Biography:Marika Taylor

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Marika Taylor
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Taylor in 2009
Born
Marika Maxine Taylor
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
AwardsMayhew Prize (1995)
Scientific career
FieldsHolography
Cosmology
Theoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Southampton
University of Amsterdam
ThesisProblems in M theory (1998)
Doctoral advisorStephen Hawking[1]
Websitewww.southampton.ac.uk/maths/about/staff/mmt1c11.page

Marika Maxine Taylor (born 1974) is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the Head of School within Mathematical Sciences at University of Southampton.[2]

Early life and education

Taylor was inspired to study physics after reading A Brief History of Time whilst an GCE Advanced Level student.[3] She studied Physics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, where she heard a series of lectures by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose about cosmology.[3] This inspired her to choose courses on cosmology and black holes for her final year of study. She stayed at Cambridge, where she completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos.[4] In 1995 she won the Mayhew Prize, awarded annually by the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, to the student showing the greatest distinction in Applied Mathematics. Her doctoral thesis Problems in M-theory, was supervised by Stephen Hawking which she completed in 1998.[1][5][6][3] She continued to publish with Hawking after leaving Cambridge.[7][8][9]

Research and career

Taylor's research is focussed on string theory, quantum field theory and gravitational physics.[10] She uses the holographic principle to investigate the physical properties of black holes and condensed matter systems.[10] The holographic principle allows Taylor to relate gravitational theories to theories without gravity, in one less dimension.[11] The holographic principle suggests that Einstein's picture of black holes isn't entirely correct - instead of matter getting sucked into the event horizon of a black hole, it remains as a hologram.[12]

She was a postdoctoral fellow in Cambridge and Utrecht.[13][14] She joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam in 2004.[15][10]

In 2012 Taylor joined the University of Southampton, where as of 2018 she is a professor.[16][17] She was involved with The String Universe, a 2017 multi-institution COST Action grant exploring cosmology and string theory.[18][19][20] As part of the initiative, Taylor arranged a series of events related to diversity in string theory.[21][22]

Taylor has contributed to The Conversation.[23][24] She regularly gives invited talks, seminars and popular science discussions relating to string theory, symmetries and entanglement.[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][excessive citations] She contributed to the New Scientist collection Where the Universe Came From: How Einstein’s relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos.[34]

Awards and honours

Taylor is a former member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[35] In 2008 she won the Minerva Prize, awarded annually by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for her paper Fuzzball solutions for black holes and D1-brane-D5-brane microstates.[36][37][38][39] In the paper she described the microscopic description of the physics of black holes.[40] She explored the possibility of Non-relativistic holography.[41]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Marika Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ "Professor Marika Taylor - Mathematical Sciences - University of Southampton". https://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/about/staff/mmt1c11.page. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Taylor, Marika (2018). "I was a student of Stephen Hawking's – here's what he taught me" (in en). The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/i-was-a-student-of-stephen-hawkings-heres-what-he-taught-me-93508. 
  4. ↑ "Ada Lovelace Day 2015: Celebrating Prof. Marika Taylor and Diversity in STEM" (in en-GB). http://femmesavecfaim.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/ada-lovelace-day-2015-celebrating-prof.html. 
  5. ↑ Taylor-Robinson, Marika Maxine (1998). Problems in M theory. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894603647. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.625075.
  6. ↑ Sample, Ian (2018-03-14). "Stephen Hawking, science's brightest star, dies aged 76" (in en). The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76. 
  7. ↑ "Publications" (in en). http://www.hawking.org.uk/publications.html. 
  8. ↑ Taylor-Robinson, Marika (2000). "More on counterterms in the gravitational action and anomalies". arXiv:hep-th/0002125.
  9. ↑ Taylor-Robinson, Marika (2000). "Holography for degenerate boundaries". arXiv:hep-th/0001177.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Amsterdam, Universiteit van. "Focus on research: theoretical physicist Marika Taylor - University of Amsterdam" (in en). http://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-natuurwetenschappen-wiskunde-en-informatica/focus-on-research-iop/focus-on-research-theoretical-physicist-marika-taylor.html. 
  11. ↑ "Marika Taylor" (in en). https://theconversation.com/profiles/marika-taylor-175414. 
  12. ↑ Rincon, Paul (2015). "Hawking: Black holes store information" (in en-GB). BBC News. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34062839. 
  13. ↑ Taylor, Marika (2011). "Recent progress in holography". http://web.science.uu.nl/drstp/seminars/THEP/2011/Taylor.pdf. 
  14. ↑ "Professor Marika Taylor | Mathematical Sciences | University of Southampton" (in en). https://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/about/staff/mmt1c11.page. 
  15. ↑ "Black Holes and Holography —" (in en). https://www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/science-spots/members-in-the-picture/zwarte-gaten-en-holografie. 
  16. ↑ "Marika Taylor | www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk" (in en). https://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/content/marika-taylor. 
  17. ↑ "Marika Maxine Taylor". http://gtr.ukri.org/person/E66548FD-64CF-4BFA-9D78-E33E71A1029F. 
  18. ↑ "People | The String Theory Universe" (in en). http://www.weizmann.ac.il/stringuniverse/peoples. 
  19. ↑ "Dr. TAYLOR Marika | The String Theory Universe" (in en). http://www.weizmann.ac.il/stringuniverse/people/taylor. 
  20. ↑ "THE STRING THEORY UNIVERSE - 22nd European string workshop and Final COST MP1210 Conference (20-24 February 2017) · Indico". https://indico.cern.ch/event/555921/. 
  21. ↑ "Women – strings" (in en-US). https://web.infn.it/strings/tag/women/. 
  22. ↑ "String Theory and Gender · Indico". https://indico.cern.ch/category/8539/. 
  23. ↑ Taylor, Marika (2015). "Don't fear falling into a black hole – you may live on as a hologram" (in en). The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/dont-fear-falling-into-a-black-hole-you-may-live-on-as-a-hologram-43441. 
  24. ↑ Bligh, Annabel. "Anthill 1: About time" (in en). The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/anthill-1-about-time-59355. 
  25. ↑ "Holographic Cosmology | Perimeter Institute" (in fr). https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/fr/conferences/holographic-cosmology. 
  26. ↑ "Marika Taylor (Southampton)" (in en-US). Centre for Mathematical Sciences. 2016-10-10. https://math-sciences.org/event/marika-taylor-southampton. 
  27. ↑ Southampton UG Maths Seminars (2016-10-14), Symmetries of Black Holes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm5OIyJ0ZIw, retrieved 2018-04-08 
  28. ↑ efrain vega (2017-12-26), Entanglement, Chaos and Holography 3/3 (Marika Taylor), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGDiRM1oSBI, retrieved 2018-04-08 
  29. ↑ "2016 Archive | Winchester Café Scientifique" (in en-GB). http://www.wincafesci.org.uk/2016-talks/. 
  30. ↑ "Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day – Ada Lovelace Day" (in en-US). https://findingada.com/event/celebrating-ada-lovelace-day/. 
  31. ↑ "Black Holes and Quantum Information by Prof Marika Taylor" (in en-GB). IEEE - UK and Ireland Section. https://www.ieee-ukandireland.org/event/black-holes-and-quantum-information-by-prof-marika-taylor/. 
  32. ↑ "String Theory in Greater Tokyo 6A (16 January 2018) · Kavli IPMU Indico System (Indico)". https://indico.ipmu.jp/indico/event/155/overview. 
  33. ↑ "Marika Taylor: Thinking in different dimensions | Drupal" (in en). http://fastfacts.nl/en/content/marika-taylor-thinking-different-dimensions. 
  34. ↑ Scientist, New (2017-03-09). Where the universe came from : how Einstein's relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos.. London. ISBN 9781473629608. OCLC 982382741. 
  35. ↑ "Taylor, Prof. dr. M. (Marika) — KNAW" (in en). https://www.knaw.nl/en/profiles/8129. 
  36. ↑ "Minerva-Prijs 2008 voor dr. Marika Taylor - NWO-I" (in nl-NL). NWO-I. 2008-01-14. https://www.nwo-i.nl/nieuws/2008/01/14/minerva-prijs-2008-voor-dr-marika-taylor/. 
  37. ↑ "Minerva Prize - NWO-I" (in en-US). NWO-I. https://www.nwo-i.nl/en/nwo-domain-science/scientific-prizes/minervaprize/. 
  38. ↑ "Prof. Dr. M.M. Taylor - AcademiaNet" (in en). http://www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-dr-m-m-taylor/1163772. 
  39. ↑ "Taylor, Prof. dr. M. (Marika) —" (in en). https://www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/leden/alumni/8129. 
  40. ↑ Skenderis, Kostas; Taylor, Marika (2007). "Fuzzball solutions for black holes and D1-brane-D5-brane microstates". Physical Review Letters 98 (7): 071601. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.071601. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 17359016. Bibcode: 2007PhRvL..98g1601S. 
  41. ↑ Taylor, Marika (2008). "Non-relativistic holography". arXiv:0812.0530 [hep-th].




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