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Richard Ward

Richard Ward

Professor Richard Ward FRS

Fellow


Elected: 2005

Biography

Richard Ward conducts pioneering and elegant research in mathematical physics. He adapted the twistor transform to the self-dual Yang–Mills (SDYM) equation and, with Michael Atiyah, constructed general multi-instanton solutions. His discovery of the toroidal BPS two-monopole was a breakthrough in soliton theory. He showed that virtually all known integrable equations arise from SDYM by dimensional and algebraic reductions, allowing a unified solution method. Richard’s twistor transform of SDYM, applied to string theory, is leading to striking progress in quantum Yang–Mills theory.

Interest and expertise

Subject groups

  • Mathematics
    • Applied mathematics and theoretical physics

Keywords

Solitons,  Integrable Systems

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