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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Lecturer and Royal Society University Research Fellow
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3.51 |
I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow, 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;
- 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 methods for optical nanoscience, including surface plasmonics, superresolution, optical lattices, and ray-based asymptotics.
My coworkers in Bristol Physics are
Robert King,
James Ring (PhD students),
Jari Lindberg (postdoc) and
Jörg Götte (Newton Fellow), as well as Professors
Michael Berry, John Hannay and
John Nye.
I also frequently work with Professor
Miles Padgett and the
Glasgow Optics Group.
In academic year 2009-10, I am lecturing 4th year
Maths Methods 404, and am supervising the
Theoretical Physics Student Seminars.
I am also responsible, with
Professor James Ladyman, for the Joint School of
Physics and Philosophy.
I am the deputy editor for propagation, diffraction and scattering for the
Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics and an associate editor of
Optics Express, and am on the committee of the Institute of Physics
Optical Group.
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