Damien George

I am a PhD student in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne. I am a member of the Theoretical Particle Physics group. My supervisor is Ray Volkas. You might be able to find me in room 607 of the physics building.

Physics

Physics is fun and one day I might understand how the world works, but for now I spend time thinking about:

• realistic brane-world models
• the Standard Model
• quantum field theory and path integrals
• information and the physics of it

Papers that I have been involved with (most recent first):

• SU(5) grand unification on a domain-wall brane from an E_6-invariant action
  Phys. Rev. D 77 085031 (2008) arXiv:0710.3432
• The standard model on a domain-wall brane
  To appear in Phys. Rev. D arXiv:0705.1584
• Fermions, scalars and Randall-Sundrum gravity on domain-wall branes
  Phys. Rev. D 76 104010 (2007) arXiv:0705.1391
• Kink modes and effective four dimensional fermion and Higgs brane models
  Phys. Rev. D 75 105007 (2007) arXiv:hep-ph/0612270
• Dark Matter In Minimal Trinification
  Proceedings of the LXXXVI Les Houches Summer School, pages 517--524 (2006) arXiv:hep-ph/0611012
• Stability of domain walls coupled to Abelian gauge fields
  Phys.Rev. D 72 105011 (2005) arXiv:hep-ph/0508206
• The clash of symmetries in a Randall-Sundrum-like spacetime
  Phys.Rev. D 72 045016 (2005) arXiv:hep-ph/0507097

Mathematics

Mathematics is a language. A language is a tool. Tools can be replaced. It just so happens that mathematics is the best language we have at the moment to talk about physics.

Computers

Computers were made by physicists. Computers were made to be programmed. Computers were made by physicists to be programmed to solve their problems. Don't ask me to fix your computer problems!

Miscellaneous

How to make tofu.