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Professor Kostas Skenderis

Professor of Theoretical Physics, Director of STAG

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Professor Kostas Skenderis is Director of STAG within Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton.

Background

2012-present: Professor,
School of Mathematics
University of Southampton
UK

2011-2012: Professor,
Institute for Theoretical Physics and
Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics,
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands

2003-2011: Associate Professor,
Institute for Theoretical Physics and
Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics,
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands

2001-2003: Assistant Professor,
Physics Department,
Princeton University.
USA

1999-2001: Research Associate,
Physics Department,
Princeton University.
USA

1998-1999: Research Fellow,
Spinoza Institute,
Utrecht University.
Netherlands

1996-1998: Research Fellow
Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica,
KU Leuven
Belgium

1991-1996: Ph.D in Theoretical Particle Physics.
Institute for Theoretical Physics,
State University of New York at Stony Brook,
USA
Title of Thesis: Perturbative QFT in 1, 2 and 4 dimensions.
Advisor: Prof. Peter van Nieuwenhuizen.

1987 - 1991 : B.Sc. in Physics,
Department of Physics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece

Research

Publications

Teaching

Contact

Research interests

My research interests include relativity, cosmology, quantum field theory and string theory. In particular, I have worked extensively on holographic dualities. Holography, if correct, would change the paradigm for physical reality. This idea arose from black hole physics and concrete examples were found in the context of the AdS/CFT duality.

In order to promote this far-reaching idea into a physical theory one needs to understand in detail the ``holographic dictionary'', i.e. how quantum field theory data are encoded in bulk solutions and vice versa how spacetime is reconstructed from QFT data. A significant part of my work has been devoted to developing and extending the holographic dictionary. In particular, I have developed the method of holographic renormalization, which is the gravitational counterpart of renormalization in QFT. The method is essential for obtaining well-defined rules for computations in gravity/gauge theory duality and moreover it explicitly shows how spacetime is reconstructed from gauge theory data. Ultimately, this line of research should lead to a manifestly holographic reformulation of physics, thus completing the shift of paradigm.

My current research includes black holes, applications of holographic methods to condensed matter systems and extending the holographic methods to cosmology.

Research group

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Affiliate research groups

String Theory and Holography, STAG Research Group

Research project(s)

General Relativity

Articles

Afshordi, N., Gould, E., & Skenderis, K. (2017). Constraining holographic cosmology using Planck data. Physical Review D, 95(12), [123505]. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.123505
Afshordi, N., Coriano, C., Delle Rose, L., Gould, E., & Skenderis, K. (2017). From Planck data to Planck era: observational tests of holographic cosmology. Physical Review Letters, 1-6.
Skenderis, K., Stylianidi Christodoulou, M. I., Caldarelli, M., & Papadimitriou, I. (2017). Phases of planar AdS black holes with axionic charge. Journal of High Energy Physics, 04(1). DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2017)001
Bzowski, A., McFadden, P., & Skenderis, K. (2016). Evaluation of conformal integrals. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(68), 1-34. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2016)068
Christodoulou, A., & Skenderis, K. (2016). Holographic construction of excited CFT states. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(96), 1-27. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2016)096
Bzowski, A., McFadden, P., & Skenderis, K. (2016). Scalar 3-point functions in CFT: renormalisation, beta functions and anomalies. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(66), 1-75. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2016)066
Bakas, I., Skenderis, K., & Withers, B. (2016). Self-similar equilibration of strongly interacting systems from holography. Physical Review D, 93(101902(R)), 1-6. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.101902
Garriga, J., Skenderis, K., & Urakawa, Y. (2015). Multi-field inflation from holography. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(28), 1-24. DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/01/028
Caldarelli, M. M., Camps, J., Goutéraux, B., & Skenderis, K. (2014). AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(17), 1-52. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2014)071
Bzowski, A., & Skenderis, K. (2014). Comments on scale and conformal invariance. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(27), 1-40. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)027
Bakas, I., & Skenderis, K. (2014). Non-equilibrium dynamics and AdS 4 Robinson-Trautman. Journal of High Energy Physics, 8(56), 1-47. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)056
Caldarelli, M. M., Camps, J., Goutéraux, B., & Skenderis, K. (2013). AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme instability. Physical Review D, 87(61502), 1-6. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.061502
Bzowski, A., McFadden, P., & Skenderis, K. (2013). Holography for inflation using conformal perturbation theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(47), 1-43. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)047
Korovin, Y., Skenderis, K., & Taylor, M. (2013). Lifshitz as a deformation of anti-de Sitter. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(26), 1-54. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2013)026
Korovin, Y., Skenderis, K., & Taylor, M. (2013). Lifshitz from AdS at finite temperature and top down models. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(127), 1-26. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)127
Compere, G., McFadden, P., Skenderis, K., & Taylor, M. (2012). The relativistic fluid dual to vacuum Einstein gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(76), 1-29. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2012)076
Compère, G., McFadden, P., Skenderis, K., & Taylor, M. (2011). The holographic fluid dual to vacuum Einstein gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011(7), JHEP07(2011)050-[29pp]. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)050
McFadden, P., & Skenderis, K. (2010). Holography for cosmology. Physical Review D, 81(2), 117-171. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.021301
Skenderis, K., Taylor, M., & Rees, B. C. V. (2009). Topologically massive gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(9), JHEP09(2009)045-[47pp]. DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/045
Kanitscheider, I., & Skenderis, K. (2009). Universal hydrodynamics of non-conformal branes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(4), JHEP04(2009)062-[24pp]. DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/062
Skenderis, K., & van Rees, B. (2008). Real-time gauge/gravity duality. Physical Review Letters, 101(8), 081601-[4pp]. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.081601
Skenderis, K., & Taylor, M. (2008). The fuzzball proposal for black holes. Physics Reports, 467(4-5), 117-171. DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2008.08.001

Conference

Skenderis, K., & Withers, B. (2017). Robinson-Trautman spacetimes and gauge/gravity duality. In Corfu Summer Institute 2016 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" Proceedings of Science.

MATH1054, MATH2044, Differentiable Manifolds (Magic063)

Professor Kostas Skenderis
Building 54 Mathematical Sciences University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ

Room Number:54/5021

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