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Joseph McGovern

MSci (KCL)
Status
Postgraduate Student
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+44 1865 611503
Research groups
  • Mathematical Physics

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Research interests

Calabi-Yau modularity; enumerative geometry via mirror symmetry; BPS black holes; the integrability of N=4 SYM; flux compactifications.  

Major / recent publications

 

Scalar insertions in cusped Wilson loops in the ladders limit of planar N = 4 SYM

JHEP 05 (2020), 062    J. McGovern

Attractors with Large Complex Structure for One-Parameter Families of Calabi-Yau Manifolds 

JHEP 11 (2021), 032    P. Candelas, P. Kuusela, and J. McGovern

Mirror Symmetry for Five-Parameter Hulek-Verrill Manifolds

Preprint P. Candelas, X. de la Ossa, P. Kuusela, and J. McGovern

Flux Vacua and Modularity for Z_2 Symmetric Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Preprint P. Candelas, X. de la Ossa, P. Kuusela, and J. McGovern

 

 

 

Teaching

Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics, Merton College, 2022-23

College tutor, Calculus of Variations, TT 2022

Departmental Teaching Assistant for

  • Classical Mechanics, MT 2019
  • String Theory I, HT 2020
  • General Relativity II, HT 2020
  • Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, TT 2020
  • Supersymmetry and Supergravity, HT 2021
  • General Relativity I, MT 2021

 

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