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Anthony Ashmore

Anthony Ashmore

Assistant Professor of Physics

Office: Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences 380D
Telephone: 518-580-5121
E-mail: aashmore@skidmore.edu

Education:
  • M.Phys. (Physics), University of Oxford
  • M.A. (Physics), Princeton University
  • Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics), Imperial żŰżŰ‚÷Ă˝London
Research Interests:

Professor Ashmore’s current research focuses on computational and machine-learning techniques for string theory and quantum field theory. This includes computing numerical “Calabi–Yau” metrics – crucial ingredients for connecting string theory to experiment – and modelling phase transitions in strongly interacting quantum systems. He also studies the kinds of geometry that appear in string theory and supergravity using purely theoretical tools, such as differential geometry and “generalized geometry”.

Before joining żŰżŰ‚÷Ă˝ in Fall 2024, Prof. Ashmore held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago and Sorbonne UniversitĂ©.

Prof. Ashmore is currently looking for undergraduates interested in computational physics to join his lab.

Courses
  • Introductory Physics I
  • Mathematical and Computational Methods
Selected Publications:
  • “Deep learning lattice gauge theories”, A. Apte, A. Ashmore, C. Cordova, and T.-C. Huang ,[].

  • “Numerical spectra of the Laplacian for line bundles on Calabi–Yau hypersurfaces”, A. Ashmore, Y.-H. He, E. Heyes, and B. A. Ovrut, , [].

  • “Geometric Flows and Supersymmetry”, A. Ashmore, R. Minasian, and Y. Proto, , [].

  • “Calabi-Yau Metrics, Energy Functionals and Machine-Learning”, A. Ashmore, L. Calmon, Y.-H. He, and B. A. Ovrut, , [].

  • “Exactly Marginal Deformations and Their Supergravity Duals”, A. Ashmore, M. Petrini, E. L. Tasker, and D. Waldram, , [].

  • “Machine learning line bundle connections”, A. Ashmore, R. Deen, Y.-H. He, and B. A. , [].

  • “Calabi-Yau CFTs and Random Matrices”, N. Afkhami-Jeddi, A. Ashmore, and C. Cordova, , [].

  • “Moduli-dependent KK towers and the swampland distance conjecture on the quintic Calabi-Yau manifold”, A. Ashmore and F. Ruehle, , [].

  • “Eigenvalues and eigenforms on Calabi–Yau threefolds”, A. Ashmore, , [].

  • “Machine Learning Calabi–Yau Metrics”, A. Ashmore, Y.-H. He, and B. A. Ovrut, , [].

  • “Generalising G2 geometry: involutivity, moment maps and moduli”, A. Ashmore, C. Strickland-Constable, D. Tennyson, and D. Waldram, , [].

  • “Exceptional Calabi–Yau spaces: the geometry of N = 2 backgrounds with flux”, A. Ashmore and D. Waldram, , [].

Physics Contact

Office

Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences 280H
518-580-5304

Department Chair

Mary Crone Odekon
Professor of Physics
mcrone@skidmore.edu

Administrative Assistant

Carolyn Lundy
clundy@skidmore.edu