Staff profile

• String and Conformal Field Theory
• Group Theory and Applications to Mathematical Biology

• 2000: Invitation to research centres:

  ICTP (Trieste, December 2015), IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette, February 2016 and January 2017)

• 2000: Plenary and invited talks: Chennai, April 2014 (Conference on Mock Modular Forms and Physics); Waterloo, Perimeter Institute, April 2015 (Conference on Mock Modularity, Moonshine and String Theory); Nagoya, November 2016 (Conference on ‘Moonshine and K3 surfaces’); MITP Mainz, February 2017 (Workshop “Women at the Intersection of Mathematics and High Energy Physics”)

• 2000: Editorial: Editor of an IOP Volume on `New Moonshines' (2016 - 2017)
• 2000: Committee Duties: Elected member of the Peer Review College EPSRC; Member of the Governing Board, School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advance Studies
• 2000: National and International Collaboration: Freiburg University; Max Planck Institute Bonn, Lebedev Institute, Moscow; Brussels Free University; University of Tokyo (Bunkyo-Ku); University of York
• 2000: Conference organization: Organiser of an LMS Symposium on `New Moonshine, Mock Modular Forms and String Theory' (Durham, August 2015), of a summer workshop on `Quantum Gravity & New Moonshines' (Aspen, August 2017) and of an ESI workshop on `Moonshine' (Vienna, September 2018)

Chapter in book

• Jonoska, N., Taormina, A., & Twarock, R. (2009). DNA Cages with Icosahedral Symmetry in Bionanotechnology. In A. Condon, D. Harel, & J. Kok (Eds.), Algorithmic bioprocesses (141-158). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88869-7_9

Conference Paper

• Taormina, A., & Wendland, K. (2015). Symmetry-surfing the moduli space of Kummer K3s. In R. Donagi, S. Katz, A. Klemm, & D. R. Morrison (Eds.), String-Math 2012 (129-154). https://doi.org/10.1090/pspum/090/01522

Journal Article

• Taormina, A., & Wendland, K. (2020). SU(2) channels the cancellation of K3 BPS states. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(04), Article 184. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282020%29184
• Taormina, A., & Wendland, K. (2020). The Conway Moonshine Module is a Reflected K3 Theory. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 24(5), 1247-1323. https://doi.org/10.4310/atmp.2020.v24.n5.a6
• Taormina, A., & Wendland, K. (2018). Not doomed to fail. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(09), Article 062. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282018%29062
• Banwell, E. F., Piette, B. M., Taormina, A., & Heddle, J. G. (2018). Reciprocal Nucleopeptides as the Ancestral Darwinian Self-Replicator. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35(2), 404-416. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx292
• Taormina, A., & Wendland, K. (2015). A twist in the M24 moonshine story. Confluentes mathematici, 7(1), 83-113. https://doi.org/10.5802/cml.19
• Gaberdiel, M., Taormina, A., Volpato, R., & Wendland, K. (2014). A K3 sigma model with Z_2^8:M_20 symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(2), Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02%282014%29022
• Taormina, A., & Wendland, K. (2013). The overarching finite symmetry group of Kummer surfaces in the Mathieu group M24. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(08), Article 125. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282013%29125
• Eguchi, T., Sugawara, Y., & Taormina, A. (2011). Modular forms and elliptic genera for ALE spaces
• Grayson, N., Taormina, A., & Twarock, R. (2009). DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry. Theoretical Computer Science, 410(15), 1440-1447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2008.12.005
• Peeters, K., & Taormina, A. (2009). Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: a top-down approach. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 256(4), 607-624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.10.019
• Taormina, A. (2009). Liouville Theory and Elliptic Genera. Progress of theoretical physics. Supplement, 177(Supplement 1), 203-217. https://doi.org/10.1143/ptps.177.203
• Peeters, K., & Taormina, A. (2008). Dynamics of Icosahedral Viruses: What Does Viral Tiling Theory Teach Us?. Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 9(3-4), 211-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/17486700802168270
• Englert, F., Peeters, K., & Taormina, A. (2008). Twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses. Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 78(3), Article 031908. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.78.031908
• Elsawy, K., Taormina, A., Twarock, R., & Vaughan, L. (2008). Dynamical implications of Viral Tiling Theory. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 252(2), 357-369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.02.003
• Eguchi, T., Sugawara, Y., & Taormina, A. (2007). Liouville Field, Modular Forms and Elliptic Genera. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007(03), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/119
• Keef, T., Taormina, A., & Twarock, R. (2006). Classification of capped tubular viral particles in the family of Papovaviridae. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 18(14), 375-387. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/18/14/s18
• Keef, T., Taormina, A., & Twarock, R. (2005). Assembly models for Papovaviridae based on tiling theory. Physical Biology, 2(3), 175-188. https://doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/2/3/005
• Semikhatov, A., Taormina, A., & Tipunin, I. (2005). Higher-level Appell functions, modular transformations, and characters. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 255(2), 469-512. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-004-1280-7
• Englert, F., Houart, L., Taormina, A., & West, P. (2003). The symmetry of M-theories. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2003(09), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/020
• Chattaraputi, A., Englert, F., Houart, L., & Taormina, A. (2003). Fermionic subspaces of the bosonic string. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20(12), S449-S456
• Chattaraputi, A., Englert, F., Houart, L., & Taormina, A. (2002). The bosonic mother of fermionic D-branes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 09 (2002),
• Englert, F., Houart, L., & Taormina, A. (2001). Brane fusion in the bosonic string and the emergence of fermionic strings. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001(08), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/013
• Chattaraputi, A., Emparan, R., & Taormina, A. (2000). Composite diholes and intersecting brane-anti-brane configurations in string/M-theory. Nuclear Physics B, B573(1-2), 291-313
• Bowcock, P., Feigin, B., Semikhatov, A., & Taormina, A. (2000). Affine sl(2/1) and affine D(2/1;alpha) as vertex operator extensions of dual affine sl(2) algebras. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 214, 495-545. https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00005536
• Corrigan, E., & Taormina, A. (2000). Reflection factors and a two-parameter family of boundary bound states in the sinh-Gordon model. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, A33, 8739-8754. https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/33/48/312
• Bowcock, P., Hayes, M., & Taormina, A. (1999). Parafermionic representation of the affine sl(2|1:C) algebra at fractional level. Physics Letters B, B468(3-4), 239-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0370-2693%2899%2901251-4
• Hayes, M., & Taormina, A. (1998). Admissible sl(2/1;C) characters and parafermions. Nuclear Physics B, B529(3), 588-610
• Taormina, A., & Wilson, S. (1998). Virasoro character identities and Artin L-functions. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 196(1), 77-103
• Bowcock, P., Hayes, M., & Taormina, A. (1998). Characters of admissible representations of the affine superalgebra sl(2/1;C). Nuclear Physics B, B510(3), 739-763
• Bowcock, P., & Taormina, A. (1997). Representation theory of the affine-superalgebra sl(2/1) and non-critical N=2 strings. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 185(2), 467-493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200050099
• Bowcock, P., Koktava, R., & Taormina, A. (1996). Wakimoto modules for the affine superalgebra sl(2/1) and non-critical N = 2 Strings. Physics Letters B, B388(2), 303-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0370-2693%2896%2901103-3
• Taormina, A. (1994). New identities Between Unitary Minimal Virasoro Characters. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 165(1), 69-82
• Taormina, A. (1994). Non linear identities between unitary minimal Virasoro characters. Lecture notes in physics (Internet), 447, 87-92
• Eguchi, T., Ooguri, H., Taormina, A., & Yang, S. (1989). Superconformal algebras and string compactification on manifolds with SU(n) holonomy. Nuclear Physics B, 315, 193-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213%2889%2990454-9