Paul S. Aspinwall

Paul Stephen Aspinwall (born 26 January 1964 in England) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician, who works on string theory (including dualities, mirror symmetry, D-branes, and Calabi–Yau manifolds) and also algebraic geometry.

Aspinwall received his early education at Bydales School, Marske-by-the-Sea and Prior Pursglove College, Guisborough. He then studied at the University of Oxford with a focus on theoretical elementary particle physics. He received his bachelor's degree in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1988. He is now a professor of mathematics and physics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk (String theory and duality) at the ICM in Berlin. In 1999 he was a Sloan Fellow.

Selected publications

 * as editor: Dirichlet branes and mirror symmetry, Clay School on Geometry and String Theory, Cambridge 2002, Clay Mathematics Monographs, American Mathematical Society 2009
 * with Brian Greene, David R. Morrison: Spacetime topology change: the physics of Calabi–Yau Moduli Space, in Strings 93, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * Compactification, Geometry and Duality: N=2, TASI Lectures 1999, Arxiv
 * K3 surfaces and string duality, TASI Lectures 1996, World Scientific 1997, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * K3 surfaces and string duality, TASI Lectures 1996, World Scientific 1997, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
 * The moduli space of N=2 superconformal field theories, in: Gava (ed.), 1994 summer school in high energy physics and cosmology, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv