Professor Michael Murray

Chair of Pure Mathematics

Office: 419 | Telephone: +61 8 8303 4174 | Personal homepage

Academic duties

Responsibility
Member of the Research Committee
Member of the Curriculum Board

Teaching duties

Title	Level	Semester
Lie Algebras	4	1
Groups and Rings III	3	1

Postgraduate supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Loop groups, Higgs fields and generalised string classes	Raymond Vozzo	2009
Fundamental numerical schemes for parameter estimation in computer vision	Tony Scoleri	2008
Fundamental bigroupoids and 2-covering spaces	David Roberts
A Fourier-Mukai transform for invariant differential cohomology	Richard Green
Noncommutative geometry in string and M theory	James Wallbridge

Research interests

Research interest	Group
Differential geometry	Geometry
Gauge theory	Geometry
Mathematical physics	Geometry
Mathematics of string theory	Geometry
Differential geometry	Mathematical Physics
Gauge theory	Mathematical Physics
Mathematical physics	Mathematical Physics
Mathematics of string theory	Mathematical Physics

Research seminars

Title	Series
Bibundles	Differential Geometry Seminar
How to see in higher dimensions	Undergraduate Seminar

Research grants

Grant title	Funding Agency
Geometric Structures in Quantum Field Theory	ARC
Bogomolny monopoles, nullarons and chiral Potts	ARC
Monopoles, instantons and metrics	ARC
Geometric methods in quantum theory	ARC
Geometric problems from quantum theory	ARC
Mathematics in Contemporary Science.	ARC

Selected publications

Publications
The basic bundle gerbe on unitary groups Murray, Michael; Stevenson, Daniel, Journal of Geometry and Physics 58 (1571–1590) 2008
Bundle gerbes for Chern-Simons and Wess-Zumino-Witten theories Carey, Alan; Johnson, Stuart; Murray, Michael; Stevenson, Daniel; Wang, Bai-Ling, Communications in Mathematical Physics 259 (577–613) 2005
Gerbes, Clifford Modules and the index theorem Murray, Michael; Singer, Michael, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 26 (355–367) 2004
Holonomy on D-branes Carey, Alan; Johnson, Stuart; Murray, Michael, Journal of Geometry and Physics 52 (186–216) 2004
Type-1 D-branes in an H-flux and twisted KO-theory Varghese, Mathai; Murray, Michael; Stevenson, Daniel, The Journal of High Energy Physics (Online Editions) 11 (www 1–www 22) 2003

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