Name and Address:
ROCEK, Martin
State University of New York at STONY BROOK
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Mail Stop 3800
STONY BROOK
, New York
11794
USA
Phone: (516) 632-7965
Fax: (516) 632-7954
E-Mail: rocek@max.physics.sunysb.edu
Position: Prof Appointed: since 1990
Qualifications:
A.B., Chemistry & Physics, Harvard, 1975;
M.A., Physics, Harvard, 1975;
Ph.D., Harvard , 1979
Past Positions:
1986-1990, ITP at SUNY, STONY BROOK, Associate Professor;
1983-1986, ITP at SUNY, STONY BROOK, Assistant Professor;
1981-1982, California Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow;
1979-1981, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK, Junior Research Fellow
Expertise:
My research interests and expertise are in theoretical physics.
The main focus of my research is string theory, supersymmetry, and related fields. I have been particularly interested in recent progress in the study of low energy effective actions for super Yang-Mills theories with extended supersymmetry. More generally, I am investigating effective actions. In addition, I am pursuing the program of understanding the relation between sigma-models in superspace and complex geometry. In this area, I invented the Hyperkahler quotient, which has found many applications in mathematics as well as in physics. I also continue to investigate duality, a symmetry that relates apparently different theories, and has important geometric ramifications. I also occasionally work on Regge's discrete description of gravity, and have some interest in condensed matter physics.
I have written (with S.J. Gates, M.T. Grisaru, and W.D. Siegel) a textbook called "SUPERSPACE, or 1001 lessons in supersymmetry."
Other Expertise:
Academic Experience:
1979-1981 Junior Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge;
1981-1982 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow;
1991 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Language:
reading, writing, speaking; scale: 1 (basic) to 3 (fluent):
Czech: 3, 2, 3;
German: 2, 1, 2;
French: 2, 1, 2
Publications:
Giveon, A., ROCEK, M., Effective Actions And Gauge Field Stability. Phys.Lett.B363:173-179,1995;
Lindstrom U., ROCEK, M., A Note On The Seiberg-Witten Solution Of N=2 Superyang-Mills Theory. Phys.Lett.B355:492-493,1995;
Ivanov, I.T., Kim, B.B., ROCEK, M., Complex Structures, Duality And Wzw Models In Extended Superspace. Phys.Lett.B343:133-143,1995;
Ivanov, I.T., Lindstrom, U., ROCEK, M., New N=4 Superfields And Sigma Models. Phys.Lett.B328:49-54,1994;
Giveon, A., ROCEK, M., On Nonabelian Duality. Nucl.Phys.B421:173-190,1994
Description:
Physics, Theoretical
Keywords:
physics; theoretical
Contact:
Please contact the contributor directly. Updated: 01/25/96
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