Rhys Davies (Physics)
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Except for this paragraph, and a change in title, this
is a copy of my 'professional' website as it stood when I finished in
academia. My EPSRC postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford finished in
September 2013.
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All research papers I have written can be found
here
(opens in a new window).
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A selection of talks I have given for which I have electronic slides (available here
in PDF); in some cases there is also video:
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"Hyperconifold singularities and transitions"
(slides)
At
New
Developments in Gravity, Cosmology and Strings
LMU, Munich, 22nd March 2013.
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"Dirac gauginos and unification in F-theory"
(slides)
(video)
At String
Phenomenology 2012,
Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge), 27th June 2012.
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"The MSSM spectrum from the heterotic standard embedding"
(slides)
(video)
Perimeter Institute, 16th March 2012.
I gave similar talks at the Universities of Oxford and Pennsylvania around
the same time.
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"Hyperconifold Singularities and Transitions."
(slides)
At
'String Math 2011',
University of Pennsylvania, 8th June 2011.
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"A Supersymmetric One Higgs Doublet Model."
(slides)
University of Oxford, 5th May 2011.
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"New Calabi-Yau Threefolds From Free Quotients and Topological Transitions."
(slides)
At
'New Geometric and Non-Geometric Vacua in String Theory',
Imperial College, 11th February 2011.
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"Axions and string theory."
(slides)
University of Oxford, 28th January 2010.
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"Quotients of the conifold in compact Calabi-Yau varieties."
(slides)
University of Liverpool, 25th November 2009.
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"Topology change in string theory."
(slides)
At
'Beyond Part III (Young Researchers in Mathematics 2009)',
University of Cambridge,17th April 2009.
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"New Calabi-Yau manifolds with small Hodge numbers."
(slides)
University of Oxford, 13th October 2008.
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My D.Phil. thesis can be downloaded from the Oxford Research Archive,
here.
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The two theses I wrote at the University of Melbourne: