Mark Trodden

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Mark Trodden

Born Wigan
Ethnicity English
Fields Physics
Institutions Syracuse University

Mark Trodden is a theoretical cosmology and particle physicist. He was born in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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[edit] Education

Mark Trodden received both his Bachelor (mathematics) and an advanced Maths/Physics degrees from Cambridge University. After he obtained Maths/Physics degree he spent a year to do research and supervising undergraduates. In 1992 Mark Trodden moved to the USA to do Ph.D. program at Brown University and obtained Ph.D. degree in 1995. By 2000 he had worked as a Research Associate for two years at MIT and two years at Case Western Reserve University. Since 2000 Mark Trodden has been a faculty member at Syracuse University. Currently Mark Trodden is an Alumni Professor of Physics and leads cosmology research group at Syracuse University.

[edit] Research

Mark Trodden's main research areas are the cosmological implications of Quantum Field Theories, General Relativity, and Superstring Theories. Professor Trodden with Sean Carroll introduced a new class of topological defects in ordinary field theories. These configurations consist of topological solitons which end on others of equal or higher dimension. In such models, the higher dimensional defect provides Dirichlet boundary conditions for the lower dimensional one. Professor Trodden with his co-workers Anne-Christine Davis and Steven Davis has also investigated the particle physics and cosmological properties of topological defects in supersymmetic theories. Their first study, dealing with abelian theories demonstrated that all spontaneously broken abelian supersymmetric theories admit cosmic string solutions which are superconducting due to fermion zero modes. Further, by using supersymmetry transformations, they showed how to calculate the supercurrents in terms of the background String fields. They also managed to extended these results to non-abelian theories and investigated the effects of soft supersymmetry breaking.[1]

[edit] Famous Papers

  1. Is cosmic speed - up due to new gravitational physics?
  2. Can the dark energy equation - of - state parameter w be less than -1?
  3. The State of the dark energy equation of state.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Physics at Syracuse

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NAME Trodden, Mark
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SHORT DESCRIPTION English Physicist
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH Wigan, Lancashire, England
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