NICHOLAS PETROPOULOS


Theoretical Physics Group
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Schuster Laboratory
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
0161-275-4211 0161-275-4218

My apologies,........I 've decided to update this page finally so......... AT THE MOMENT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION........ Thanks

I ' ve just submitted my PhD thesis (2-10-2000), it's a great relief .................

Look forward for the viva now........

Some useful links

Fortran routines from NAG Library

My supervisor is MIKE BIRSE.

Who always has been very patient with me and my slow progress, especially recently......

My current research interests involve studies in:

Thermal Field Theory.

QCD Phase Transition.

Chiral symmetry at finite temperature.

However during my MSc studies I 've managed to do some work on the baryogenesis problem and the electroweak phase transition

And I 'm very tempted for some research in inflationary cosmology, if I 'll ever find some time to do that .......... (hopefully I'll do.......I've already have a collaboration proposition and of course I cannot refuse..........!!)

I 've managed finally to publish some of my recent work with title "Linear sigma model and chiral symmetry at finite temperature "in the J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys (Vol 25, No 11, pp 2225-2241, Nov 1999 but access might be restricted). You can find the preprint form following the link below (which I should replace with the final form!):

PUBLICATIONS.

A FEW MORE THINGS ABOUT ME:

I am a maths tutor to first year students and I really enjoy that........

I share the room 6.53 of the Physics Department with Agustin Sabio Vera, who is always about (when not away for a conference....) and has some interesting stuff in his pages (personally I like the cartoons very much!). However all nice things they do have an end. Agustin has secured a job (in Cambridge, of course what did you expect?????!!!!!!) and he's going to leave me alone soon........(sniff.......) But I'll manage.............(I hope so!), you see, it's very difficult to find someone to argue all the time and at the same time to be your best friend..........!

By the way he's writing up as well...............a writing up race is going to find me looser.........and I have to pay for a special dinner!!!!!!!!!

However I'll be left with Sasha Kvinikhidze instead ............. Another source of disagreements, and not only in PHYSICS!.........

I live in MOBERLY HALL, where I am one of the 3 residential tutors.

I come from a small village in central-east HELLAS, which is called Agios Konstantinos and I think that is a really beautiful place ..... Used to be a port (and of course still is..... !!!) of ancient Lokris but

You can find more about me if you have a look at my professional CV (updated finally but not complete!!!!) and/or the informal one (need to write this!!!!).

Of course you can mail me if you want.......

nicholas@theory.ph.man.ac.uk >