Personal details |
Name |
Professor Mark
Dennis |
Job title |
Visiting Fellow
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Department |
School of Physics University of Bristol
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Contact details |
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Office.
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work+44 (0)117 331 8092
email: public-relations@bristol.ac.uk
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Professional details |
Membership of professional bodies |
Institute of Physics, Optical Society of America, American Mathematical Society
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Keywords |
light
theoretical physics
topological optics
singular optics
statistical geometry
topology
quantum chaos
mathematical physics
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Areas of expertise |
• Optical and wave physics, focused on the geometric and topological structures formed by interference, diffraction and polarization. • Theoretical physics, especially relativistic field theory. • Knot Theory, and physical realizations. • Mathematical Methods of Physics, mainly based on geometric, linear or analytic techniques.
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Media experience |
I have given interviews about my own research and that of others, from knotted light beams and invisibility cloaks to the possibility of Viking navigation using the polarization of the sky.
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