Fay Dowker Explained

Fay Dowker
Birth Name:Helen Fay Dowker
Birth Date:1965 9, df=y
Birth Place:Manchester, England
Fields:Theoretical physics
Causal sets[1]
Education:University of Cambridge (BA; PhD 1990)[2]
Thesis Title:Space-time wormholes
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359554
Thesis Year:1990
Doctoral Advisor:Stephen Hawking
Awards:Tyson Medal (1987)

Helen Fay Dowker (; born 9 September 1965) is a British physicist who is a current professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London.[3] [4] [5]

Education

Dowker attended Manchester High School for Girls.[6] As a student, she was interested in wormholes and quantum cosmology. Having studied the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, Dowker was awarded the Tyson Medal in 1987 and completed her Doctor of Philosophy for research on spacetime wormholes supervised by Stephen Hawking in 1990.[2] [7]

Career and research

Dowker completed postdoctoral research at Fermilab, at the University of California, Santa Barbara and also the California Institute of Technology.[8] [9]

Until 2003, Dowker was a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.[10]

She is currently a professor of Theoretical Physics and a member of the Theoretical Physics Group at Imperial College London and a Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute.[11] She conducts research in a number of areas of theoretical physics including quantum gravity and causal set theory.[12] [13] [14]

Personal life

Dowker is the daughter of physicist Stuart Dowker, who worked at the University of Manchester.[15] [16] She was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific in 2017.[1]

She delivered the eulogy at Stephen Hawking's funeral, describing him as her "teacher, mentor and friend" and asserting that "his influence and legacy will live forever."[17]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jim. Al-Khalili. Jim Al-Khalili. 2017. Fay Dowker on a new theory of space-time. BBC.
  2. PhD . Helen Fay . Dowker . Space-time wormholes . ethos.bl.uk. University of Cambridge . 1990 . 839406193.
  3. Dowker . Fay . Fay Dowker . Gauntlett . Jerome P. . Kastor . David A. . Traschen . Jennie. Jennie Traschen . 1994 . Pair creation of dilaton black holes . . 49 . 6 . 2909–2917 . hep-th/9309075 . 1994PhRvD..49.2909D . 10.1103/PhysRevD.49.2909. 10017283 . 15303024 .
  4. Dowker . Fay . Fay Dowker . Gauntlett . Jerome P. . Steven Giddings. Giddings . Steven B. . Horowitz . Gary T. . 1994 . Pair creation of extremal black holes and Kaluza-Klein monopoles . . 50 . 4 . 2662–2679 . hep-th/9312172 . 1994PhRvD..50.2662D . 10.1103/PhysRevD.50.2662. 10017899 . 7270273 .
  5. Dowker . Fay . Fay Dowker . Gauntlett . Jerome P. . Gibbons . Gary W. . Horowitz . Gary T. . 1995 . Decay of magnetic fields in Kaluza-Klein theory . . 52 . 12 . 6929–6940 . hep-th/9507143 . 1995PhRvD..52.6929D . 10.1103/PhysRevD.52.6929. 10019234 . 16857664 .
  6. Web site: 12 November 2019 . A Brief History of Time at Manchester High . 2023-10-08 . JLife Magazine . en-GB.
  7. Web site: Former Students . hawking.org.uk . Stephen Hawking . https://web.archive.org/web/20090228131018/http://www.hawking.org.uk/index.php/about-stephen/stephenatcambridge/formerstudents . 2009-02-28 . dead .
  8. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.dowker Dowker, Fay
  9. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/f.dowker/ Dowker, Fay
  10. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/theoretical-physics/about-us/history/ History
  11. https://perimeterinstitute.ca/people/fay-dowker Fay Dowker, Perimeter Institute
  12. Dowker . Fay . Fay Dowker . 2013 . Introduction to causal sets and their phenomenology . . 45 . 9 . 1651–1667 . 2013GReGr..45.1651D . 10.1007/s10714-013-1569-y. 119465367 .
  13. Dowker . Fay . Fay Dowker . Glaser . Lisa . 2013 . Causal set d'Alembertians for various dimensions . Classical and Quantum Gravity . 30 . 19 . 195016 . 1305.2588 . 2013CQGra..30s5016D . 10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/195016. 119181630 .
  14. Afshordi . Niayesh . Buck . Michel . Dowker . Fay . Fay Dowker . Rideout . David . Sorkin . Rafael D. . Rafael Sorkin . Yazdi . Yasaman K. . 2012 . A ground state for the causal diamond in 2 dimensions . . 2012 . 10 . 88 . 1207.7101 . 2012JHEP...10..088A . 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)088. 119182974 .
  15. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170518091941/http://www.theory.physics.manchester.ac.uk/~dowker/. 18 May 2017. Stuart Dowker. University of Manchester. Anon. 2015.
  16. Dowker. Fay. Elizalde. Emilio. Kirsten. Klaus. Applications of zeta functions and other spectral functions in mathematics and physics: a special issue in honour of Stuart Dowker's 75th birthday. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 45. 37. 2012. 370301. 1751-8113. 10.1088/1751-8113/45/37/370301. 2012JPhA...45a0101D.
  17. News: Prof Stephen Hawking funeral: Legacy 'will live forever'. BBC News. 31 March 2018.

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