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Patrick Dorey

Patrick Edward Dorey is a British mathematical physicist. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University.

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Patrick Dorey
Born
Patrick Edward Dorey
Alma materDurham University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical physics
InstitutionsDurham University
ThesisThe exact S-matrices of affine Toda field theories (1990)
Ed Corrigan

Patrick Edward Dorey FInstP is a British mathematical physicist. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University.1

Education

Dorey completed his PhD in 1990 at Durham University, where he was supervised by Ed Corrigan.2

Career

Dorey returned to Durham in 1993 after working as a postdoc at Saclay and CERN. His main research interest is conformal and integrable field theories.1 He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2000.1

He has also served as a visiting lecturer at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town, South Africa, where he remains an associate faculty member.34

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References

  1. "Professor Patrick Dorey". Durham University. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  2. Dorey, Patrick Edward (1990). The exact S-matrices of affine Toda field theories (PDF) (Thesis). Durham University.
  3. "Associate Faculty of AIMS South Africa". AIMS South Africa. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  4. "African centres hope to produce top mathematicians". SciDev.net. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
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