Tom Bridgeland

Tom Bridgeland (c. 1973) is a British mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry.

Bridgeland studied from 1991 mathematics at Cambridge University and went after graduating from the University of Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in Antony Maciocia 1998 ( Fourier - Mukai Transforms of surfaces and moduli spaces of stable sheaves ). He subsequently EPSRC and Royal Society Research Fellow. From 2004 he was Reader and then Professor at the University of Sheffield. Since 2011 he has been Professor and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University.

It deals with algebraic geometry with applications in string theory ( mirror symmetry, etc.). Inspired by ideas in string theory he brought stability conditions of triangulated categories and showed that they form a manifold. As an example, he examined the spaces of stability conditions nonderivative categories of coherent sheaves on K3 surfaces.

In 2003 he was awarded the Berwick Prize. In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Derived categories of coherent sheaves ). In 2005 he received the Whittaker Prize and in 2008, together with David Tong, the Adams Prize.

Writings

• With P. Aspinwall include: Dirichlet Branes and Mirror Symmetry, Clay Mathematics Monographs, 2009