Fay Dowker

Fay Dowker
Native name Helen Fay Dowker
Born (1965-09-09) September 9, 1965
Manchester
Fields Theoretical physics
Institutions
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Thesis Space-time wormholes (1991)
Doctoral advisor Stephen Hawking[1]
Notable awards
Website
www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.dowker

(Helen) Fay Dowker (/ˈdaʊkər/; born September 9, 1965 in Manchester, Lancashire) is a British Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.[3][4][5][6][7]

Education

As a student, she was interested in wormholes and quantum cosmology. Having studied at the University of Cambridge, Dowker was awarded the Tyson Medal in 1987 and completed her Doctor of Philosophy under the supervision of Stephen Hawking[1][2][8] in 1990.

Career

Dowker completed postdoctoral research at Fermilab, at the University of California, Santa Barbara and also the California Institute of Technology.[9][10]

She is currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics and a member of the Theoretical Physics Group at Imperial College London and an Affiliate of the Institute for Quantum Computing. She conducts research in a number of areas of theoretical physics including quantum gravity and causal set theory.[11][12][13]

Dowker was previously a Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.

References

  1. 1 2 Fay Dowker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. 1 2 Dowker, Helen Fay (1991). Space-time wormholes (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ Fay Dowker's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  4. ↑ Dowker, F.; Gauntlett, J. P.; Kastor, D. A.; Traschen, J. (1994). "Pair creation of dilaton black holes". Physical Review D. 49 (6): 2909. arXiv:hep-th/9309075Freely accessible. Bibcode:1994PhRvD..49.2909D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.49.2909.
  5. ↑ Dowker, F.; Gauntlett, J.; Giddings, S.; Horowitz, G. (1994). "Pair creation of extremal black holes and Kaluza-Klein monopoles". Physical Review D. 50 (4): 2662. arXiv:hep-th/9312172Freely accessible. Bibcode:1994PhRvD..50.2662D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.50.2662.
  6. ↑ Dowker, F.; Gauntlett, J.; Gibbons, G.; Horowitz, G. (1995). "Decay of magnetic fields in Kaluza-Klein theory". Physical Review D. 52 (12): 6929. arXiv:hep-th/9507143Freely accessible. Bibcode:1995PhRvD..52.6929D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.52.6929.
  7. ↑ Fay Dowker at the Internet Movie Database
  8. ↑ Hawking, Stephen List of students of Stephen Hawking
  9. ↑ Dowker, Fay Page at Imperial College London
  10. ↑ Dowker, Fay Personal webpage (last updated 2003)
  11. ↑ Dowker, F. (2013). "Introduction to causal sets and their phenomenology". General Relativity and Gravitation. 45 (9): 1651. Bibcode:2013GReGr..45.1651D. doi:10.1007/s10714-013-1569-y.
  12. ↑ Dowker, F.; Glaser, L. (2013). "Causal set d'Alembertians for various dimensions". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 30 (19): 195016. arXiv:1305.2588Freely accessible. Bibcode:2013CQGra..30s5016D. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/195016.
  13. ↑ Afshordi, N.; Buck, M.; Dowker, F.; Rideout, D.; Sorkin, R. D.; Yazdi, Y. K. (2012). "A ground state for the causal diamond in 2 dimensions". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2012 (10). arXiv:1207.7101Freely accessible. Bibcode:2012JHEP...10..088A. doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2012)088.


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