Prof Paul NORBURY
Professor
School of Mathematics and Statistics
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- norbury@unimelb.edu.au
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- Website http://researchers.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~pnorbury/
- Room: 170
- Building: Peter Hall Building
- Campus: Parkville
Research Interests
- Gauge Theory
- Mathematical Physics
- Algebraic geometry
- Moduli spaces
Research Groups
Recent Publications
N. Do, P. Norbury. Topological recursion on the Bessel curve. Communications in Number Theory and Physics, 12, 53-73, 2018. doi: 10.4310/CNTP.2018.v12.n1.a2.
N. Do, P. Norbury. Pruned hurwitz numbers. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 370, 3053-3084, 2018. doi: 10.1090/tran/7021.
N. Do, P. Norbury. Topological recursion for irregular spectral curves. Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 97, 398-426, 2018. doi: 10.1112/jlms.12112.
Y. Huang, P. Norbury. Simple geodesics and Markoff quads. Geometriae Dedicata, 186, 113-148, 2017. doi: 10.1007/s10711-016-0182-0.
P Dunin-Barkowski, P. Norbury, N Orantin, A Popolitov, S Shadrin. Dubrovin’s Superpotential as a Global Spectral Curve. Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, 1-49, 2017. doi: 10.1017/S147474801700007X.
Current Postgraduate Supervision
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Wee CHAIMANOWONG | "Nekrasor Partition Function and Frobrnius Manifolds." |
| Oliver LEIGH | "Enumerative problems in algebraic geometry motivated from physics." |
Past Postgraduate Supervision
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Joseph CHAN | "On Hyperbolic Monopoles" |
| Norman DO | "Intersection theory on moduli spaces of curves via hyperbolic geometry" |
| Thomas HANDSCOMB | "Characteristic classes of surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations" |
| Yi HUANG | "Moduli spaces of surfaces" |
| Nicky SCOTT | "Polynomial hierarchies generated by Eynard-Orantin invariants" |
| Callum SLEIGH | "Eynard-Orantin Theory of the A-Polynomial" |
| TriThang TRAN | "A configuration of homological stability results" |
Past MSc Students
| Name | Project title |
|---|---|
| Dougal DAVIS | |
| Yi HUANG | "Moduli Spaces and Weil-Petersson Volumes " |
| Justin KERNEY | |
| Martin PIKE | |
| Campbell WHEELER |
Recent Grant History
| Year(s) | Source | Type | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 - 2012 | ARC | Discovery | Moduli spaces |
Responsibilities
- Chair of Postgraduate Committee
- Completion Seminar Coordinator
- Department Colloquia Coordinator
- Faculty of Science Research and Industry Committee member
- Maths & Stats Colloquium Coordinator
- Maths and Stats Colloquia
- University of Melbourne School Maths Competition
Committees
- Strategic Planning Committee