Professor Tom Bridgeland
BA (Hons), PhD
Senior Research Fellow since 2011
Contact by email
Background
- University Reader and Royal Society Research Fellow (until 2006), then Professor of Mathematics, Sheffield University (from 2004 to 2010)
- EPSRC Research Assistant (to 2000), then EPSRC Research Fellow (to 2003) and, finally, Royal Society Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh (from 1998 to 2004)
- Postgraduate, Edinburgh University (from 1995 to 1998)
- Undergraduate, Christ’s College, Cambridge (from 1991 to 1995)
Research interests
- Algebraic geometry and its connections with string theory and mirror symmetry
- Focussing more specifically on properties of derived categories of coherent sheaves on algebraic varieties
Selected publications
- (with P. Aspinwall et al.), Dirichlet Branes and Mirror Symmetry, Clay Mathematics Monographs (2009), 684pp
- 'Stability Conditions and Kleinian Singularities', to appear, International Math. Research Notices (2009)
- 'Spaces of Stability Conditions', Algebraic Geometry–Seattle 2005. Part 1, 1–21, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., 80, Part 1, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI. (2009)
- 'Stability Conditions on K3 Surfaces', Duke Math. J., 141 (2008), no. 2, 241-91
- 'Stability Conditions on Triangulated Categories', Ann. of Math. (2) 166 (2007), no. 2, 317–45
- Derived Categories of Coherent Sheaves, International Congress of Mathematicians, vol. II, Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich (2006), 563-82
- (with S. Iyengar), 'A Criterion for Regularity of Local Rings', C. R. Math. Acad. Sci., Paris 342 (2006), no. 10, 723-6
- 'Stability Conditions on a Non-Compact Calabi-Yau Threefold', Comm. Math. Phys., 266 (2006), no. 3, 715-33
- 'T-structures on Some Local Calabi-Yau Varieties', J. of Algebra, 289 (2005), 453-83
- 'Flops and Derived Categories', Invent. Math., 147 (2002), 613-32
- (with Antony Maciocia), 'Fourier-Mukai Transforms for K3 and Elliptic Fibrations', J. Alg. Geom., 11 (2002), 629-57
- (with Alastair King and Miles Reid), 'The McKay Correspondence as an Equivalence of Derived Categories', J. Amer. Math. Soc., 14 3 (2001) 535-54
- (with Antony Maciocia), 'Complex Surfaces with Equivalent Derived Categories', Math. Zeit., 236 4 (2001), 677-97
- 'Equivalences of derived categories and Fourier-Mukai transforms', Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 31 1 (1999), 25-34
- 'Fourier-Mukai Transforms for Ellptic Surfaces', J. reine ang. math. 498 (1998), 115-133
Research awards and grants
- Cambridge University Adams Prize (2007)
- Invited speaker at Inernational Congress of Mathematics (2006)
- Whittemore Lecturer at Yale (2006)
- Edinburgh Mathematical Society Whittaker Prize (2005)
- London Mathematical Society Berwick Prize (2003)