Michael Abbott

I'm a grad student in the high-energy theory group at Brown university.

Research

Papers:

• Dyonic Giant Magnons in CP3: Strings and Curves at Finite J
  (with Inês Aniceto & Olof Ohlsson Sax) arXiv:0903.3365
  
  
• Giant Magnons in AdS4 x CP3: Embeddings, Charges, and a Hamiltonian
  (with Inês Aniceto) arXiv:0811:2423.
  
  
• Vibrating giant spikes and the large-winding sector (with Inês Aniceto)
  JHEP 06 (2008) 088, arXiv:0803:4222.
  
  
• Six-Dimensional Yang Black Holes in Dilaton Gravity (with DA Lowe)
  Phys. Lett. B 664 (2008) 214-218, arXiv:0802.2976.
  
  
• Statistical entropy of three-dimensional q-deformed Kerr-de Sitter space (with DA Lowe)
  Phys. Lett. B 646 (2007) 275-278, hep-th/0611354.

These are also listed on arXiv and on SPIRES (along with any newer ones!)

Research talks:

• Spiky strings and Solitons, Cape Town, July 2008, and Witwatersrand, August 2008 (PDF, two-up)
• Deformed Poincare algebras for YM spin chains, Brown, June 2007
• Quantum Groups and de Sitter space, Brown, November 2006 (PDF, two-up)

And finally, some Phys 201 lab reports, left here in the hope of saving someone some pain: muon lifetime, optical tweezers, superconductivity, and the final presentation.

Teaching

Spring 2009: Math 20 Vector Calculus for engineers (TA)

Fall 2008: Math 9 Calculus (TA for sections 9 & 10. See course web page for more.)

Summer 2008: The Elegant Universe, take II

Spring 2008: Phys 56 lab course (TA)

Fall 2007: Phys 47 Electromagnetism (Lab TA)

Summer 2007: My course PH906 The Elegant Universe

Fall 2005: MA 9 Calculus (lecturer)

Spring 2005: Phys 56 lab course (TA)

Fall 2004: Math 10 Calculus (TA)

Computers

Long ago I wrote some notes about installing fonts in LaTeX on the mac (esp. Minion Pro, which is very pretty). More things are in the default installation (you want mactex) now than were then, notably Arev.

Pictures etc.

There used to be some pages of photos on this site (which was altogether less tasteful) but they've now moved to my new website.

The photo of me above is near Annapurna base camp, Nepal. (Before coming to Brown. Physics really gets in the way of climbing.)

Michael Abbott @ brown dot edu
Page edited 22 March, 2009