Staff profile
Overview
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Mathew Bullimore
Professor, Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics
MPhys, DPhil University of Oxford

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Professor, Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences | MCS3024 | +44 (0) 191 33 44162 |
Professor, Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics in the Centre for Particle Theory | MCS3024 | +44 (0) 191 33 44162 |
Biography
I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2012 and held postdoctoral appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Perimeter Institute and the University of Oxford, before moving to Durham University in 2017.
My research centres on algebraic, geometric and topological structures in supersymmetric quantum field theory and applications to symmetries and dualities.
I am a EPSRC Early Career Fellow and a PI in the Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetry.
I am an organiser of the Symmetry Seminar.
Research interests
- Quantum Field Theory
- Supersymmetry
- String Theory
Research groups
- Mathematical & Theoretical Particle Physics
Esteem Indicators
- 0000: Committee Duties: Member of EPSRC peer-review college.
- 0000: Conference Organisation: 'Novel Vistas on Vortices' (SCGP, 2019) ;
- 0000: International Collaboration: PI in 'Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries' (2021 - 2025).
- 0000: International Summer Schools: Invited lecturer at 'Vortex Moduli' (ICTP, 2021), 'Quantum Fields, Geometry and Representation Theory' (ICTP, 2021), 'QFT for Mathematicians' (Perimeter Institute, 2019). ;
- 0000: Membership of Professional Body: Member of London Mathematical Society
Publications
Authored book
- Bullimore, Mathew Richard (2014). Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in Twistor Space. Springer.
Conference Paper
Journal Article
- Bullimore, Mathew & Zhang, Daniel (2022). 3d N = 4 Gauge Theories on an Elliptic Curve. SciPost Physics 13(1).
- Bullimore, Mathew, Ferrari, Andrea & Kim, Heeyeon (2022). The 3d twisted index and wall-crossing. SciPost Physics 12(6): 186.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Ferrari, Andrea E. V., Kim, Heeyeon & Xu, Guangyu (2022). The twisted index and topological saddles. Journal of High Energy Physics 2022(5): 116.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Ferrari, Andrea & Kim, Heeyeon (2022). Supersymmetric Ground States of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ Gauge Theories on a Riemann Surface. SciPost Physics 12(2): 072.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Crew, Samuel & Zhang, Daniel (2021). Boundaries, Vermas and factorisation. Journal of High Energy Physics 2021(4): 263.
- Beem, C., Ben-Zvi, D., Bullimore, M., Dimofte, T. & Neitzke, A. (2020). Secondary products in supersymmetric field theory. Annales Henri Poincaré 21(4): 1235-1310.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Ferrari, Andrea & Kim, Heeyeon (2019). Twisted indices of 3d N = 4 gauge theories and enumerative geometry of quasi-maps. Journal of High Energy Physics 2019(7): 14.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Dimofte, Tudor, Gaiotto, Davide, Hilburn, Justin & Kim, Hee-Cheol (2018). Vortices and Vermas. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 22(4): 803-917.
- Bullimore, Mathew & Ferrari, Andrea (2018). Twisted Hilbert spaces of 3d supersymmetric gauge theories. Journal of High Energy Physics 2018(08): 018.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Kim, Hee-Cheol & Lukowski, Tomasz (2017). Expanding the Bethe/Gauge dictionary. Journal of High Energy Physics 2017(11): 055.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Dimofte, Tudor & Gaiotto, Davide (2017). The Coulomb Branch of 3d N=4 Theories. Communications in Mathematical Physics 354(2): 671-751.
- Alday, Luis F., Genolini, Pietro Benetti, Bullimore, Mathew & van Loon, Mark (2017). Refined 3d-3d correspondence. Journal of High Energy Physics 2017(4): 170.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Dimofte, Tudor, Gaiotto, Davide, Hilburn, Justin & Kim, Hee-Cheol (2016). Boundaries, Mirror Symmetry, and Symplectic Duality in 3d N=4 Gauge Theory. Journal of High Energy Physics 2016(10): 108.
- Bobev, Nikolay, Bullimore, Mathew & Kim, Hee-Cheol (2015). Supersymmetric Casimir energy and the anomaly polynomial. Journal of High Energy Physics 2015(09): 142.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Kim, Hee-Cheol & Koroteev, Peter (2015). Defects and quantum Seiberg-Witten geometry. Journal of High Energy Physics 2015(05): 095.
- Bullimore, Mathew & Kim, Hee-Cheol (2015). The superconformal index of the (2,0) theory with defects. Journal of High Energy Physics 2015(05): 048.
- Bullimore, Mathew (2015). Defect networks and supersymmetric loop operators. Journal of High Energy Physics 2015(2): 066.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Fluder, Martin, Hollands, Lotte & Richmond, Paul (2014). The superconformal index and an elliptic algebra of surface defects. Journal of High Energy Physics 2014(10): 062.
- Alday, Luis F., Bullimore, Mathew, Fluder, Martin & Hollands, Lotte (2013). Surface defects, the superconformal index and q-deformed Yang-Mills. Journal of High Energy Physics 2013(10): 018.
- Alday, Luis F., Bullimore, Mathew & Fluder, Martin (2013). On S-duality of the superconformal index on lens spaces and 2d TQFT. Journal of High Energy Physics 2013(05): 122.
- Adamo, Tim, Bullimore, Mathew, Mason, Lionel & Skinner, David (2011). Scattering amplitudes and Wilson loops in twistor space. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 44(45): 454008.
- Bullimore, Mathew (2011). MHV diagrams from an all-loop recursion relation. Journal of High Energy Physics 2011(08): 107.
- Adamo, Tim, Bullimore, Mathew, Mason, Lionel & Skinner, David (2011). A proof of the correlation function/supersymmetric Wilson loop correspondence. Journal of High Energy Physics 2011(08): 076.
- Bullimore, Mathew (2011). Inverse soft factors and grassmannian residues. Journal of High Energy Physics 2011(01): 055.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Mason, Lionel & Skinner, David (2010). MHV diagrams in momentum twistor space. Journal of High Energy Physics 2010(12): 032.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Conlon, Joseph P. & Witkowski, Lukas T. (2010). Kinetic mixing of U(1)’s for local string models. Journal of High Energy Physics 2010(11): 142.
- Bullimore, Mathew, Mason, Lionel & Skinner, David (2010). Twistor-strings, Grassmannians and leading singularities. Journal of High Energy Physics 2010(03): 070.
Supervision students
Jamie Pearson
3CPT
Thomas Bartsch
2CPT