(Ir)regular singularities and Quantum Field Theory

Team

Tom Sutherland

Tom Sutherland graduated with a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2014 under the supervision of Tom Bridgeland.  During his time as a doctoral student he was a visiting student at the University of Oxford as well as a participant in the Junior Research Trimester on Mathematical Physics at the Hausdorff Institute in Bonn.
 
His PhD thesis was awarded with the T.M. Flett prize for the best doctoral dissertation in the department. He has since held postdoctoral positions in the University of Pavia, working with Jacopo Stoppa, and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with Helge Ruddat.  He joined the team in April 2019.
 
His research focuses on the geometry of spaces of stability conditions on triangulated Calabi-Yau-3 categories.  Enumerative invariants of such categories encode a isomonodromic family of non-linear flat connections on the projective line with an irregular singularity at the origin.  He has used this to construct expected Frobenius manifolds structures on these spaces.
Selected publications