Prof. Luis Fernando Alday | Mathematical Institute

Prof. Luis Fernando Alday

Academic Faculty

Professor of Mathematical Physics Tutor on Mathematics at Hertford College

+44 1865 615327

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

Highlighted Publications:

Loop Corrections to Supergravity on AdS(5) x S-5

Loop Corrections to Supergravity on AdS(5) x S-5
Alday, LF; Bissi, A;
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS issue 17 volume 119 (25 October 2017) Full text available

Large Spin Perturbation Theory for Conformal Field Theories.

Large Spin Perturbation Theory for Conformal Field Theories.
Alday, LF;
Physical review letters issue 11 volume 119 page 111601-111601 (12 September 2017)

Loops in AdS from conformal field theory

Loops in AdS from conformal field theory
Aharony, O; Alday, LF; Bissi, A; Perlmutter, E;
Journal of High Energy Physics issue 7 volume 2017 (10 July 2017)

An operator product expansion for polygonal null Wilson loops

An operator product expansion for polygonal null Wilson loops
Alday, LF; Gaiotto, D; Maldacena, J; Sever, A; Vieira, P;
Journal of High Energy Physics issue 4 volume 2011 (29 September 2011)

Y-system for scattering amplitudes

Y-system for scattering amplitudes
Alday, LF; Maldacena, J; Sever, A; Vieira, P;
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical issue 48 volume 43 (3 December 2010)

Recent Publications:

Taming the epsilon-expansion with large spin perturbation theory

Taming the epsilon-expansion with large spin perturbation theory
Alday, LF; Henriksson, J; van Loon, M;
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 7 (19 July 2018) Full text available

Solving CFTs with weakly broken higher spin symmetry

Solving CFTs with weakly broken higher spin symmetry
Alday, LF;
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 10 (24 October 2017) Full text available

Holographic reconstruction of AdS exchanges from crossing symmetry

Holographic reconstruction of AdS exchanges from crossing symmetry
Alday, LF; Bissi, A; Perlmutter, E;
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 8 (31 August 2017) Full text available

Unitarity and positivity constraints for CFT at large central charge

Unitarity and positivity constraints for CFT at large central charge
Alday, LF; Bissi, A;
Journal of High Energy Physics issue 7 volume 2017 (10 July 2017)

Instanton corrections to twist-two operators

Instanton corrections to twist-two operators
Alday, LF; Korchemsky, GP;
Journal of High Energy Physics issue 6 volume 2017 (1 June 2017)

Research Interests:

Several aspects of the AdS/CFT duality. Over the last years I have been studying Scattering Amplitudes, Wilson loops, Correlation Functions and related observables in MSYM.
Four-dimensional N=2 Super-Symmetric theories and their relation to Conformal Field theories.
Exact computation of observables in super-symmetric gauge theories.

Further Details:

Videos of some of my talks

Mini course on Wilson loops, CERN Winter School 2012.

Thermodynamics Bubble Ansatz, Rutgers University 2010.

Gluon Scattering Amplitudes via AdS/CFT, Strings 2008.

Gluon Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling, KITP, 2008.

Teaching:

Lecturer of Electromagnetism and Quantum Mechanics (Lecture notes)

Prizes, Awards, and Scholarships:

ERC Starting grant (2012-2017)
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012)
LMS Whitehead prize (2013)

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