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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 College 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 ߣ¶ÌÊÓÆµ in Fall 2024, Prof. Ashmore held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago and Sorbonne Université.

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 theoriesâ€�, A. Apte, A. Ashmore, C. Cordova, and T.-C. Huang ,[].

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

  • “Geometric Flows and Supersymmetryâ€�, A. Ashmore, R. Minasian, and Y. Proto, , [].

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

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

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

  • “Calabi-Yau CFTs and Random Matricesâ€�, N. Afkhami-Jeddi, A. Ashmore, and C. Cordova, , [].

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

  • “Eigenvalues and eigenforms on Calabi–Yau threefoldsâ€�, A. Ashmore, , [].

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

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

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

Contact Physics

Office

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

Department Chair

Kendrah Murphy
Associate Professor of Physics
kmurphy1@skidmore.edu

Administrative Assistant

Carolyn Lundy
clundy@skidmore.edu