The (opens in a new window)UCD Relativity group use Einstein’s theory of General Relativity to study black holes and other sources of gravitational waves. A major focus of the group is using Black Hole Perturbation Theory to model small mass ratio binaries. These are key sources for the forthcoming European Space Agency’s (opens in a new window)LISA mission. The group are full members of the LISA consortium and are lead developers of the (opens in a new window)Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit.
People
(opens in a new window)Dr Sarp Akcay
Research Interests: General relativity, gravitational wave astronomy, black hole perturbation theory, effective-one-body theory
Prof Adrian Ottewill
Research Interests: General relativity, Quantum field theory in curved space-time
(opens in a new window)Dr Niels Warburton
Research Interests: Gravitational waves, black holes, extreme mass ratio inspirals, intermediate mass ratio inspirals, general relativity, numerical modeling, geodesic motion in black hole spacetimes
Dr Barry Wardell
Research interests: General Relativity, Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, Cosmic Strings, High-performance Computing
Research Fellows
Chris Kavanagh
(opens in a new window)Christiana Pantelidou
Mathematical Physics
UCD has a long history of excellent research in Mathematical Physics conceived very broadly, including research in Geometry in Physics, the mathematical foundations of Quantum Mechanics, and Solid Mechanics. Current research in the school reflects this tradition, and includes research in Quantum Gravity, the mathematical foundations of Turbulence, and qualitative methods for Partial Differential Equations inspired by Physics.
People
Assoc Prof Miguel Bustamante
Research Interests: Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence, Nonlinear PDEs, Hamiltonian Methods and Integrable Systems
Dr Marius Ghergu
Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Nonlinear Analysis, Potential Theory
Dr Rupert Levene
Research Interests: Functional Analysis, Operator Algebras, Operator Spaces, Quantum Information Theory, Matrix Analysis
Group Contact (Email): (opens in a new window)Prof Adrian Ottewill