Richard Kenway
Professor R D Kenway, OBE, FRSE, FInstP, FLSW
- Position
- Tait Professor of Mathematical Physics
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 4422
- Email: r.d.kenway [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5245
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Richard is a member of the following School research institute, research group and research area:
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Research interests
My research explores non-perturbative aspects of theories of elementary particles using computer simulation of lattice gauge theories, particularly the strong interactions of quarks and gluons described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).
I led UK participation in the QCDOC project to build three 10 teraflop/s computers to simulate QCD, jointly with the USA and Japan, and these machines operated successfully from 2004 to 2011. I am the principal investigator on grants for a follow-on project with IBM and Columbia University to build and exploit a 1 petaflop/s prototype BlueGene/Q computer, which was installed at the University of Edinburgh in 2011.
My current research interest is electroweak symmetry breaking to try to understand whether a more fundamental explanation of the Higgs boson is possible. Specifically, I am investigating whether it is possible to construct the Standard Model by localising the gauge fields on a four-dimensional brane in five-dimensional space-time and connections with AdS-CFT duality.
Lagrangian Dynamics (level 10)
Richard has featured in the following recent School news stories:
Recent publications
- , Physical Review D, 93, 7
- , Proceedings of Science
- , Proceedings of Science, 2013, LATTICE 2013
- , Physics Letters B, 724, 1-3, p. 133–137
- , Computer Physics Communications, 183, 3, p. 520-529