Mark Dennis
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Dr Mark Dennis |
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Telephone Number
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+44 (0)117 928 8761
internal 88761
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Fax Number
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+44 (0)117 9255624
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Position
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Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in Research
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3.51 |
I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in Research in the Theoretical Physics Group of the Physics Department, University of Bristol, UK.
My research interests are primarily in the geometric and topological aspects of interference and field morphology, especially:
- Singular and topological optics (singular lines and points of scalar, vector, and tensor wave fields), including optical vortices, wave dislocations and polarization singularities;
- Fundamental wave physics, including interference, diffraction, scattering, reflection and polarization;
- Statistical geometry and topology of random functions, and applications in quantum chaos, statistical optics, and cosmology;
- Geometry and topology of knots, links, braids and ribbons;
- Mathematical techniques for optical nanoscience, especially surface plasmonics, superresolution, optical lattices, and ray-based asymptotics.
My coworkers in Bristol Physics are
James Ring,
Felix Flicker,
Sandy Taylor (PhD students),
Jari Lindberg (postdoc), as well as Professors
Michael Berry, John Hannay and
John Nye.
Former coworkers include Dr
Robert King (PhD student) and Dr
Jörg Götte (Newton Fellow).
I also frequently work with Professor
Miles Padgett and the
Glasgow Optics Group.
In academic year 2011-12, I am lecturing 4th year
Relativistic Field Theory, am teaching part of 3rd year
Methods of Theoretical Physics, and am co-teaching the 4th year current topics strand
Foundations of Modern Physics.
I am also responsible, with
Professor James Ladyman, for the Joint School of
Physics and Philosophy.
I am the editor for propagation, diffraction and scattering for the
Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics and formerly an associate editor of
Optics Express, and am on the committee of the Institute of Physics
Optical Group, whom I represent on the board of directors of the
European Optical Society.
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