Damien P. George

Nikhef theory group Science Park 105 1098 XG Amsterdam The Netherlands office: H225 phone: +31 20 592 5029 email: at

Physics

My research interests centre around model building using extra dimensions, and the phenomenology of such models at the electroweak scale as is relevant for their testing at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this area my current work looks at the phenomenology of soft-wall models, as well as truncated Randall-Sundrum (RS) spaces with brane localised scalar curvature terms. I also have a separate interest in using the method of Lie-point symmetries, in combination with model building, to obtain an exhaustive list of possible relationships between parameters for a given Lagrangian, in order to aid in understanding and extending the standard model.

Papers that I have been involved with (most recent first):

• D.P. George and K.L. McDonald, Gravity on a Little Warped Space,
  Phys. Rev. D 84 064007 (2011), doi, arXiv:1107.0755
• D.P. George, A systematic approach to model building,
  arXiv:1105.4604
• D.P. George and M. Postma, Avoiding the dangers of a soft-wall singularity,
  arXiv:1105.3390
• M. Duerr, D.P. George and K.L. McDonald, Neutrino Mass and μ→e+γ from a Mini-Seesaw,
  JHEP 1107 (2011) 103, doi, arXiv:1105.0593
• D.P. George, Survival of scalar zero modes in warped extra dimension,
  Phys. Rev. D 83 104025 (2011), doi, arXiv:1102.0564
• D.P. George, Stability of gravity-scalar systems for domain-wall models with a soft wall,
  2010 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 259 012034, doi, arXiv:1010.1628
• S. Mert Aybat and D.P. George, Stability of scalar fields in warped extra dimensions,
  JHEP 1009:010 (2010), doi, arXiv:1006.2827
• D.P. George and R.R. Volkas, Dynamics of the infinitely-thin kink,
  Phys. Lett. B 704 (2011) 646-651, doi, arXiv:0911.0538
• D.P. George, M. Trodden and R.R. Volkas, Extra-dimensional cosmology with domain-wall branes,
  JHEP 0902:035 (2009), doi, arXiv:0810.3746
• A. Davidson, D.P. George, A. Kobakhidze, R.R. Volkas and K.C. Wali, SU(5) grand unification on a domain-wall brane from an E_6-invariant action,
  Phys. Rev. D 77 085031 (2008), arXiv:0710.3432
• R. Davies, D.P. George and R.R. Volkas, The standard model on a domain-wall brane?,
  Phys. Rev. D 77 124038 (2008), arXiv:0705.1584
• R. Davies and D.P. George, Fermions, scalars and Randall-Sundrum gravity on domain-wall branes,
  Phys. Rev. D 76 104010 (2007), arXiv:0705.1391
• D.P. George and R.R. Volkas, Kink modes and effective four dimensional fermion and Higgs brane models,
  Phys. Rev. D 75 105007 (2007), arXiv:hep-ph/0612270
• E. Di Napoli, D. George, M. Hertzberg, F. Metzler and E. Siegel, Dark Matter In Minimal Trinification,
  Proceedings of the LXXXVI Les Houches Summer School, pages 517--524 (2006), arXiv:hep-ph/0611012
• D.P. George and R.R. Volkas, Stability of domain walls coupled to Abelian gauge fields,
  Phys.Rev. D 72 105011 (2005), arXiv:hep-ph/0508206
• G. Dando, A. Davidson, D.P. George, R.R. Volkas and K.C. Wali, The clash of symmetries in a Randall-Sundrum-like spacetime,
  Phys.Rev. D 72 045016 (2005), arXiv:hep-ph/0507097

Listings of my papers on the arXiv, on Inspire and on Spires.

Selected presentations that I have given (most recent first):

• (PDF) University of Melbourne, November 2011.
• (PDF) University of Zurich, October 2011.
• (PDF) LPCC summer institute, CERN, August 2011.
• (PDF) Physics @ FOM, Veldhoven, January 2011.
• (PDF) PASCOS 2010 conference, Valencia, Spain, July 2010.
• (PDF) Nikhef theory centre meeting, Nikhef, June 2010.
• (PDF) Nikhef Jamboree, Nikhef, December 2009.
• (PDF) Nikhef theory seminar, Nikhef, November 2009.
• (PDF) PhD completion seminar, University of Melbourne, October 2008.
• (PDF) Particle theory seminar, Cornell University, NY, USA, March 2008.
• (PDF) Relativity/cosmology/high energy physics seminar, Syracuse University, NY, USA, February 2008.
• (PDF) GOSS talk (graduate seminar series), University of Melbourne, April 2007.

I studied at the University of Melbourne, Australia. You can read my PhD thesis and my honours thesis.

Robotics

I studied robotics as part of my undergraduate degree. This included participating in Robocup 2002, an international robotics competition where teams program robots to autonomously play soccer against each other. Our team came in 4th place, out of 19 teams. There are some photos of the competition.

The paper that resulted from my Robocup work:

• D. George, N. Barnes, Particle Attraction Localisation,
  Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2003), Las Vegas, USA, Nov., 2003, (PDF)

I built a simple walking robot that can follow a blue light.

I have designed and built a fully working CNC machine.

Food

How to make tofu.